The sun., 1908-04-26
TIE CRAUFFEUES SIDE.
Some Of the InSiEnitIss to which Ne Has
10 submit,

some OF the tndignitlea 70 Wmon tie has
10 Submlt
"Ya as, said the man ct the wheel. I'VE
hear lot about how chauhsuFs take GROSS
ngs OF forty miles an hour and put II up
TO people to jump or get run over, and how
reckless We are generally; how We don't
seem to think Of anybody but Ourselves,
and what a great trial We are to every-
body but nobody ever seems 20 think Of
what We have to undergo. Why, We have
to put up with things that would make
your blood run cold.
"You take II at crossings, for instance,
those same crossings where they say we're
always running over people.
Suppose we hit a crossing when the
whistle is on and we have 10 hold up and
suppose we've overrun a foot or 90 before
we can stop her Do you suppose we're
allowed to stand there whore We StopPedl
Not on your life.
Some truckman may have overrun
two feet and maybe they let him stay. but
the polCemAns hand goes up 10 W. He's
the king OF the crossing, all right. and he
never leaves any doubt about that In our
minds. Up goes his hand, and itb back,
back, back for US, and there we have TO
stand and wait till the king getb good and
ready and blows his whistle.
True. when he does blow We do start
up sort Of sudden like. at a pretty good
clip, and brush past within about three
quarters OF an inch OF him 90 that he has 70
stand back, but when he's got us halted
he holds us up good and plenty.
But what the'policeman does to us amt
a marker to what the drivers do. You
let some driver get the right Of way ahead
OF you 90 much as an inch at cross street
and see what he does.
I'm such a case, OF course II there's an
inch OF space TO one side In front Of him,
why you can throw on your power and
swerve out and brush past him-you can
handle a machine this way good deal
easier than YOU can q team Of horses-and
make his horses throw up their heads and
make him cuss But il there isn't that
inch OF space for man9uvring. why you
have to hold up and let him 60 by.
And Is he nice and polite about II? Does
he shake up his horses a bit and hurry EN-
along little and get out Of the way as quick
as he can? Why, bless your SOUL he
lust let's his team sag along, take their own
time, and he looks straight ahead as II he
never heard OF such thing as an Automo-
bile. never pays the slightest attention In
the world TO me, doesn't even look down on
me, just lets me 60 TO the old harry, doesn't
oven seem to know I'm there, but just keeps
a-goinR easy and never sees me.
sNIh, nnlrr mat this UnrninR / held
I'D that way by man with barrel truck,
an outfit that could have smashed into
sliyers with one belt. You know those
barrel trucksy The light. long tailed one
horse trucks made for carrying empty
sThe load isllght andyo can carry about
seven hundred millions In one load; makes
a load as high as a mountain and as long
as a mountain range; takes about an hour
and half for one Of these trucks, loaded,
to 60 Past, o-u,,u .o,n.rr,h sr0rr.
| met one Of those trucks with load OF
empty barrels coming across through q
cross street and things happened to be just
so that couldn't scoot by. Just had to
hold up and let him pass-tlo 900 worth Of
automobile held up by trlckloadOf empty
-four barrels! And did the driver hurry
up his horse q little 30 that ! could move
on? HUH
sHe Just sat up there on the top Of the
mountain at The forward end, where the
barrels went down In a straight front clih
in front. with his lines running almost
straight up and down TO his horses back,
and never so much as looked at me; appar-
emily didn't know there was any such person
was making the most Of II.
sWhy, believe the horse was In II. too,
he moved 90 slow. He didn't look my way,
but he lust barely lifted one foot after an
other and clomped along.
sHuhi We hear enough about the suffer-
InRs d the public. but never q word about
the trials Of the chauffeur"