Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-23

turned back 10 HOl NOilOl III the SHAPE
of annual dividends with blue trading
stamps with every dollars worth.
which on presentation at the office of
any gas company in the United States
will entitle the bearer TO free. gas for
the rest of his natural life.
The expected improvements in the
public service will lie along the better
ment of cars. an increased urbanity on
the part of the motormen and conduct
Ors and a far greater regard for beau
tv i'm all rapid transit matters. As |
understand the situation as to the first
improvements, the cars are to be larger
to begin with. better ventilated and
without straps. No car will be so
small that anybody will ever have to
stand in or out of rush hours. Each
passenger will be provided with Nor
ris chair on a swivel, with writing
desk and an electric light attached, sta
tionery and typewriters to be had on
application to the conductor At one
end of each car there will be Car
negie library and a reading room, with
all the magazines and weeklies on
file. and at the other a buffet where
soft drinks will be dispensed by the
best mixers the politicians can drum
no. In the advertising panels that run
around the walls of the car, instead OF
these being merely frieZes of patent
medicines, face powders, breakfast
foods and cOrsets, elevating literature
will be printed by such authors as
Dicky Davis. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
Henry James, with a college graduate
on the rear platform to explain the
paragraphs of the last named author
TO those who do not understand reform
ed rhetoric. Ladies will be escorted to
their seats by bellboys. and every car
will have a chaperOn, aided by com
petent bOuncer to see that attractive
looking shoppers, dainty little widows
and others of the female persuasion are
able to travel a block without being
ogIed off the car by vagrom drummers
and lads from the smoke regions late
" come into possession of their ia
Tiers hard earned savings.
All the mOtormen will be put
Through a course of instruction in good
manners, 50 that when lady on a
street corner holds up her finger as
sign that she would like to get aboard
instead of cutting her dead, as many
of them do at present, and going ahead
as though the company didn't want
any passengers. they will stop the car.
lift their hats like pack of Chester
fields. gather up her bundles, call her
attention to the weather, express the
hope that her family are all enjoying
good health and see to it that she gets
inside the car without falling on her
face or sitting unexpectedly down IN
the lap of an entire stranger. The
conductors will be similarly trained.
only they will be rather better edu-
Gated than the man on the front plat
form. I can think of no better way
TO show what the conductors will be
than to say that they will resemble the
modern policeman, that fine flower of
the municipal ownership of the con
stabulary.
'You know what happens if you ask
a policeman anything. He at once
touches his helmet in respectful salu
tatiOn. f1icks the dust from the breast
of his blue coat and places himself en-
tirely at your service. Anything you
want to know he tells you with a
pleasant smile or with an expression
of deep and poignant regret informs
you that he is not at the moment in
possession of the information you seek,
but will find out at the earliest pos
sible opportunity and send word by
special delivery post if you will kindly
give him your address. All of You
who have had that experience with a
policeman will know what to expect
from the municipal ownership con-
ductor. The city fathers as represent
ed by their commissioner of trOlleys
will take the same care in the selection
of the men that they now take through
the police commissioner in the selec-
ton of the preservers of the peace, so
that we may rest easy as to the SUI
perior morale of the force.
'Then, as for the rOadbed, which is
nowadays something Of an eyesore in
certain localities, the trolley commits
sioners will seek the cooperation of