LABOR AND PERSONAL CLEANLINESS. Our attention has been called again to this subject by a statement from a committee of the Board of Health on the condition of the street cars and the liability of their corm municating disease to passengers. Referring to the line skirt ing establishments slaughter houses gas works etc. the statement referred to asserts that the cars are constantly kept in a filthy condition by workmen who enter them covered with grease and grime and reeking with perspiration from their work. We have ourselves before noticed this fact and have endeavored to stimulate a greater
LABOR AND PERSONAL CLEANLINESS. Our attention has been called again to this subject by a statement from a committee of the Board of Health on the condition of the street cars and the liability of their corm municating disease to passengers. Referring to the line skirt ing establishments slaughter houses gas works etc. the statement referred to asserts that the cars are constantly kept in a filthy condition by workmen who enter them covered with grease and grime and reeking with perspiration from their work. We have ourselves before noticed this fact and have endeavored to stimulate a greater regard for per sonal cleanliness among workmen but we fear with little avail. While dirt and dust and soiled raiment are inseparable from some kinds of useful toil they are admitted even by those who endure them to be very disagreeable concomitants of labor. Their needless infliction upon others is to say the least a very unhandsome thing on the part of those wh to a vehicle fr public use and it is a matter of just complaint. dicates that one who tries to avoid contact with them in their besmirched state is regarded by them with disfavor. Not long since entering a Third avenue car we saw three men selves into seats as though it was a good joke to soil any one's clothes that were decent. A gentleman who quietly rose and passed to the seat opposite to avoid their contact was abused by them and tauntingly asked why if he thought SO much of his dress he did not take a carriage and ride home like a gentleman. Now it was evident this gentleman did not avoid thest(men simply because they were workmen. To have dope thiswould have forfeited his claim to be called a gentleman. It was to escape. If werkitin wish to be regarded with respect they should avoid making themselves nuisances. One of their own craft in cleanly garb would have shunned these dirty and unmanly fellows. There is no excuse for a workman in any business who enters a public conveyance or even as a regular thing walks thr
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