The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-24
ooURrEsrEs or THE TROLLEY.

In spite of an additional equipment in order to keep up with the growing demand for trolley service the cars of the city continue. except in certain lim- ited quarters, to run loaded to the guards, to use a natural expression. We have had the assurance of the management that everything was be- ing done that could be done to relieve the situation and we have no reason to doubt that this Is simply a state- ment of fact. It Is difficult to get cars, the General Assembly has put off to the last moment needed extensions of chartered rights and the population keeps right on increasing,
 This is condition of things which calls for the exercise of good natured philosophy on the part of all concern ed. In a general way we group them under the heading: "Courtesies of the Trolley" an expression which would ap- pear to fit better than any other things in themselves annoying but also things In themselves that are temporarily in- evitable. It is second nature for men to growl when compelled to board an overcrowded car while women hotly crowd the aises and ohstruet the view |of all passengers behind. The alterna- tive is waiting for the not overerowded car that never comes, The fact Is re- called without practical satisfaction that in the cities of Europe over- crowded public conveyanees are never seen. The willingness of a belated American traveller to put up with the necessary inconvenience in order to the more quickly reach his destination is met by the stony explanation of the man in charge that others are entitled to their seat and foot room. In this country where the sudden introduce ton of rapid transit brought with it problems of traffic compared with which the traffic problem of the steam railroad is insignificant it has as yet been impossible to solve them. We cannot believe that the management is indifferent to their solution. for even with the nickels which the overcrowd- ed cars put into its treasury a larger cost item is to be found in popular complaint and dissatisfaction. So that so far as the courtesies of the trolley afHect>the management the public must Ilearn to exercise reasonable patience at a season of the year when patience
 Is drug on the market.
 It seems a little thing for women to occupy the rear seats in the cars which are reserved for smokers and for men
 to do the same thing who are not themselves indulgers in the weed
 Both declare that they do not mind the clouds of tobacco smoke which blow into their faces and that they are just as comfortable as they would be farth- Ier forward in the car. This Is so self Icentered view that it will not bear Inspection and analysis for a moment. Man is not after all such an impollte animal as he sometimes appears. He likes his smoke on the way to business or on the way home, but he likes bet
 ter to feel that his comfort is not in-
 terfering with the comfort of women
 and children who through a misunder-
 standing of the courtesies of the troll
 ley occupy the first seat they find
 whether it is withm his tobacco zone
 or not. Morally they are where they fought not to be. Philosophically they Iare deliberately deprWing man of his
 comforts in an arbitrary way. E.a ,,ael
 than give offense to the gentler se2t an5
 to smother little children with the ! lfumes of his pipe or cigar or cigarette
 he will throw away the weed and wrar
 himself in the mantle of a discomfort