The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

From the New York Sun.
 Summer adds troubles peculiar its own to travel on the street cars. There was an example of the sort at Broadway and Forty-second street the other morning.
 Three women carrying boxes of lunch, were awaiting the ear there With them were seven children of varied aages, but were seven children of varied ages but her arms.
 It was still early enough for the car to be crowded with men going down town to business. It was not an easy job to fit ten more persons into a crowded car. but the party were for that car and that car only in spite of the protests of the conductor who suggested that there might be more room in the next car.
 We come down from Peekskill to spend the day at Coney Island" one of the women said, and we already lost twenty minutes because the train was late. We don't want to sit down
 The children wriggled in among the standing passengers, and the women Wo- men, clutching their boxes of lunch still tighter managed to get foothold The laughter of the children and their ob- vious delight in the excursion did not ap- pease the men who had their shoes trampled on while the swaying young sters made it impossible for them to read their newspapers.
 One of the happenings of the uptown trip of a Madison avenue car was typlcal of the same inconyeniences of summer traffic At the Grand Central station a woman and a lanky boy got on.
 Sic ha, in her hand rose geranium. which had been taken up by the roots, which was wrapped in a piece of news paper. In the other hand was an unmis- takable jar of pickles also wrapped in newspaper which had begun to look so suspiciously damp about the top that there was no doubt that the jar was leak ing. The boy carried q bird cage and q paper suis case.
 Of course the conductor ought to have been heartless and told the boy he could not get on with all that luggage But the conductors now let passengers bring into cars any sort of boxes or luggage they want. So this couple wedged them selves in and the woman held onto the seat in front of her, as every movement of the car threatened to splash out the pickles
 They had ridden almost up to Eighty sixth street when the WoHldn calleu ut to the conductor:
 "Gimme a transfer to Barclay street. please, if that's the right place to get orr for the depot that goes To Rahway-Rah- way New Jersey" she repeated.
 She was good natured and her smile was amiable even when the conductor told her she had ben riding for hften minutes in the wrong direction. Then there had to be a delay while the pickle jar the rose geranium, the bird cage, and the suit case were landed safely in the street
 There is also more interchange of visits between the uptown and the downtown Ghetto in the summer days. That does not tend to improve the traffic situation on Madison avenue One of the incl dents that happened on an East Side car the other afternoon was typical.
 A young woman, wasted and sickly. stopped a car at Delancey street With h. were five children, the youngest still at her breast and the oldest acting as sort of little mother. Although their dress showed no traces of the great pow erty sometimes seen in the Ghetto, it was painfully untidy. The children with the exception of the little mother paid nothing. the real mother handing the conductor two transfers for the five.