A Freeman's Will--A Political Reminiscence
NORTH DUKE STREET in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was formerly carried over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad by a bridge divided longitudinally by an iron rail. An automobile and a trolley car once came to a stop facing each other near the center of this bridge and on the same side of the iron rail. The name of the driver of the automobile was Frank C. Musser. In early manhood he had lost his right arm through the negligence of the predecessor of the street railway company whose car confronted him on the bridge. He was on the right side of Duke Street so that an argument may be made in support of the proposition that he had the right of way. On the other hand, the movements of the trolley car were necessarily limited by the rails on which it stood, and its motorman may have been dimly aware of the legal principle that while a street railway company does not have the exclusive right to its tracks, its rights are superior to those of the traveling public. At all events the motorman refused to back his car and the man with only one arm refused to back his automobile. A congestion of traffic ensued, and a crowd collected. The police proved unequal to the task of convincing either of the disputants that he was in the wrong. At the end of more than an hour the motor-