The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-10-12
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HER POINT OF VIEW :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THOSE street car employees ought to
love the dear people which con-
stitute that queer, meek thing
known as The Public. They really
ought. Twice in a few months to he
told to go and II goeth, come and it
coineth. walk and 1t walketh, is asking
a great deal and receiving II great deal.
II they provided ~conveyanccs which
would take IT where 1t wanted to go
the favor might not be so great but
the Nagaries of a pony express or an
omnibus line are not all hat could he
desired. So. really the street ear strik-
ers ought to love the dear public and
be awfully civil and nice to 1t If ever
thiss strike Is settled. Some of the people
have been looking over the records of
memory since the last strike and they
cannot recall many reasons why any
great personal obligations should be en-
tertained on their own side. They will
expect hereafter to be helped on and off
cars when such a courtesy is needed, will
want polite answers to their questions
and Will earnestly desire that no deaf
mutes be retained who can neither hear
their agonized whistles for a car nor
reply pleasantly when asked for in
formation.
1t Is to be hoped that the street car
company will observe new regulations
regarding the continuance of employees
on lines long enough for the regular
patrons to econ acquainted with
them. The way it once was we, who
rode much on certain lines became at
tached to conductors and motormen
alike and felt as if we had q personal
interest in their welfare. They were
glad to see us and showed us every
possible courtesy and favor. They wait
ed for us on corners and helped us who
are old ladies and in general endeared
themselves to their friends, for we were
all that. Who along the Petersburg
line does not remember Mooney. so
considcrate II SO faithful and which
n did not grieve when he died? Who
does not recall Dan" with kindly feel
ing and others who's names may not be
known, but whose faces were those of
familiar friends? There are many who
were until now or the road who have
been changed from one line to another.
but who are liked so much by the pat
rons it is hoped they will be seen again.
If they We're but allowed to remain on
the lines without being %"swapped"
about like so many chessmen it would
surely be better for employees and pub
lie as well as the 1t seems
to me that a street car conductor keeps
his hands cleaner literally and hgur-
atively when he knows he is among
people who are acquainted with him
n who like him, that he is more
civil, more careful of their comfort and
convenience because they are his
friends Thn nI1hli. nrt;,,t;,,l, At,
trusts a stranger when the familiar
blue-coated figure of the man who
his duty n tries to please is one
to be regarded with confidence and re-
spect.
1t is part of the Kindergarten gospel
to be pretty. That kindergarten con-
vention eXempliticd the text. The
president, Mrs. Wilson, is Il beautiful
woman. with most unusual gifts as a
speaker. She is alleged to have a
daughter twenty-five years old. but al
most everybody in Scranton who saw
her believes the daughter to be Il myth,
at the worst, merely Il s~tep-daugh-
ter. Miss Allison, the lovely supervisor
of the Pittsburg ki~nderGartens, has
curly brown hair, with elintS of gold
in it. a face which dimples most dis
tractingly when she speaks and con-
gifts which make you for