The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-15
ALL-NIGHT PASSENGERS.
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 Conductors on the Broadway surface cars are kept busy these warm nights after l o'clock in the morning, walking up passengers who prefer to sleep in an open car and enjoy the fresh air, at the same time saving hotel bills The fa- vorite route is from the Battery to l3Sth street. The round trip occupies two hours and half Those who start from the battery on the l o'clock car can make two trips and get back to the Battery at 6'oclock. Then they can take plunge at the public baths be- fore breakfast and work. The al fresco bed costs the passenger but 20 cents.
 In speaking of his early morning passengers, one of the oldest Broadway conductors said last night:
 You might well call our cars open air hotels We have three classes of passengers who make two, and some times three, trips with us every night. First come the married men who have been out late and are afraid to 20 home until they feel better so that they can tell their wives that the boss kept them busy in the store talk ing stock, or some other hot-air story. can size up the regulars pretty well, and know when they are fit to be put through the third degree at home When the car turns at the end of the journey I wake the sleepers up and get another nickel. Some of the re- gulars are so used to the game that they hand me the nickel in their sleep without waking up.
 See that old fellow in the corner with the lace whiskers?" said the con- ductor. He has been riding with me since the beginning of May, but al- ways misses Saturday night I think he goes then and gets his laundry from the chink. A friend of his who was on the car with him one night said that the old man had been forty |years on the Long Island railroad, and the only way that he could sleep was to ride in something that was moving all the time. The speed of our cars troubled him little at first but he is | NoS0 " ~ 1AOWt etAAh SsOAAAE lO nSOR Ap his night rides through the winter. Of course I get the tired pirate type sometimes, and then the circus begins. 1 They generally pay one nickel and 1 then put on frozen expression when I l ask for the second fare. They swear that I didn't wake 'em up and demand a transfer; again they say it was ' ha{r 1o ocf ,nin tt, arlI fot, gets the other passengers interested. They either butt in and say it is an outrage to treat poor man like that, or else pay his fare for him. The hard est outfit are the hoboes who get on and go to sleep before I can get round to them, When I wake them up and ask for the fare, they get into ter rible rage, and ask me what I mean by disturbing a gentleman in his first sleep. After brief session of strenu- ous talk on both sides I bounce the pirate and he waits for the next car. It takes an energetic hobo about three hours to get from the Battery to Harlem by beating the cars.
 Our late riders are mostly men, but sometimes some of the old customers bring their lady friends with them and introduce me as the night guard On these special occasions the men bring a small pillow for their fair guests and a big fat looking flask for | themselves.
 "A conductors life is no cinch. In the daytime we are abused right and left by all hands, and at night we have to act as watchmen, but we get no tips."-New York Times.