People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — [TO BE CONTINUED.] [ARTICLE]

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MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. Full Instructions How to Mount and Alight from a Street Car 'Safely. More accidents are attributable to the ignorance of people in not knowing how t<S get on and off a street car than any' other cause. A motorman says that to do this with perfect safety and ease is not difficult to learn if only a little attention is bestowed upon it. The ladies are particularly careless in getting on and off street cars, and it is to them more than the gentlemen that he commends the following suggestions. The perfect ease and grace with which some people board electric and cable cars while in motion can be seen every day. They simply carry out the rules appended: When you wish to take a car, stand on the right-hand side of the street, on the far crossing, in the direction the car you wish to take is going. Look toward the motorman or gripman of the approaching car; raise ynur hand with a slight inclination; the signal will be understod and the car stopped. Before attempting to get on transfer anything you may be carrying to the left hand or arm; stand close to the car; grasp the hand rail with the right hand, step on the lower step with the left foot, give a light spring with the right foot and you will find yourself safely and speedily on board. As you approach the corner where you wish Jto alight, signal the conductor, move toward the rear of the car, holding tight to the platform or side of the door so that you will not feel the sudden jerk made in stopping; step on the lower step; face the way the car is going; hold on to the rail with the left hand; stepping off, ulight with the right foot, bending the knee slightly; bring the left foot in front of the right, and you will find that you have acquired an accomplishment that will be useful to you. Never get off backward or straight out from the car.— St. Louis Globo-Democrat. w •