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He stood staring at it, while the roustabouts passed and repassed, noisily carrying great logs of wood on shoulders padded by their woollen caps. "That'll be the first street-car used in the city of New Orleans, if it ever gets there, Colonel." The Colonel jumped. Captain Lige was standing beside him. "Lige, is that you? We waited supper for you."
Kirk noticed with amusement that the steeds were of stronger mentality than the drivers, judging from the way they dominated the place, kicking, biting squealing, ramming one another, locking wheels and blocking traffic, the while their futile owners merely jerked the reins after the fashion of a street-car conductor ringing up fares, or swore softly in Spanish.
Everybody was at the depot giving forth Roosevelt-Democrat they used to be called Rebel yells. There was two brass-bands, and the mayor, and schoolgirls in white frightening the street-car horses by throwing Cherokee roses in the streets, and well, maybe you've seen a celebration by a town that was inland and out of water.
He had been called into the sanctum, and had found McCune, white and shaking, leaning on the desk. "Parker," said the editor, exhibiting a bundle of papers he held in his hand, "I want you to witness a verbal contract between Mr. McCune and myself. These papers are an affidavit and copies of some records of a street-car company which obtained a charter while Mr McCune was in the State legislature.
Rafael was speechless; but Edith took the olive wreath from the hamper with exclamations of delight. "Where will you have it?" she asked the chauffeur, "on your head or your wheel?" "It belongs to the car triumphal," he answered as they turned and moved cautiously through the street-car tracks of modern Rome.
An important device, called the series-parallel controller, is employed in all systems of electric street-car propulsion. It consists of means by which the starting and stopping of the car, and changes, both in its speed and direction, are placed under the control of the motorman. A separate controller is placed on both platforms of the car.
I knew boys at school who were too honorable to tell a fib even when one would have been just the right thing, but could not resist the temptation to assist or receive assistance in an examination. I have long considered it the highest proof of honesty in a man to hand his street-car fare to the conductor who had overlooked it.
Then he left them, and when he passed into the hall he saw that the burden of greatness was being thrust already upon the Grayson family, as callers of various types and with various requests were seeking their rooms. But he hurried back to his own hotel, and as it was some distance away he took the street-car.
They entered a broad, open avenue, with a treeless, grassy way in the middle, up which came a very large and lumbering street-car, with smokers' benches on the roof, and drawn by tandem horses. "Here we turn down," said Richling, "into the way of the Naiads." He looked down playfully. She was clinging to him with more energy than she knew. "I'd better hold you tight," she answered. Both laughed.
After that you would stand or fall by your own ability. There's Senator Longbridge, for instance, and Claus Inskeep the street-car magnate, and Lane, and McChesney " He paused, with voice suspended. "I am sure I know none of them," she answered despondently. "It's not necessary. Do you know any one that knows them? or any one that knows any one else that knows them?" Edna shook her head.
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