SELF ADVERTISEMENT.

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 5

SELF ADVERTISEMENT.

'Advertise or die is a good old stock phrase with coves who wander around seeking whom they may devour m the wav of a few inches or yards of advertisement space. In the way .of advertising Auckland has a new turn whioh is novel if not commendable. Tram troubadours who troll tramcars along the highways and byways of this Northern city are evidently pretty cute cusses. They reckon it's up to them- to advertise themiselves or get badly left m the promotion business ; accordingly they advertise themselves! . Pretty cutely it is done too. In tlie past when a tram accident was narrowly averted the dilly dailies used to put m a par narrating the circum-> stances and coro-mendin-g the driver of the car implicated for his alleged adroitness. That was alright; of course, , and , nobody objected to a little commendation where it was deserved ; but the thing, like all good thines nowadays, has shown a tendency to be overdone and latterly deeds of derring d<? done by dexterous drivers of Hansen's matchboxes have increased to such a marvellous extent that people are wondering whether- all these reports -are genuine or whet-her they are simply "t-he. outcome of the imaginative brains Of pushful.^tram- men. .Hardly a day goes , by without the noospapers reporting liow Motormah Bill Basher, while, driving ! down Que'en:-street, seized, a, boy named Tommy Thompson by the eyelashes and -by swinging him off the track, saved him from being '.•.",-,.- CHOPPED INTO SAUSAGE MEAT by the krool wheels ; or how a tottering old man of 98-f. years stepped m front. of- a fast travelling car on Karangahape Road and was only saved from- appearing prematurely hp--fore Peter (not. Hansen) m multiferous minute, morsels -by- the marvellous dexterity, of driver Dan Bashit, who, leaning over the front of his car, hurled the old man out. of danger. No?! some of these reports of tram tragedies that might have been ■—always, yof -course, : containing the, full names of -■_ the alleged heroes— do not bear., ythe impress. of- truth, and anyhow they are more often than not brought . Ohy. the., mashing mofeorman having his eyes on the lovely ladies jln- I ; tbe i,syiewalV, Unstewi of looking 'Straight : abead of "film* ■ ' '