MOTORMAN'S PROMPT ACT.
IN KENT TERRACE.
Last evening, about 6 o'clock, as. car 68 was coming along Kent Terrace and approaching tho stopping station at Courtenay Place, Motorman C. Hobbs found himself suddenly called on to give an exhibition which might have interested tho Brakes Commission had they been present to seo it. Some distance in front of the car a pedestrian was progressing in tho same direction, when r-ho wind lifted off the straw lint which ho was wearing and whirled it off into the "vasty glo-om of night." Tho wearer of the hat chased the missing article at breakneck speed along the street, and, being naturally oblivious to overythins; else, presently struck car '68 full'tilt in the fore-fender. Fortunately tho motorman was alert, and tho n'odcstriaii picked out his hat from under the wheels and himself from almost under them. The car was probably brought to a standstill in about five yards, but, all things considered, it was, on the part of "tho man behind tho handles," a very good instance of presence of mind.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 4
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177MOTORMAN'S PROMPT ACT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 4
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