Tramcars in America.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 1

Tramcars in America.

Writing in the "Queen" of the tramcar s^sfce'A in America, a lady says :—": — " The ramming, jamming, cramming of American trams is their most revolting feature ; no limit is put upon their carrying capacity nave the absolute- impossibility of forcing another entrance therein. After the seats n;e crowded the centre fills up. Often this centre is so tightly wedged with pas.sengers thar, a dozen different breaths fan one's cheek, and if an incautious foot is lifted it becomes almost impossible to find space to put it down again. I say this advisedly, for I have experienced it a hundred times, and mine is an American foot. Great loops of leather hang from the roof of an American hor.se-car, pendant there for the express coin enilnce of passengers who cannot have .seats, and who iind it impossible to maintain their equilibrium amid the joltings and sudden and frequent stoppings of the car. But for the never-failing good-humour and perfect politeness of the Americans, disagreeable incidents and remarks would be caused by this wretched state of things. Never in my life in Amex'ica, however, and I have lived there half my life, did I ever hear a harsh word or see an ill-bred act occasioned by the miserios of horse-car travel. Laughter, jokes, and apologies meet every bound and lungo of the tram, end every bod 1 is upon the same doaiocratio levol,' ;