Two Steps At A Time

One evidence of the ever hustling characteristics of the average New Yorker is shown on the stairways of the up town station of the elevated railroad at Park place and Chnrch street. The steps of these stairways are covered with rubber, but every othcr step has large irou rings imbedded in the rubber. This was oaused by the fact that the New Yorker is never content to wait even one minute for a train, and that when he hears one approaching as he is at the foot of the stairs he will rush up the stairs two steps at a time hoping to catch the train. As a result the elevated railroad officials notioed that the rubber matting on every other step was wearing out twice as quickly as the rest. For a long time they pondered as to the cause, and ona day Manager Fransioli solved the problem. To know was to act in his case, and the steel ra-enforced rubber now lasts if anything longer than the