The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
AYENGING TROLLEY WRONGS.
INGENIOUS WAYS or SOME PEO-
PIE WITH GRIEVANCES.

Mails and TelepAsncs Used to Make IAfe
Miserable for Car Line OnlciaIs-A
Single Mans Capacity for Causlng
wsrry-IAttle Things Make Trouble.
Every now and then somebody with
grievance against the management Of the
trolley lines Of q big city arises and COM
plains that the public Is too long suffering
Perhaps. a. body, 1t h. But 1t has cham
pions who do good-or Ill, according TO the
trolley oflcisls-by stealth and in inge-
NOUS ways seek redress for their wrongs.
With fine disregard Of means, they use
Uncle Sans mails and the telegraph and
the telephone Unfortunately to harass
the trolley company and express their inner
most and least cordial feelings to the OH
Gals. They worry the heads Of health
and police departments. No method Is
too simple for their avenging plans.
mo, SIR said the general superintendent
Of the largest surface transportation COM
pany In one Of the biggest cities the other
cars and broke various limbs. mo sirI
It isn't accidents like this that worry me
most.
'They break me up, to be sure; but We
all know that they are bound TO happen
in our business. What's driving me into
nervous prostration Is the petty. diabolcal
roasting and soaking that get from the
time awake until 60 TO sleep.
60 to sleep, did say1 Well, that was
wrong. Why. listenl
'One night got to bed at about o'clock,
dog tired had been out over the line
trying to repair broken feed wire with q
green crew and insufficient material. and
left word to wake me up ct 90 that
could get out again.
well, sir, at about 2 O'Clock the tele-
phone bell rang like mad and woke me
up ! called my man and told him TO SEQ
what Was wanted.
After a short talk with the person at
the other end Of the wire he hurried into
my room and reported that 1t was q man
who said that he had to talk to me imme-
diately on . matter Of the highest i'm
Of tho divisions he said. rushed 10 the
instrument and, without asking who was
talking to me. asked where the accident
was.
I'm sure don't know replied the
voice. It's this way. old man. thought
I'd call you up to tell you that maybe there
is an accident.
You SEQ, I had to wait three quarters
Of an hour for a car, and 30 thought that
when got home I'd tell you about 1t, know
ing that with your magnificent manage
ment II would be quito impossible for cars
to run 90 infrequently unless something
terrible had happened to the whole system
OF course, I was hot all through, and,
without thinking. yelled:
do you mean to say that you dare
call me out Of bed merely to tell me that
you had to wait for CARP
And then he got foul. With the sweetest
kind Of voice he said:
What Do you mean to tell mo that
the general superintendent Of tho
road, drawing salary Of 5000 Is 30 in
different to his duty that he will abuse
man who Is thoughtful enough to call him
up at O'Clock In the morning Just out Of
good nature and unselhshneas2 BY Jove,
sir, shall write to your directors and tell
trouble and the. expense Of telephonine to
tell you things.'
And then he rang OF and left me jumping
up and down. And the beauty Of It Is that
he had tho glorious nerve to fulf his threat
and write letter to the directors.
He didn't write 1t at once, either. Tho
villain was too cunning for that. He had
found out that there was a split coming In
the board and he waited until tho meeting
at which the trouble was due.
then his letter was delivered, and It
came just In time for one Of the factions
that took the curl out of my hair for a
month.
well. when the trouble was over | was
so sore that l actually worried over some
way to pay that man back He had signed
his name and address and kept memo
'One day met him at a reception, and ,
as things usually happen, the man whom
l had pictured as mean, low, sneaking
oodger turned out to be pretty good kind
So contented myself with complaining to
him about his behavior And then be said:
company worries me morning and night.
l wait for cars until feel like slaughtering
somebody.
II stand on corners in rain and mud
wasting my precious time. I've missed
dinner engagements and business engage:
only he didn't say Egyptian. and I've
joined citizens associations and reform
associations and formed . committee by
myself to try TO remedy things, without
avail. 80 now I've taken things IN my
own hands. I'm going to fight you by
myself You worry me and I'm going TO
III I am delayed In getting home III
call you up on the telephone ct early hours
Of the morning preferably and tell you about
II. I'm going to do the same thing to your
president I'm going to spend 1 part Of
my bright young LIE In your midst, In
season and out OF season.
1'No bad feelings. you know. It's just
business
And, sir, he did it.. Single handed,
that man, who must have had the patience
OF Job, the revengefulnsss Of Cortes and the
ingenuity Of Maehiavell. nearly drove
me insane.
And a. for the poor president. he became
% furious at Last from the constant prodding
that he actually applied to the oompanys
counsel to zee II he couldn't get at his perss-
outor through the courts But he couldn't
The man was too smart for him.
"You sse. maddening a. 1t may have
been to be CALLED away from q dinner party
or q oosey chat in your house by the tele-
phone bell, only to hear that chaps hearty
merry voice informing you thst another
oar was late again, he was within his nghts
We couldn't do anything.
-One day he called up the presidents
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