Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-09

means that we will not have to give
out anywhere near as many free
| tickets as we had to in the past.
| Mayor Mcclellan is standing pat
in his position that advertising signs
should be removed from the subway
stations. He has asked Corporation
| Counsel Delaney for an opinion as 10
the mayors power to take independent
action toward removing the placards
Mr.. Mcclellan has never made mucn
| of a sercet of his opinion that the
| Rapid Transit commission is an I'M
democratic body and unrepresentative
| of the people, and it is believed that
| he will take extreme pleasure in gong
over its head, accomplishing the popu-
lar desire of tearing down the signs
and repairing the mutations. The
| Municipal Art society publishes me-
| mortal urging the mayor to remove the
tunnel advertising signs.
There are scores of laboring men and
! young clerks engaged daily in ana
! about the Chinese section of New
York who take their midday meals IN
! the Chinese restaurants.
| They can get as much solid food ana
satisfying food for their money as can
| be. had anywhere. There is certain
spiciress about the cookery that en-
tees and pleases the American ap-
petite sick of pork and beans. ana
| chcap chop house meats, and the tea
served is not a mess of steaming Stops.
hut as good as the average diner is
served with at the Waldorf or in the
clubs.
| There is one commendable thing
| ahout the Chinese method of serving
,aa There is a covered dish filled to
the brim with real tea leaves. and just
| enough hot water to cover them.
When this is poured into the small
china cup more water is poured upon
the leaves from a jug that stands
steaming hot, upon the table. and thus
| three or four cups can be secured from
| the one order, that costs 10 cents.
In the American restaurants abound
ing in that section the waiter brings 10
his customer one big earthenware cup
| that could. be thrown against STONE
wall without injury. This IS niieo
with a steaming decoction that comes
from an urn that may not nave seen
fresh tea leaves for week.
The Chinese waiter will bring you all
tho sugar needed or desired. but If you
mention milk or cream he shakes ms
head.
He has no desire to aid you in what
he regards as bad taste, the adultera-
tion Of a good drink, and slow suicide.
when pressed for a reason for the re-
fusal he adopts a bit of slang that has
xhn
mo good! Much no good" Argue
with him and you are squelched by MS
final retort, Dam no good.
When the subway was opened the
management announced that 1t would
carry 5000 passengers day. ana
would ultimately be able to transport
1000. 900 daily.
The reports for the first twenty nine
DAYS of operation show that it carried
5S3S,235 passengers. or an average Oh
2O1,31S daily, about One-third the estl-
mated capacity.
It is already evident that the present
subway cannot transport 6OO,Ooo pas
sengers daily as ordinary travel goes.
1t might if the passengers would be
kind enough to distribute themselves
evenly over the twenty-four hours.
The Tribune estimates editorlally
that the cabmen of New York are the
h,ngriest lot of wolves that ever tack
led a pedestrian. In this respect they
are living up to their reputation. The
New York cabman is tough by ma
ture. by choice. and by training. He is
-;cio
who walks 1t is his aim to pursue, be-
devil and harass the pedestrian. Woe
to the man who walks in New York!
Electric cars running very close to
each other go along the street, ana
they with the trucks, express wagons.
and the many automobiles and carri-
ages which are constantly going 10 ana
from the hotel give the cabman great
opportunity to run down ana mann tne
pedestrians. When the motor car Is
unable to get man the caDmah seher-
ally does. The cabman is little more
fiendish than the mOtorman. Inc iat-
ter kills his victim almost instantly.
The cabman knocks him down, runs
wheel over him, drives his morse across
him. breaking a few bones and disng-
uring him. The motorman rings MS
gong sometimes, which gives the per-
son a chance to escape. The caomah
shows little mercy occasionally by
running his wheels against man,
soiling his clothes or knocking MS nat
into the mud. or perhaps merely punch
es him in the back with one OF the
shafts.
While the cabmen Of New York are
interesting. really the cabwomen OF tne
CITY are more so. 1t would seem as II
the women Of New York, or large
proportion of them. have nothing 10 90
but ride about in cabs. They some-
times have a man with them, some-
times a child, but not often. They are
sonetimeA alone, but for the most part
they ride, in pairs. Broadway ana
Fifth avenue are the streets they most
frequent, but all parts OF the city
where there are theatres. cafes and
shops are the haunts OF these cabwo-
men. They are Of all sorts-young and
old. pretty and ugly. blonde ana bru-
nette, fat and lean, rich and poor-very (
few poor-big and little. whatever