Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-12-08
jess ron oLo Sraeer CARS

Without One In the Backyard.
Scores Of articles have been writ.
ten telling what became Of faithful,
w0rn.0ut street-car horses, but Cevcr
vet has newspaper stated where the
old street cars 70. Ask brighton
people, says tho Boston Evening
Transcript. The backyards out there
arc full Of them aud every day their
number IL increasing. Strangers can.
not understand how 90 many Ut the
cars have got of the track. It
seems to them as IL there must have
been a tidal wave which washed all
the Cambridge cars into the ne I
town. There the ''CambrldUe Kali.
road" Is stranded, its coaches cast
high and dry against sidehills and
into hOllows
What was TO be done with the old
cars! the street railroad companies
asked themselves It would cost
more to split them up than they
would fetch for kindling. Hut Cam.
bridge has q bright man named Stur.
tevant While the West End was
wondering II It would not be the
cheapest way to take the cars out by
the ship load and dump them into
some place where they would not In.
terfere with navigation he stepped In
and bid for thirty.six of them. lie
got thirty.six. Then he adroitly put
one In the backyard of q friend In
Brighton and told the children they
might use IL for y playhouse. The
children were 'tickled about to
DEATH" They sat Up ut nights to
Use the car and mover did the I'd.
vance coach of Barnum's circus or
Sarah Bernharrs car attract more
attention. The little folks camc for
miles and peered through the pick.
cts Of the fence. Then they went
home and teased for q street car. aud
kept right On teasing. That first Cur
was like the first boys bicycle In an
out-ot.the.way town; 1t created q dc.
mand. 10 q few days Mr.. Sturtcvant
began to make sales. It got 90 ut
lust that VII people ordered them
Mr. Sturtevant would ask, uncOn.
sciously, "How many" as II he were
selling eggs.
People with q large number Of
children found that they must have
several and now one can tell about
how many young ones Brighton
man hasgot by counting the cars In
his yard and allowing three children
to each car. Mothers found they
could put their small children In.
side, and, shutting the door. leive
them with feeling of security. 1t
was tho cheapest way, too. in many
cases to provide shade. Tho ara
could be secured for u apiece, while
not M ich stock was to DO bought
from the nurseries for that money.
Then, also, 1t was necessary to wait
for trees 10 grow, and by the car
method whole nursery was forth.
coming. SO the cars we're secured,
dragged by horses into backyards,
and the trunks removed from under
them. Then the brakes were taken
on aud now there they lie like dis.
nantled ships and like Q ship some.
thing Of sentiment clusters around
them. Al trst they were thought OF
only 40 plavh0uses. One purchases
concluded TO turn hi, into u hen.
house. Another 10 Q contractor and
pays hts men every Saturday night
from the old cur Another, . Ken
drick street man. has fixed I'D his
cur az . carpenter shop for bis boy.
One woman In Cambridge wanted Ia
buy ten cars and. wheeling them
down TO tho seashore, converted
them into cottages and lighthouses,
shifting their position with the lido.
She thought that two or more tould
lie Joined together, ono TO DO used for
q sleeping.car. But the owners OF
the beach w0ald not sell her land for
this purpose
The contractor before mentioned
10 building U basement under one Of
his cars and is painting It He talks
OF putting . railing round the tor
aud buying few flowers, 50 tina: he
can have q roof garden. More than
one car has been pre.empted for noe.
turnal "unch" purposes The cats
lind them . glorious place to snooze,
while the winds play gently with the
quaint old dlmity curtains Ono boy
had converted half OF bis car into a
dOveh0use The BARRIERS and Chinese
laundry are now after cars. but the
supply 10 running short II they can.
not get any they say they may buy
water.carts aud put windows In
them. ono OF the playh0uses Is used
during the evenings as u clubhouse
by children OF u larger growth. The
lamps are handy, aud when light d
necessary the blinds are pulled up u
shut OF tho sight OF card playing.
Ono mother has rigged up cord run
ming from the house to the bell Ia
tho car and can call her offspring
sithout moving Several mothers
have taken tho straps out Of the carl
and ale using them To excellent adj
vantage Some Of the cars have col
0red vluss, Gothic shaped windows.
and 1t IL rumorcd that the Salvation
army wants ore for y chapel
Good Razor.
mebOdy has IN old English razor