The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
LuclNoA's EXPERIENCES.
Witnesses Fortunate Recovery or
 Something Lost in Street Car.

From the New York Sun.
 This morning." said Lucinda, T had occasion to go to Harlem and I went in Madison avenue car. It was one of thoso pay as you enter cars, and just as l stepped aboard there was man inside the car talking through one of the doors to the conductor the conductor standing, of course, on the rear platform within his little railing collecting his fares. 'It was big man, the man inside doing the talking, and he was very much In earnest I've got to have 'em' he was saying to the conductor, can't do with out 'em.'
 CT know you want em, said the con- ductor, but you can't get em now. You'll have to get 'em of the lost and found de- partment. You'll have to wait until the car gets to the end of the run and goes into the barn. where it can be looked over
 And he was nice about it, the conduc-. tor; but he couldn't do anything, and SO I'd got Inside the car by that time, you know, and got seated-so the big man walked forward in the car again to where apparently he had been sitting, pretty well up on the left hand side near the front and there he stood for moment really quite disturbed And then things began to happen
 up in the extreme forward seat on the left hand side of the car sat another big man, only this man was bigger still and quite a jolly man, and now this man speaks up and says to the big man standing up. meaning it at the same time for everybody else around there to hear:
 eff we could get everybody on this side to move over to the other side of the car for minute l wouldn't be surprised if we could find 'em.'
 And at that the people sitting on the left hand side forward all got up and moved over-they all seemed to know what the trouble was; you see they were all there before I came in and so they knew about 1t from the start-and then the corner big man stood up and faced around toward the side of the car and turned back the carpet covering from that left hand seat.
 And I didn't know, did you? that the tope of the seats in these cars were made movable, hinged So they can be lifted up and turned back. But they are made to lift up like that in two sections each half the length of the car, so that they can get at the electric heat radiators underneath.
 And now the big man that had been sitting in the corner lifted up that part | of the seat top that made the forward section, with the other big man standing 1 looking on, and for that matter half the I people that had moved over were stand 1 ing up now and looking on too, for now there was something doing. The big corner man was looking down under the seat in among the radiators and all round everywhere. looking carefully, and in 1 about a minute he says: I've got 'emv and he reaches down l for something and then he straightens up | and turns around and hands over to the other man pair of gold trimmed eye 1 glasses, which in some way he had dropped down into that space in the side of the car that the windows drop Into. "'God bless youv said the man who l had lost them That's what he said. l God bless you! I don't know what l should do without them. l am very much obliged to you
 And then he shook hands with the man
 who had found them and the big finder | laughed everybody laughed, and then l the people sat down around again, and
 while they were still smiling the big man
 who had lost the eyeglasses he smiling
 now too, walked back once more to the 1 conductor
 "sIve found 'em,' he said. Well, I'm glad of that, said the con- ! ductor
 And maybe" Lucinda concluded, "the 1 conductor was more glad even than he i said for do you know that what with the losing of the glasses, the moving over of
 the people and the shifting around and the search and all we kept that car in commission from Seventy-second street to 112 street? Yes, sir, from Seventy second street to 112th street; and I think
 I must have left out a lot of things in | telling you"