Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-21
STORY OF A SLEEPING CAR.
The Gray-Haired Capitalist Who Want.
ed Just One Kiss" for a Night Cap.
Train Talk in chicago Herald.

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Train Ta5k in Chicago Herald.
The story begins, and is likely to enc, with
a~certain capitalist and railroad opera5oc, who
was prominent in a syndicate which built a
paralleler 800 miles long and made moneyby
selling it. This gentleman, who is well known
in Chicago, not many weeks ago occupied a
stateroom of II Wagner sleeping car going
east on the $3.50 express on the Michigan Cen
tral. During the evening a lady, whose seat
was located near the middle OF the car, asked
the porter To prepare her berth for the night,
ana Whlle this was being done she occupied a
seat IN section II, nearly opposite the state
room. Here she was in plain view OF the great
raliroau builder, and, though he is old and the
rather or & family, he knows q pretty face
when he secs IT. This young woman had
a pretty face, and in the course of a
half hour the occupant of the stateroOm
was seen sitting In the seat beside the young
lady,, engaged IN an animated, and, on his
part, somewhat cavallerIsh conversation.
mus an hour or so wore away and then the
railroad man retired 10 the smoking saloon to
ENJOY a cigar or two. During his absence the
young lady returned to her own berth and
retired for The night. VIII lie the train WAS
crossing the Detroit river a little before mid
night the gentleman retired to his s. aterOem
and soon the berths were all munied, the
lights turned down, and the car rumblIng on
with It's sleeping passengers. But all were
not asleep, Tor nall an hour later the occupant
OF the staterOom appeared at the door of his
apartment, cautiously opened 1t, and peered
out. The was in another sleeping
car ana the porter was doing over his boots
at the other end of the coach. The railroad
man stepped into the aisle, looked around,
parted the curtains of berth y, stuck his gray
head and his rather feshy arms therein, and
whispered:
just one kiss, dear. before | go TO Sleep"
Then there arose a scream which nearly
lifted the rooffrOm the car, and which brought
the porter, the conductor, and several passen-
gers lying to the scene. The occupant of
berth Fan elderly lady who had got aboard
the train and retired at Detroit-was found in
astate Of Mysteries, weeping and screaming
alternately. In vain the railroad man made
profuse apologies; vain were his pleadings
meant no harm; that he was very, very
sorry. he was threatened with arrest, with
chastlsement, and with election from the car;
nut no such punishment was inf cted upon
MIN, ana he finally retired to the smoking sa-
loon to seek solace in another cigar. Despite
their sympathy with the elderly lady whose
nerves had been so rudely shocked, the pas
sengers could not avoid laughing at the Judi
crnus blunder made by their feiloW-traveler
OF the stateroom. Among the most amused of
them all was the rOguish young womak who
occupied a berth near the middle of the car.
Inc story Is not yet at an end. 1t Will ne
finished in the courts. The occupant of berth
II Is the wife of a New York merchant,
ana upon her return to that city her nus
band at once began collecting evidence con-
corning the midnight episode, and has brought
SUIT against the sleeping car company for$ o.
600 damages. The company, of course, will
be compelled to fall back upon it's rich passen-
ger in the state-room.
Just see what a row can be kicked up by an
Ill advised effort to steal a goodnight kiss in
a sleeping-car.