Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-01
When Their Horse Lost.

When Their Horse Lost.
And then the mighty Banastar, who was
stepped upon from behind by another horse
early In the race and had one of his ankles
cut to the bone, plowed around the miry
course like a brewery wagon horse, and on
account of his injury wound up ingloriousy
in the ruck.
tress in her box! And the remarks they
madei There was no use in trying to tell
them that the horse had been cut down and
injured, and that he really ran a remark
able race after such accident They
had simply lost faith in their idol, that
was all there was about it. and they plain
ly held her personally responsible for Ban
astar's defeat and the loss of their money.
why. l don't believe she knew any
thing about it.'-''The idea of treating peo-
pic that way!-'I'H bet she was just paid
to come here and lead folks astray in their
bettingI'-"She knew all the time that
BanaStar was going to get beat, and l
don't believe she ever put cent on himT'-
III never go again to see a performance
that she's in as long as l live!'-these and
many other spiteful remarks were emitted
around the box by the women who but a
few moments before had looked upon her
as little person of miraculous wisdom.
All in all, the Brooklyn handicap was a
bit of bad job, and an expensive one, for
that particular actress this year, and her
friends advising her to leave the
ponies" alone and to stick to the stock
market Cat which game she is uniformly
successfully if she must satisfy her craving
for the excitement of speculation. Which
advice is worth her needing. AS a gloomy
looking tout remarked on the return trip
from the Gravesend track Saturday after
noon "Dey'L git y'r shirt if youse stays
wit EN- long enough
"No Seat. No Fnre.'
One of the aldermen of this borough has
made a bid for undying fame by endeavor-
ing to correct, by means of a municipal
ordinance. an abuse which persons who
ride on the open cars of New York have
been compelled to put up with for many
years. This abuse Is the complasance
with which the street car officials permit
rows of sweltering humans to stand in
front of the seated passengers on the open
cars 1t has for years past been virtually
impossible for one to take an airing
New York open car without submitting to
are occupied the cars are damned by foot
mauling persons who squeeze themselves
into the narrow spaces between the seats,
and the companies, far from making any
effort to put a stop to this sort of thing,
actually encourage it by ordering their
conductors to take up all the passengers
they possibly can, whether there Is room
for them not. Washingtonans who, if
one remembers correctly, do not have to
endure such nuisance, except when the
suburban open cars are crowded on the
lttui IL UPS nun pItdSuIt ItSOTlS tate at
night, can scarcely appreciate the discom-
fort and misery of riding, seated in an
open car under such conditions. Indeed
the ISLANDERS have all the best of it. The
air is entirely shut off from the seated pas
sengerS. they are trampled upon and
mussed UP generally by the ISLANDERS, espe-
cially when the characteristic sharp
curves of New York being rounded
and their situation in general Is a grue-
some, insanitary and abhorrent one
The aldermans resolution provides that
the street cars shall be forced to give
every passenger a seat for his nickel and
to take up no passengers for whom there
are no seats. This is an excellent measure
and. oddly enough-seeing that it is excel
lent-it bids fair to go through. The NO
seat no fare" slogan is being taken up in
earnest in New York, and already conduc-
tors are experiencing difficulty in collecting
nickels from square-chinned men who have
to ride for miles while clutching straps
The NO seat. no fare" idea was made
into law in Boston two or three years
ago. and. better. the law has been enforced
ever since. to the infinite satisfaction of
the Inhabitants