New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-16
TIE Busy BIGGAGE SEASON.
WHEN TRUNKS COME IN AID WHEN THY GO OUT
"A TALK WITH A BAGGAGE-sMAsHER.
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WHEN TRUNKS COME IN AND WHEN THY GO OUT
"A TALK WITH BAGGACE-sMAsHER.
@The rush of incoming baggage will soon he
over" said a bagsage-handle ut the Grand central
Depot While chatting with TRIBUNE reporera day or
two ago. But the Morsue won't be closed probably
before the last OF october"
"rhe Morgue - echoed the reporter with an anxious
glance at tie speaker.
Yes the Morme-that's the name Se give the store
house across the way from the baggage-room It's used
during the busy for the storage oil baggage ta
we can't keep ia the baggage How ala IL get 'hat
namel don't know. but il had It a long time ago. Al
the time OF the spuyen D1yyi disaster the dead bodies
f nasseugers were temporarily laid ort there ana That
event sort of rechrstcned tue storehousc We gener-
ally deliver ON day less than half OF the baS-
that the rest stays here In the depot OF
goes over to the Morgue for a day or two very lew
pleecs remain over three days In store guess tiat
about three qorters OF the baggage OF the railroads Is
delivered on orders collected the by the agents
OF the railrod express companies The rest is taken
away b. the various outside and private expresses As
rule IFS only greenhorns I'm travelling who don't arrange
on the cars FOR the delivery Of their trunks
Our busiest time IS In summer continued the oaS-
,aee-nan rs lac deity whirled an ironbound Saratoga
trnn from one pile OF trunks TO another When June
oneus the outgoing baggage begins TO exceed in amount
tho incoming and toward close OF August the lncon
inc bfeius to run ahead OF the outgoing There's Dig
difference between the stud the roads handle III sum
,ner and IN winter In summer trains VIII take out OF
hiring in go 10 300 pleces eaeh whore the same trains
in winter will not have eighty to ninety pieces each
Ju.t after the Christmas holidays have known trah
many a time 10 bring IN only twenty -hVe OF thltY
nicres The n en- hired TO handle the stun are uopIe
ihe nurnber I'm summer that are employed III winter;
Ne have eight wagons belonging TO our express ~
work nj the depot In winter hut IN summer tnl't
wagons are kept busy most of the Tune It's 80 WIN al
the Dads. - -. 4, ,,r,uo,. q 7 think the
su,,,,er arc heavier than the winter trunks lhAt
mack much rs they can Rct iht'
BAGGAGE When they leave town for their vacation; lhe
In Coming back lots of folks bring potatoes, caenB1s,
anules ana All sorts OF garden sass IN thelr uumhs
from the country Ten years ago trunks "eIo m ~.
and their weight ran about 100 pouhus e'en Vn o
average To-day we have few trunks INN WIS., rbo
curds but most OF them 20 100 POUNDS each no
drIIuIners' trunks daisies Though. MANY Vi .ne
reIeh from 400 TO 400 pounds apiece nut lew vi tuc
90 40 high IA the latter figure Yes the roaus carry
ots OF trunks that contain samples OF Smeil, t'a0
owners ewing release to the companies OF u', my po
yond the regulnr limit. Trunks are bWIuIy
as regards their weight-they'ro ike woman loaueu
down with concealed smuggle goods Why aelend
her one little black trunk that ddn. look RS IL IL weishea
more than ninety pounds. which tipped the scale, AT
400 nound- That was plagued drummer trunk, , 4,
10 baggage-handiers often get nuft ln teI arr.d
sWe should smile. No. sir Inc hurts arr ieseI , ,.
for The trunks Now and then "a eiiOw setn scl,'en
ar two n the trunk slips IN his hands and SOMETIMES
tr,nt viii come down on fellows FOOT but no n,h
j. laid on day once IN hundred years believe .hh.
,rnnEs nave 10 be banged and pulled 70 nc keIt ~
they might get up anu thsash
some Of Us for not treating sn tenderp