New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16

thing else without a strain on individual
OF collective intellect.
SONGS or OLD.
Oh, sing US a song Of the good old days
When the horse cars used 10 run.
AS We plodded along on our weary ways
At morn or al set Of sun.
Oh the car was big and the horse was
thin
And the driver was tired and sore.
And the wintry blast blew boldly in
Through the straw on the shaky floor.
Oh. sing US a song Of the good old DAYS
When the railway trains would 20
on tracks that wabbled in devious ways
And on schedules weirdly slow.
Go back; If you choose to the candle
That sputtered so bravely on
Those days were the good old days" all
But we're thankful those DAYS are gone.
Washington Star.
II the officers OF the Erie Railroad should
persist in their efforts 10 stop card playing
on their trains a commuters card club
which has been in existence for many
years will be wiped out. The four men
began with straight whist, playing once
and sometimes twice a day for a long
time Then bridge took the place of the old
game. and this season they turned 70 auc-
ton. The trainman who furnishes the lap
board has always received a liberal tip,
but otherwise no money ever figured in the
games There are hundreds OF regular
patrons OF the road who will probably join
this quartet in protest against the no
card playing movement,
II is the elevator that is making 2 vast
difference in hotels, particularly in New
La l.. IN.
It's servants with quarters on the second
story. but not in way 70 make them
conspicuous. The guests are asking for
rooms higher up. that they may get better
street. Hotel men are fnding NOW now ,ha nat
that IS almost the universal want.-Utica
Observer.
Despite the efforts of the police TO keep
them moving. the street vendors gather IN
large numbers In some parts OF the city,
and the hawking Of their wares and the
talks 10 the crowds which gather about
some OF the loquacious ones are sometimes
amusing. A citizen who is Interested in
the subject counted on one block few
days ago no fewer than eleven vendors, and
he might have bought chewing gum, mos
quito punk sticks" tin mechanical toys
patent trousers buttons, magnifying
glasses fruit. puppy lapdogs. playing
cards flowers bottled perfumery or new
tangled can openers
4 lumberman engaged in business in
one of the largest cities In the Philippine
Islands passed through Singapore recently
on an extended tour around the world oc-
cupylug about fourteen months. He stated
that he has been doing ten times as much
business and making about ten times as
much money IN the Philippines an would
have been the case in the United States
with the same capital He was warm in
hts praise OF opportunities there and was
exceedingly optimistic about the future.
New Orleans Picayune.
New Yorker who has written much
FOR the daily press has found material for
n story. which he will entitle Around the
World With 10 Cents" He started for
the theatre on Tuesday night with his
wife. and made the trip from upper Broad
way on a car which was so densely packed
that the conductor had difficulty in main
tanning his place on the platform At
6sth street well dressed mGn JoEtled the
couple, brushing the woman's glasses of.
and then pushed his way 20 the platform
and jumped OF THAT looks like a pick
rocket" said the woman. and her sus-
picion was verified when, in the theatre
lobby. the man found that his pocket had
heen picked. One OF the Hippodrome Of
ncials heard the story. tickets were FUR
nishsd without security, and while wit