MANNERS & MORALS
Notes on U.S. customs, habits, manners & morals, as reported in the U.S. press:
¶ San Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to save their wornout conveyances. The Women's Chamber of Commerce called an "emergency" meeting. Mayor Lapham, who had already ordered ten specially powered buses, grunted: "Sentimentalists do not have to pay the bills."
¶ In Seattle, police noted a sign of...
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