The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10

haps thirty or Toy pounds. he les
b Travelled nearly all lis life, nut how he first
/ beca e taken v it'll his mania for trains h
not known. He has been TO San Franc $50
three times, and his trips over New Eng a ID
aud through New York state ara innumera-
/ BILE.
! His modus oper1ndi is simple enough.
He just boards train. squats mself down
IN baggage car, and there he Is The IN
\ ter-state commerce law hasn't bothsrei him
q bit. for he systematically evaded the law
| before il was passed, and no subsequent rail-
road legislation of any kind has seemed to
produce the least improvement in his NOR
ais.
Jack Acknowledges no master in rarticu-
lar, but always is loyal to whatever bag
gage master or express messenger may hap
pen to be his host.
So, while it may q said against him
| that he is easily "off with the old love and
on wi the new" and that he can be happy
with Ell her dear charmer if the Other hap
pens TO be going in the opposite direction,
and other u, kind things that might hurt
his feeling NAV be said of him, a more COM
plimeltary, more appreciatise statement Of
tie condition of things would be that he IS
| always faithful TO his nearest friend. Some
| times when he strikes the end Of the route
| he Will remain with MS latest friend, the
baggagemaster, until the return trip; then
again freaky streak will chassez through
| him, and he will hop aboard the next AL
hany bound express without remark or
| apology. He never seems to make any
mistake about embarking. He has no use
for local trains, Tut jumps aboard The ex-
| presses every time and without asking any
4 questions. Nor does he always 10 f around
the station, as if waiting for his train to
turn up, but saunters down just before
| train time, and piles himself into the bag
l xxyith oAa1o 81
| ence.
| One of Jacks favorite trips is from Al
bany to Now York. He boards West
Shore train at Albany, and, getting out at
| the Weehawken station, crosses the ferry
and trots up through Forty-secoud street to
the New York Central station, where he
takes train for home, thus enabling him
self 70 enjoy the scenery on both sides OF
| the river. Occasionally he will MAKE a run
up to Montreal, changing cars at Saratora
without the assistance or suggestion of any
body. Indeed. he knows when and where
to change cars as we'll as any regular pat
ron of the road on which he is travelling.
His whole life is one consis.en eccen-
tricity, and his peculiarities do not, there
fore, break out in spots. but he has one
cranky idea that is inexplicable except as a
matter Of mere surmise. He will not enter
an Erie car; no persuasion can get him into
one. Even if an Ecie baggage car-he
never rides in passenger cars-happens to
be among other passenger cars on a New
York Central train, he will avoid as if he
were afraid it was going to explode. How
he can tell it from any other no one knows,
but the treinmen say that he will walk
along beside it, glance up at it with know
ing look. and turn tail on it deliberately.
Once or twice he was carried into an Eric
car and detained by closed doors until the
train was in motion, but he bolted like g
streak of lightning at the next station and
took local train back