The Washington times., 1910-07-19
STREET CAR VERSES
CONE BY HUNDREDS
Limerick Contest Closes To-
morrow, When Winners
Will Be Decided.
JUDGES TO BE BUSY
FAR INTO NIGHT
Scores Are Pleased Merely to Ex-
press Disgust at Car
ImpOSitiOns.

ImpOSitiOnS.
This IS your last chance TO get in the
running for the SIS in prizes offered by
The Times for the winners in the LIN
erick contest
judging by the heavy mail received
this morning il is not necessary 10 give
this warning Letters have been pour
ing IN to the Limerick Editor BY the
hundred and by the time the contest
closes at o'clock tomorrow night
thousands Of residents OF washington
viii have expressed their opinion OF the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany and the Capital Traction Company
in verse
From tse moment The Times took up
the open street car question il has met
with a prompt response rom the public
in every section Of the city The Liner
lex Contest. however, seems to have
struck a popular chord
That the money prizes offered are not
the sole object Of the trlbutOrs TO
the contest is indicated in many Of the
letters received
Want Better Service
Scores Of contributors have written
that they were not seeking the prizes
but intended to enter every movement
started for the purpose Of giving the
people Of Washington more comfortable
transportation during the summer
months That is the spirit which has
characterized the contest from the start.
Demanding personal comfort. and rldl-
cule OF the street car companies. seem
10 have been primary motives in the
contest
Limericzs viii be received by the Lin
eTiCk Editor ID TO o'clock tomorrow
night After that hour II VIII be i'm
possible 10 give consideration 10 con
IribUtiOns- however meritOrlOus they
may be This is due 10 the fact that
there are already so many lmericks
on file that the judges viii be engaged
picking the winner far into Wednesday
night
Send your limerick along while there
Is time II Is not TOO late 20 produce 2
winner. and a winner may get s. SO, or
SIS By winning drst or second, or first
and second
Dose damnable cars vots called
Pay-as-you-euterr
To pay dot 3 cents you freeze II de
winter
Den, by Gosh. vot is hummer.
You roast in de Summer-
In dose CamuabIe cars vOCs called
Pay-as-you-enter-
Mrs L n KELLER
z4Z3 Eighteenth street northwest
I've been told that in space, all the stars
From saturn TO CanaI-building Mars.
Need the neat of the SUM-
But III bet that they shun
What we set on the Washington cars
T G. BERNEE-
SO = street northwest
A colonel arrived from Savannah,
AIOpped his brow with a new red ban
daunahs
said he. sub. at a pinch.
we sometimes do lynch
"BUt don't roast folks alive in this man
nah
H 3 HOLLIFIELD-
Hammond court.
When a car that is labeled Mt Pleas
Carries ninety-odd people, at present
If one OF the herd
Were compared 10 bird
'TwoUId undoubtedly be a roast pleas
ant
a tightly closed car from Takoma
Got 80 EClI OF the human aroma,
When ne Cne1ed the door
And ont 3 DID pour,
The conductor fell down in a coma.
1923 L street northwest.
I once knew a lady, young and hand
one Of the kind that interests a man
But We stood ir the center
or q --pay-aS-yOU-euteT'r
And the bloom of youth on her cheeks
ROBIN HOOD.
A motorman stood on his car
When some wretch left the front door
ajaT.
The heat from within
Fairly bIiStered his skin
Just ask him. Hell show YOU the scar
+ MCCARTHY
1880 New York avenue
From the land Of the North Pole so
dreary.
came an Eskimo. footsore and weary;
p
But soon shouted. Great Scott.
It IS ho- enough here to Cook PeaTy-''
MRS y r SAUNDERS,
y Randolph Place
For an Qpen car service complete.
an masking a pitifuI 6Ieati
ana / no longer mean,
Like human sardlre
To forget that have any feet.
r W FARRELLEY-
There are means for mans torture
But the dresdFuuest far.
Is a closed summer car
Which roaSts victims alive. by the score.
A z EDNOESTON-
Prelude
7 jumped On a car Of our city
Goo warm is the theme for nv d5++v-,
sat and 7 baked
I boiled and Z ached-
But csTEplalnts brought scorn and not.
pity.
First Attitude.
Most woTsLinful lords Of our civ
1t your feet We fall with this 57r-v
We nothing deserve
Forgive us our nerve
Ic- CDcn or cars on have pity
Second Attitude
Mistaken blind men of our city
Who boil rs IN cars without pity.
Have YOU yet 20 learn
That worms often turu2