Get a Horse!

The New Yorker, who is vaguely aware that New York City is horribly uncomfortable but likes to think of even its discomforts as somehow being the latest thing, stirred uneasily in his stupor last week. The simple matter of taking a bus ride seemed to have got out of hand.

It now cost him 11-c- to ride on the Fifth Avenue line, 6-c- on other privately owned lines, 7-c- on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6-c- to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5-c- from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10-c-) to a bus, he paid 2-c-.*

*One annoyed citizen, an advertising man named William von Zehle, wired Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, asked him to mint 2-c-, 6-c-, and 7-c- pieces.

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