Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1915 — Chicago Street Car Makes New Route for Itself [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chicago Street Car Makes New Route for Itself

CHICAGO. —Street car No. 6042, running on the North State street line, had been downtown many times— twenty or thirty times a day for some years past It was considered a tame car, tractable, unafraid of automobiles, and

one that would stand without hitching. Imagine then the surprise of the 24 passengers in the car when It tossed off its nosebag, so to speak, and ran away the other afternoon. It almost got lost. Conductor 9072 and motorman 5507 saw, when the car came to State and Lake streets, that they couldn’t cross the bridge. There was some trouble there. The car grew restleßß. It wouldn’t wait. It gallqjped west in Lake street. At Dearborn street the con-

dnctor and motorman got out, looking for a switclj. There was none. Several cats piled up behind it At Clark street the car crew hunted another switch, and at La Salle street and at Fifth avenue and at Franklin street. At Franklin street there was a The car took the curve and sped on south to Randolph street. A long string of cars was in its wake. Old 6042, in a place it had never been before, remained cool and unperturbed, although it was becoming homesick. East in Randolph street it wandered until a wide open switch revealed itself at Clark street. Then up Clark street, and over the bridge to Kinzie went 6042, and over Kinzie to the good old, familiar State street pasture. The passengers, who had been wondering what was what, breathed sighs of relief. It had taken the car just 25 minutes to go from State aud Lake streets to State and Kinzie street, a matter of about three blocks.