Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Trolley Fender a Nuisance. [ARTICLE]

Trolley Fender a Nuisance.

“Hey, there, Ike, here she comes.” “Look out that she don’t swipe you to the gutter and spoil your new clothes,” said Billy Moran. A moment later, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, there was a woman’s scream. A boy had gone under the trolley and he was certainly ground to death. The car was on the Twelfth and Sixteenth streets line and she had just passed Christian street. A pug-nosed, freckled-faced lad of 10 had run out of Everett street to throw himself before the death-dealing trolley car. “See me do it, Frisby,” he said to a boy companion. He stood right in front of the engine of death. The motorola n could not stop. The fender picked the rascal up. It was a by-play that might have had serious results,but the 10-year-old dropped squarely Into the net and he was saved. People will doubt it, but there Is a gang of boys who throw themselves before the Twelfth street fenders every day. It is fun for them, because they are never hurt. They know what they are doing, and all the trouble they have is a scolding from the conductor or the motorman whom they have worried. There have been no fatal results.