Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-22
HE WAS A SOUND SLEEPER.
"A Buffalo Mans Experience With
Crazy Woman in a Sleeping Car.

Crazy Woman in a Sleeping Car.
From the New York Times.]
A young gentleman from Buffalo was
relating some sleeping car experiences
to a select audience before g. small
table in the Hoffman House last even
ing. "You will remember" he said,
"the sensation that. was created a
month or so ago by a mailman who
took possession of railroad train in
Illinois. Well, l had an experience
once with crazy woman on a sleep
ing car that I don't ever care to re-
peat.
"You see, I had run down to New
York, for few days, and, as luck and
my friends would have it, didn't get
much more than three or four hours
sleep all the time | was down here,
there was so much painting to be
done. | determined to make it up by
sleeping all the way back home, and
took the evening train for Buffalo on
the Central. / was so sleepy when /
got down to the depot that l could
scarcely keep my eyes open, and l
took some ammonia and soda water
just before l got on the cars to keep
myself awake until the porter
could made up my berth.
There were two sleeping cars on
the train, and | had a section in the
first one. The train was not billed to
start for fifteen minutes after
arrived, and I walked through the
cars. l found that was the only
male occupant of the sleeper my berth
was in; and, after ordering the porter
to make up my bed at once, l went
into the next car. found some peo-
pie there that I knew, and I remained
talking with them for half an hour
after the train started. Then / start
ed back for my own car, almost dead
with sleep and happy at the thought
that at last / was going to have rest.
"When l opened the door OF the
other sleeper, however, found all the
occupants crowded in the end of the
CAR, all Of them women. They seized
me at once.
"Oh,' one of them said, we're so
glad you have come in here. You're
the gentlemen that has a section in
this car, aren't your
81 replied that | was.
"'Do you know the woman went
on in tone Of the utmost horror,
there's a crazy woman III the car?
She's got a berth at the other end, and
there's an attendant with her. Every
little while she screams and raves and
the attendant has all she can do to
keep her quiet. Oh, dear! we are so
frightened; we don't know what
to dol
"Why don't you 60 to bed?' l said.
ego to bed! they all shrieked in a
chorus. 60 to bed, with that woman
raving at the other end of the carp
They all agreed that they wouldn't go
to bed for 100000 each.
"'Well, I'm going to bed anyway" I
said.
SAT this they all shrieked again and
begged and implored me to sit up with
them and protect them. They knew
that the fearful woman would GER
tainly get away from the attendant,
and they were positive that they
would all die of fright if [ did not agree
to stay awake. / was in a nice predic-
ament, for l was in about that state
we read of in which soldiers will go to
sleep with gun pointed at them
Finally I told the ladies that I had
frightful headache, and if they would
let me lie down for an hour I would
get up and watch with them then for
the rest Of the night.
"But how shall we wake you up?"
one of the ladies asked.
"Shake me- | said.
''They were shocked at the idea of
reaching behind my curtains, however,
and one Of them suggested that I tie a
string to my wrist and leave it. hang
ing out of the berth where they might
pull it at the end of an hour. had to
agree to this, and they got the string
and tied it to me. got in behind the
curtains, deploring another night of
misery, and was seized with an In
spiration. I united the string from
my wrist, attached it to the arm of
the seat under my mattress, and fell
off into profound slumber that lasted
until morning.
'The ladies were all still sitting up
when I awoke, and the string was
broken. They said was the soundest
sleeper they ever heard OF"