Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-29

time, out that IN wearing 1ow-necK ano
short-sleeve coat l erred in not rolling up
the sleeves of my shirt so as TO display my
arms. Strictly speaking, however, our
family springs from long line of lumber
men on the Piscataquis riverIn Maine, and
we have no arms. Ny grandfather was. it
is true, an old whaler from Bangor, and
had green Goddess of Liberty on his arms,
but otherwise our family has been crestless
for years.
l hate to speak lightly OF common car
rier or corporation, not knowing how soon
/ may be common carrier or corporation
myself, but 1t does seem 10 me that here
in New York, where we have every advan-
tage of schools and churches and newspapers
with or without pictures - newspapers in
the morning, newspapers at noon and ever
and anon till the next day; here. where you
can buy almost any thing that heart can
wish, from porpoise-hide shoe-laee or a
violet bouquet to an alderman, that the
baggage express might be more reliable If
it can not get out baggage from point to
point Oh time, let it SO state. As ii is now,
lovers are forever separated, husbands and
wives glare at eacn other across the break
fast table and weep in their omelet Men
order their baggage sent 10 the Cortlandt
street ferry by i've O'Clock and it gets TO
the Desbrosses street ferry at $50 They
depend on their goods getting down from
the Saratoga train to the Hoffman House in
time for their wives and themselves to dress
for an evening dinner party, and miss 1t all
because money can not buy time even if it
could buy clothes If, gentle reader, you
have been a woman and looked with wet
and anxious eyes for a sneaky, swayback
horse with blue democrat wagon, to bring
the trunk, which held. the whole summers
triumph in its bosom; waited TIL the lone
some shadows came down and blotted out
your hopes of happy evening with your
friends; you know what 1t is to feel Bit
terry, without even the luxury granted to
sinful man of expressing yourself relative
to the baggage express in way that would
make the windows rattle and the wall paper
roll together as scroll.
l am not giving way to any imagination in
talking about this matter, neither am re-
lying on my own experience, but l am try
ing feebly to express what the corporations
fan 20 express. l believe it to be largely
the fault of reckless and irresponsible
drivers, who never feel stimulated to drive
fast unless there happens to be an old
woman on the track. And so 1t often hap
pens that wedding parties, business en-
gagements, dinners and every thing else
have to suffer. 1t is not a matter of money.
1t is matter of honor, and the man who
has walked the floor for two hours III semi
dress, with a toothbrush in one hand and an
anathena in the other, while mile away
an audience stamped r9on the floor and
pounded on the arms OF the seats and
mobbed the manager because the speaker
in full dress had not appeared, can state
more fully than / can what the general
opinion is. The express company which
will guarantee to deliver baggage in New
York City or its suburbs at given time or
pay forfeit for failure TO do SO, will get
the majority of the business and compel the
other companies to haul sand hereafter or
remove snowbanks at SO much per day
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