Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-12

ubHt ulo uutS liio 10 renewed,
and he is satisfied TO let the world
continue it's revolutions. The hatred
of the horse buss drivers for the mo-e
tor busses and the cabmen for the
is almost inexpressibSS
and they find relief in obstructing thel
road and in making sarcastic remarks y
to their passengers.
BY the way, motor car is much
better name than Automobile" Just
as the English term 'typist" is much
better than our typewriter. In Lon
don you employ typist to copy your
manuscript or write your letters on a
typewriter; in America you have
typewriter write them on her ma
chine. | submit that the former is
more satisfactory, although, as rule.
the English are very clumsy in their
expressions. Some of them are very
amusing. The other day in front of
store a dealer in sporting goods |
saw cardboard sign announcing that
he had formulated fish bait for sale.
Upon taking the trouble to inquire |
found that he meant trout flies and
other fixed bait. The other morning
one of the papers referred to the ar
rest of an "babitual msdemeanant."
Upon reading the context it appeared
that the personal alluded to had com
mitted several misdemeanors. But |
was never quite satisfied what was
meant by a writer in another paper
who referred to ian ambulatory pic
ture,"
We frequently see funny names on
the signboards along the streets OF
| London Sipley slipper is a dentist
l on Holborn, Margaret Barefoot keeps
a hucksters shop on Kings road, and
"Giddy & Giddy' Decays and Delapi-
dations," is a well-known sign in Wa
terloo place. Regent street. This
means that the gentlemen named are
professional appraisers and adjustors
of damages to real estate committed
by tenants, and oversee the repairing
of busines houses and residences.
But to get back to my subject. the
motor buss is improving all the time
and is already so popular and so pro-
fitable that a new company has re-
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of 100000, and after competition is
open to the world has placed an or
| der with a German company for 800
gasoline busses at total cost OF
$1.625,000, Or an average OF $3.50
each. To have this contract go to
| Germany has created a decided SEN
sation, but the competition was fair,
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tatives of English, French and Bel
eian manufacturers. The Germans of
fered to furnish the cars cheaper than
anybody else, and that was the only
reason that they got the contract
will have good effect, however, by
stimulating national pride and infX
| provement in England.
Notwithstanding the very large IN
crease in facilities, and in the NUMBER
of trains, the underground service is
always overcrowded in the morning
from to 10 and in the evening from
Is to 1880 o'clock. During those two
khours at least 100000 people demand
Transportation between their homes
and their places of business, and, al
through the most populous portioEj
of London and doubled the capacity
of the old ones, the "tupenny tubes
are not nearly sufficient TO handle the
traffic. In the middle of the day
there is usually plenty of room in the
first-class cars, but the third-class ac-
commodations never seem to be ex-
Il hn
should always take first-class ticket.
There is no second class. Yerkes
abolished that as superfluous. He
saw that more than half the people
who rode second class habitually
take the first-class cars If they were
| compelled to do so, and While the
first-class cars were running empty,
All of the cars are good. There is
no difference whatever So far as COM
fort is concerned between the first
and third class. 1t is simply a mat
ter of crowding. At all the busy
hours of the day the third class cars
are filled with what are te1Bed
"Yerkes strap-hangers." The people
of Chicago will appreciate the sig
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public Indignation over this lack OF
accommodation that no less than
three societies of "strap-hangers,'
| with several thousand members EACH
have been organized In different Sec
tions of the city for the sole purpose
of compelling the railway companies
to put on more cars during the busy
nours of the day. Each society has
employed legal counsel and is carry
ing on litigation, but has not yet com
PEELED the company to relieve the
pressure.
The lawyers went first to the board
of trade which has general supervi-
sion over transportation facilities, and
presented formal and respectful petit
uons setting forth the impositions
suffered by their clients because of
the parsimony of the railway man.
agement. The companies replied that
they would be very glad to increase
the service If 1t were possible to do
so, because they would thereby in