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Several students narrowly escaped injury yesterday afternoon when a wire falling from a telegraph pole across the trolley line on Broadway opposite Memorial Hall showered sparks in all directions. Traffic was effectually tied up for more than fifteen minutes, until a group of motormen policemen and students succeeded in fastening the hanging wire, and holding it until the repairing wire, and holding it until the repair truck from the track from the traction company arrived...
Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...
...suggested innovation involves the stretching of trolley cables across the top of the stadium from one colonnade to the other, to which the canvas would be attached. The canvas would be arranged so that it could be raised and lowered easily. It would thus, according to Major Moore, serve a triple purpose. First, it would render unnecessary the hay which is spread over the field every night in the closing weeks of the season. Second, it could be raised high enough to make it possible for practice to be held under its shelter on a rainy day. Finally, and perhaps...
...progress of these efforts is depicted in a dozen scenes. The opening scene at family breakfast, the blazing satire of the scene in the crowded trolley car, the quick lunch episode are probably the best...
...rarely used an automobile. He either walked or rode on a trolley next to the motorman...