The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-07-25
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that the company had been defeated,
All We're in dead earnest when the
threatened 10 do worse than tie up the
line il the officials of the company did
not live up TO the agreement 10 run tie
ears from one end OF the line TO the
other
There was some trouble at the Wash
fngton end Of the bridge yesterday after
noon, when persons employed in the city
and living in AnacostIa finished their
days labor and were ploddlng thelS
weary way home. The Anaoostia resi-
dents We're evidently to blame for the
tie-up.
Because of the refusal of some forty
ones" or sixty Fights" to get on and
tighten the cars burden. almost every
Congress Heights car that left the
Eleventh street pit after O'Clock, was
delayed from five minutes TO three
quarters Of an hour.
As car 1403. of the Eleventh street line,
passed Ninth and d streets northwest.
q Times reporter found room enough
for part of one foot on the running
board Grasping hold Or a handle he
pulled himself aboard
The car was Of the summer variety,
and until the recent trouble at the Ana
costa bridge. carried a trailer. There
were about sixty persons on the car,
most OF them We're WOrkmen. who swore
they would ride across the bridge or
break something.
1Hcu VI W d1hluSs
As the car whzzed along, many OF
them remarked:
I'm getting tired Of hiking across to
Anacosua. In paying a niclde to ride
and l can go from one end OF the line
to the other If I want to-"
When the ear arrived at the north
end OF the Anacostia bridge there were
about fifty Passengers aboard. one OF
those short Anacosua cars with two
overhead Jrollies attached 10 the roof
was standing just beyond the pit. About
fifteen persons We're aboard il " hen car
l4p3 came 10 4 stop. Before the motor
man could bring the car 10 q standsttu
everyone scrambled L. the front plat
form or the first TWO or three seats il
order that they might be that much
nearer the Anacostia car when car l4g3
stopped
Within d Uwiukling Of an eye tile Ana.
aboard. Inspector Charles kOhler,
corpmenJ. jolly little man, waddled out
IL the side OF the car and. shaking his
hAeef al the Tn"tornanr and warned hlni
nOJ 10 bulge until twenty-five OF The
pas scilSers got on 50 as 10 make Inc
load conform with the regul4rIOu.
Gentlemen, can't some " You get off
and wait Ipr That next ear that VIII be
here In Ii minute querled the Conduc-
tor "I no one IN particular, but everyone
III general
Not on your life" shouted one man,
I've given up my nickel and III sit
here until John Rockefeller gets 4 hair
cut before III get out
Car Runs Back.
Starter Edward II Raley tied his pad
dle-shaped starting chart To has belt
mopped his brow, and stroji,d over To
the motorInan saying
Just run your car back i little bit
and lei that Congress Heights car out
The mOrorman on car No. II backed
his car up above the pit rs f. went
whizzing up Eleventh street in exactly
the opposite direction from which lie
passengers wanted 10 go, many o: them
Jumped up and scrambled aboard The
Congress Heights car The majority sat.
sJiu and sang.
I'm going back. back. back TO Bald
more" or Garry me back TO Dixie
The result of the passengers jumping
on the Congress Heights car Was the
ovcrcrOwdiug OF that conN"Sarc, While
II was waiting for some OF tia pGsger-
gers 10 get off. AnaCUs-id cor 80. 100
drew up TO the pit. As this car was nor
overwhelmed, Inspector Nohler Jet II
The Congress Heights car was shifted
behind AnacoStis car 22l The last
named conveyance had too many aboard
and was sent back
Women Walk
The Congress Heights car passengers
were then counted. 1t was found that
the number had been reduced to forty
two by the desertion OF women and
children impatient TO reach their
homes, who got off and walked across
the bridge The Congress Heights carl
was then allowed 10 leave the pit.
TWO AnaCostia ears which were notI
crowded were then started across tAei