The Washington weekly post., 1900-10-02
NOT A MAN IN THE ENTERPRISE,
Chicago Women 20 Ran au Electric Omni-
has Iiae-Uuiisrms 10 BE Blue.

From the Chicago American.
why should North Side women, cast Of
State street, be compelled to depend on
the slow, oid-fashi0ned carette for trans
portation? suggested Mrs. Haviland H.
Lund, Chicago promoter
Other women took up the chorus and
the doom of the carette, one of the most
established features of tine city, was
sounded. Mrs. Lund has organized a
company which will replace the carettes.
drawn by horses. by an electric omnibus
line. Women will have charge of the en-
tire enterprise.
II will be women's money which will be
used 10 further the scheme: woman is
its promoter; another woman has fur
nished the plan of the vehicles to be used,
the women most interested have decided
on the route TO be taken by the electric
omnibus, and last, but certainly not least,
women will drive the new carettes.
Since this has been made known, hun
dreds of applications have been made TO
Mrs. Lund for positions as omnibus driv-
ers, but as none of them was registered
electrician, none has been been accepted.
Mrs. Lund said yesterday that a large
number of women would be examined this
week for the work. 1t will be easy, remu-
disu utdllD1 anu
many are anxious to obtain 1t, for the out
door exercise alone. Even in winter the
carette drivers will have an easy time,
for the front of the omnibuses will be in
closed by glass. The conductors will also
be women, or rather young girls.
Uniforms for the drivers and conductors
are quite pretty enough to delight the
heart of any woman who is to wear them
They are to be made of dark blue duck
for summer and dark blue serge for win
ter wear
Rows of white braid will trim the short
skirts and white braid will decorate the
sailor blouse and belt. The blue cap will
have white and blue band and on the
front of the blouse and in 'front.' of the
cap will be stitched in white letters, E.
o. Co. meaning Electric Omnibus Of
Chicago. Heavy boots and gloves will
complete the uniform.
Mrs Lund, whose Office is in the Mar
quette Building, has issued a prospectus
announcing that the capital of the COM
pany will be $4,000, with shares of so
each. Nearly all of the shares have been
sold, many TO prominent society women,
and the only present cause for delay is
in the building of omnibuses. Contracts
for twenty electric omnibuses have been
given to the Chicago Electric Vehicle
Company. Ii is the intention of the ON
nibus company to later manufacture their
own vehicles.
The electric omnfbuses will be painted
dark red, with black and yellow touches
in !, the decorations. Large plate-giass
windows will be on either side, the seats
VIII be upholstered, and the entrance will
be from the rear. Each car will seat be-
tween twenty and thirty people. Electric
multiple motors will be used.
Besides the North Side route, on which
five omnibuses will as soon as possible be
put in service, Mrs. Lund Intends to pro-
mote a scheme for electric Omnibuses on
the South Side.
While the fare on the omnibuses is 10
cents. the passenger has the added con-
venience over the trolley or cable cars OF
OF being transferred anywhere In the city.
Mrs Lund is the owner of the patent
rights OF the electric multiple motor. and
if IL is successful in the omnibus scheme
IL has been said that the motor may be
used on the elevated roads.
Mrs Haviland II. Lund is one OF Chi
cago's best-known women promoters
Personally she Is an attractive little wo-
man, with brown hair and brown eyes
and wears nose glasses, which lend her
an added dignity.
She Is much interested In and enthusias-
tic Cor the success Of her present plan
believing that Chicago women who can
not afford equipages of their own should
have a better mode OF transportation.
Rapidly is the field for women's labor
opening" said she.
Il believe that nv plan for having wo-
men drivers and conductors on the bus
line will be a godsend to MANY women
whose health Is so poor when they have
indoor work. The omnibuses will be easy
enough for child to manage.
My autobus line. which will be running
by October, If not before. will greatly i'm
prove Chicago's transportation facilities :"