Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — CONDUCTRESSES ON BUS LINE [ARTICLE]

CONDUCTRESSES ON BUS LINE

Brooklyn Suggestion Stirs the Imagination of Possible Passengers, Anyhow. Conductresses are to ring up the fares on one of the new Brooklyn bus lines which are to supplement our transportation facilities —if the board of estimate consents. One of the lines .seeking a franchise announces that to do the conducting only girls need apply. They didn't say pretty girls, buflet us hope that pretty girls are meant If she should step on our toes while reaching for the bell rope, her light weight and gracious apoligies will make us happy to have been in the way. For she must be thin waisted in order to squeeze by comfortably. And we shall insist that she set a common sense fashion in the matter of hatpins. Nor can she be permitted to. knot her small change in a handkerchief or to carry her bills in the unconventional manner favored by some women shoppers. Moreover, the company must insist that no «tope shall be made in