The Nevada journal., 1856-01-18
Lest Baggage Of the N. Y. Central
Railroad,

ndllE Odue
soup pose that young-say a very
iyoung gentleman-a little behind time al
his breakfast at hotel in Buffalo. is in q
Hurry when he pays his bill, and in more
OF hurry when he gives his trunk in
charge OF porter, with instructions te
have it checked for Piermont, on the New
York aad Erie railroad. Time presses
fother gentlemen, and women, not few,
are also in furry; the porter. over
worked and distracted with a cross 6rino
ofinquiries and orders, assigns in his own
mind -Penbreke as stopping place for
that trunk instead of Piermont Its bur.
rled owner, without a check for his bag-
gage and vague sense of error oppre ss-
ing him, steps into the last car of the
New York and Erie train just as it moy.s
OFT on time, and is parted from his raj
ment. To call that youth wretched. as
he tosses sleepless and in short linen in
his bed in Pierment, is to use mild Ian
guage.
This morning will probably see him re-
tracing his steps, with view to season
OF anxious inquiry with the porter of that
Buffalo hotel. Ifshe happens to know the
custom OF the New York Central with re-
spect to lost and unclaimed baggage he
will stay where he is, and simply write a
letter to the superintendent cf the road,
describing his baggage and asking if he
has got it. Within six days of its loss
that official will be sure to have it, if it
went to Pembroke. 1t will come from
that station, after waiting FIVE days
for its owner, to Albany, bearing large
card upon it inscribed, 'sNew York Cen
tral Railroad Unclaimed Baggage. Left
at Pembroke July A, 1855. Fer Stray
Baggage ROOM, Albany p
This room is under care of clerk and
porter specially assigned to the duty.
That Pembroke astray is taken to it and
Immediately numbered. A register is
then opened, and the number is entered
in it, with a date and the name of the
station from which it was received, and
then the trunk is opened It's contents
are carefully examined, and full entries
are made of all the facts it discloses point
ing to its ownership. Its color and gem
eral external character were noted at the
time the number was entered. If russell.
the trunk is then placed on top of pile
of russet baggage, solemnly waiting own
ershIp IN large store room if black, it
is added to pile of dusky baggage, over
which hands have been wrung and tears
shed Say rather over the images and re-
membranes of which, for those trunks
were not, when linen, silk, and dimity
were wanted from within their recesses.
Alongside of the black baggage is a sad
pile Of hair trunks, each numbered con-
spicuously. Next to those is suggestive
row of emigrants' chests. Among the
blue and yellow slipping pastors, put on
in Sweden, Holland, Germany, France,
Norway, and England, shines the big
white card of the Central road, with the
registered number painted conspicuously
on 1T. These chests have all been entered,
defiant of locksniths as they look, and
their strange and fanciful, their valuable
and their worthless contents noted and
subjected to inquiry to reveal their own
ers' names. Gold and silver coin are in
some-heirloems, keepsakes, love-letters,
kitchen utensils, yerything that aa emil
grant from the old world to the new can
possibly take and possibly keep in chest
is there. The record of i. all is also
there, on the register. Way off in Iowa,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin men and wom-
en- of Scandinavian extraction speak feel
ingly now of the losses of those chests.
Their blue eyes doubtless have moistened
at the recollection of their enclosed house,
hold wealth, such time as the circumstan-
ces of their poor homes in the wilderness
Strengthened them for the want of that
baggage, g lost and unclaimed,n upon
the great Central railroad. Carpet bags
and satchels, all numbered and hung in
orderly succession upon hooks, depend
| from above and await reclamation. In a
lroeIn apart from these is the unclaimed
E.bedding of emigrants and moYers.''
ka,olicy and humanity indicate that this
Gehould be distributed to the poor on the
~ first snow storm.
Ehe discipline is severe with respect to
st and unclaimed baggage. Printed
feulars have been sent to every station
sHt on the line, requiring them to re-
70 the office at Albany all parcels
!lmed for the, period of twenty
also, to forward to Albany all
6ge unclaimed for the period Of FIVE
IES. Violation of these instructions is
6acby discharge from the road
lay brings into the baggage de-
80 Of the Central office reports
Eatafio Jon agents all ever the line, con-
||3SI |1kL|ss a statement of bappage 0un-
aeoor not called for !" also, "lost or
this station" These reports
H|3|{I 3ftile number of the check on the
- s9 description of the parcel, the
e. *f ffane from, and the name of the
who delivered it. A regis
SSnEs4reports is kept at the Cen
hich alss shows the fnal dis
e OF the baggage-whether it
f4Ssle{e or there on the road to its