
Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rather disastrous results, as is shown in this extremely funny picture. Business is bad and one of the female cabbies reads an "ad" in the newspaper calling for women chauffeurs, so she goes to the garage and gets the job. Getting into the auto, she starts out and makes for the railway station, where there is a good opportunity to do... (Full plot summary below)
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Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rather disastrous results, as is shown in this extremely funny picture. Business is bad and one of the female cabbies reads an "ad" in the newspaper calling for women chauffeurs, so she goes to the garage and gets the job. Getting into the auto, she starts out and makes for the railway station, where there is a good opportunity to do a record business. Her first passengers load into the machine and, after giving directions to the lady in charge, she starts down the street. It is easily seen that she lacks experience in manipulating the steering gear, for she misses nothing along the thoroughfare. Her first victim is a fellow with a push cart, next the machine tears through a market place upsetting everything in its track. Going along at a swift clip with the mob closely following, it bumps into a carriage, completely demolishing it, but keeps right on going and knocks over a lamp post, then rushes through a street where there is a large scaffold in front of a building which is in course of construction. It takes the scaffold supporters along with it, throwing the whole thing in a heap on the heads of the crowd. Finally something goes wrong with the machine and it comes to a sudden stop, giving the mob an opportunity to catch up, and when they finish with the lady chauffeur, she is glad to resign her strenuous job and return to the quiet task of driving a slow cab horse.
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