The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-03

ductor siEnaled me t. 20 back and leave
by the front end OF the car
The Acme OF Suffering.
That's where gave I'D the ghost.
I realized then that ( was going through
10 the top of the line When I looked
upon the faces Of those paIpitating
creatures whose clothing I'd almost
rubbed of getting to the rear OF the
car didn't have the heart 10 under
take TO hEht my way back For myself.
I am injured 10 hardship and suffering,
bat there's a limit beyond which even
hardened men VIII not go had
reached It.
I settled myself with as much comfort
as possible In the small Of the back of
the man next 10 me and gasped for
breath
thought I detected s-eam spIrals float
ins, almost motiOuless In the dead calm
Uncertain heat waves radlated about
those portions Of persons visible TO the
eye once beautiful women. their hats
aSEeW. their broWS damp their lips dry
and feverish, cast wistfuI, plying
Elances from window 10 window, vainly
hoping that q trembling bow or feather
I would reveal the presence of a breeze
The breeZeS. however. weren't on the
Job Probably they thought that mass
OF SWelCerlnE humanity was fool enough
TO bC riding for pleasure and didn't
realize the travellers had merely taken
wha- they hoped would prove the lesser
Of two evIlS-a rlde home in a closed
ear instead of on shauk.s mare Any
way Mr. Breeze threw Us down hard
Prize For q Full Car
some dag I'm going To oher a string
Of beads and a uickei-plated bicycle to
.-H.
saw q Washington street car SO rUU il
wouldn't hold any more, and III bet
right now that when The contest Is over
I'll stiU have the prizes
thought that car was fun when we
started out Fourteenth street. but the
mlr1Eman and cOnCuryur mad llIerenJ
ideas. and subsequent events demon
sfrafa,7 mar rHef-s were ri-nt and mine
wrong That car was only about half
fun. in spite OF the EacL that men ana
women were punched into such close
proximity that they OF have been &C.
crSef of Suo0uiuE with each other lE
they'd been auy-wEere else
That car kept picking ND more and
more people all the uaE OUT and u kept
getting hotter and hotter
AT street / resolved never 10 rear
death again No matter what the ext
world has I'm store Tor me-. u can ne
any worse than that ride on the -Four
teeuth street line II was worse l1aH
Texas and II was worse Ir-aU War-z'-'o
everybody knows they are worse Lls-u
the spot which is the worst THAI VIII
Al chaplin street Z began TO see things
las through a glass -arSiy- AT COL
urlhia road ] had SUNK over tiit'-
the back OF a seat Ny head was 5 ~ III
ming and the uerSDirarion uuddles about
my feet had become so deep that the
Illusion was complete
Thoughts Of Torture.
thought was swiUuiuc- sub
MERGED i'm a tank OF boiling water,
allied to the brim with other luckless
humans. I threw up my arms tIleo
In shout. but my tongue Glove 20 the
roof Of my mouth Ny past lie spread
out before me Ike 2 great I-ttLLSs 80 80
the only thing I'd ever done tLlal No. 49,
h. ashamed of was to embark on lhat
fatal Fourteenth street ear rue SUI
denly everything gre" Hletla .ro
When I TeEained ccnSeloilSIitsS "
car was slowing up for the emo OF tAt
7fne. II stopped with 2 jerk, ana
.rotterad Ols. together Win tL4e LeLl-t--L-
inc crowd OF feLLOW-sutteTerS j JuEnt.
---l cursed the great instrument OF
-C-flzs. ! cursed the motorma-s ana
80 ,7srl-ror cursed the COMPANY
Then I took a Ions deep pIss-l o.
f,-asr air. the first / had had Tor Eai-
s7, bour. and started back to the city
On foot.
Never, Never Again.
>-aver again for me can ride the
mains on q COW pony with the Their
-ro-oetsr 10 In the shade, and never
feel IT. -.-
liner when men drop over every EFt
minutes from exhaustion.
. can live without water seven days
Ia be willing 20 hike around the
world through The very middle 3f the
tropics
I've even spent a summer in St
Louis and an August in Manila but
III lsr an old, old man. dodderlnE
'aIuug in my second childhood, inhrm
land mentally incompetent before /
ever tackle another one of those up
to-date 6reIess cookers on wheels
I'm thankful that / live on the
Georgetown line, where they run open
cars That distant and mythical time,
fhs. cold day in July must be the
+frua AGAINST which the traction com
many laid IN its supply Of summer
edlipmeuU. It's the only day those
~ers viii ever do their duty by the
nTblfc-and we don't have them in