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Show of the North Salt Lake line, like many others with the first-born felt himself Incompetent to assume the responsibilities responsi-bilities of its care alone. He telephoned to his better half downtown. "I'll send baby down on the next ear. De at First South and West Temple when the car gets there and take him." He Instructed Conductor Hodson accordingly. ac-cordingly. When the car reached the point designated, the oung mother was not there. On the next trip she did not appear. And on the third trip she was still missing. Meanwhile the conductor found himself him-self the unwilling sponsor of a strange child, but he portrayed the role of rater to a nicety. While collecting fares he would place tho infant in the hands of some woman, and when she would alight the babe would be transferred trans-ferred to another, and when all pas sengers had left the car, Hodson would resume his charge again. Thus it was kept up during the time of three trips, about three hours in all. Hodson gave a sigh of great relief finally, when, upon reaching the comer to which he had looked so eagerly eag-erly each trip, he observed a nervous, impatient woman running toward tho car. "My child," she exclaimed, "Is it still here?" "Yes, madame, and I resign willingly as nurse in your favor," he told her, and the infant was transferred to the arms of its rejoicing mother. STREET CAR CONDUCTOR UNWILLING SPONSOR FOR A STRANGE INFANT Salt Lake, June 11. Temporary lost to its mother, a one-year-old Infant made three trips over a North Salt Lake car line last night; was passed back and forlh into the hands of women wo-men passengers; became the charge of Conductor B. S. Hodson, who tended k with the caro of n mother, and slept Innocently throughout it all until restored re-stored finally to tho arms of its parent. par-ent. This is the way it happened: Thc father, alone at his home at thc end |