Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1916 — Horse Car Still Traverses New York’s Streets [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Horse Car Still Traverses New York’s Streets

ajEW YORK. —The obsequies of the horse car have not yet been sung in IM this city. They are still in use on several busy thoroughfares and the sight of them permits the stranger from Squeedunk to be anpoymgly face-

tious, despite the fact that his city relation has repeatedly informed him that th fa fg a progressive town. Somberly and sadly these horse cars thread their resigned way through Chambers street, in the downtown section. The car Itself, with its dusty windows, its fading colors, its obsolete lettering, and its front platform thrtw nr four feet lower or higher than the rear, is certainly a novel sight. "Everybody is kicking about how glow these bld cars are,’’ said the «

driver as he flicked his whip upon the backs of his unfeeling steeds. “'Taint their fault Everything’s got the right of way over us. Gotta wait for the trolleys; gotta hold up for the trucks; get stuck in the middle of the road, and the whole fool city curses us. I’ve been these cars for 30 years an* more, an* seems it’s about time to take ’em off. They don’t appreciate us, they (Jon’t What could a trolley do on these streets? Nothin’; absolutely nothin’, These horses can jump over aftuck or climb a bairicade,an’ the car, it can turn right angles. Who cares? Nobody. All ws get is Jeers an’ curses. It is hard lines, when you come to think of it”