Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-15
CORRESPONDENCE.
Railroad Mansuvering at PIainville, Conn.-Histakes of Passengers.
 ON THE CARS July 12

Railroad Mansuvering at PIainville, Conn.-Mistakeso of Passengers. ON THE CARS, July 12. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 Did you ever go to Plainville, Conn.,, on the train leaving New Haven at 7:1O 8. m. It is worth one's while to go there any morning and spend fifteen minutes and see the rail road changes made there in that short length of time by the various routes. Let me give them just as they are. The first train to ar rive is the one mentioned, leaving New Ha- ven at 7:1O g.. m. It stops just before it gets to the depot, and about the time the passen- pulls up to the station. The reason of it's stopping at this time is a law of the State that obliges all trains to come to full stop before crossing another track. Hence the stop now. We'll when our train has really stopped at the depot the train from Water bury going to Hartford comes up to the cross ing and stops Gas did our train) and then pulls up to the depot. Then this Waterbury train backs down to point where it made it's first stop, and the train from Hartford to Waterbury pulls up, after making it's previous stop. Then this train backs down a hundred rods and moves upon switch and waits. Then our train pulls up few feet and stops, takes on the baggage from the two trains spoken of, and then goes on north. All this while a train upon our road has come down and has been waiting on switch for us to pass. After we pass, that train from the north pulls down and takes it's passengers from the other two trains spoken Of, and then goes on towards New Haven. Then the Waterbury train pulls out stops at the sta tion, gets it's passengers and goes on towards Hartford and then and lastly, the Hartford train backs out of it's switch and takes it's passengers from the depot and goes on towards Waterbury.
 -.~1 for the fact that the passengers seeing so many trains coming and going out get "all mixed up," and scarcely a day passes but what one or more trains have to stop and let of person that has made Q mistake. A few days ago a woman went almost wild when she learned she was being carried in an opposite direction and learned that the great occa- sion of her anxiety was that she had no money with her, but had her ticket to the place she wished to go to, and that al0ne. She had little girl with her, and when she found the conductor there was a "scene." Noticing that she looked every way respect able, advanced her what money she needed and have since received the return of the same, with many thanks, and giving no name But the greatest of all the erackets' I ever saw was an old couple of German per- sons who could not speak or understand word of English" Although it was in the heart of all the passengers to pity them, it 
 at their discontinue. It may be wrong to enjoy the misfortunes of others, but if life depended upon the matter I know could not fail to enjoy little of this kind of accidents. These folks, finding they were wrong, just tsbundled" right out of the car, and as the train was not going fast they were not se- riously hurt, and the last seen of them they were trudging back towards the station they had just left. i-
 Only this morning a well-dressed lady came running up. just as the train made one of its short starts, and scrambled on, all out of breath and in great excitement, just to find that when she was safely on board she was not right. An old lady showed me her ticket and asked me if that was the right train, and on telling her no she made one dive for the door, and was ont in less than quar- ter of the time it took her to come in This is gone over day after day, and if any person wants to go to 8 tscireus'' let him or her on any fine morning go to Plainville, Conn, and stand on the depot platform and look on.
 M. c. S..