| Show LITTLE GEORGIES RAPID TRANSIT thrilling bide of a Hel helpless attached to a traction cable it is a common practice with children living on the cable routes tp drop a a string with a cork attached in the slot and as the cable catches it and drags it along to follow it up for a block or two or until they grow tired georgie georgia Rai eight years old persuaded his little brother shirb that they could ride ide i without paying georgie procured a three eighths five strand clothesline from the back yard of the store and carefully fastened it around his little brothers waist the rope was strong enough to settle a dozen california stage robbers there waseil feet of the give alfs ills littie bavm wy with somo some trouble he abid loose end of tho the clothesline into t the e slot the rope was promptly taken alren up by the big li ii inch cable and little S spiro vr 0 started down the street to the astonishment of h his is big eight year old brother the connection was made directly in front of st ignatius ignatins church prom from that point on the child was dragged with the rope around his bib waist past franklin street and van ness iless aveni avenue lie a distance of feet and as he ca came me sailing across s the avenue william E murphy who keeps a bookstore at hayes street saw the phenomenon heat he at first surmised ed that the thing was a dummy but a glance demonstrated that it was not etwas it was only a live youngster skating with the cable and iao no one to stop it oddly enouf enough gh all of the laws of motion were upset with that youngster with a rope around his waist the engine house hous e engineer not knowing anything about a foolish C hild child being tied to a cable it was only natural that when the line was drawn taut in the middle that the child would have to go to the morgue whether the line dragged his bis head bead or his bis legs n providence and mr murphy saved the youngster mr murphy saw t the he babas predicament and ran to the res rescue cue the boy and the cable were badly mixed when murphy saw them and he be followed the child from polk to the junction at larkin street with a view to release it from the cable there was only ono one way in which to do it and mr murphy severed the connection action between the voy boy and the cable at the i junction unction of H hayes ayes street NIP mr murphy bears some evidence of a conflict with tho the cable he had been tugging with the ia lads avs string with an ordinary penknife severing ring one strand after another and f wally finally severed covered the connection at larkin street the child did not suffer ml much ich damage from his bis uni unhappy cappy trip left ear from contact wi with th the uneven basalt blocks on hayes st street reet was partially to torn away and in contact with one stone a gash of four inches was made mad e on his scalp otherwise lie he was not injured san francisco examiner |
