The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-17
SCHOOL GIRLS FARE.
SAD EXPERIENCE OF 4 GALLANT
 TROLLEY CONDUCTOR.

Thought He Was Exceedingly POpu-
 lar, But Met With Ills comeupRnce
 at Lnst
 There's a conductor on the F'latbush avenue line who isn't quite so vain of his good looks and neat appearance as he used to be- Time was, and not over week ago, when this collector of fares thought he was a real lady killer, and the personfication of all that is attrac- tive to feminine eyes. Perhaps he might still have thought so had he not had a car that was going down the av- enue to the city the other day, just as the three o'clock dismissal of the Bras mus Hall High school was occurring. That was his undoing. Now the ma Ilipulator of the bell cord has had his run changed at his own asking, and, when occasion demands that he pass the High school, while off duty, he goes block or two out of his way, that un- pleasant memories may not be revived
 The conductor in question isn't saying anything about the sudden change in Illo lIedS, DuL olItl CIllplpytp ol tlIN company are telling the story, and, whenever they think of it. a broad smile appears on their face. If the reader by chance should be a patron of the Flatbush avenue line and should mo- tice a twinkle in the conductors eye and a smile on his face, guess he's thinking about the way several Bras mus girls took down his fellow conduc- tors conceit.
 The conductor, who is now wearing worried look, used to have a run that brought him from down town to the Erasmus Hall High school in the neigh borhood of nine o'clock each morning. At that time the cars are filled with the splendid examples of healthy young womanhood, for which the Flatbush High school is noted. This fare collec- tor is not bad to look upon, his clothes were always well brushed and pressed. He wore a high collar Ca clean one ev- cry morning. and generally red neck tie It was noticed that he was always very eager to help the school girls on to his car, and that the gruff and com manding, "Step lively please" Move up forward dere's bunch of room in the front were missing. When he col lected the fare he smiled his sweetest, and sometimes tipped his hat,
 Now, the Flatbush school girls do not always object to noticing a nice conduc- tor, and they might even be tempted to smile back-just once. But when they got the same smile every morning they decided to break up the performance, if they could. And they did. It was on the three o'clock run out as the rail- road men have it. the other day, when twenty-two bright and charming misses came running and laughing from the school and hailed the handsome conduc- tors car Immediately he was all smiles, and as he helped the romping, laughing girls, all talking at once aboard the car. he wouldn't have changed places with any man on earth, unless it were Hobson.
 The car started. but the conductor didn't notice that every young woman was quiet, and that there was a sorrow full expression on their faces. Had he done so, he might have left his car and his job then.
 Fare please" he said, in his most charming way, to one of the girls, and she promptly handed him three pennies.
 '"The fare is five cents, miss," said the conductor, as he reached for the regis ter rope.
 "Oh, you wouldn't charge me five cents, would you?' asked the young Wo man, as she bean1ed on him, and the conductor was just about to enter the seventh heaven. Then he held out his hand for another fare and three cents more dropped into it, and another smile was bestowed upon him. The twenty two girls paid only three cents each, and then the conductor got angry. The angrier he got, the merrier were the girls, and finally, the conductor, losing all patience, stopped the car and sum- moned one of Captain knipes good looking cops, who sometimes stands guard at the entrance to the school to see that no harm comes to the scholars as they enter or leave. As the cop boarded the car he was greeted with a cheer by the girls, and such remarks as, ''Hello Charlie!" Don't you think our conductor is nice? He only charged us three cents" and "I think the policeman is lots nicer than the con- ductor.'
 The cop wouldn't make any arrest, but smilingly left the car, while the conductor had to take forty-four cents from his daily pay to square himself with the company. Now he wishes he hadn't The story leaked out and an- other employe of the Flatbush avenue line had this to say this morning:
 My, but it was fnnny and that con ductor is changed man. He isn't say ing much, but I'll bet he's thinking a lot. and the funny part of it all is that all of the girls were old enough to chew hay.-Brooklyn Eagle.