Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24
WHAT BRAKEMEN SEE.

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Incidents Noted Or a Brakeman HOsc on
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tcitH u Cigarette Young Nan and Scared
Him White Headed.
Observing the look of WEAKNESS and al
most of sadness which crept gradually
over the face of one Of the brakemen on
Lake Shore train which pulled out for the
West, a reporter of the Cleveland Leader,
who happened to be taking an airing, re-
marked: "You must get very tired of this
sort of thing, riding back and forth all the
time and getting this continual jar from
the rails
"Well, yes; do occasionally feel little
blue, when everything is quiet, and wish I
was at something else; but still it is my
business, and, of course, 1 would have work
to do anywhere else the same as do now,
and might not like it so much, either.
You see, this work is kind of fascinating,
and there is often considerable fun to liven
US up bit.''
SWELL, keep right on. Tell me who
makes the fun for your"
Everybody. The actors very often get
get up little game to amuse
the rest of the folks, and they are
usually successful, too. But they are old
hands at travelling and will have their
rights. No getting around any of them
Then the drummers, of course, we'll post
ed, usually settle down for a nap,
unless there are several together. Then
they will keep the whole car in grin by
taeir odd ways. but the best people to
watch for Oddity are the emigrants.
You can learn more of their
ways by watching them for an
afternoon than by any other plan.
probably. OF course they are new to
travel and imagine that every station we
stop at is the one for them. Outside of the
great number of questions they ask there
is no trouble with them, for they are afraid
to request many things, and of course af-
ter travelling across the ocean and coming
from New York, by the time they reach
here they are very quiet and sleepy. Once
in while something happens to drive
away all thought of care and make man
laugh for the rest of the trip.
Let me tell you an incident that happened
not very long ago. On one of my runs
out of Chicago, we had on board an old
lady who was insane, and such a weird
looking soul l never set eyes on before,
and hope l never shall again. Old,
wrinkled and wild-eyed, yet very strong,
and lively as a cricket almost we found
out afterward.
'She was, of course, in charge of keep
er, but he had her in the smoker, where
she could do no harm, and let her roam at
will. Well, we had also in the smoker q
la-de-dah young chap, you know, one who
knew everything and smoked cigarettes.
Well, the old lady caught sight of him on
. one of her trips up and down the aisle,
and she stopped short and looked at him
for time, attracting everybody's atten-
ton, and making them think something
was up. Ha, ha, ha.''
| The reporter was eager to hear the rest
of the story, and yet so hearty was the
laugh he was forced to join in although he
| did not see the point as yet. After quiet
ing down little the brakeman continued:
"Well, the old lady stood there for some
few moments and then she cried, Here's
pretty boy; I must kiss him.
If You had seen the look of as
constituent and dismay which came
over the face of that young sprout,
you would have done the same that all the
rest of US did-yell till the noise could be
heard in the next car. Everybody was so
taken by surprise, you see, that for half a
minute you could have heard a pin drop.
Then the fun of the thing occurred to
everybody as soon as they could get their
breath, and such a shout as went up you
never heard. The old lady wasn't dazed a
bit, but she went for that fellow
determined upon carrying out her
insane freak. Then the fun really COM
menced. Nip and tuck. First one
and then the other. You see, she went
right into the seat with him, and he had
all he could do to keep her back. She had
more strength than any woman ever saw,
and would try to get near him to put her
arms around him, while he would be using
all his strength to keep her away. Finally
he saw that the only way to get rid of her
was tog get her out of the cara nd he made
dive past her into the aisle, and started
toward the door. The old lady was onto
that racket, and away she went after him
Well, sir, would you believe it!
before he reached the door, and he was on s
good run, too, she had raised him three
times. Yes, sir; mean she kicked him
three times and if he didn't get out OF that
door IN pretty quick order, then I'm mis-.
taken. Perhaps you think we kept that
quiet IN the smoker. Well, there was g
crowd of drUmmers in the car who made
1t their business tc go through the train
and tell everybody, and the young
fellow had no peace for the rest
of that run, you can bet. / didn1
have the blues after that for good while
Whenever got to thinking very hard tht
vision of that old lady and the young mar
she fell in love with would fit across my
mind, and 1 would see them again on the
home stretch for the car door. I didn'
need anything else to set me going. More
than once have caught passenger look
ing at me and probably wondering wha
IN the world 1 was laughing at"
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