People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Tho Car Was Hoodooed. [ARTICLE]

Tho Car Was Hoodooed.

It is uot uncommon for employees to conceive the idea that a certain engine or car has been hoodooed, but it is very unusual for a corporation to take cognizance of such superstition, as was done by the Nassau Trolley company in Brooklyn. Car No. 288 is the hoodoo of that line. It has killed and injured more people and blocked traffic oftener than any half dozen other cars. Then employees complained that it had the peculiar faculty of sickening either the conductors 'and n crineu or some member of :h i •, So the hoodoo v , . i cm the streets, employees had in on* ■