The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-01
THE FERRYBOATS.

A StuQy or InelF I1uAlA''iI 4-9A'
 You laggards miss opportunities to study humanity, therefore we early workers assume the privilege of telling you a thing or two. Stretch your sleepy imagination as far as the Battery or Cortlandt street, or Liberty, and watch the people arriving by ferry from South Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jer- sey to do their monotony of daily labor in Manhattan Borough. The 6 o'clock boats fetch an unkempt, unpublished. tired, sleepy, unhappy throng, types of laborers in cellars or cheap restaurants. The pavement in front of 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 car. They have no feet; only corns and bunions or chill plains. Hardly one could run twenty yards without falling. Nearly all have small dinner buckets. Such as have not, carry their midday sandwich in piece of newspaper. There are few honest looking young women, doubtless going to service as scrubwomen in ten cent dairies at $2.20 a week. They are dowdy and slovenly.
 A perceptible improvement is noticed in the herds arriving half an hour later on the 6:30 boats. Fewer sore feet are detected and the quality of the clothes is better though the aspect of rusti- ness and slick elbows. unblackened shoes, impressed trousers and ur brushed trousers is painful. Perhaps many are late. They may have over slept, as they race naadly for the Gould and Whitney cars, packing in and on l like swarm of bees about a settled queen. The feetless ones tagger grop- ingly along, as if life. were not worth living and they did not care whether they were on time or mot, whether they | lost their jobs or not. See the grind on every face! But there are fewer dinner pails and sandwiches in newspapers. Strangely enough, you see none with the morning papers to ready They are not the reading class, possibly, or if they have homes they may have left the paper there to be read on their re- turn in the evening. In the course of the day, maybe, they take chance of picking up a discarded paper.
 | At o'clock you will see better clothes all around and more viva cious sprightly air Many of these l "sovereigns" of the suffrage but slaves of work, exhibit a leaning to neatness in dress. Here and there is crease in the leg of pair of tailor-made trous- CTS. Some of the women have straight fronts and upright heels. Some shoes are polished and many hats are brush ed. These people do not appear to have been out the night before steeped in debauchery, but impress you as be- ing honestly weary and in need of two weeks in the mountains shooting the innocent doe. Where are they going What is their line of work? Each has a definite direction, and with the &C., curacy 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 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 flocks of smart young men in semi fashionable attire, some GOT
 the mash" some cheerfully eager tc
 buckle down to light head work. Nc
 labor unions in this galaxy! No strikes
 Perhaps most of thse agreeable look
 ing youths clerk fin banks, sell goods 1T
 stores, keep books in brokers offices
 or do other easy head-hand-foot work
 for six or seven hours day. They car
 ry 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 o
 them doubtless stenographers in office: 1 of leading citizens.
 Money is in evidence at the g o'cloci
 boats-silk hats, cutaway coats, col
 ored vests, $2 ties, gloves top coats, al
 fashionable and new. Bankers, brokers
 stock operators, lawyers, traders on tn
 Exchange, poolroom keepers, editors o afternoon papers and real estate mel ; arrives in droves, brimful of enterprise for doing their neighbor according t the advice of Iago. They have slept wei and breakfasted sumptuously. The, rode to the station, caught the boat a leisure and now approach their office with dignity to find that the 8 o'cloc cleks and office boys have everything in order. T have succeeded" or T an about to succeed" is branded on eac
 forehead.-New York Press.