Show the mother of invention if a man keeps his eyes open he sees many a funny thing while riding on street cars said a regular patron of the peters avenue line if you will take a ride on this line seme dark night frequently ahead of the car see a light waved across tho 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 car and laughingly say that he go this car to stop for him I 1 found upon asking a conductor one day that the negroes in this part of tho town have caught on to the fact that as that part of the city is black at night the motormen of the swift moving cars cannot detect their presence on the track in sufficient time to atop their cars for them so they figuratively hang out a light for the car to stop audit seems to work both to the satisfaction of the colored population and the motormen on the cars necessity is the mother of invention and it seems our colored brother has hit apon a scheme to offset the lack of lights on those streets back of town traversed by electric cars new orleans picayune |