Rapid Transit.

Manawatu Herald, 6 May 1897, Page 3

Rapid Transit.

Talking of the adventures of rail* way travelling around London, a friend of mine says a writer in a London paper, found himself on the Underground with an elderly lady. M Will you please to get out at the next station," she said. " A Btranga request, madame ; what have I done to offend you?" "Oh, nothing" she said; "perhaps you are going farther, but if you would get out, even if you have to get in again, I •hould be so very much obliged to. you." " But why ?" he asked. " The troth is," she replied, " 1 am lame and am obliged to leave the carriage backwards, and the trains go on so quickly that I have been round the inner circle twice— l believe three times— without being able to get out. The porters or the guard see me; they think I am getting in when I am trying to get out ; they push me in again, and bang the door ; and so lam carried on and on until the train comes round once more to my station as it is coming now ; if you get out first perhaps you wili kindly stop them from pushing me back again into the train." One can see the situation ; it reminds me of a story of Sothern. " I saw an old lady climbing into a Broadway 'bus," he said ; " she carried a heavy umbrella ; a passenger was following her; I strolled up and gave her a gentle shove that landed her inside ; she turned round upon the passenger with her umbrella and a volume of abuse that made the entire street musical."