Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-27
HE GOT 4 SEAT.
How a Philosophical irishnan Secured a
Seat In "A Railway Car.

There were number OF parlor-cars
and two ordinary passenger coaches on
A train which left New York for Phila-
delphia at o'clock a few nights ago.
Every seat in the passenger-colches
was occupied in one way and an
other when the last boat arrived from
New York. Among the people who
came at the last moment was a fierY
and untamed Irishman. whose face was
fringed with wealth of ecru hair. He
walked through the smoking-car, found
every seat occupied by two men, and
then burst into the next car impetuous-
". The air at once became redolent
of rum He cast his eye up and down
on either side of the car and saw that
every seat was occupied by parcels.
luggage. feet, or the sprawling forms of
passengers. One or two seats had been
turned, and one gray-haired man who
had a specially lank complement of
legs, succeeded in occupying two bench
es by dint Of stretching himself out like
an octopus, and ingeniousl y filling in the
spaces not occupied by himself on the
benches with bits of luggage. The Irish
man directed toward him glare of un-
| usual ferocity. He walked the long
length of the car twice. but the passen
gers carefully avoided his gaze. Appar-
emily they were all sleeping serenely.
Then he leaned against the door and
carelessly placed his hand on the stove.
He removed the hand, walked to the
other end of the car, and washed his
| hands carelessly with water from the
ice-tank. The train was now speeding
across the Jersey meadows. Still no one
offered to share his seat with the latest
| arrival, and the lrishman went back and
| leaned against the door once more. Fin
| allv he raised his voice so that it could
| be heard a considerable distance into
| the next car and remarked, with an air
| of philosophical observations:
people don't seem to realize that this
here is second-class. 1t is just the same,
and the first-class cars are in the rear.
The second-class chumps which is now
| occupying the safes puts on twice as
many lugs as the tirst-class ladies and
gintlemen behind us. That is because
they are not first-class ladies and gintle-
men themselves, but simply second-class
chumps.
| A silence of several minutes followed
this speech, which was finally broken
by two or three men moving towards
the corners of their seats and placing
their bags and satchels on the floor.
! Then the voice of the man in the rear
rose again above the hum of the wheels.
There is no hog like an old hog"
he remarked, sententiously. "A man
would think that gray beard and bald
head would 90 along with wisdom and
experience. but il amt always the case.
There is bald-headed men in this world
eff Mh2 w9Rlantn y9Ws Stys MAJ man AN Int ye to save
may be saving sowls. Any bald-headed
man with gray beard who will wear a
preachers clothes and occupy four seats
in second-class car, while workingmen
are standin' up, is large, fat, beyel-
edged hog"
The gray-haired man who occupied
the two benches and who wore the
habiliments of a clergyman rose here,
looking very red in the face, and hur-
ried forward into the smoking car. A
moment later he came back, followed
by the brakeman, who wore the usual
easy-going nonchalent, and blase ex-
preston of man of his calling.
This man." sputtered the clergy
man, angrily, pointing to the red-head-
ed Irishman, "has been indulging in the
grossest sort of personal abuse toward
the passengers in this car, directing the
bulk of it toward me.
The brakeman dived down into the
inner recesses of his clothes, produced a
paper of tobacco, partook thereof gen.
erously, and said pleasantly to the man
in the red wiskers:
whats up, lrish?"
| Il was making few general re-
marks about the hogs that travel on
this road and occupy four seats when
they only have right to occupy one" "
| ..Who does it?"
''Your frind, the praist there"
The brakeman glanced down. turned
the forward seat back into its proper
form, tossed the clergyman bundles
| on the rear seat, and then said to that
| gentleman:
You're travelling on free pass,
anyhow, aren't you? Yes? Now
you behave yourself just exactly as if
you were paving your fare. will you?
That's all the road asks of you."-M
Y. Sun.