Berlin Trams.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 89, 14 February 1885, Page 5

Berlin Trams.

It appears that the conditions of life of the omnibus conductors of Berlin and that of hia tramway-car brother in the " Second City" curiously or closely resemble each other. The former serves one of the wealthiest German companies — the shareholders in which, like those of our own Tramway Company, have small reason to j grumble at their dividends. He works eighteen hours every day seven days a week, bears the full responsibility for every coin which passes through his hands, and is [ heavily fined for any irregularity. For this he receives a daily pay of somewhat less than half-a-crown. Should he ever think of going to church, he pays his company for the privilege j should he fall ill his pay is lost at once j and as for his meals, he swallows them, such as they are, while waiting for passengers at an omnibus station.

A Dublin jarvey had driven an old lady a considerable distance, and received the. bare fare. Said she, "Your horso looks bad. Is not the bit too large for his mouth?" "It ain't the big bit in his mouth, rnunV' said the cabby, "it's the small bit in his belly, and— (looking at the shilling)— it doesn't seem as if it'll get much lar^e,r x n