Show PREACHERS RING UP hard times drive them to street cars in smoky city pittsburg the slackness blackness in bust ness here has made some strange bedfellows bed fellows in the pittsburg street railway com comnas ny a business it was announced by that concern that ro re bently it had taken on oil 20 college graduates four college professors and two ministers of the gospel as street car conductors and motormen in every case the new men have been a success from the start aad tn in cements du have been offered to keep them after the slump has passed away the preference has haa been tor for conductors berths though one of the mints minis was compelled to take the job of motorman until there could be found a place for him with the punch the other minister according to the street railway people to Is running a trick which does not end until two jao a in and he la Is getting along famously with the tough crowd after the saloons close the railway people refuse to give names saying it would make mattery hard for their new men who are all that could be desired |