New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-10
How Car Hogs Are Fooled By Bridge Police

J. is end Of the car with refrigerators and
trunks. but his eyes have TO be on the
track all the time and a lot of them slip
past him as "A consequence.
once the boy gets on nc Immediately
works his way into the centre Of the ear,
and every step he takes some unburdened
passenger lets his temper out for exercise
When the conductor comes around 10 get
the boys five cents the latter has himself
and his bundles safely wedged in with the
solid mass Of fares. and he couldn't get of
If the conductor told him to- There's a GER
tain amount OF art in the thing.
It isn't all the kids fault-the real blame
lies with the merchant who retains run
about youngster 10 do the delivery work Of
horse and wagon. But, as the man said
when he was shot by accident, that doesn
help the goat any
one chapter Of the Car Hog fraternity is
confined To -" lines 10y the very nature Of
the cars That is the man who monopolizes
the little open compartment cut of for the
motormen and their levers. Most Of the
cars have them, but Of course the only one
used on the train by the motOrman is on
the front of the first car.
There is room in one Of these little closets
for two ordinarily constructed persons. But
If YOU have the knack you can easily
spread out your feet and distribute your
arms and newspaper-that time dishon-
o-ed fence for the car hogs indifference -
50 that a second person can't find room for
himself beside YOU. Some seat snatchers
save the second place for a pretty girl
When the seat hog sees a young woman
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sizing her I'D from behind his paper he
can move over and graciously tender her
half Of the seat in the intimate little cosey
corner
In that way he makes a "phony' play 10
be regarded by the girl as a rush hour
Brummel
This is one popularity Of the suburban
car shote as compared with his coarser
brother Of the teeminG city. lie Is more
subtle-thcre is more fnesse in his work.
But at heart you couldn't tell one from the
other
Take the man who puts his hat or news
paper on the vacant seat beside him. He
simply lays the paper there. Ther he be
comes as completely absorbed in another
paper or in rapt contemplation Of the com
rionplace scenery. other persons coming in
gee half the seat occupied by the hat and
infer that the place is being held for a
friend. Many times 10 works 10 hold an
entire seat for one man. This Is perhaps
the easiest Of the species 10 contend with.
When you stop and make unmistakable
signs that you are going 10 sit down by
him he f. electrified into action. He aban-
dons the interesting story he is reading and
snatches up the hat with an air that seems
10 Law all the blame on the price Of head
clothing. He tries TO make IT plain by his
actions that nothing could have been
further from his simon pure thoughts than
20 have laid the thing there with malice
aforethought He Is affable In the extreme
when YOU have taken the seat. Wants 10
20 into a discussion Of the meteorological
outlook and listens with 1attering intcn-
sjtv 10 your lengthy views on who Is to
con that baseball pennant.
PERHAPS the most universal type Of the
entire family is he who piles up mis- bag
gage all over as many seats as he can
reach and puts his well-developed feet
on the one opposite. Indeed, feet and bag
gage are the marks Of the most general
forms of the traffic curse. When such a
enc s, - a vacant seat before him. II would
seem that a power stronger Than anti
gravity lifts his shoes and crosses his
ankles on the settee opposite. II would be
a fact worthy VI INST page newspaper