The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-25
STREET CAR ETIQUETTE.
Germany Cannot Teach America Much
 1t Would Seem.

Germany Cannot Teach America Much
 1t Would Seem.
 The street car companies here sell
 monthly tickets, good for six months or
 year, which entities the holder, whose
 photograph appears on one side of a
 card protected by a thin glass of isin-
 glass to ride as often and as far as he
 likes upon presenting the same to the
 conductors. The regular rate is 10
 marks, or $3.75 month, winch is good for the entire system, and the charge for longer period is a multiple of this amount. Limited tickets, good for d sin gle line, are sold for 6 marks, or $l.50 a month, for one month or for year. The limited tickets are found con- venient by business men, school chil- dren, students, factory operatives and others who travel daily over the same route to and from their home, while the full ticket is useful for messengers, er rand boys, delivery clerks and others who are likely to be sent in different di- rections daily. The holder of one of these tickets can ride all day if he likes, changing from one line to another at his pleasure, because a single company controls the entire system on one side of the city, and the municipal govern ment owns all the tracks on the other side.
 In the morning, when everybody is going down town, or i'll the evening, when they are returning from business, street car conductors take in very little cash Nearly everybody pulls a season ticket on them. A condition attached to these tickets requires the holder to surrender his seat if it is needed for a cash passenger, but the rule is not of- ten enforced, except in the case of children I have seen conductor yank a small boy out of his seat, but he never would think of disturbing an adult As the law prohibits street car conductors from entertaining more passengers than they have places for, the rule about season tickets is not often en- forced
 Street car etiquette fin Germany is quite different from that of the United States and few people ever saw Ger man offer his seat to a woman. On the contrary men have the preference. It is the rule when all the seats are occu pied that people on the platform may have the benefit of vacancies that oc- cur inside in regular order-the first conner having precedence.
 The other day, while sitting near the door in Thiergarten ear, breathl@ss old woman with arms full of bundles climbed upon the platform. I arose and | beckOned her to take my seat, but be- | fore she could do so a we'll dressed | brute pushed in ahead and settled down | in it. took hold of his arm and mo- toned to the woman, but he shook his | head. I told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself, at which he smiled l and a small boy on the platform snickered The old woman olCck9 ded he aisle all this time in sort | of daze until the conductor ordered her back to the platform, for people are ''Verboten' to stand in the aisles. When | I followed her outside man who had | the proceeding kindly explain ed to me that under the regulations the | brute was entitled to the seat when I | 1t, and would probably have taken 1t even if his own mother had to stand We have many hogs in Germany" he added, but do not kill | them, as you do in America. "- Berlin Letter to the Chicago Record Herald.