Show > h THE CABLE SPOOK Lu Uncanny ThIng Bestrides the Slot Before Be-fore Chicago Street Cars Whether it is a spook or not it is bothering both-ering the brains of the west side cable car conductors and gripmen and is causing caus-ing all kinds of guesses on the part of the passengers who travel nightly the Milwaukee avenue and Madison street cable cars It looks like a wolf but it may be an ordinary dog thai is ordinary in all respects re-spects save in appearance Two members of the University club were sauntering along Washington street between Dearborn and Clark streets a week ago last night A westbound west-bound Madison street cable car was standing opposite the Title and Trust building The gripman looked as if he was in a trance The conductor was helpless and evidently speechless In the center of the street stood something that looked like a wolf It was not howling and was not wild looking It was simply standing over the cable slot in what in the case of a man would have been called a reflective mood Some of the women on the front seats jumped off When they saw how mild and harmless the object over the slot looked they returned to their seats The conductor at last regained his courage and tugged twice at the bellrope The gripman obeyed the car moved on and the passengers leaned over the sides they were summer cars anxious for the fate of the dog wolf spook or whatever it may have been It did not snarl and jump on the front seat It quietly moved away went over to the sidewalk and waitedwaited just long enough to have the train passthen it returned to the slot resumed its air of reflection and stood still Another train of cars came along The same programme was gone through And so it went all that Sunday evening even-ing The following day every gripman and conductor in the west side cable service was talking about the thing in front of the Title and Trust building They were on the watch for it Monday night It did not appear But on Tuesday Tues-day evening about oclock it appeared again and went through the same performance per-formance as on Sunday evening disappearing disap-pearing about midnight It was seen again Wednesday and Friday and last night at 9 oclock it resumed its place Cable car men are superstitious as much as sailors They do not like that thing that stands over the slot on Washington Wash-ington street Some of them say that it is the ghost of some poor creature killed by the cableChicago Herald |