Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-23

the little one was too small to step up her |
self, and SO before the car came to 4 fall
stop he hoped down. picked the little girl
up in his arms. and deposited her In seat:
She had her nickel tightly tied up in hard
knot in her little handkerchief. The con-
ductor smiled when he saw 1t, and ne I'M
tied the knot. When the car got To the
street where the kidlet wanted to get or
tshe told him where when she got onl. he
remembered it, and picked the little girl up
from her seat and ran over to the curo
with her so that she would be In no dan
ger of getting run over.
DO you think the New York or Chicago
&C nductor would do these things FOR II
you do you're drearily mixed Ihh hiS-
town conductors will hardly stop TOT Cnli-
dren at all teven young ones bound for
school. and they snap the motormSsG ahead
with the remark TO the rear-enders. l'ls
amt no orphan asylum Time ana again
/ have seen Washington street car CON
ductoIs jump to the ground to take the
market baskets of old women who have ap-
peared to be uncertain as to where to de-
pcsit the baskets. I've even seen them
pick up the clothes baskets of old colored
washerwomen and deposit the same on the
platforms. Under such circumstances. the
bg-town conductors would say, Dis ain
de freight car; take de mex
| When II Comes to Pennies.
I'm every possible respect j think we've
| got the most courteous street car conduct
| who slowly dol, out their fares in pennies
The Washington conductors stand patiently
while such penny are digging for
| the necessary five coppers. and they don't
! snatch the copperS AS If the money was so
| much junk. either. l have sen san IRAN
| cisco cable car conductor threaten to thro"
| just-arrived immigrant of his car TOT
| prasuming to offer his fare in pennies me
| poor devil of a foreigner had used pennies
| all right in the east. and he couIdh l ne
supposed to know that coppers dldn go
out on the Pacific slope In Chicago
| once saw an old woman slowly count out
| five coppers into conductor hand she
| had to dive into another pocket after hsh-
| ing out three of them, and the conductor
| said to her, with leer: 'Dase pieces /"
zinc'l be DRAWN interest by de time yez
| gifts de odder two out won't dey?
| In New York, on the :d avenue line.
orce saw a poor-looking man give the con-
doctor his fare in pennies, and the con
| ductor gave him a gentle push along by
saying, Hey, deere, Fanderbilk. how'll yez
take yer Change--in twentieS? The man
didn't resent it, either. Folks over in Nv
York know better than to resent anything
said or done to them by street car con
ductors- They have seen too many OF their
res entful fellow sufferers at the conduct-
ors' hands get themselves ANONYMOUSLY
dumped into the street.
In the windy City.
Again: Wen admit. of course that the
youthful habit of keeping car fare in the
mouth is an unclean practice. l once saw
a little girl Of ten or twelve years (she was
, carrying a dinner basket and was probably
on her way to where her father was work
ing to hand him a warm monday meal
slip nickel out OF her mouth and hand IL
) to the conductor. The conductor saw her
> do it. He grabbed the coin from her little
fist and threw it through one of the open
windows. =,
Now gimme one dat I don't have t
frf,,l Il +ARN.N 1rhI
didn't have another nickel. and the con-
ductor stopped the car and put her on L II
confess that the action amazed even inc
Chicagoans in the car used they were Il
, | the brutality of street conductors. ana
, | a number of us threw nickes out for the
| little girl.
do YOU ever see Washington street car
conductors making objection over the char
acter of the fares extended to them. unless
attempts are being made to work bad
coins off on them? l never do. and ! buy
t as many car tickets and ride on as many
| cars as my neighborS.
THE heavy test of street car conduc-
= tors patience comes when he is compelled
5 for the length of a trip to squeeze through
. a couple of packed closed cars In order e
| collect fares. l never saw a Washington
I | street car conductor lose his temper under
s these circumstances
When the Chr is Crowded.
t I'm sorry the Washington conductoi
l generally says when surly folks kick ahou
e being squeezed to one side by the conduc
d tor. but Eve got to get through, 20,
r know What does the conductor in 10
4 of the big cities do under the same circum
o stances? He seems to take malicious de
= light in crurchtng all the feet he can fn'
= under his big brogans and he elbows
I standing women twomen stand IN cars II
a other cities, you See-they don here) rig u
/ and left. like the head man in flynn
II wedge in a foot ball game. If he seems t
/ | meet with any opposition whatever. n
e | glares at the human obstacle, and the hu
d man obstacle gets a touch of the conduc
t tors shoulder that isn't characterized b.
$ | afry-fairy Hghtness. II any OF the passen
II gers object to his elbowing, jostling. feet
e smashing. bullyragging tactics as he Jam
"a | his way through the crowded car, w er
5, | d'yeez t'ink yeez is-On a dancin pavilion
: he asks them fiercely, and he goes RICH
t | ahead jOstling
n About once in a hundred times does tn
l, | New York street car conductor remeInbe
III | to put you off at the corner you deslgnat
when you board his car. When he carrie
a stranger a dozen blocks or so beyond hi
!, | getting-off place, and the stranger mail
awakens to the. fact and makes a kick, w
e didn't youse bring yer nurse along WI
I'll | yeZ?' the conductor asks him with sneel
g and that all the satisfaction the passenge
s. gets.
=, Different in Washington.
~ II have watched Washington street ca
1t conductors in the act of stopping their car
rs they wanted to alight at certain points, an
" / know that some of them frequently carr
re as many as half dozen directions of tn
e, | kind in their heads They very rarely ia
ie to put strangers off at the right points.
% when there's legitimate kick comm
~ over the manners of people whose bushes
t. 1t is to serve the public decently and coul
he teously. you'n generally find me in the frol
ne rank OF the kickers, and one OF the loude'
eo of them all. But fair play Is a good thin
~ | too. and l don't know of any class
X ! Washington employees who stand in mol
INC need of a bit of fair play just now tina
a the street car conductors. We have abs
vi | lutely no kick coming with regard to OF
sc street car conductors, far as | can mai
,ie out and I'm not usually in a somnambuli
81. en- | tic state when I patronize the Washingto
-, | street cars.
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