The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-23
Sunday Cars in Aud Reekie.

II was in vain, after all, that JENNY
GEpDEs threw her stool at the preachers
mead in st. CHESS. II is the past, not
the present, that the kailyard school
has been painting for us. The Lords
Day has been deeecrated openly, shame
lessly by Scots kirkgoers in tho very
citadel of the Presbyterian Sabbath.
The cable cars are running on Sunday
in Aud Reekie.
1t came about Unexpectedly g an
incident in a fight between the Edin-
burgh Corporation and the tramway
COMPANY. The latter leases the cable
system from the former. but declares
that the tramways cannot be made to
pay unless they are run on Sunday.
The Corporation insists on refusing a
Sabbath-breaking permission and On
receiving its rent money, and as this
was not forthcoming threatened to
seize on the cable lines. The company.
without asking leave, at twenty-four
hours notice, o short a time TO get an
its Sunday cars. 1t is clear, however,
that these goddess chickering's would
have been meaningless IL the good burgh-
ers Of the Northern Athens had held
to the faith Of their fathers and turned
their backs on the trans. They used
them, on the contrary. and the Scots
TAI gloats over their lapse from grace:
The experiment was regarded with the deepest
Interest by the citizens generally. The cars were
watched from the sidewalks and from windows
along the route with the greatest attention, The
question was. Would the public take advantage OF
them' THIS must be answered with an emphatic
Yes. they did As q matter OF fact. the eIpen-
ment must be pronounced q complete success
and 40 great q boon did they prove 20 be that ell
and sundry who used them will regret greatly n
the action OF the Town Council against their lessees
for interdio, to stop further running on sundays
u suocessfui.-
The c~hurchgoers were the first Of
tenders. Although the Sabbath Society
sought 70 restrain conductors and motor
men by distributing tracts at the a
sheds when they started out, the subur-
ban Edinburghians crowded into the
cars in order 20 attend the city churches.
There was a little hesitation, some fear
Of the Scots Mrs. Grundy, but the cars
could not wait ana quas' hd'nourgh
got on board:
Sous Of the peopi- evidently needed q lead
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