The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-24
FOR
THE NIGHT
IN A CAR
Unfortunate Travellers From
Hammond to Gary Are
Given Their Choice to
Wait or Walk - They
Waited Until 6 A. M.

Probably Attorney Homer NJ. Stanton
and w. l. Cole, proprietors of the Cole
garage and livery at Tolleston, and
dozen others remember the time
when they were boys, when they slept
on hay stacks or camped out on the
lawn because of having been locked
out of the house by their parents for
coming home late, but probably never
before have they had the experience
of spending the night the way they did
last Tuesday from 10 p. M to 6 a. m.
Wednesday morning. The story is right
fresh and hot from the griddle.
If after you had paid ten cents of
your good and hard -earned money in
payment for a ride on the Gary and
Interurban from Hammond to Gary
and
If you were curled up nicely on your
seat in the coach and were about to
take snooze, when all of sudden
you were brought to your senses by
hearing swapping sound and later
| thrown out of your seat to find that the
| trolley cable had broken and you were
stalled and
| If you had waited patiently for one,
! two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
| hours in the hope that the car would
start at any minute, only to find that
you had waited all night
| Yes 1t Would.
/ wouldn't 1t make you mad?
! This is just the experience that hap
pened to Mr.. Stanton and Mr. Cole and
| a dozen others whose names could not
| be learned, last Monday night as they
were returning from Hammond to Gary
after attending the circuit court at
Crown 1scfnt
The Cars aad 4sasFuxbAa car 1est
Hammond about - O'Clock and after
.aal1 the atstsaca .bssween lbs tzso cities
MA been eeyerea snap went ths cable.
ard he ear Was sreaAas IT, a sudden
stop
Taose INSIDE waited patiently inside
ho4sas. that tbs sarfaga woV1s sc
be repaired. After an hour they began
to get uneasy but their hopes ran high
until it was found that the damage
could not be repaired 1t up to
them either to walk to Gary or stay
in the car and wait until some assist
ance came. And wait they did.
The night was cold-12 below zero
and the nearest city was six miles
away. The prospects were gloomy. The
motorman with fur overcoat con-
scented to walk to Tolleston for assist
ance. He was heartily cheered as he
left and the hopes of the crowd OF
| belated travellers again ran nlSn
In the Meantime
| There was plenty of coal and a roar
ing fire was made and the passengers
began to amuse themselves. Stanton
| began to ring up fares on the tabulatol
and kept at 1t until the number reached
I1,246,924 and his arm got tired, while
W. I. Cole shot pennies for a crack
with number of foreigners on the car
Some grumbled, some swore, and some
went to sleep. Luckily there was no
| a woman passenger on the coach. Col
llege songs were sung, stories Of thefl
past lives were told and then little
more cussing. Finally one after an
other tired with their exertions curle(
up on the seats and went to sleep.
J Yesterday morning at o'clock the!
were rudely awakened from their slum
bers by rude jolt of the car and, com
| ing to their senses. they began to notice
| they were moving Hammondward. TIL,
| steam engine belonging to the Gary ant
lInterurban company was pushing then
along. They reached Hammond safely
A little more swearing as parting
shot to the conductor and brakeman
and then they hurried to breakfast stit
and sore &G
Mr. stanton called Mrs. Stanton VI
over the telephone and tried to explail