Show the mother of invention it if a man keeps his eyes open he be sees many a funny thing while riding on steamers said a regular patron of the peters avenue line if you will take a ride on this line pome gome dark night you will notice that on some of those back streets where electric lights are a curiosity frequently ahead of the car you will see a light waved across the track and if you watch closely you will see the motorman begin applying the brakes and the car will stop and a smiling colored gentleman will board the ear car and laughingly say that he be got this car to stop for him I 1 found upon asking a conductor one day that the negroes in this part of the town have caughm on to the fact that as that part of the city Is black at night the motormen mot ormea of the swift moving cars cannot cannat detect their presence on the track in sufficient time to stop their cars for them they figuratively speaking hang out a light for the car to stop and it seems to work both to the satisfaction of the colored population and the nia m 0 on the cars necessity is the mother of invention and it seems our colored brother has hit upon a scheme to offset the backof lack of lights on those streets back of to town vm traversed by electric care cam new orleans picayune |