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He said airlines wouldn’t hire him for flying jobs, and he supported his family as a trolley gripman.

The gripman stands, center, in dark uniform.

An open “grip car” generated movement when a gripman pulled a handle to grasp a moving underground cable, while an unpowered, closed trailer car tagged along.

“He is that!” the driver returned, emphatically, as with a dextrous jerk he swung the ambulance just in front of a cable-car, to the sputtering disgust of the gripman.

"You'd better hang on; the gripman is mad tonight," Mary explained.