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Show i BABY HANGS ON : REAR END OF Lj A CAR The street car company, Its conduc- Itors and motormen, are often oensur-I oensur-I ed by an exacting public for short- I comings, real or Imaginary, but there t are lapses of memory and careless Jn- difference of dally occurrence on the ( part of the patrons of the public scrv- l ice company which convince one that i ' the street car company often is de- -. I serving of more sympathy than cen- j sure. ; For Instance, a day last week two women with a little child boarded a , ; street car on "Wall avenue, rode to the p-t corner of Washington and Twenty- 1 I fifth and there stepped off, leaving the ; -I -year-old among strangers. Tho ' mother had "forgotten " On the re- i turn trip the fond parent recovered !hcr youngster and Immediately started start-ed to administer punishment The conductor told the lady that the !& u spanking should bo reversed and for Lj I his "impudence" he was reported, with W, a request that the beast be discharged. : 'J A canyon car was stopped at Slx- 1 i teenth street by a mother with a baby I I I buggy. The woman was in a rush and I ' she said, "Take my buggy," as she I j I wheeled the baby carriage In the di- ' rection of the conductor. She entered I J and the obliging conductor placed the i ! vehicle on the hanger at the rear end of the car After going a block there was a scene of excitement Rushing to the rear the woman shouted, "M baby, my baby! Conductor, what have you done with my baby?" "Your baby carriage, madam, hangs there," said the conductor, "but as to your baby, I have o Information." "Well," gasped the Irato passenger, "didn't you know my baby was wrapped wrap-ped in that buggy Give me my baby!"' The car was stopped Instantly. When the baby buggy was removed from It Insecuro position on the outside out-side of the vestibule, there, suro enough, securely wrapped in a shawl, was the tiny tot, all unconscious of having had a perilous ride. The conductor was roported to tho office for gross carelessness, but when his story was told the superintendent said: "These forgetful women some day will cause an accident, and we'll bo blamed." |