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Show Woman's Wild Run on a Trolley Car MOTORMAN TOO SLOW SO 8HE TAKES CHARGE. TRIES TO MAKE A TRAIN. Male at the Controller Falls to Realize Her Hurry, So She Pushed Him from Platlorm and Turns on Full Speed. Chicago. Hecausu motoman No, BIG on the Hoisted street lino of the Chicago City Itnllwny company refused refus-ed to put a Ilttlo Hpeed on his car tho othor day Mrs. S. II. Chldestor, who was anxious to catch a train for hor homo In Evergreen Park, seized tho controller lover and turned t?.o current on to the last notch. Hy wny of emphasizing her do tor-mlnatlon tor-mlnatlon to reach tho train, she pushed push-ed No. GIG off tho front platform when ho objected to hor summary action ac-tion and for six blocks the big car ran i. full speed through tho crowded strcot. Stops wero made nelthor for crossings cross-ings nor for passengers to got on or off and three members of the teamsters' team-sters' union wero shown that other i citizens have a little right to part of 1 tho street. Throo coal wagons, on 1 which thoy woro riding when the car struck them, are laid up for repairs. Mrs. Chldestor was finally overpowered overpow-ered by tho conductor and some of tho pnssongors on tho car and taken to tho Stockyards pollco station. Sho was roleased later aftor convincing tho officers that sho was not Insane. Mrs. Chldestor got on tho car at Thirty-ninth and Hnlsted streots and nt onco Informed tho motormnn that sho was In d hurry to roach the Grand Trunk station nt Forty-ninth street. At Forty-first Btrcot the enr stopped to allow a tcamstor to make up his mln'd whether ho wno going to got off tho tracks or not, nnd Mrs. Chldestor got norvous. At Forty-third strcot It took two old men n Ilttlo longer to get on than was noccssnry and Mrs. Chldestor went out on tho front platform plat-form further to Impress upon tho mo-torman mo-torman tho Importance of caching hor train. No. 51G rosontcd hor Intorforenco nnd told hor that ho considered him-solf him-solf capable of adjusting his own d(- MA MA Jl..u MA Hi fairs and to further humiliate th woman the car was run along Halstcd street at half speed for a block. Tho woman became furious at th slow gait and told' tho other passengers passen-gers in the car that sho was going to get No. ClC's Job If It took her a month. For this tho street car mar. gave her a derisive laugh. Dropping her bundles, the woman ran to the front platform of the car and before the motorman rcallzod what hnd happened his controller lover was In a pair of detormlned fom She Ran the Car at Full Speed. Inlno hands and ho was running along In tho rear trying to ovortako tho car of which ho had recently boon In charge. At first tho pnssongors enjoyed tho Joke, but whon tho time-honored tradition tra-dition of allowing teamsters to leave tho tracks only whon thoy got good and ready was Ignored, tho passengers passen-gers been mo frightened and aftor a stronuouB effort by tho conductor and passengors Mrs. Chldoster was dethroned de-throned nnd tho usual Italstod street speed wns resumed. |