Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1914 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

This Dog Is a Regular Patron of a Trolley Line GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS. —Druggist John Harvey’s beagle hound, Gyp, fire yean old, has a passion for trolley car riding. All the regular conductors on the Berkshire line, running between Great Barrington and Canaan,

Conn., are his friends. Hardly a day goes by that Gyp does not enjoy a trolley ride. At the+hour when M knows a car is due he takes a position on Main street near one of the white posts where stops are made, and when a car stops he looks up to see if It Is the conductor he knows, and if it is he boards the car. After the round trip he leaves the car, barking his thanks to the conductor for his ride. One day after boarding a car he noticed that it was in charge of a

strange conductor. When the new man demanded “ticket!*’ of a passenger in front of whom Gyp was standing, Gyp remarked "bow wow!” which was his usual way of saluting his friend, the regular" conductor. “Hello! who pays your fare?” asked the conductor. "Bow-wow," replied Gyp. ' . The conductor was on the point of putting him off the car when the motorman interposed: " “He’s all right; his collar is chalked and he has a life pass on this road. Let him off at the corner of Church and Main in Great Barrington; there’s Where he belongs." And Gyp got his ride. Quite often Gyp goes hunting alone. Does he walk to the hunting grounds? Not a bit of it. He boards a trolley car and rides out several miles Into the country to his favorite piece of swale, where the rabbits are thickest There he leaves the car and enters the swale to spend most of the day hunting. Near by is a farmhouse, where he has made friends. There he goes when tired c* the hunt and knocks on the door until admitted and a bowl of milk Is set out for him.