The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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II complaining bitterly of their woes
~ these hot nights when the
windows must all be open
and the throngs which go to Nay
| Aug park are almost unmanageable.
| 1t wasn't so bad in the old days when
| the cars stopped running early in the
| evening and the Boulevard had not
| reached the height of it's popularity.
| This summer conditions are almost un-
bearable. The crowds which go to the
park at night have no consideration for
| the residents along the route. and at
any rate seem largely composed OF
| hoodlums. for the Objectionable lam
guage and the general pandemonium
which annoy the residents can not he
| produced by orderly. and well meaning
people. The cars are so frequently dis
abled that long stops are made and at
| such times the shouts and disgusting
remarks of many Park visitors are ex-
| tremely annoying to decent people,
along the line. Probably the railway
company has no authority in the mat
| ter, possibly the police would find 1t
! difficult to preserve a reasonable degree
of quiet but IL would be better for the
morals and the peace of the community
if the rules which prevailed a season
or two ago should again be enforced
that no cars run to the park after s
p. m.
There are no more Sundays along
that route, for the throngs which
naturally enough seek breathing
place at the park, are neither consider
ate of the day nor of Sabbath loving
1 citizens. The nights are hideous and
altogether it is not too soon to have
something done about this matter.
In Buffalo during the exposition
when thousands of people are carried
to the Pan American grounds on Sun
day as well as other days, the utmost
quiet and oder are preserved. Any
person using loud or offensive language
on car is invited to get off or keep
still and he finds a choice has to be
made at once. Whether the street car
company is given police authority in
that city do not know but it is cer-
tain that neither on Sunday or any
other day or night or is any person
allowed to disturb the residents along
the road or the patrons OF the cars.
The street cars however are not the
exclusive medium of anarchy in the
Nay Aug Park case. A hoodlum is
hoodlum wherever he may be. and pos
| SlDlN the llOpllull Nllb NdlhS Is d lllIt
more obnoxious than the the one who
rides is he has greater opportunities
to inflict himself on a long suffering
community. 1t is time that the park
should be closed in the evening or that
noisy ribald, filthy language and con-
duct should be controlled to and from
that resort
1t has always been my belief that we
are the better for gaining all possible
knowledge in right directions. You
know that it is said that every new
language learned besides ones own
tongue is the discovery of a new world
1t would seen that to become acquaint-
ed with a different branch of science
to learn some new fact in nature to
see another hue in a flower, is to widen
ones horizon, and to enrich the gift
of the senses, yet once in a while the
person who has entertained this theory
runs up against a stone wall and gets
a staggering blow in the face If there
is anything under the sun designed to
drive the plain ordinary person out of
his serses it is to be obliged to endure
the presence of another who has
"widened his horizon until he has a
smattering of everything in the heavens
above or the earth beneath or the
! waters that lie under the earth and
who wants to instruct the remainder
of mankind, 4 single acquaintance
like this is enough to discourage the
pursuit of knowledge and TO give one
and ardent desire to be a numbskull.
The only discomfort approaching il
is to know two people who always want
l to argue whenever they meet. Any
thing more dismally tiresome than
argument is difficult to imagine and
the only worse person TO know than a
man who loves TO argue questions i'm
possible to settle is the woman who
does the same. The best plan to pursue
with a woman who loves argument
and continues 10 say scissors" with
her latest breath is gently and sweetly
to chloroform her. The same treat
ment might be applied TO a man only
! that his retribution is sure anyway, foI
he is certain to get his head salts
factorly punched sooner or later What
a mercy it would be If only we could
, train ourselves to indifference and not
= to feel that we have been fore ordained
to do battle for our pet theories. We
never by any possibility gain any con.
, verts or anything else in fact beyond
: a reputation for soured disposition.
: There is a man out in Oklahoma who
/ wants a wife so much that he is willinl
| TO take one whether she is maid, wife
; or widow. If she happens to be in,
: numbered with a husband at present
; he offers 10 give her a home as his
5 housekeeper until she secures a divorce
I | Now what is the use of passing stric
i. marriage and divorce laws in Pennsyl
vania and having ministers and othel
I good people lie awake nights TO plar
\ reforms in the marriage business whef
e such inducements as this are Offered
= TO restive wives. This is really serious
\ The poor men are helpless in the mat
5 ter. When such proposals are mad,
e by rich merchants and farmers out II
free Oklahoma II is time for husbands
o In the east 10 buy a gun or a bull-do,
$ or else provide their households will
n padded cells and Yale locks
saucy Bess.