The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-04
AN OUTRAGEOUS CASE.

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AN OUTRAGEOUS CASE.
A man who was dragged by one of the
cross-town storage-battery cars the 9TH
er morning, in spite of the fact that the
motorman and the conductor both saw
him. finally got on the car, and calmly
announced that he was going to ride TO
the end of the line, where the car sheds
were, and complain to the superintendent
of the way his life had been jeopardZed
The motorman heard the citizen say this.
He brought the car to stop and entered
the car, and he placed his countenance
within about a quarter of an inch of che
face of the citizen and saIu:
'Youse had better fergit bout dat COM
plainin', tsee?"
The citizen was not to be bluffed out,
however, and he reiterated his statement
that he was going to complain to the SUI
perintendent of the way he had been
treated.
Whereupon the motorman, seeing that
the citizen meant precisely what he said,
picked up a heavy piece of iron and made
some dents Herewith in the citizens skull
that the latter will carry through life.
There is no American city in which the
recommendation to grin and bear"
things has more polite meaning than it
has in New York.
WOES OF THE CENSUS MAN.
The census enumerators who have been
at work over here since the LIST of June
have been almost miraculously success
full, considering the difficulties they have
had to contend with. 1t would be difficult
to conceive of a more mixed. craggy pop
ulation to enumerate and extract the re-
quired data from than that of New York.
The census enumerator is regarded with
deep and ineradicable suspicion by the
folks who don't speak English in the va
rious quarters" of this huge, un-Ameri-
can community. The people who haven't
been long on American soil possess the
f-rcoted notion that the census man wants
to get a lot of information from them
preliminary to returning them over seas
by the first ship out of the pert, and it
requires all of the eloquence of the inter-
prefers to convince them to the contrary.
Then the enumerators have had to con-
tend with large number of persons who,
remembering the somewhat impertinent
inquiries the enumerators We're compel
ed to ask during the taking of the last
census. and not being aware that those
questions have been eliminated, begin to
call the nose counters busy-bodies as soon
as they heave into view, and are only
reduced to submission when the cop on
the beat tells them that they are violat-
ing the law by declining to answer the
enumerators' questions. The effect of the
New York newspapers advice given ten
years ago to the people of New York to
the effect that the courts couldn't COM
pei them to give information such the
last census called for has borne bad
fruit, in that the present corps of emu
merators have mad to suffer as the result
of that advice.
FIFTH AVENUE RuDENESS.
People who would naturally be suppos-
ed to know better have shut their doors
| in the enumerators' faces, but these have
! 4 rl,a
| funkeys who answer the bells at the
1 great houses in Fifth avenue and in the
! other fashionable streets have also been
/ difficult for the enumerators TO handle.
Most of these door-attending funkeys
/ are mutton-chop whiskered Englishmen,
and there are few things more delightful
I in the view of an English turnkey than
! to snub an American official when he
fancies he will have his employers be-
/ hind him to back him up. number of
! these dog-robbers of the rich have lost
/ their turnkey jobs as a result of their
slamming the doors of their employers
| i'm the faces of the enumerators, even
when warned calmly by the enumerators
that they were making trouble for them
F. selves and their employers.
BICYCLES AND AUTOMOBILES
The managers of the automobile COM
panies are talking volubly of their deter
mination to take steps to have the au-
tomobile-haunting bcyclists "enjoined
from practicing their annoying game OF
/ trailing after the horseless carriages like
pursuing wolves. In truth, the bicyclists
deliberate pursuit of the flying 'mobes
has become a very great nuisance indeed
Every automobile that takes to coun
try road to give the occupants thereof
an airing, and, mayhap. an opportunity
to say affectionate things unto each 9TH
er amid pleasing country scenes, is fol
1 lowed by throngs of bcycliStS. men anC
women. and the sought-for privacy OF
the automobile passengers is thereby ut
terly destroyed. 1t is idle for the engi-
neer of the 'mobe and the passengers il
the machine to attempt to shoe the fiocl
of bfcyclists away; the latter only pull