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Show UTAH TIIE SMITH FIELD SENTINEL. iSMITH FIELD. up to the front of the car, please: And have correct fare Weve got a trolley car conductor with us today as guest manners- - Especially of honor, and we have to watch our street-ca- r do we with a conductor like Richard Mayock, a man who has made quite a reputation for himself at this business of conducting trolleys. STEP For Dick Is known the length and breadth of the District of Columbia Tint's what the newspapers called Dick the "hero conductor of Washington." Mayock. And with good reason, too. For In the middle of April, 1023, be earned that title of his earned It two or three times over. Dicks car had Just finished a trip Into town had turned at the Treasury building and started back. As the car left the Treasury behind It, rain began to fall, suddenly, and in such volume that It looked to Dick as If everything on the streets would be washed away. Back In the car, the passengers were saying that it was s cloudburst. And that's exactly what It was. The streets of Washington looked like canals, and Dicks trolley plowed through an almost unbroken stretch of water, which sometimes came as high as the hubs of the wheels. y The Terrors of Flood in the Nations Capital. The car reached the city limits at a place called Kenilworth Junction, turned Into an underpass that ran beneath a railroad bridge, and there It happened. Dick opened the door to look out, and the sight he saw froze him still Is his tracks. Up ahead was a wall of water several feet high, rushing down Into the underpass toward the front of the car. More water was shooting from the manholes In great spouts six feet tall. Below, the flood had already risen to the bottom step of the car, and that great, onrushlng wall of water was still to come. The wall of water hit the car with a shock that shook-- lt from end to end. The passengers about twenty-fiv- e of them rose from their seats and began stampeding for the door. Conductor Keeps Cool in Face of Tragedy. And right there was where Dick Mayock did some fast thinking. Me looked out Into that swirling flood and remembered that the river, at this point, was only a few hundred yards away. Anyone who got caught In that rush of water outside stood a good chance of being swept Into the river and drowned. He stood with his back to the door and told tha passengers to get back In their seats. They werent going to be drowned not while ho was responsible for them. Those passengers must have known Dick meant business, because they fell back and started climbing up on top of the seats. The water was two feet high In the car, now, and rising steadily. Shrieks and Sobs Fill the Air. "When the water got to be says Dick. walst-hlgh,- " I began to think that "REGLAR FELLERS ADAMSONS ADVENTURES The Dark, Muddy Water Kept on Rising. my time had come. And Tm sure everyone else felt the same, for we seemed hopelessly trapped. ; "The shrieks and the prayers of the women were pitiful. I had to do something, and do It quickly, so I grabbed an umbrella, broke all the windows on one side of the car, and climbed up on the roof. "There, I pulled down the trolley pole to keep anyone from being electrocuted, and, lying flat on my stomach, hslped the passengers up one at a time." The dark, muddy water kept on rising. It was within a couple of feet of the top of the car when Dick thought be heard a moan coming from somewhere By O. JACOBSSON Collapsible Construction Inside: The passengers told him hed be washed away If he tried to go back Into that car, but Dick went anyway worked bis legs back In through a window while two men held onto bis arms. If Dick Wai a Hero, Here Was a Heroine. And the sight he saw when ha got Inside the car Dick will never forget If he lives to be a hundred. There, In that almost filled car was a woman, dazedly dinging to a strap with one hand while she held a baby with the other, trying to keep Its head BRONC PEELER out of the water. Dick grabbed the baby, floundered to the side of the car and passed It through a window to the men on topi But when ho turned back to help up the woman, she had disappearod, down Into the muddy water that filled the bottom of the car. Dick dived, and found her pulled her to a window and thrust her out Into the hands of those above. Then be climbed to the roof himself and applied artificial respiration to the woman, who had swallowed water and was half drowned. The water kept rising until It was flush with the car roof, and then It stopped. For two hours this strange little crew or stayed on the roof, and then the fire department came. A fireman with a rope tied around his waist tried to swim out to ths car. The current was too swift for him, though, and he had to be pulled Lots of Fun i cast-awa- back. After two or three tries, be managed to reach an electric light pole 12 feet from the car, and the marooned iwssengers threw him an Improvised line made of the trolley roie and some knotted neckties. After he got to them, ladders were strung along the rope and soon the entire party was on land again. But. boy, what a shindig while It lasted I C WNU SrlML i I I I THROUGH RED GLASSES Q i JUNIOR GOES SHOPPING By GLUYAS WHJ2AMS ID Inch long covered blunt-pointe- reddish- with one pair of srales. .Within the buda sre smnll The tulip tree (Llrludendron Tulip leaves The wood la soft, fera. I.lnnacus) also called yellow pop miniature not strung, te ular, and wliltewood, la one of the brownish and llg.it works easily. It la used most distinctive of American tree for furniture. Interior flnlshlnga, wood The leave ere simple, alternate, uau enware, novelties and veneer. 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