Judge — October 11, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by A. Macnerear Jones—I was here yesterday with a little girl trom the “ Folli Smith—Well, you ought to have been glad. Jones—Glad for what? Smith—Glad she wasn’t hungry. The Diary of a Motorman in 192] By Auten T. Foster August 20.—Rolled out of bed at ten o'clock this morning and had a light breakfast of fruit, cereal, fried chicken, waffles with honey and coffee. After that went on over to the car barn and bawled out the guy what’s supposed to shine up the front windows and dust off the motorman’s morris chair. Them burds certainly is worthless these days! We all had to strike this morn- ing because the manager said as how we couldn’t have the car barn attendants polush up our auto- mobiles what we drives to woik in. The noive of him! The next thing, I suppose he won’t want us to leave ’em in the car barns while we’s at woik! Soon’s we struck, he come around all right. August 22.—This afternoon about 2 o'clock, just as I gets home from woik, a college per- fesser come around looking for a little extra woik. I told him he could mow the lawn. When he seen the kids, he ast if they was bein’ educated. What for, sez I, so they can cut the grass? Drown by E,W. Kenner Mary de bank to bu “ Dey talk erbout de but law’s sakes, it took all my savin’ my man Ike cost of dyin’ dat’s what it right to die while funeral fixin’s is so hi "said she wasn’t hungry, but she ate almost everything on the bill-of-fare. August 23.—This morning we had to strike again. The super had the noive to say suthin’ to some of the boys because they come to woik in pongee soots instead of their uniforms. So while we was out, we tole ’em they might as well raise us ten dollars a week more and that they must pay for the time we was off striking. They had to give in. What could they do? August 24.—The wife and kids and two of the servants went away to Adantic City this morning. It’s gettin’ to be a cheap joint down there but the missus has a sister what lives there so I said she could go for a coupla weeks. I takes October and November for my vacation this year, August 25.—Today I lost about 7 hunnerd dollars on the street. I didn’t like the looks of things so I closed out some flyers and bought U. P. refunding 7’s. Jake Levinsky what runs on the Sixt’ Ave. line says the steals is the thing to lay your money on these da Guess I'll have to cut this diary out. First thing you know suppose I'll be getting ideas so’s I might be promoted and have to live on a officer’s pay. ‘h cost of livin’ 0 It's de high folks ain't got no