Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-01-25

turue-l baes 10 hoi pollni in the shape
OF annual dividends with blue trading
stamps with every dollars worth.
which on presentation at the Office OF
any gas company Ia tie United States
will entltle the bearer TO free gas for
the rest OF his natural life.
The expected improvements in the
public service will lie along the better.
memt Of cars. an increased urhanity on
the part OF the moiormen and conduct
orS and II far greater regard for beau
ty in all rapid transit matters. As
understand the situation as To the first
% begin with, better ventilated and
without straps. No ear will br -
small that anybody VIII ever have to
stand in or out of rush hours Each
passenger will he provided with a Nor.
ris chair on swivel with Il writing
desk and an electric light attached. sta
tionery and typewriteys To be had on
applications Ia the conductor At one
end of each ear there will be Car
uegle library and "A reading room. with
all the magazines and weeklieS OH
file. and at the other buffet where
soft drinks will be dispensed by the
best mixers the politicians can drum
up In the advertising panels that run
around the walls of the ear Instead OF
these being merely frie2es of patent
medicines. face powders, breakfast
foods and cOrSets. elevating literature
will be printed by such authors a.
Dicky Davis. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
Henry James, with 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 he escorted to
their seats by bellboys, and every car
will have n chaperon. aided by Il 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
ogled off the car by vagrOm drummers
and lads from the smoke regions late,
ly come into possession of their ia.
TIERS hard earned savings.
"All the motormen will be put
through n course of instruction in good
manners, SO that when a 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 ut present, and going ahead
as though the company didn't want
any passengers. they will stop the car,
lift their hats like Il 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 1t that she gets
inside the car without falling on ner
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 | 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, fiicks the dust from the breast
of his blue coat and places himself cn-
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 informal ton you seek,
but will find out at the earliest pos
slble 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