Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-03
THE TROUBLES OF A HAcKMAN.
Who Vows That Hereafter No Crazy
Passengers Need Apply.

| Ting-a-ling
"Hello 7"
''That the Central?"
yes"
GIVE the White House, please"
white House, is that you?"
"You are talking to the White House
what is it?"
'Send Hisold Nobbs, the hackman, to
the Sisters Hospital immediately
"All right"
The above took place the evening be-
fore last. The hack driver was dispatched
to the hospital, where he arrived to be
informed that there was a woman at that
institution who was somewhat off her
mental base, that she was probably a
Mormon, and that the Sisters wished her
removed to the Deseret Hospital City
Hall, Courthouse or somewhere else.
While the hackman was receiving this
information the woman had been put
into his hack and he was directed to
drive off with her, much against his pro-
test, which was much more forcible than
elegant. He wanted to know what hos
pltal was for, anyway. However, he
drove to the City Hall. but his charge
was refused admittance; which seems a
little strange since the city seemed lately
to be IN the woman business. The driver
next went to the county court house, but
the officers there were also obdurate, and
he was obliged to leave with his crazy
passenger. BY this time his Irish was
up. He wouldn't take her to the Deseret
Hospital because, as he thought, one
hospital was as good as another, and he
didn't see why she should not be
returned to the Sisters, particularly
as he didn't want his hack turned into an
insane asylum. So back he went to the
Sisters, with whom he left her for the
night, with the understanding that he
should call for her the next morning and |
go with her to son she was said to have |
working in a downtown grocery store. |
Next morning ne put out for the hospital, /
when again the woman was put in his
charge. He went to the store to which
ne was directed, but "Devil of son
could find," said he, land begorra this
hing is getting altogether too monoto-
lous.'' Back he drove to the hospital in
quick time, determined that something
should be done that would clear him Of
he woman CT unsound mind. He con-
idered it no picnic to be driving
crazy woman, whom nobody
wanted, about the city, as though
he were a California schoolma'am
With look of determined desperation in
rs eye, he arrived once more at the
ospltal, and there gave the Sisters, the
MUSICIANS and nurses to understand that.
y sheol, he was tired OF the whole affair.
liter some consultation with the hospital
eople, one of the attending doctors 8
topped up to him and gave him money :
nough to buy the woman ticket to Des-
ret. Hisold hobbs, thinking that at last !
he way had been opened up for him,
drove to the depot, bought /
lie woman a ticket for Deseret, and was q
list putting her on the train, when the s
,nductor informed him that he could .
ot and would not take non compos \
entis on board of his train. :,
This was the climax. The hack driver :,
as now desperate beyond control-he +
vore and tore around so badly that he "
ghtened the poor woman out of what r.
W wits she had left. He was nearer r
azy than she. In this fearful crisis one ~
a party of miners, who had been in "
G city on business for a few days, came
}, and after asking the woman few
lestions about cooking, which she
severed intelligently, proposed to take b.
r with the mining party as cook. She st
nsented, and so did the hackman with 9,
his heart, and of course the conductor ~
d no objections. Hisold hobbs now w
ears by the moon that hereafter he ar
IL give hospitals wide berth. 81,