Boone County Recorder . ON RAPID TRANSIT ?Y GEO. V. HOBART, (HUGH MHUQH.) Dear Bunch: Every time I hop Intoone of those roomy, comfortable streetcart In a city of the second, third oreven fourth cUbb, I immediately con-trast it with the wood boxes we use inNew York, and I find myself growingred In the face and biting my nails. Those squeezer cars that prowl theetreets of New York are surely thebreathless limit, arent they? The squeezer car is the best gen-teel imitation of a rough-house thathas ever been invented. The are called squeezers becausethe conductor has to let the passen-gers out wit
Boone County Recorder . ON RAPID TRANSIT ?Y GEO. V. HOBART, (HUGH MHUQH.) Dear Bunch: Every time I hop Intoone of those roomy, comfortable streetcart In a city of the second, third oreven fourth cUbb, I immediately con-trast it with the wood boxes we use inNew York, and I find myself growingred In the face and biting my nails. Those squeezer cars that prowl theetreets of New York are surely thebreathless limit, arent they? The squeezer car is the best gen-teel imitation of a rough-house thathas ever been invented. The are called squeezers becausethe conductor has to let the passen-gers out with a can-opener. Brave and strong men climb Into astreet car, and they are full of healthand life and vigor, but a few blocksup the road they fall out backwardand inquire feebly for a sanitarium. To ride on a Broadway street car,for instance, about eight oclock of an. l-eave»-^be-Bebe4Hem Standing ~ott-»Corner. evening, brings out all that is in aman, including a lot of loud words hedidnt know-Jifihad. The last census shows us that thestreet cats of New York have moreways of producing nervous prostrationand palpitation of the brain to thesquare Inch than the combined popu-lation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam,Tinkersdam and Gotterdammerung. To get in some of the street carsabout six oclock is a problem, and toget out again is an assassination. One evening I rode from Forty-sec-ond street to Fifty-ninth without oncetouching the floor with my feet. Part of the time I used the out-posts o? a stout gentleman to comebetween me and the ground, and dur-ing the rest of the occasion I hungfrom a strap and swung out wild andfree, like a Japanese flag on a windyday. Some of the New York street carslead a double life, because they areused all winter to act the part of arefrigerator. It is a cold day when we cannotfind it colder in the street cars. In Germany we fin
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