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Show Woman's Wild Run on a Trolley Car MOTORMAN TOO 8LOW 80 SHE TAKE3 CHARGE. TRIES TO MAKE A TRAIN. Mala at the Controller Falls to Realize Her Hurry, So 8he Pushed Him from Platform and Turns on Full Speed. Chicago. Ilecauso motoman No. C10 on tho Halstod street lino ot the Chicago City Hallway company refused refus-ed to put a little speed on his car tho other day Mrs. S. H. Chldost'er, who was anxious to catch a train for hen home in Evergreen Park, seized tho controller lover and turned te current on to tho last notch. Ily way of emphasizing her dotor. mlnatlon to reach the train, sho pushed push-ed No. 61C off tho front platform whon he objected to her summary action ac-tion and for six blocks tho big car ran ist full speed through tho crowded street Stops woro mado neither for crossings cross-ings nor for passengers to get on or oft nnd thrco members of tho team-stors' team-stors' union wcro shown that other citizens hnvo a llttlo right to part ot the street. Thrco coal wagons, on which thoy woro riding when the car struck them, aro laid up for repairs. Mrs. Chldester was finally, overpowered overpow-ered by tho conductor nnd somo of tho passengers on tho car and taken to tho Stockyards pollco station. Sho was roleasod later after convincing tho officers thnt she was not Insane. Mrs. Chldester got on tho car at Thirty-ninth and Halstcd streets and at onco informed tho motormnn that she was In a hurry to reach the Qrand Trunk station nt Forty-ninth street. At Forty-first streot tho car stopped to allow a teamster to make up his mind whether he was going to got off the tracks or not, nnd Mrs. Chldester got nervous. At Forty-third street it took two old men a llttlo longor to get on thnn vAis nocessary and Mrs. Chldestor went out on tho front platform plat-form further to Impress upon the mo-torman mo-torman the Importanco ot caching her train. No. 61S resonted her Interference and told her that ho considered him-solf him-solf capable ot adjusting his own af fairs and to further humiliate tht woman tho car was run along Halsted street at half speed for a block. The woman became furious at tin slow gait and told tho othor passon-gors passon-gors In the car that sho was going to got No. CIC's Job If it took her a month. For this the street car mat. gavo hor a derlslvo laugh. Dropping hor bundles, tho woman ran to the front platform ot tho car and before the motorman realized what had happened his controllei lever was in a pair ot determined fom 8he Ran the Car at Full 8peed. lnlne hands and ho was running along In tho rear trying to overtake the car of which he had rocontly been In charge. At first the passengors onjoyed the Joke, but whon the time-honored tradition tra-dition of allowing teamsters to leave tho tracks only when tbey got good and ready wa9 Ignored, the passon-gors passon-gors became frlghtoned nnd after S strenuous effort by tho conductor and passengers Mrs. Chldester was dethroned de-throned and tho usual Hoisted street speed was resumed. |