The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-12-03
@Facts about New YOrk9

time to sleep, and little more. Naturally,
this little more Is most precious asset
and they make the most of it. They
hurry to the train, they hurry from the
train in order to get to their place Of
employment in time, to get the evening
dinner while 1t is hot, to prepare for an
evening away from home, to prenare for
expected guests or to enjoy as much as is
possible of the society of their families.
A pale-faced, middle-aged clerk is sprint
ing toward the ferry In order to get his
supper and take his daughter to free
lecture on "Constantinople" at the
neighborhood assembly hall. And tho
visiting citizen of Blue Earth County
sees him and shoulders at the mad rush
for wealth." which is destroying lives and
souls Of the people of the metropolis.
When the great majority is hurrying
thus most people accommodate themselves
to the pace. A few fail to do so and
possibly are bumped by some of the hur-
rying passers-by. The slow-paced bumpee
hears the word pardon and sees the
person who jostled him disappearing some
PAGES ahead. He is surprised or, il ILL
natured, indignant. But if he continues
even short time in the city he learns
to move with the tide and, in time. If he
bumps one of his leisurely going former
townsmen. he will say beg pardonp and
scoot past with the CELEBRITY he has just
witnessed.
We enter the train, which has on either
side long roMeef seats facing the centre
AS we, are starting from the terminus,
many seats are VACANT as the train leaves.
Stations are about six blocks apart and
are called. as We reach them, by the
guards. who occupy the car platforms and
who. open and shut the gates. A crowd
we arrive. Let 'em off first! Let 'em
Off, the guard shouts, and the crowd
obediently, but impatiently, gives way as
the. debarking passengers hurry from the
train. Step lively, pleased" is his next
command, disregarding the fact that there
may be present PhIadeIphians, whose
feelings may be hurt. AS matter OF
fact, there has been an order that these
words may not be used, but they are SC to
the point, so classic in their simplicity,
that. OH occasion they 'nvoluntarily come
forth, and the attempt of the railroad
management to do away with one Of the
established customs of the city was, OF
course doomed to failure
A few stations, and we find that all the
seats are occupied. 1T seems that nearly
every passenger has morning paper.
There are all the well-known dailies
printed in the English language and per-
haps one or more in German, Italian or
Yddish, the latter in Hebrew charac-
tiers. Another station and there are more
passengers than seats, The men reach
up and, grasping with one hand a strap
up the inevitable newspaper with the
other and fall TO reading with the I'M
concern born of long familiarity with ac-
cepttd conditions At the next station
the crowd in the aisle increases and sew
eral women. bound upon shopping expe-
ditions, are among those left standing.
The sitting passengers sit tight and keep
on reading. Our visiting friends from
Tompkins Corners jump up in wild ex-
element and politely yield their seats.
Still there are women left standing and
our friends glare ferociously at the mas
culine sitters, but their glare gets no
farther than the serried ranks of out
spread newspapers, from which the read
a casc-hardened New Yorker, cynically
keeps his seat and bids them watch de-
velopments.
Another station is reached. A part of
the crowd gets up to depart. The women
who have been standing drop into the
vacant seats. The men who have been
standing keep on standing. Another crowd
comes on. More men and women are
standing. Another station is reached.
more people get up, the women who were
standing get the vacated seats. perhaps
one or two fortunate men, after the
women are all seated And the visitors
from Tompkins Corners still stand, with
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