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Show I TOUGH. B No one gets credit when a fault-finding spirit B is manifested. But when what ought to be a B great public convenience becomes a nuisance, it I ought to be noticed. The handling of the street B cais in. connection with the lake trains in this B city has become a nuisance. B "When, what is known in advance is to be a B crowded train reaches the depot and there is but B one line of cars to receive the passengers, and that B line is too heavy for the power on. the single track, it becomes a nuisance. For instance, the B register last Saturday night showed that there B were 2500 people at the lake. B When the last train came in there were street B cais for only one-fourth of the number, and they B were crowded so that people literally hung on by B their eyebrows. B Then the cars stopped repeatedly coming up B fiom the depot, the line was so overworked. And B this seems to be the rule. In the meantime hun- B dreds of people were forced to walk, many of B them residents of the eastern side of the city. B That reveals a management which is as costly B to the car company as it is unjust to the city. B In this connection it is proper, further, to B say that the intense desire to stop the sale of all B intoxicants, including light wines and beer ought B to extend a little further. There are other appe- B tites except that for liquor, and where they are B manifested too indecently they should be re- B stiained. B "Within the past week a street car was coming B up fiom Calder's, where it was filled by young B men and women who had been visiting that re- B sort. When a little this side of that station the B power failed, and the lights went out. On the car H were two or three gentlemen with their wives and B two commercial men. The latter two were not B fastidious, but what followed on the cars was too B much for them. B The gentlemen with their wives and the two B commercial men left tlie car and remained in the B sand beside the track for more than an hour, un- B til another car came by. B One of the commercial men informed us that B he had had some little experience, but he never H saw anything like the performances on that car in B a civilized country before, and he hoped he never H would again. He said farther that the conductor B and motorman looked on with smiling approval. H Would it be out of place to suggest to those who have undertaken the task of reforming this H region by order, to look a little to the customs pursued on the street cars and the lake trains. B If we are all at once to frown down one vice "why not extend the experiment, especially when there are other vices that trench vastly more on the realm of decency than does the drinking of a glass of beer. This other vice can no more be cured by legislation than can be the habit of drinking, but jt can be much more easily restrained re-strained from open, public and most indecent manifestation. Certainly when decent people enter a street car they are entitled to protection against the exhibition ex-hibition of the unrestrained vices of hoodlums of both sexes. The street car company ought to secure the public against such insult; if it will not, then the authorities should. If something is not done we will be liable to hear of a tragedy some bright morning, because there are men who will not see their wives insulted in-sulted and who will not, to avoid trouble, leave a car and wait on the sand in the night for another car to come that is not filled by hoodlums. If this wave of reform is to roll on let it be so directed that it will save mortification to guests who come here from abroad and desire to see the city and vicinity. |