The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-24
ON THE
Looking for q Seat on n Hot Day, When
Everybody Hated to Stir.

Looking for q Seat on n Hot Day, When
Everybody Hated to Stir.
In this hot weather people in the elevated
cars take up more room than ever and give
up less than ever; they want space all around
them, and they hate to be disturbed. So
O mar coming In at the front door OF the
car and walking o. the aisle found that
though there were q number Of vacant seats
In the forward half OF the car. there was none
that he could drop into conveniently.
AS he came along he saw in one of the cross
seats. looked at from the back. an empty place.
but when he came to where he could look into
it he saw that the man sitting by the window
in this seat had his hat lying in the other part
OF 1t, and he made no sign Of removing 1t.
Sitting in the cross seat facing the man was q
man who sat square in the middle Of 1t. thus
taking up both places. and he never moved.
So the man kept on down the car. with his
change all the time narrowing. There were
vacant seats along. but people sat slowed
around with one leg thrown over in front of
them. or with a hat or q bundle in them. and
they were not available without stirring some
body up, and that the man didn't want to do.
But he didn't want to go into the next car
either; 1t might be lust the same there. and he
fnSify eS Selected Tor pe oeeTpan s1TR a vacant cant s eas that ns
was next to the last seat on the right-hand side
of the car.
III - SSlhCL oCot Noo - "plloI III
had an umbrella, which she held at such an
angle that it projected, over into the space in
front of the next seat which the man was about
TO occupy; its tip rested upon the floor at such
a point that it would cut Off about a third Of his
foot space. In the second seat forward of
the woman in the corner was q man reading
a paper. He sat 80 slowed around that, with
ono leg crossed over the other, he completely
seat arm into the space Qf the seat back. next to
the. woman. But, all things considered, that
with n third. OF the foot space cut Off by
Of the upper space e' cut on BY the the'G mans back,
was the best he could do. and the man turned
toward the seat to sit down. AS he faced II he
lifted the umbrella enough to clear the tip
it to a point that would give him clear space in
front; but by the time he had sat down the
umbrella had found its way back to it's original
position. and there it stayed. He didn't move
II again.
The man, reading the paper never budged,
He sat right on. with his legs in front of the
seat forward and his back over In the next
still unoccupied.. As for the newcomer. az
stated. he did not again attempt to move the
the paper in the back. which hunch would have
been equivalent to saying. You scalawaH,
give me the room that belongs to me-" He did
nothing H lust tn sat there; with It'll his bG. bE% sG,
crowded, of in the. other. and waited like q
philosopher. And his turn came presently.
Two stations further up the woman got out
and then he took the vacant corner seat. The
but ths newcomer didn't care for that now He
swung around comfortably where he was, and
threw one leg over the other, and in front q
the seat ahead, which he had himself first oc.
cupied, What he would have done II somebody
else had come along. as he did. was not dis
covered,