The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-01
busy exchanging verbal compliments With
the truckman to heed her.

busy Verpal compnmentS Witn
the truckman to heed her.
Il must catch that trainl' she cried. Il
must catch that traini'
In almost any other part Of the city such
a mixup would have stopped travel and
would nave included a hand to hand fight.
AS it was 1t took less than five minutes to
restore order,
In a jiHy one policeman soothed the lady
by sending for another cab, tucldng her and
her baggage in, giving directions to the dri-
yer and sending her of. Another policeman
sent oabby and his assailant of In different
was hurt, only n Of the cab wheels was
damaged.
Afew minutes later over at the Tabernacle
corner there wa q commotion in front of a
Thirty-fourth street trolley coming from the
east as it stopped near the corner; .
calmly answered q policeman. when people
asked what had happened. There are some
persons who can't be prevented from trying
to cross in front Of a trolley just before
1t comes to q stop
aShe was knocked down but not hurt
muoh,' he announced q moment Later,
continuing to view the scene with expert
enoed eye. And she hssn't insisted on
having the motorman arrested" he con-
cloded, as the car started on Its way across
the north and south tracks.
we policemen always try to Y Id hold-
ing up motormen. ana c~onouCtors uniess
absolutely certain they ought to bs put under
lock and key, for the reason that It stops
traffic and mixes up things badly in the
square, he explained, ins'nswer to a woman
who wanted to know why the motor man
had not been arrested. Every wo man
who Is knocked down, though, even though
she knows it's her own fault. wants some
body arrested; and sometimes 1t X q lot
Ut persuasion to change her mind.
sOh, yes, women are much more careless
than men. The bulk Of the ~knockdowns
20 to women and children
Before the policeman had concluded his
exclamation the two observers were won
Thirty-hfth street and Sixth avenue, where
an uptown trolley car had come to q stand
still. Soon they learned the reason.
"A fool man. commented q returning
policeman in a disgusted tone, leaned out
after the car started to take a paper from q
newsboy and his head and an elevated road
aNo, he's q good ways from dead. 1t
means an ambulance and a visit to the
hospital, though, and the accident delayed
the cars nearly three minutes
After the excitement was over things
didn't happen 80 fast. and the observers
had time to notice how many times the
policeman stationed midway between the
Broadway trolley cars and the Sixth avenue
trolley cars had to leave his post, or rather
now OFTEN ne Olu leaVe IL, 10 nelp WoInsu
from one side of the street to the other,
They wondered a little at this and asked
why he was 30 good natured about It,.
Must keep the crowds moving, . said he
we get to know country women and women
who live out Of the city at a glance, and
when a bevy Of them come out OF one OF
the department stores and stand on the
corner waiting for chance to get over to the
Sixth avenue side, we know what to expect
Reckoning TO them o no good. as a
rule. Those women expect US to 60 for
generally do. 1t saves time and trouble
In the end. It's only new policemen who
are allow about leaving THAR stand.