Show W Women men Car Patrons Perverse E B 5 ini Insist Upon Courting s Disaster Oldest Conductor Tells of Tribulations With Stubborn Stubborn Stub Stub- born Sex By DOLLY DALE Never jump off a car while it is going said the oldest street car conductor conductor conductor con con- ductor in Salt Lake to me I trust I look fairly intelligent but apparently my appearance in that regard regan does not supercede that of any other representative of my any sex In iii that regard and he ho says that they all want to do it They are the bane and trial of a conductors conductor's conductors conductor's con con- ductor's life life considered considered in his al capacity alone be It understood Harley Mowrey of South Second West his to his credit twenty-six twenty continuous continuous continuous con con- years of checking nickels punching transfers ringing bells and the aged infirm women along the way they should get off which i lr 1 not always the way they want to get getoff getoff off the back platform He has grown gray in the service gray in the maddening maddening mad road dening effort to keep women from jumping off the moving cars He says that there seems to be some inherent mental defect in women which prevents prevents prevents pre pre- vents their understanding that when a acar acar acar car is m moving ving it is in no tit fit an and t proper condition to be disembarked that insistence insistence in insistence in- in In the neglect of this warn warn- log inS is prone to fo bring disaster personified personified personified per per- by doctors doctor's bills hills white caps and rubber heels upon the hasty person person person per per- I son who cannot will not wait walt Ran First Trolley Car Car I Mowrey l ran the first electric which presumed to enter into competition with the mule mut train in the next street It was a quaint quant affair this first electrIc electric electrio elec elec- trio car with the most original ideas as to just how straight and narrow a path a car should run It was tem tern The co common track laid along the street might do for others but its fancies led it along more more origInal origInal inal and outre lines of transit It could be found as as' as often in the gutter as in inthe inthe the enter center of the highway II But it was wonderfully courteous and considerate to the women It stopp stopped d at any house along along- the road to let them off or take talce them on Of course course this way was not so pleasant for th the conductor We Ve were were held responsible for everything everything every every- thing that went wrong on the car said were supposed to hold to some kind of a schedule You can imagine what time we kept when it was a common thing for mother to toI send Johnnie out to stop the car I while she p put t on her hat and sometimes sometimes some some- times I was wall convinced while she put on many more intricate things than a ahat ahat hat But we had our orders oders to stop for every everyone one and let them of off when they wanted But those were the days when whim the street cars ran for the public the dear old days before the public ran for the cars Life a Luxury Nok But the life of the conductor is a leisurely luxurious heaven In these days In comparison according to Mowrey l He shivered at the thought of the back platform on Oll the old cars where the conductor was wont to remain remain re- re main unsheltered from the heat in the summer a anti and cl slipping all ov over i the ice and sleet with which it was as coated in the winter I remember r taking off my overcoat and standing it alone and unsupported by the stove to thaw off br r br-r- r- r rand and we both moved a w wee e bit closer to the heat I remembered certain experienc experiences s of my own which are elsewhere chronicled chronicled chronicled chroni chroni- cled with the conductor I asked just what he is supposed to do with people who get geton on board a car with deliberate at ate int intentions to defraud th the compan company I of the price of their transportation I 1 am am not the thae only person erson who has bas ever done this I discover beC because use I there are arc whole families wh who are steady stead deadbeats in that regard Tho The j conductor is privileged to put them off oU but Mowrey says that they dont don't do It The They pay their fares themselves themselveS' I IThe Once a conductor paid a ladys lady's fare And the next day she stopped his hiscar hiscar I car and paid him back I But that is not here it is history I and happened in some far off city I long ago I I HARLEY MOWREY H 1 n. n N I |