The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-09

Various Manifestation of Conrte.y by tho
Passengers.

Into a car on the elevated" said one nara
tor. came two women. ono Young. the other
middle-aged. apparently mother and daughter.
The seats were all taken. and there were peo-
pie standing in the aisles. The older OF these
two women didn't look a bit strong. but no
body offered her seat. You can hold onto me-
the younger woman said.
Hearing this. n young woman well dressed
and wearing whit kid gloves looked up from
her seat close at hand and then instantly rose
and offered her place to the middle-agcd wom-
an. The latter took the seat thus offered and
the young woman with the white gloves stood
up in front of her and held on by Il strap with
the other young woman. A. station or two fur
Their on the seat next to the middle-aged wom-
an was vacated. ana this seat the companion of
the middle-aged woman took, leaving the
other young woman with tho white gloves.
who. had given her seat to the middle-aged
woman. still standing in front OF her. hanging
on to a strap"
Going uptown on the elevated this morn
ing" said another narrator. " saw, at the sta
ticket for the blind man aud dropped it into
the ticket choppers box: at the same time
ticket chopper. Then he went away. When
the train came In the ticket chopper turned
the blind la man Eve to a gn1 i Sh3 took him
body at once got up and gave his seat to the
""Pretty soon the blind man began to talk
aloud In q general sort Of way, like ono talking
to himself. and he made i known that he had
spent more money than he expected. and was
now short. A policeman on the rear platform
sent in 10 cents to the blind man by the
guard, A woman, opposite the mind man
opened her pOckctbook aud took out a coin.
Whenever the guard looked in the door to call
q station this woman tried 70 catch his eye.
this. and handed him the money which. as It
seemed, She desired should bo given to
the policeman. SO that she might give
and m not have that turisSn fall " on the
policeman. But the guard didn't understand,
and he Simply handed tho money across the
aisle 70 the blind man and then wer: back to
things that would only he muddled 10y any at
tempt to Strengthen them out. aud SO the
woman let 1t. 40 SO. When tho train came to
off another passelgertook, him down the stairs
and saw him safely aboard the surface car he
wanted to take
AT a station that | got or at the other day."
a man who was, drunk. The ticket chopper,
casting his eye along the platform i'm n general
sort Of way IN looking out Tor things, saw the
wahbllng drunken man and started toward
the moving train or to have him tall of the
platform alter the train had gone. or to have
anything happen 10 him, there, Just then a
same, car took the drunken man by the arm
and led him safely away from the train.
The ticket chopper went back to his
box feeling that the benevolent passenger
man., but this comfortable feeling OF relief
must have given way a moment later TO quite
another feeling. for the ben violent passenger
did not pilot the drunken man safely down the
across TO the other side Of the platform and sat
him down on n settee and left him there, on
the ticket choppers hands"