Show j GOETHE GERTY 0 R GAYURTEE Cne Hears All Kinds of Versions On the North Sids Chicago Inter elan There are numberless obstacles to tit i overcome before a green man can II l Mme an accomplished street car mn duotor Not the I least of them is r fronting the north side men m an ar < t form Long ago the old eon ult learned to face the anger of droi > si < ii passengers who forgot to stop at the tilt u street people who attempt to pi F = a a Ub s 4 + f fT dQ dQo V rr a i r 4 i Y l of C ta t d I r y ti w 1 t 11 t Y ° t 1 5 I h 1d 1 i i T r wL I ll 1 s xl a v s I Has Given Dp Society and Devoted Herself to Missionary Work plugged coins and chilled men who tr to regulate the dampers of the stove nu minute they bounce Into the car Th latest nuisance and yet one which seems to have come to stay arises from a qui + flop of pronunciation Goethe street rut from Sedgwick street to Lake Shore drive crossing among others Clark Wells and North State streets And all coed cton Ion these lines have to grapple with th > j pronunciation of the German poet nam < Ina North Clark street car the other day a middleaged man looked up from a formidable volume in which he had burinl a severe scholastic face and said ti > thi conductor I want to get off at Ga > ur tee street No such street on the line sir replied lv the conductor Nonsense nonsense I live there myself my-self exclaimed the scholar Impatiently Its next Schiller street Oh you mean Gerty street I guess And the conductor looked relieved as ho stepped out on the back platform Tho scholar was visibly disgusted but he gut off at Goethe street The conductor made a memorandum in his notebook and then reflected Well that the latest There Is some people that live on Gerty street who couldnt tell a pleeceman where they stop We size em up the passengers I mean an6 we kin tell almost certain how the street is gain to be called Now that feller he says Gayurtee Hes a perfesser 1 bet although the names s new on me A smart snappy flip little woman gets on and she says Lot me off at Getty street please Just yesterday I yes-terday afar woman plumped down in A seat with half a dozen bundles in her arm You could tell a mile off shed just moved and when I took her nickel sho said oncertainlike I want to get off at Goeth street conductor please There another kind fer theyre sprmgln up every day and thats the plain overworked over-worked grocers and such who always has stains on their vest front They jest holdout hold-out a nickel and say Gothee street But they all gets off at the same plate and 1 dont sea as it makes much difference differ-ence exceptin ItV mighty annoyin at time Fer my part I think It ought to be called Goath street Ve have to s iv Gerh because Its popular with old real dents there hut for all that Id like tr > know whos H better judge of what streets liould be called than we who does nothin rom mornin to night but holler em out |