The Inexhaustible Cab

Edison summary: A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and a satisfactory agreement is made between the clown and the gentleman, and a score or so of persons are hustled in one at a time until the clown succeeds in piling in the whole lot except Bridget, who is carrying a child. The persistent clown, in order to assist the nurse, who tips the scale at 400 pounds, takes the child from her. After caressing it he tosses it on top of the cab. He then picks up a board and uses it with good effect on the extremities of the fat woman, until she is forced into the cab, which drives away with its load of humanity.
       Lubin summary: This is a remarkable picture. A hack drives up to the curb on a prominent thoroughfare and a clown jumps out. He acts as coachman and proceeds to fill the hack by notifying the passers-by to get in. Thirty-two persons enter the carriage built to contain but four, but none are seen to leave it. The picture concludes by the clown trying to force a stout woman into it who is too wide to enter. He assists her with a barrel stave after which he jumps into the air and disappears, and the hack drives off. An excellent illusion.