Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-02
THE FERRYB0ATS

You laggards miss opportunities 10 study humanity, therefore we early workers assume the privilege of telllng you a thing or two. Stretch your sleepy imagination as far as the Bat tery, or Cortlandt street, or Liberty, and watch the people arriving Dy Terry from Sou+h '-n Staten Island | and New Jersey to do their monotony of | daily labo4 . .ls.ttaln borough. Ine | 6 o'clock boats fetch an unkempt, un- polished. tired, sleepy, unhappy throng, types of laborers in cellars or cheap restaurants. The pavement in front or the ferry house is rough, and you will observe that most of the unfortunates have trouble in picking their way to elevated train or surface ear. They have no feet, only corns and buniOns, Or chilblains. Hardly one could run twenty yards without falling. Nearly all have small dinner pails. Sucn as have not carry their midday sandwich in a piece of newspaper. There are few honest looking young women, doubtless going to service as scrubWo- men in 1O-cent dairies at $40 a week. They are dowdy and slovenly.
 A perceptible improvement is noticed in the herds arriving half an hour later on the 6:3O ferryboats. Fewer sore feet are detected and the quality of the clothes is better. though the aspect of rustiness and slick elbows, unblacken- ed shoes, impressed trousers and un- brushed coats is painful. Perhaps many are late. They may have over- slept, as they rush madly for the Gould and Whitney cars, packing in and on like swarm of bees about a settled queen. The feetless ones stag ger gropingly along, as if life were not worth living and they did not care whether they were on time or not, whether they lost their jobs or not. See the grind on every face! But ,here are fewer dinner pails and sandwiches in newspapers. Strangely enough you see none with the morning papers to read. They are not the reading class, possibly, or if they have homes they may have left the paper there to be ! read on their return in the evening. In the course of the day, maybe, they 1 take a chance of piclyins up discard l ed paper. ,aLa's%~
 At o'clock you will see the better clothes all around and more viva. cious, sprightly air. Many of these ''soVereigns" of the suffrage but slaves of work, exhibit a leaning to neatness in dress. Here and there is crease in the leg. oI a pair of tailor-made i IIouSSIS' OOAIG Ol IuO WOuueQ udYG i straight fronts and upright heels. | Some shoes are polished and many hats are brushed. These people do not appear to have been out the night be- fore steeped in debauchery, but inn press you as being honestly weary and in need of two weeks in the I mountains shooting the innocent doe. Where are they going? What is their line of work? Each has definite di. rection, and with the accuracy of ants the hordes thread their way forward in devious courses. See them break like schools of fish on the shoals.
 Victory to the swift, success to the strong. The slow and weak wait for the next car.
 By 8 o'clock the labor unions have finished their sacrifices, the crowds that actually toll and sweat having reached their various places of potter and plod. Boats vomit f1ocks of smart young men in semi-fashionable attire, 1 some "on the mash," some cheerfully eager to buckle down to light head work. No labor unions in this galaxy. No strikes. Perhaps most of those agreeable looking youths clerk in banks sell goods in stores, keep books i'll brokers offices or do other easy head-hand-foot work for six or seven hours day. They carry newspapers Which they have partly read on the boats and will finish in the course of the day. Well-dressed young women | come in small conveys, most of them doubtless stenographers in offices of 1 leading citizens. <..
 Money is in evidence at the 9 o'clock ooats-silk hats, Cutaway coats. col fored vests. $2 ties, gloves, top coats. all fashionable and new. Bankers. brok- CTS, stock operators, lawyers, traders on the exchange, bedroom Keepers. ed, ltors of afternoon papers and real es- tate men, arrive in droves, brimful of enterprises for doing their neighbor. ac- cording to the advice of Iago. They have slept we'll and breakfasted sump- tuously. They rode to the station. caught the boat at leisure, and now
 approach their office with dignity to find that the s o'clock clerks and of
 flee boys have everything in order. II
 have succeeded" or II am about to
 succeed'' is branded on each forehead l-New York Press.