The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-09

IHI owl line
MOST POPULAR.
.Belated Travellers Rejoice at Is.
institution.
VERY GOOD THING FOR LOVERS.
Patronizcd by All Glasses of People
Who Find That Visits to Friends
Are Not Now Curtailed-Work-
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VERY GOOD THING FOR LOVERS.

Those who placed the FOWL cars. before
the public have become great favorites
with that portion Of the public whose
work or pleasure necessitates late, or
rather early, hours.
For along time there has been a
demand for all night cars, and when the
Passenger and Power Company decided to
answer the call, the decision was receiv-
ed with unanimous approval
"A Fulton young man can now visit his
: best girl In the West End without fear Of
long walk home, or cab fare. Young
people who attend parties and balls in one
end of the city and live in the other may
dance all night until the Eve sma' . hours
and then ride home ON the cars. The man
who likes his periodicals may now feel
that he can get home under the tender
care of the trolley car conductor, or he
may take round trip or two to bolster
himself up for the curtain lecture that
may await him at home.
MIDNIGHT RIDE.
A midnight tolley ride is a good thing to
sober man, who has been out with his
friends, but, above all, it COMES as
boon to the tried and weary newspaper
men, whose work ends about 8 % clock A.
M, and who, before the institution of the
towl line" had to pay a cab fee or foot
1t
Those who love to study human nature
can do so on the "owl line They can
take the down trip around the bend at
Lester Street and ride to Laurel and
note many instances of interest.
On the down trip the belated young
man goes to his home in the far East
End after having spent the evening with
his LADY love, and the pictures that he
sees in the rows of tenement houses on
lower Main Street and the shadows in
Lester Street, will lose their gloom and
loneliness to him, and transform them
selves into palaces of grandeur and Ely
sian pleasures he dreams along the
trip about his loved one.
The tipsy traveller settles back in his
seat and dreams Of breweries and distil-
lerieS galore, as the cool breeze creeps
through his whiskers.
The working man on his roa5,-oa the
Chemical Works or the CedarN Works
looks grim stern, as he guards his DIN
ner pail and sucks his pipe in stoiid but
grand silence.
The young fellow who has stayed up
town Just for lark with his chums. jokes
and chats with the conductor or the mo-
tornan and makes the trip as pleasant as
a clown in a circus, or a ferry man at
the Casino.
MOoN-GAzING AT THE PARK.
A pair of lovers, returning from ah
hour or two of moon-gazing at Reservoir
Park, whisper sweet nothings to each
other as they sit shoulder to shoulder ana
look into each others eyes With SOFT
melting glances And the old gray-beard
and his wife go happily home from Wis
it to their married daughter where a
birthday party had been given to the
little grand child.
The doctors hurry to the BEDSIDE OF tue
suffering. one, and the tired working man
who has been detained over time hurrles
nome to his wife.
On the uptown trip much the same
thing is seen, but added to the passengers
are the newspaper men, who have Ia
bored while most other people slept anu
while others were out on their round OF
pleasure. The sporting man, the dramatic
man. the Sunday editor, the funny Il man
the city editor and the office boy-ali, go
IN together. and later on the men from 5 the
CONFUSING room go to their beds to
rest that they need
And through it all the conductor and
moto,nan grow acquainted with their
passengers. and even should one 0,
them fan asleep he would be awaken at
his corner. and the car stopped at the
proper place. ;+:.,,