LEFT IN THE TRAM CARS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 9

LEFT IN THE TRAM CARS.

; SALE OF UNCLAIMED ARTICLES. MR. DOYLE AS AUCTIONEER. There is & charming variety m tho public appearances l of Mr. James Doyle,,tho Chief Inspcctpr.--. ■ -Whether ho • is ad- , : dressing-an audience'.of young men on physical zculturo, or prosecuting'wasters of water ■ - and owners of wandering cattlo, or . conducting an auction salo of stray dogs and other things, he js. always equal-to the occasion, -Yesterday afternoon ho appeared in tho character. of an auctioneer, and, despito tho strong counter-attraction of tho municipal organ recital in the ..Town Hall, Mr. Doylo had a large . audience in tho adjacent Concert Hall, Ho was selling tho things which' a - forgetful , populaco had left 111 tho tramcars,- and'not. claimed afterwards.- .'.v. , •• It: appeared from tho-collection of articles . that was, displayed oil. tho platform and on a semicircle of tables. jn front of it .'that there - is nothing portable which may not. bo left in avtpimcar. Umbrellas were there''by tho . hundred. Many of thorn fetched as much as 2s. 6d. each. Tho ancient-ragged ones in/bundle's at Is. or so the lot. : There were ■ bicyclo pumps, walking sticks, purses (but the municipal exchequer "had already been enriched-by their contents), blankets, tins of :■'! infants',.foodtin,;kettles,' book's, ladies' . muffs, jewoOpry, and .numbers of porfcmanr toaux,,ileather. bags, ; and dress 'baskets- '■ All . these 'luggage-carrying contrivances had boon- ■: ' emptiedtheir '. contents/ 'and. henco there • . was a-. large l collection of garments that had seen:active;service with citizens of both sexes Bnd all azes. ;. .. • .. ■Under, tho cheerful .-oratory of Mr. Doyle— • placed '. on high, f.whero .'tuneful choirs genv; erally. - ..crpvyd was 'good-humoured-, .- -bids; came freely,...and . the prices generally weroviEuch; that nether-tho purchasers' nor v . .thoi: ratepayers, cpuldreasonably ; complain., ' It'.was ; ,a|;typical -ftuctibnj CTPWd,- comprising a nuclous of bidders - (sopond-hand dealers, halntujih.bargain-huntcrsj'.-young people beginning housekeeping,;and sp ; forth), and an outer.:ring pf :idlers; and spectators pf- tho . human cpmedy. . The salo kept Mr. Deyle and ;• his; assistants jvery.-busy for an hpur , and ;;; ' A',' hundred arid' eighty /lots tfero sold,' and £17 lis. was realised.