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IS LAST EDITION LAST EDITION WEIGLE JURY DISAGREES; GIRL FIGHT5 ON UNDERWORLD WOMEN TO GET BETTER LAWS Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914,-at the Postofflce at Chicago, m.f Under the Act of MarefcS, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, gggSfr Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. Tjajgsh By Mai, Except in 500 South Peoria St. 398 Chicago, $3 e Year. VOL. 4, NO. 47 Chicago, Friday, Nov. 20, 1914 ONE CENT THE REAL REASON FOR INDECENCY OF MEN IN CHICAGO STREET CARS Men, Women and Children Are Packed and Jammed in the Cars Like So Many Cattle in a Cattle' Car And All To Earn Interest and Dividends on Watered Bonds and Stocks BY N. D. COCHRAN When you get down to brass tacks, the street railway manage ment is more responsible than any other agency for the abuses of which Some women complain. MEN and WOMEN are packed into street cars on both surface and "L" cars, closer and tighter than the government will permit the beef barons to pack HOGS and CATTLE. Those new steel cars on the "L" were evidently built for packing pur poses. One long narrow seat along each side of thelcar allows a maximum, of standing room in which to pack the HUMAN SARDINES. There Is one strap ior ten. people, and those who can't hang onto a strap are often packed so tight that they couldn't fall if the car turned half over as it surges around the many curves. The manner In -Whlclc the! Jfeple are PACKED, JAMMED and RAM- u, jstk?i. u&n&wJ1tr-MfF&yM. Hi