The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-20
LOST THROUGH GREED
TROLLEY CAR WENT AFTER
 MORE PASSENGERS IN RAIN.
Gained One, But Lost Five and Now the Company is Figuring Out Its Profit on the
 Trip.

Five from thirty leaves twenty-five, and one added to twenty-five makes twenty,six. But twenty-six is four less
 This is a proposition in mathematics that has been giving the management of the Montgomery Strset Railroad Com pany food for reflection since midnight Monday. 4.
 The story runneth thus:
 Cars awaited on Dexter Avenue Mon- day evening for the time when the audi ence attending the Montgomery Theatre would be dismissed. The Thestre audi crowded into a CIoverdale car out of tlle rain. They sat shivsring in the cold and watched the raindrops trickling down the sides of the interior of the car. A bold action was followed by others and pretty seen all of the umbrellas in the car were raised Still the car did not pr ocsed
 Seems to me there's room in that car telligent conductor.
 He took the matter up with the mo- tern an, and the two carmen. faithful to the duty set out by the company they represented. did some calculating
 The conclusion was reached. while the passengers shivered some more. that Mc- Donalds Theatre, away down on Bibb Street had not dismissed its audience. :. thought the loyal motorman. Tt won't t the car." @Ht3 '@tf
 The motorman nodded to the conductor. The conductor looked wise.
 The csr began to back up towards Commerce Street.
 She's not going toward Cloverdale." shouted fat man with a crooked-handle umbrella from which drops Of rain fell 10 the floor.
 Hold on; hold ons'' he shouted again to the thu m motSrman; t.,r Back her up' want
 Rv actusl connt fbera uere thirty nas- sengers in the car. and thirty passen- gers were mad. They were cold and they told their troubles to each other. The fat man mutte-ed implications under his breath There were ladies in the car.
 The motorman did not heed. The car did not stop until 1t reached Bibb and Commerce Streets McDonald's Theatre had not dismissed its audience. The in fiendish glee while the conductor looked on and smiled at the angry pas- sengers. The rain continued to pour. The conductor and motorman seemed to enjoy conductor and motcrn1an wore rubber coats.
 After a walt of twenty minutes five passengers got, out of the car, which calling for nearby cabs were whirled to their Cloverdale home. e@s,<i.
 This left twenty-five passengers in the car who continued to shiver fifteen min utes more.
 The faithful carmen had great expecta tions of the audience which they felt sure would come ont of McDonald's The atre. No doubt they believed that the car would be so uncomfortably crowded as to give them room to hope for an increase in thetr salaries. -t'
 In the midst oftthese happy reflections the play at McDonald's ended. The au- dience came out into the street. It did rot swarm out as the police reporter would have described It, because the numbers were not sufficiently respectable to swarm"
 About fifty persons came out of the theatre. They passed by the waiting Clo- verdale car as though 1t had not been standing there thirty-fve minutes.
 Broke down againT' inquired a man who patroniyes cabs. '-4t
 Other persons passed but the car which now seemed to be anchored in midstream attracted no attention.
 One lone traveller upon his midnight way sought refuge in the car and joined his sorrow with those of the other pas senEers.
 After waiting until the lights in Me Donald's- had been turned dowH and making sure there was no possibility of increasing the number of passengers the conductor nodded to the motorman, and the disappointed carmen continued their way to Cloverdale.
 This is how the Montgomery Street Railroad Company lost four fares Mon sons lost their equilibrium Monday even ing and said things about the bad car service furnished the Montgomery pub lie. r..
 The proposition in mathematics will not work out any other way. The Mont anxiety to crowd this Cloverdale car, lost four fares.