The chances of promotion to positions above the grade of conductor or motormanare very slight.
In nine cases out of ten the motorman of the next "tram" will see her lying there and will be gentleman enough to stop his car.
As the car approaches she should run quickly out to the car tracks and signal violently to the motorman with the umbrella.
When this happens the elderly lady should get quietly up from the street and stand outside the door marked "Exit Only" until the motorman opens it for her.
To the Editor: Dear Sir: I am a motorman on the Third Ave.
This very motorman I was talking with got to telling me why he was working so extra hard just then.
The motorman turned his red, weather-beaten face to them from the doorway where he stood, pulling on his clumsy gloves.
The motorman released his brake, letting the brass arm swing noisily about, the conductor sat down again, and as the car began to move forward again he closed his eyes.
But here's this very motorman you know about--what could he do?
Minute directions were given the kindly motorman as to the dress being white and thinnish and standoutish, with a blue sash and gold bead trimming, the slippers long and slim and gold.
The motorman approached was delighted to undertake the commission.
Seemed to know everybody on the car--even the motorman and conductor.
She had promised herself the pleasure of serving the motorman and conductor a trial supper whose excellence she was sure would bring in dozens of orders.
The motorman was rescued from many would be avengers, and carried off under guard.
She does not consider the motorman and conductor as males, but as promotors of travel; she does not chuck the bellboy under the chin and kiss the waiter!
Before the would-be motorman left the civil service room, the chances are he would be a raving lunatic Anyhow I wouldn't like to ride on his car.
The motormanwas doing his best to stop the car, but the rails were slippery and it was easily seen that he could not do it.
The motorman had stopped his car and had run back to the scene with the conductor.
I don't--the motorman is here, and I sit across in the seat across the way.
Did he say anything to the motorman when he got off?
Do you remember anyone knocking on the door, and as a result, the motorman opened the front door?
That had probably been some distance behind the first one and had doubtless gone the right road, the motorman not suspecting that his predecessor was not ahead of him.
Tom did not, but he noticed that the tramp appeared to be very friendly to the motorman and talked frequently with him.
Out on the platform with the motorman was an individual with a slouch hat pulled down over his eyes and his coat collar turned up.
We hired the regular motorman to let us take his place," he went on.
The haphazard street crowd thrills with horror at the sight of a baby toddling in front of a trolley-car and shouts with joy when the motorman stops just in time.
While he is pulling it down and letting it fly up again, making fruitless dabs in the air, the car is dark and motionless; in vain the motorman turns his controller, in vain do the passengers long for light.
A switch in the armature circuit enabled the motorman to reverse the direction of travel by reversing the current flow through the armature coils.
The motorman ducks his head, humps his shoulders, and grins.
The motorman on the working end of the sweeper looks like nothing so much as the captain on the bridge of a man-of-war, and he conducts himself with the same imperturbable calm under the petty assaults of the guerillas of the street.
The motorman drew in his head, clanged the bell, and the afternoon traffic proceeded to untangle.
A Motorman and Musician Wounded by Flying Missiles-- Ward in Jail on a Charge of Assault to Murder-- The City Thrown Into a Whirlwind of Excitement Over the Fearful Affair and Happy Homes Made Sad.
Sigh Kennedy, a motormanon the street car line, is shot in the right knee, and Kepler, a traveling musician, is shot in the right foot.
The motorman eyed him with hostility now and again, as he dared to neglect his duty, but smiled uneasily in the face of the girl when she addressed him with an attempt at freedom.
The girl had a transfer and left, smiling sweetly, but separately, in turn, to the motorman and her young Italian friend.
The motorman and conductor were changed, and the moment the new crew came, our motorman jumped from his own car, ran to the one the brunette had taken, and swung himself on, as it crossed at right angles over the track we were to take.
On the instant the motorman reversed the current and applied the brake hard, but although the wheels immediately began to turn in the other direction, it was impossible to check the advance of the car completely.
Sometimes a motorman who is new to the business gets so disturbed at the sight of the blindfolded figure near the rail that he stops the car just short of him.
The excited motorman was jabbering curses upon the foolish conduct of students generally, and altogether too busy with his apparatus and too rattled to get down from the platform.
The motorman kept up a loud clanging of his footbell as he approached Frank; the latter, remembering his instructions, stood perfectly still, confident that the car would rush past him without touching him.
They were now fairly safe from pursuit by the passengers on the trolley car, who, as a matter of fact, gave the matter no further thought when they were told by the motorman that the affair was a lot of students' nonsense.
Having left Frank beside the track, as we have stated, the mentors withdrew and stood in the shadow of a big elm from where they could see the result of the test without being observed by the motorman or anybody else in the vicinity.
The court officials were now in hot pursuit of the fleeing lad, one officer seizing a buggy, another jumping upon a street car and ordering the motorman to proceed at his utmost speed.
In this same city a Negro woman was kicked off of a street car by the conductor for pulling through mistake the cord that registered fares instead of the one that signalled for the motorman to stop.
The traffic cop whirled and looked, the motorman on the car waiting beside her leaned far out and craned, and the conductor grasped both handrails and took a step down that he might see the better.
Well--" Mary V crossed the path of a street car, leaving the motorman shivering while he stood on the bell that clamored wildly.
The car was coming down around the curve, the motorman letting it run without power, as the grade was rather steep there.
She seemed to be stunned, and the car was rushing upon her swiftly, although the frantic motorman was banging the gong and twisting away at the brake with all his strength.
The motorman saw the lad go down and put on the brake hard, but he could not stop the car in time.
The motorman put on the brakes, there was an ear-splitting noise as the wheels locked and slid and the car stopped a good ten feet from the frightened girl.
He handed her the pump and the heel and the motorman and conductor went back to their trolley.
The next one slowed down for him; but all at once it started up again more swift than the wind, he says; and he could see that the motorman was a coward about something, because he looked greatly frightened when he flew by the spot.
It looked like the motormanwould soon be arrested for driving his car too fast.
As Paul slowed down and turned aside to pass, the motorman declared, "She's burned out.
The passengers streamed out and gathered around the motorman who was peering under the car.
Then, clinging to the upright of the car with his left arm, he stretched out his other to save the lad from almost certain death, the conductor and motorman unable to lend aid and the women incapable.
The motorman ground at the handle, and the brake shoes whined as they gripped the wheels, but the car came nearer and nearer the wagon.
But the boy was able to look after himself now, for the vehicle was almost at a standstill, and the motorman had it under control.
The car was going down hill and had acquired considerable speed--dangerous speed Joe thought--and the motorman did not seem to have it well under control.
By this time the motorman had succeeded in bringing the vehicle to a full stop and Joe, fearing he might fall, for the pain was very severe, got off.
A motorman in starting a trolley car sometimes finds the track so smooth that the wheels whirl around without pushing the car forward; he pours some sand on the track to make it rougher, and the car starts.
A motorman sands the track when he wishes to stop the car on a hill.
By allowing the electricity from the trolley wire to flow down through an underground coil of wire, a motorman can open a switch in the track.
The old man who acted as motormanwas well known to some of the girls, and they hailed him, as well as the conductor, gayly.
Of course, the girls gave the motorman little attention--unless Rhoda did from her situation up front.
Of course they could not open the door, nor did the motorman heed them in any way.
The unconscious motorman had been picked up and laid on a seat in the car, and the conductor had run them into Freeling.
But the motorman only gave him an angry glance and would not even reach around and lift the latch.
The rapidity with which the motorman ran the car, and the jerky way in which he stopped and started it, did not bother Nan Sherwood much, for she was not nervous.
But the motormanseemed in no pleasant mood, for he scarcely answered their sallies.
She, too, clung to the handle and stared through the pane at the crumpled figure of the motorman on the platform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motorman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
