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| Admit Flirting on the
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Judge Tuthill's Charge Is Not Disputed by Guards Young Men Who Are Paid for Opening the Gates Are Bold in Asserting That They Talk with Girl Passengers, and the Jurist, Who Has a Different Conception of Their Duties, Is Called an "Old Maid" -- Another Woman Takes a Long Ride. Source: Chicago Daily Tribune, 25 May 1902, pg. 8. The "L" guards who have come under the displeasure of Judge Tuthill because they are too attentive to the young women passengers are confessed flirts. "The girls are pretty, so why shouldn't we flirt?" asked a guard on the Metropolitan Elevated yesterday. And he was not the only guard who was willing to admit that his conception of his duties included flirting with girl passengers. "I won my wife on this same car," declared a guard on the South Side Elevated. "She was employed in a glue factory over near the river, and rode down-town on the 6:38 every morning. For several weeks I opened the gate for her, and soon came to be disappointed when occasionally she missed my train. One morning I told her that if she ever missed connections again I'd jump into the lake. She laughed at me and called me a 'jollier.' I pleaded not guilty, but noticed that after that she never missed my train. Well, there isn't much to the story. Last summer Justice Wallace performed the ceremony." Call Judge an "Old Maid." Other of the oglers referred to Judge Tuthill as an "old maid." "We don't make goo-goo eyes," said another guard, who was not so willing to admit the ogling charge. "We simply are polite to the girls we admire. You see, we soon learn to know those who ride with us every day." "All girls love a man in uniform," said a guard on the Northwestern. "When I see one who looks longingly at my uniform I offer her a button to make into a hat pin, and after that we are friends." A fresh-appearing guard on the Lake street "L" visted with a young woman between stations during three trips yesterday afternoon. When the train approached a station he would rush to the platform, open the gates, then return to his place beside the girl. The young woman left the train at "Ashland." What the Court Said. It was just such a performance as this that brought out Judge Tuthill's wrath. "I have seen the guards on all the elevated roads spending their time visiting with young girls when they ought to be attending to their business" is what the Judge said when Florence Brusted and Hattie Nathan were brought into his court charged with riding on the trains of the Metropolitan railroad several times and paying only one fare. The girls told the Judge that George Schaar and Walter Miller, two guards, made their trips so pleasant that they did not care to leave the train. |
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