Show Lake Street Cars Times tho d1 On Salt TwontyFivo Circumference of Earth M UCRlr9 raVeLieU Mtn in Twenty Yearn Service To M W Wagglon of 851 t East Seventh Sev-enth South street who Is growing old in tho sorvico of the street railway company belongs the distinction of beIng be-Ing the conductor longest In the employ em-ploy of the streetcar company Just twenty years ago today he entered the service and the growth of the present system has been watched by him with ilmost us much satisfaction as by the stockholders of the corporation It has beon his fortune to ace tho tou u little mule displaced by tho wire and trolley now traversing every quarter of the city As a conductor Old Dad as he Is familiarly called bus served on nearly every line In the city He Is familiar with every foot of track Unit has been laid Old Dad Is of a jovlol disposition and laughing as he doM at provoking little Incidents that exUtc the anger of some conductors has grown fat at his work and says that he finds pleasure In his dally toll PITMPED WATER FOR MULES Conductor Wagstalt began his service wIth tho company working In the barns ending tho mules that xftorded the motor power of the cars of the old day There were 120 head of rulo to take care of and the water that they guzzled guz-zled down was obtained l only by vigorous vigor-ous exercise on tho loinr handle of un oldlime wooden pump That was haid work Indeed but H did not last lojic and after about uljc months ho was lvqn a car to drive Since that time 10 has been engaged In collecting nickels nicK-els for the coffers ot his employers HAS MEMORIES IS PLENTY The man smiles v hen jon ask him about tho little old auiecais a host oC recollections iriBlmr In his mind Many oC the old cars have btn renu ated and converted Inlo lunch wagons which are seen on tho streets it night The sIght of the lunch wnpons brings to his memory the Youngster who issud to steal rides on the rear end of J the car with his eye on the big blacksnnJe of the driver he sees again the woman who used to beckon him ID ton from the front door of her house ind him arM ar-M V j 4r t 4 M k p 4 1 y rt w Wagstaff self waiting with his car at tin corner while she stood before the rlror I I ml Justlng her hat at the puipur ancle on her hair He has vivid roolle lions nf how ho used to rim fur fares after counting the occncuntd or his car and comparing the number with tho noney In the little glass box by th front door 1 ROUND THE WORLD MANY TIMHS The day of the mule finally came to an end and Driver Wagstaft became Conductor Wagstaff The first electric car In Salt Lake City was operated on East First South street August 1889 I and other wires 1 wore stretched over the tracks that same year It was late In the fall when the first electric car was put on East Third South street and Mr AVagstafC was Its conductor A streetcar conductor works 303 days a year and In the case of this man not a day has he missed except on account of sickness In his family and at that not more than thirty shifts during the entire term ot his service During the twenty years that he has worked he has done considerable traveling oer the streets of this city covering In round numbers 629000 miles during the period Tho present cars run about 100 miles a day and the mulecars used to make about half this distance A little lit-tle mental arithmetic elves the above figures BOY lOT A FREE RIDE He has had experience with the man with nothing but a twentydollar gold piece and the boy who whistles to slop the cars Just for fun and takes pleasure pleas-ure In telling how he got the best oCt them oC-t It was not very many years agd that a certain lad ot about 16 yearn used to run out and Whistle at the car every nlnht and then call Rubber1 when the molormnn applied the brakes Conductor Wagstnff stood this for about a week when he decided to give from the car ride Jumping the boy = a at about the plncc where the boy usually usu-ally chlrruricd he found the ypmiR Joker chuckling with glee when the motorman mo-torman brought the car to a stop Tl was about 9 oclock and under cover of the darkness ho caatured the boy and took him aboard the car Telling him he should have a ride he told the youth to sit down In the corner Conductor Con-ductor Wacstafr paid his fare to Waterloo Wa-terloo and when the car reached Its destination told the kid It would be a most refreshing walk back to town Tho nickel he rung up AVSS well invested In-vested and the boy has not bothered him since his long walk GAVE HIM THE CHANGE DouglasTine A passenger on the Fort Douflas thought he had something good with his twentydollar shiner and worked tho little trair on Conductor Wagstatt Li IILL b nor mornings when the carman for seven thought It was going too far The eighth time tho gold piece wus sprung the conductor was ready He took 10 cents from the piece and then counted out 1900 to the man In 5 and 10cent for el had change pieces The passenger many a day These are but a couple of the experiences of the hundreds that have fallen to the veteran conductor but space will not permit of their mention men-tion here IU W Wagstart will tell him and a them to you 1C you ask good time to hear him talk Is on thin the twentieth anniversary of his service ser-vice with the Salt Lake Street Railway company |