grip-car

They were eight merry young folks who took possession of the grip-car on the Cottage Grove Avenue cable line that morning.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

I asked him if he meant a grip-car and a trailer, and he said, 'No; just one car.'

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

It had a solemnity which the modern comer to New York will hardly imagine, for that tide of omnibuses has long since ebbed away, and has left the air to the strident discords of the elevated trains and the irregular alarum of the grip-car gongs, which blend to no such harmonious thunder as rose from the procession of those ponderous and innumerable vans.

My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

It had a solemnity which the modern comer to New York will hardly imagine, for that tide of omnibuses has long since ebbed away, and has left the air to the strident discords of the elevated trains and the irregular alarum of the grip-car gongs, which blend to no such harmonious thunder as rose from the procession of those ponderous and innumerable vans.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

-- _Artie_.] [Footnote Y: Extract from a letter to the _Chicago Evening Post_: "I do not at all subscribe to the sneering remark of a talented author of my acquaintance, to the effect that there were not enough cultured people in Chicago to fill a grip-car.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

I plead guilty to an unholy relish for Chimmie's and Artie's racy metaphors from the music-hall, the poker-table, and the "grip-car." [

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890