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Show REMARKS BY A CAR-DRIVER. lie Expresses - Decided Opinions - About Certain Kinds of Passengers. , "People thinks that car-drivers ain't got no right which they are bound to respect," re-spect," remarked a red-nosed specimen of mankind, as he piloted a Broadway car up town. "They associates the driver dri-ver wid the car. and treats him as if he was wood. 'Er instinct, a gent which was standin' on the front platform of this ark fifteen minutes ago, desired to git off at Canal street. Wot does he do? Does he drop me a hint, or indcate in any way as a man should indicate wot his intentions might be ? Not at all. He gets down on the step, and when he is at Canal street, he presses my arm, as if he was pressin' an indicator." Of course I know'd wot it meant, but I don't allow no man to touch me that way, so I drove right on Then he pressed my -arm twice more, and finally fi-nally gettin' disgusted, jumped off the car into a nice, fat puddle of water, and it done me good to see it. "Then take the matter of smokers. Get two or three young men, and as many big cigars on the front platform, and the driver's got about as much chance fur his life as he has fur the presidency. ; They stand on the steps, and when you tells them to get up onto the platform they stand there for- a few minutes, and then drops back again. They climb around so as to get right in front of the brake, and make it impossible for the driver to swing it, and they jam him up against the rail, blow cigar smoke in his ears and down the back of his neck, and run the hull business. If a "man's got a big load on board he'll always get on the front platform. plat-form. Once there he stands as hear the edge as he kin, so that any little jerk of the caT will chuck him under the wheels, and the driver has to Watch him as a cat does a mouse, or he'll jump off backward and get run over. ' "Another pleasant matter is picking up fares. You need a pair of opera glases to see if half git on the car or not. New Yorkers never make any r hullabaloo about stoppin' the. car . They walk out toward the track as though they were goin' to cross the street, and then if they want to stop the car they raise one eyebrow eye-brow carelessly, drop an eyelid, or raise the forefinger." The drivers is supposed to catch all these signs -and bring the car to a dead standstill ill a second. ;vThen if he stops t he ear .too suddenly the insiders are chuckad forward, and there's a kick from that direction." "A driver's life is rather thorny then, isn't it?" "Well, it ain't no puddin'," answered the driver sullenly, "andl don'tkhow yet which is the most exasperatin', the city people who stop a car with an eyebrow, or the country people who stop a car by wavin' their umbrellas and scarin' the horses into staggers the instant they raise sight on 'em." New York World. |