The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-24

Inc era OIL equality OF the sexes II
close at hand.
OLD HORSE CARS, So EACH.
Great BARGAINS For People Who
Oh Use Them.
In one Of the side streets near the
North river is a curious collection Of
relics, says the New York Sun. They
the number of buyers who find their
way thither is very large. Relics Of 9TH
er kinds are liable to attract purchas-
ers, and they need not be valuable to
accomplish that. Two great storehouses
in another part of the city cover nearly
a block, and are filled with household,
hotel, and barroom appliances. ranging
from mantel to a set of beer spigots
and cash register. These places man.
age to find purchasers for their second
hand wares, and the demand for the
woodwork out of the old fashioned
hotels down town Is enough to bring
good prices nearly always. The old
fashioned mahogany doors and the
mantels are most in demand. But the
case is otherwise with the objects
stored in the west side lumber yard.
They find few purchasers. and the
prices for them are low.
The four fences of this plot inclose a
collection of street cars which have
ceased their labors and have been re-.
tired. They have been gathered from
nearly every street car line that former.
ly existed in the city. and one can read
in their inscriptions the history of pc.
riod in this city which seems remote
enough today, although measured by
years it Is comparatively recent. There
are even specimens Of the despised bob.
tail genus among these derelicts which
are ending long and honorable careers
in an oblivion so complete that persons
can scarcely be persuaded to buy them
at any price. The price which they have
reached is the humiliatingly low one OF
81. For the price of forty rides one car
become the owner Of street car in fair
preservation.
cts hard to get rid of them in any
way" said the man who watches them
land the price gets less the longer they
stay here. Practically the only persons
who ever do buy them are farmers
They want them for use on their farms
One man who raised chickens took three
Of them. and said they made better
chicken houses than any that could be
built for the purpose. They are also
bought for outhouses in which to store
crops temporarily, some Of them were
sent down south to be used as cabins
for negroes, but the cost Of carriage
makes that use rare. Plenty of southern
towns have cars of their own for sale
and they are to be had just as cheap
There used to be time when other
cities bought the street cars that had
been discarded in New York. But this
city turned out to be one of the last that
adopted the cable and trolley systems
Other towns had sold all Of their ole
cars before New York was ready to. Sc
the country was full Of them when New
York began to put hers on the market
Zone man came here last summer
and said he wanted to buy one of the
cars for house boat. He said that
some Of his friends would come to get
more Of them for the same purpose II
his was success. guess it was not, az
he never came back. Some Of the cars
have been sent to railroads and used as
stations. where alterations are being
made or station has not yet been
built. But most OF them are lying about
here today in just the place they were
put in when they arrived first."
Some of these cars have long been alb
sent from the streets and bear the
names Of streets through which no cara
run today. Others betr evidences Of the
gradual decline Though which they
passed before reaching their final har-
Dor. But completely obliterated 10 the
name Of fashiona DE street. Painted
family over this Ire the names o.
streets Of differ ut character. Both
are ping out under the
stress Of weather Towering among the
cars ID one old Aahioned stage that
seems to stand hard over the rest. But
they are really danger from nothing.
save the elem ts.
The pressul In Great Britain in the
direction Of NE adoption Of the metric
system Is ii kreasing daily. and Russia
Is also agi4 ting the question: IN Eu-
rope. Asia Ind America the metric sys-
item d us "a BY over 400. ooo. 900 people.
ana Il " Russian empire VS. added
lac would tbring this number up 70 500
900, 900. = probable that before the
lapse ~ jmany years the metric viii
bs THE nniversai languaes e aaan-
.stity