The times., 1898-09-23
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD.


II am greatly disappointed that the
Summer cars are soon to be taken off the
street railroads." was the remark yester-
day of a gentleman we'll known in so
ciety circles in Washington. He was
asked to assign his reason. "It is this, -
he said There is no such thing in a
Summer car as getting up and giving your
seat to lady. / never object to giving
my seat to a lady in an overcrowded car,
but have seen the time when / was sore
ly disappointed on giving my seat to a
lady to witness her take it without even
thanking me. 1t is true there is no reason
why she should thank me. 1t is my duty
to give her my seat when all of the other
seats are taken. But then, you know, it
makes you feel as though gallaDtry is be-
ing appreciated and therefore to encour-
age you TO do tomorrow what you have
already done today.
There are great many women who
enter cars when they are crowded and
stare and glare at you as though TO crit
icise you for not having arisen the mo-
ment they entered the door. When a
woman does this / am usually inclined to
hesitate before offering her my seat, and
sometimes | have been tempted not TO of
a kindness shown her perhaps ii is just as
well not TO show her a kindness. The
American women as a class are appre-
ciative. There are many, however, no
matter how tired a man may be from his
days business, who will take your seat
even If they are going to ride only three
squares.
Did you ever notice. he continued,
that ten or more men can sit on the side
a a a nd for faI ~ ff
half the same number of women will fill
the same space on the otner side of the
car, If they happen to be so located? One
woman will never make room for another
woman unless the conductor appeals to
her The selfishness of women is unu-
sually developed, it is strange to say, in
street car. Why this is so | do not
know. If women were to make a habit,
after their few hours of shopping, to take
an earlier car for their homes before the
close of business hours, when men go
away from their offices, they would find
more freedom in the cars and could all
have seats, and thereby the men could
also enjoy more privileges. This would
equalze matters and the ladies' could
have no complaints to make in the rude
ness of men in not offering them their
seats under any and ali conditions
Eyes, McCune is in the race for a
senatorial toga," emphatically remarked
Salt Lake drummer TO a follower of
Western politics in the lobby of the Eb-
bitt House last evening.
The latter had ventured the assertion
that Alfred w. McCune. the president of
big Payne mine in British Columbia and
possessor of dozens of other good things
in and out of Utah, would not be a
Democratic candidate for United States
senator.
You can wager that McCune is not
only a candidate. but also an active one
in the senatorial race" continued the
knowing Salt Lake drummer II have
just come East from Salt Lake City, and
though McCune is not proclaiming his
candidacy from the housetops, nor in
double-leaded type in the columns of any
political organ, he is not concealing his
ambition from friends who may aid him
nor from Democrats now in, or likely to
be IN, the State legislature 1t was not
until his return from his British Co
lumbia mines last week that McCune
became openly a candidate. But he is
in to stay. Though opposing candidates
affect TO regard Mr.. McCune lightly as
a senatorial candidate, they are not talk
ing in this strain as loud now as formerly
They fear him nowF Notwithstanding their
language to the contrary. And McCune
is not without support even at this early
stage of the game Ii is reliably reported
that he will have a number of the hold
over State senators in his camp from lhe
beginning. Congressman King was his
most formidable antagonist in the State
convention. But now McCune is the
leader, l honestly believe, and 1 can see
now no reason why he should be de-
feated He would look after the indus
trial interests of the State admirably, for
he is a capable business man, which is
proven by the money he has made. He is
also Utah born, liberal and progressive -
1T was just such storms as the cyclone
that visited the island of ST. Vincent with
such destructive results recently" ex-
planned one of the employees Of the Wea-
ther Bureau to a Times reporter yester-
day, that tha late Prof Morrill, had in
view when he planned the establishment
of branch of the Weather Bureau in the
West Indies and in the Caribbean Sea.
This system was only established during
the Spanish-American war and could not
therefore be as complete as it would have
been had II been established in time of
peace. Nevertheless the wisdom of the
Weather Bureau in establishing as much
of the projected system as was possible
under the circumstances has been of in
eStima BILE value already in giving notice