Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — IMPEDING TRAFFIC. [ARTICLE]

IMPEDING TRAFFIC.

There Are Many Kinds of Tickets, and Sometime* They Are Mislaid. A corpulent old lady, possibly from one of the New Jersey suburbs, caused the detention of fully a score of passengers at the Park place station of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road one day last week. As the saying is, the venerable old soul was “carrying weight for age.” She was burdened down with a big bag and a small one, and one or two parcels besides. Thus freighted she toddled along and attempted to pass the box without depositing her ticket. “Ticket, ma’am,” shoutod the chopper. “Can’t pass bore without a ticket. ’’ “I ain’t got time,” sho replied. “Can’t pass, can’t pass,” cried tha man. “But I will pass. ” “Can’t, ma'am; the rules are very strict.” “You’ll make me miss my train.” “Plenty of time, ma’am. If you don’t catch this train, another will be along in a minute.” Then the woman, still blocking the way, dropped her bags, and after a long search in her pocket found a key, with which she opened the big one. Article after article was taken out and laid aside, but the ticket was not forthcoming. Tuen she opened the small bag and repeated the operation, but without success. Finally she looked up and said: “What ticket do you want, any way?” “The elevated railroad ticket, of course, ” replied the man. “Why, I had that in hand all the time, you impudent fellow. My son gave me one at the foot of the stairs.” “Then why didn’t you drop it in the box?” “Then why didn’t you say elevated railroad ticket? You want to understand that ther e are a hundred different kinds of tickets. How did I know what you wanted? and don't you ever stop me again or I’ll go to the head man of the railroad and complain.”—« New York Herald.