Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1909 — EVANSVILLE CARS FILLED [ARTICLE]

EVANSVILLE CARS FILLED

Merchants Say That Business Has Picked Up Noticeably. Evansville. Ind. Aug 10.—The street cars are being patronized notwithstanding the strike of motormen andconductors. President Harry B. Smith of the Evansville and Southern Indiana Traction company, in speaking of the plans to take back the old men, said: “We will recruit to the maximum. We will continue to take the oid men back until we have 125 on the list. We hold no grudge against the men who went out on the strikeyjqid we &U 1 not discriminate against them." T Since the st ike ended merchants say business has picked up noticeably.