Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1913 — Cologne Is Annihilated in a Garlic Car Battle [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cologne Is Annihilated in a Garlic Car Battle

CHICAGO. —Women resident of fashionable Windsor Park on the south side began a unique battle the other day. It is a battle of Garlic vs. Cologne. And because the women from a few days' experience, fear garlic 1b going to win, they organized to have the odoriferous enemy removed from their midst by outside means. Several days ago the antiquated cars of the South Deering line were transferred to the Windsor ParkSouth Chicago line. The South Deering line, because of garlic eaters who comprise most of its patronage, long ago won the sobriquet of “the garlic line.” Persons not stepped in garlic, it is declared, are apprised of the approach

of a South Deering car by another sense than that of sight. Wags living along the line like to say: “I smell a car coming.” When these cars were put on the Windsor Park line and the cars of the latter line sent to the garlic line, there arose a howl of protest In Windsor Park. Business men who reside there vowed that their wives and daughters should not be compelled to ride all the way to the Sixty-third street “L” station in the “garlic cars.” The other night a meeting of protest was held and Miss Jane Hinman, prominent In social uplift work; Mrs. John C. Conners and Mrs. Frank Edwards were appointed a committee to see President Busby of the south-side lines and enter a protest. Meantime, the women are trying to counteract the smell of garlic by the profuse use of cologne. Experience has not given them encouragement. “It’s no use,” said one of them. "Delicately scented eau de cologne enters the battle terribly handicapped. Our only chance would be to buy some of that loud-smelling stuff.”