The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-01
MEMORIES OF A CONpuCrOR.
Showing How Easy 1t is for Passengers
TO be Mistaken.
B0SfOp Courier

bOStON courier.
"You have no idea of the annoyances
we have to suffer from the travelling pub.
lie, especially from travelling salesmeu.
Let me give you an instance of IT,"
Thus spoke a tall, full-beardcd con.
ductor, whose heart had won by the
gift of q two.for- r-fve-cents Flora de
Cabanas.
"As my train stopped one day between
Eidtkubuen and Tosen, two travelling
statesmen entered second-class compart.
ment. They sat opposite each other,
and one of the two placed q pretty heavy
trunk upon the seat next to him.
Look here says I, you'll have to
take that trunk off the seat.
" No says he, Il will not take it
down
"Well, says /, we will see. viii
you take that trunk down; yes or no.
Hal hat laughed he; you are jest
ing, my good man.
None of your familiarity says |,
angrily; I shall inform the baggage.
master
"All right; l don't care q rush re-
piled the passenger, and withdrew,
laughingly, toward the corner of the
compartment
AS at that very moment the train be-
gan TO move ! had TO defer informing
against the offender until the next sta
ton. AS soon as 1t was reached
rushed into the compartment, full OF
rage, and asked;
NOW, will you take the trunk
DOWN.
Please do not bother me with that
trunk or j shall complain Of you at head
quartersp roared the passenger, in a
voice of thunder. ] never met with such
impudence before, but as the train
stopped for a couple of minutes only
had again to wait till the coming station
There / informed the station master oi
the case. He entered the compartment
Sir. the conductor is in the right
and | have to demand of you to remove
the trunk or to leave the train
4 shall neither take it down nor
leave the train answered the passenger
and as we were already five minutes at,
| had lust time TO wire the master Mt tn,
next station,
II enjoyed in advance the scene at the
next station. Upon our arrival the chiei
of that station said to the passenger;
L have to ask you to leave this train
at once
Sir rejoined the now thoroughly
infuriated passenger; what do you wa n
of met have paid for my ticket NJ
! have done nothing reprehensible what
ever, and yet this miserable hireling ha
not ceased to bother and insult me.
Owing to this quarrel the train wa
now ten minutes late and the fast ex
| press close behind us.
you'll have to leave the train if yol
do not at once take the trunk down,
shouted the enraged chief.
L shall do that under no circum
stances whatever screamed the passen
ger, whose frontal veins stood out lik'
whipcord from his dark red forehead.
cat this juncture the head baggage
master entered the car and, trying t
conciliate the warning elements, said, II
a soothing manner to the passenger:
"fBut why do you not take the trunl
off the seat? Don't you see that owin
to your stubbornness the train is nov
ten minutes late?
"'But why on earth should take thi
trunk down. There's no power that ca
compel me to-
"All three of the railroad official
now approached the passenger to ejeC
him, when the other passenger, who ha
been an amused eyewitness to the qua
rel, said, quietly:
But why should he, indeed, be con
PEELED to take it down? IT 10 my trun
and not hisp
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