Arizona republican., 1903-11-29
WORK THE ROAD FOR CLOTHES
Men Who Get Car Companies to Pay
 Their Tailors' Bills.

'I started to get on a Broadway car | the other night" said a club man, when the motorman, who had slowed 1 up for me. suddenly turned on the power with the result that my coat caught in the hand rail and vas ripped down the front. I was thrown on my face on the roa1. got several lad scratches and one of those fine three cornered cuts in the seat of my truus- CTS.
 II didn't mind the shaking up or the scratches, but l was sore about my clothes and the Eex, day I went to the claim agent of the road with my clothes in a bundle, and demanded an order or my tailor or some equally l good tailor for new suit. 'The claim agent looked me over carefully for fully three minutes, then, without asking me a single question. wrote out an order on the cashier of his office for $6O, which I said was the value of my suit.
 "' If you would rather have an order on your own tailor for a suit at this price, he said, as he handed me out the order. I'll give it to you
 |" I would I said, so he tore up the other order and gave me an order on my own tailor.
 The whole proceeding struck me as being very queer. I had the number of the car on slip of paper, but he never asked me for it. l was prepared to de- scribe the exact circumstances of the accident, but he apparently didn't care to know anything about them.
 My friend I said, as I put his order in my pocket, how can you af- fF rft .clr,, out any idea of who I am, or whether l am an imposter CT not? Why, you haven't even looked at my ruined clothes.
 Don't want to see 'em,' he said. T l see you and that's enough In this. kind of cases. 1 don't look at the damaged clothes, I look at the man with the claim I make up my mind in a minute or two whether he is on the square or not, and I act according to my Judgment. If I had decided against you, you would have had to go through every court in the state before I yield ed an inch
 Then he offered me a cigar asked me to sit down and then told me a rather queer story about clothing claims. He said:
 There are more claims fer cloth ing against us than anything else men and women by the score come here every month with some damaged ar ticle of clothing, demanding that we replace 1t, as it was injured by one of our cars
 There are some fellows. I believe. who have not bought a suit of clothes Tor themselves for years. They work us for them
 
 Some are out and out inpostors. others manage really to get their clothes stained or torn on our cars, so that there will be at least a semblance or legltlmacy in their claims. The real bona fide claims are very rare.
 A faVorite trick is to come in and say that clothes were burned in a fire In one of the trolley cars. Just as sure as the newspapers print an account of fire in one of our cars there are two or three claimants for new clothes. new hats or new shoes in to see me.
 It is the same thing with colli- sion. After a collision, whether it's between two cars, or a car and a truck. the claimants begin to drift in the next day. In nine cases out of ten these are purely frauds
 I see all these claimants personal ly. l think I can tell the fraud right away.
 Sometimes I allow myself to be cheated by these fellows because there Is a little doubt in my mind about them, but in most cases I turn them right out; and never hear. anything more from them. In other cases I can tell that the claim is all right
 In your case I know you suffered this loss through the carelessness of one of our conductors or motormen. It was enough for me that I believed this. The facts of the case are not interest ing to me New York Sun.