With all the buzz about the JW Public Witnessing Cart it has escaped the notice of all but the most studious researchers that the WT Carts were actually started by Pastor Charles Taze Russell. A careful examination of one of the most famous photographs of the 1906 San Fransisco fire, caused by the preceding earthquake, reveals a WT Cart. Further investigation brought the researchers attention to Bible Student Sister Myrtle Jenson, shown on the left of the photograph, and facing away from the camera, looking down Sacramento Street. Miss Jenson is the woman in the light coat at the center of the group of ladies on the left of the photograph. Miss Jenson only left her cart unattended for a short time, to view the fire. She immediately returned to her cart duties, but not before inviting all the fellow onlookers to come back and 'take life's waters free', namely brochures explaining the Studies in the Scriptures written by Pastor Russell.
Years later, when questioned about her experience that day she recounted, ' ...oh my, what a day that was. I think I placed hundreds of brochures. Of course I could never have done it without the earthquake. I guess I was just lucky that day. I was hoping Armageddon had come but it was not to be. Too bad, too bad...'
