The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-14
PEOPLE THAT GET LEFT.
A Depot Policeman Tolls Some of His
Experiences With Them.

A Depot Policeman Tolls Some of his
Experiences With Them.
'By Golly, am l too late for that internal
'shoo-fy' train" The speaker was a red
faced countryman who had set half dozen
small bundles down on the steps at the Cen
trial depot to wipe the perspiration from his
face. His remarks were addressed to Off.
Ger Douglass, who was on duty at the depot
entrance. The officer informed him that
the train had gone out twenty minutes be-
fore, and that he might put his bundles in
the waiting room until the departure of the
regular train.
"Do you have many such cases as thatF
asked the reporter, after the red-faced man
had gone out to look at the town "some
moren
"Why, bless your soul. don't you know
that the trains never go out without leaving
somebody's am surprised only that there
are not more left than there are"
"Whym
so, there is no reason that | know, ex-
cept people are mIsled by the different times
kept here. 1t can't be laid to that alone.
for they get left even when there is but one
time. The people who get left are not
always country people, either. The town
people do not catch every time
hard with them, too, when they
blunder in two, three or five minutes
late. They hang around here and blame
the railroad authorities and ma and every
body, because they did not catch the train.
The countryman simply says, Great Jeru-
salem" and goes on wondering and musing
over what great thing the locomotive is
and how much like the sun it is, to be not
infrequently out of time.
oil I'll %
here ON our hands after the trains are gone.
Some swear they are not able to pay their
hotel fare for the night, others just cannot
afford to disappoint their wives, and some
VOW they will enter suit against the railroad
for causing them to lose the sale of
of 81 900 worth of dry goods. But deliver
me from the smart aleczs, who want tC
blame everybody except themselves when
they find they are left. | can't bear such
fellows, and | have very little sympathy
for them. In truth, laugh in my sleeve
when they do get left
THE funniest thing, though, that ever
occurred here was when colored groom
got left. 1t was not many months
ago. and it happened in this way: The
bride and groom's friends put them on the
train, and bade them good bye. A minute
before the departure of the
train, the bride suddenly remembered
u SuldIl package uudU she uuu
left lying in a chair at the waiting room
| The gallant groom piled off toe train and
scampered into the depot in search of the
forgotten package. While he was gone the
conductor called all aboard, and the train
pulled out amid the screams of tbs bride.
Presently the groom came boiling out OF
the depot with the package, and seeing the
train in motion some distance up the track
he shrieked ont, Hop off Melissa, hop on
my dear" and the foolish Melissa at
tempted to jump, but the conductor stopped
her. The train carried the bride
on up the road and the groo N
went up and telegraphed his bride at At
lanta to wait for him, that he would be VI
on the next train, but the bride stopped al
the first station aud did not get the mes
sage 1t was several days before bride and
groom found each other. We have some
amusing incidents here and some pretty
tough cases occasionally.