Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-11


didn't see any good reason why he should
be damned up against the front door Of the
car, and he didn't move up.
Are youse goin' { git a gait on an move
upT demanded the conductor.
Not on this ride. I'm not" quietly re-
pied the young physician taking another
hold on the strap.
The conductor turned TO a big policeman,
on duty, who happened TO be seated In the
car, The officer. being or duty wore no
badge and had no club. but a New York
policeman can make arrests whether he's
on duty or not, and the average New York
policeman would just a little BIT rather
| arrest somebody when he's OF duty than
when he's actually pounding his beat
Say, pinch that chesty duck" said the
conductor to the policeman. ''an' III appear
agin' him In tn mornin'.''
Inc cop jumped up to grab the young
medical man.
Now, please don't bother me- Mr. or
GER, said the athletic doctor In a pleas
ant though earnest tone, as the policeman
LLeacnea OUT 70 clutch him by the arm. II
haven't violated any law, and I'm busy
thinking OF number OF matters that are
quite important to me. and I'd rather not
Jaw. gwan wit that gas" Jauntny re-
piled the cop. grabbing the medical man by
the arm. "Ye're under arrest rr raisin' a
sturoance In car, an ye're comm long
wit me like a good Willie, amt youse?''
grinning tantalizingly In the young doctors
face.
Got a SIedse-Hammer HIow.
Right then the policeman or duty got a
siedge-hammer blow square between the
eyes, followed swiftly by an upper cut that
all but tore his nose from his face a short
arm jolt on the left ear that quickly
caused that member to resemble a cauli-
flower. and finally solar plexus rap that
curled him up in the lap of a fat German
washerwoman at the far end of the car.
Then the young doctor stepped to the front
door OF the car, opened Il and lightly
vaulted over the front rail while the car
was in full career. landing on his feet and
unconcernedly walked of. The punished
cop traced him. somehow or another to
the Roosevelt Hospital the next day and
arrested him for assaulting an officer The
magistrate-one OF the Just sort-reluct-
antly fined the medical man S. the smallest
possible amount when the prisoner freely
admitted his offense and told his little
story.
He used the brass knucks' on me-"
groaned the battered-up-looking cop to
the magistrate, aggrievedly when he saw
| the doctor getting Off 30 easily.
Did he, indeed?' inquired the magis-
trate. with a cheerful twinkle In his eye
the New York cop with a pair of black
! eyes and a smashed countenance has only
himself to fall back upon for sympathy.
We'll, from your appearance. 1 should es-
EN-" and then the cop descended from the
bridge amid the ironical laughter of the
thronged court room.
A "No Seat No Fare" Passenger.
few weeks ago a young Broadway shoe
clerk, an earnest believer In the main-
tenance Of principle, took Il into his head
that he would himself essay to inaugurats
| a mo seat no fare" crusade on the Broad
way cars He lives at a point on the CO.
lumbus avenue branch of the line, where
no human being was ever known to get q
seat on one of the cars at any hour of the
day or night, and the thing of standing up
in car for miles every day got on his
nerves He is slight. accommodating
youth, according to the pictures some or
the newspapers published Of him at the
time the conductors and uotormen of the
Broadway cars We're having fun with him
by picking him up and throwing him into
the street, and so his attempt to put the
mo seat, no fare" slogan through on his
own hook was assuredly a somewhat rash
undertaking. Nine times on the first morn
ing that he declined to pay his fare be-
cause he could get no seat he was toyously
tossed off nine distinct cars by nine sep
arate conductors, occasionally with the as
sistance of motormen, on the Broadway
line, and when he finally did reach the
Broadway shoe store where he was en-
ployed he looked as If he had been fussing
with steam-pipe manhole that had ex-
ploded during the middle of the scrap.
However, principle being the great thing
with him. he tried 1t again on the very next
morning, but this time he was unable to
even get aboard any Of the cars. for his de-
scription had been carefully passed around
| to all of the mutormen and conductors OF
| the line. Along toward IL O'Clock in the
morning. after about thousand cars had
passed him by without deigning to pick
| him up, he caved. He pulled two-dollar
bill out of his pocket and wildly waved 1t In
] the air as the next car bore down upon
| him.
"Lemme rider he yelled. pleadingly. at
! the motorman, and the grinning motorman
| stopped the car and let the youth of prin-
ciple on the car by the front gate. The
| conductor happened to be one of those who
| had chucked the principled youth of his
car on the morning before and as soon az
| he saw the shoe clerk he started for him
again. believing that the young man Of
principle was still pushing his mo seat, no
| fare" campaign.
Its all right" painted the shoe clerk,
as the conductor approached him. forking
over his two-dollar note. Just femme ride.
| that's all. Here's the money. Keep 1t all
Buy yourself mouth organs something
with the change. But femme rider
This Conductor Was Beaten.
A big car full of trolley riders from Bath
Beach got away with a determined no
heat. no fare" kick that they suddenly
put up the other morning The Bath Beach
trolley line had been so economical OF its
electric fluid since the beginning of the cold
weather that the Bath Beach trolley cars
hadn't even made any pretense of being
heated. Now, it's a pretty long ride from
Bath Beach to New York winters
morning, with a bitter cold wind sweeping
distance, and the business men who were
forced to ride in the unheated cars had got
into the habit of jesting with each other
over the probability Of their wives getting
the insurance money at an early date. One
morning last week, however, the essential
man who acts dropped into one of the un-
heated cars. He shivered and b-r-r-r-rd In
his big ulster as he took the only remaining
seat next to the rear door. 1t happened
that he was the first man tackled for his
fare by the conductor.
My fingers are too numb to go into my
pocket after the fare" said the man who
knew how and when to act Warm 'em
up and you get your nickel"
The conductor started to bawi at him,
but the citizen who happened along at the
psychological moment only shook his head
and replied:
mo heat, no fare"
The conductor. growing, You'll gle
you'rn later" reached out his hand for the
next mans fare. The next man shook his
head.
Turn on that heat cock, or valve, or
gauge, or what'dye-call-it, and my nickers
yours" he said.
Every one of the twenty-eight men In the