The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-11
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 Scores of articles have been writer
 telling what becomes Of faithful, wora
 out street-car horses, but never yet hal
 a newspaper stated where the old stree
 cars go to. Ask Brighton people, Int
 back yards out there are full of them
 and every day their number Is increas
 ing. Strangers cannot understand how
 so many of the cars have got on thu
 track. It seems to them as 1T there
 must have been a tidal wave which
 washed all the Cambridge cars into the
 next town. There the Cambridge
 Railroad" is stranded, its coaches cast
 high and dry against side hills and
 Into hollows.
 What was to be done with old cars?
 the street-railroad companies asked
 themselves. It would cost more 10 split them up than they would fetch for kindling. But Cambridge has bright man named Sturtevant. While the West End was wondering If 1t would not be the cheapest way to take the cars out by the shipload and dump them In some place where they would not interfere with navigation, he stepped in and bid for thirty-six of them. He got thrty-six. Then he adroitly put one in the back yard of a friend in Brighton and told the chill dren they might use it for playhouse. The children were"tickled about to death." They sat up nights to use the car. and never did the advance coach of Barnum's circus or Sarah Bern hardts car attract more attention. The little folks came for miles and
 peered through the pickets of the fence. They went home and leased for street car. and kept right on teas ing. That first car was like the boys bicycle In an out-of-the-way town; it created a demand. In a few days Mir. Sturtevant began to make sales. It got so at last that when people or dered them Mr. Sturtevant would ask unconsciously, How many?" as If he were selling eggs
 People with large number of chil- dren found that they must have seve- ral; and now one can tell about how many young ones Brighton men have got by counting the cars in his yard and allowing three children to each car. Mothers found they could put their small children inside and, shutting the doors. leave them with a feeling of se- curity. It was the cheapest way, too, in many cases to provide shade. The cars could be secured for five dollars apiece, while not much stock was to be bought from the nurseries for that money. Then also it was necessary to wait for trees to grow, and by the car method a whole nursery was forth So the cars were secured, dragged by horses into back yards. and the trucks removed from under them. Then the brakes were taken of, and now there they lie like disman- tied ships, and like a ship something )f sentiment clusters around them. At first they were thought of only as olay-houses. One purchaser concluded 70 turn his into henhouse. Another s contractor, and pays his men every night from the old car. An other, Kendrfck street man, has fixed up his as carpenter shop for his boy. One woman >fh Cambridge wanted to buy ten cars, and wheeling them down to the seashore, convert them into cot tages and bath-houses, shifting their position with the tide. She thought that two or more could be joined to- sether, one to be used for a sleeping car. But the owners of the beach would not sell her land for this pur- pose.
 The contractor before mentioned, is building basement under one of his ,ars and is painting 1t. He talks of putting railing round the top and buying a few flowers 50 that he can nave a roof-garden. More than one ,ar has been pre-empted for nocturnal lunch purposes. The cats find them glorious place to snooze while the wind plays gently with the quaint old 1imity curtains. One boy has convert ~N. AAe~AA OA HID td1 llLO u uUVG-HOUEG, The barbers and Chinese laundrymen are now after cars, but the supply Is short. If they cannot get any hey say that they may buy watering carts and put windows in them. One 'f the play-houses is used during the evening as club house by children of arger growth. The lamps are hahdy. md when light is necessary the blinds Ire pulled up to shut off the sight of One mother has rigked ID cord running from the house to he bell in the car and can call her Offspring without moving. Several mothers have taken the straps out of he cars and are using them to excel- ent advantage. Some of the cars have 'olored glass, gothic-shaped windows, and it is rumored that the Salvation Army wants one for chapel.-Boston Transcript
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