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Show t Slreelcar Men Join Throng lo Celebrate Day i . Streetcar j men demanded the right to celebrate yesterday the same aa the rest of ua and they did." Thia waa the explanation made - today try officia is of 1 he t t a h Light and Traction company -for the cessation of car service yesterday. yes-terday. Ktghty-two cars were started out yesterday morning for the regular days work. But when the town became a fanfare of noise and revelry over t he news that peace had settled over the world, the streetcar men. lika i everybody else, caught the eplrlt and Joined the merry throng of rev el era. The reault waa that about sev-enty-fivo cars were run into -the barn, a few were stalled In the congestion of traffic and deserted by the crews, and the few remaining remain-ing motormen and conductors "stuck to the ship" and combined business with pleasure. The one or two cars that kept running j made no attempts at schedules and were used mainly lo give the crew a "Joy ride" In celebration of the great event. "The regular schedule was resumed re-sumed aout t o'clock last night and we managed to get everybody home.' amid Oeorge W. Manning, superintendent of the company. "The carmen Juat wanted to celebrate cele-brate like everybody else and It waa beyond the powers of anyone any-one to atop them. The dlscon-tinuance dlscon-tinuance of service was simply I Individual action on the part of j the crews. They didn't want to I work yesterday, and they didn't, j But they are back on the b today." i |