The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-01-17
LEFT IN SLEEPING CARS.
SOME or THE QUEER THINGS THAR
RAILWAY TRAVELLERS FORGET.

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A Baby Found Asleep IN washbasin-
A Museum that C'n ains sample Of
Almost Everything-Men lose ~ Much
~ Won N.
Yes, some queer things are LETT by
passengers In sleeping nrs. thought
fully remarked the iOst-proporty man OF
the Pullman Palace Car Company, as he
glanced over bis inventory after his an
nual stocl-taking. He was ia large
room fitted on all sides with pigeon
holes like the cloak-room OF a hotel. In
these reeeptacles were innumerable
paper packages o. all sizes and shapes,
neatly tied up and ticketed.
"Some OF these things have been In
our custody for years, he continued, "as
we never have any annual sale as the eX-
press and railroad companies do, but
we keep the things until called for. Our
conductors and porters are required tc
turn In ali the property they find during
. trip. They give the name OF the car,
the date Of the trip, the points OF start
Ing and destination and the name OF the
articles they have found. Then the Riti.
cles are sent TO me and examined, tick.
eted, inventoried and numbered. When
y UNNAOu MLAaNb nhu HoN . AAp ANAb oil 0Atl-
Gle on one OF our cars we write back and
ask him to give the exact date, the
route, the place at which he embarked
and the station at which he left. We
also desire a full description Of the miss
ing articles and any additional data or
details he may be able to give. We exact
this to prevent fraud and to protect the
real owners, as there are occasions when
fraud is attrmDted. a.
Zone conductor found a baby In the la
dies toilet-room fast asleep in the wash.
basin, its head protected from the marble
rimlby half dozen towels. The con
ductor who found 1t WAS a single man
and didn't know much about babies. He
was a nervous mRu and did not dlre say
a word to the porter or the train conduc.
tor or the passengers because he feared
the worst. He was satisfied that that
baby had been put on board at c'rtain
station by a person who had stepped on
and of the car during the few minutes
the train remained there.
"He had frequently had to stop al
that station and knew several persons
whom he had met at watermelon feast
Perhaps the mother hal deliberat ely
waited for his train and left IN pres.
ent Of the baby
body Tad gone to bed, 80 he turned down
the lights and stole softly out of the lb
met determined he would let the child
remain there until discovered by one o.
the lady passengers, or perhaps by the
porter who would relieve him III 3o'clock
and whose duty 1t would be to take tow.
els into the toilet-room before the pas
Bengers arose. But he was afraid the
baby would wake up. He broke out intC
profuse perspiration. He felt weak
and miserable.
"SudUenly it occurred to him that al
he had TO do was to watch his opportun
ity and, when the conductor Of the next
sleeper was not looking deposit the baby
In q vacant berth
"The opportunity arrived at a smal
station while the other conductor wa.
on the platform enjoying a breach o
company rules In the way Of cigarette
Heaving a sigh of relier tina conductor
hurried back to his own car and thanked
his lucky and unlucky stars that he was
out of the scrape. He felt sorry for tn,
other man. but less sorry than the mar
himself when his porter found the baby
still asleep, at O'Clock in the morning
No claimant ever appeared for that child
and had frightful experience with It
hah ~ bAChCb00 duA DuJ III
among some lost property, and as Ions
as had 1t in my custody hal to sleet
In the lost-property room and get ur
three or four times to warm its bottle.
said ] should resign il they add I'd the
duties Of a matron to that Of lost-prop
erty clerk, and l wrote Major Wickes
about 1t. He is Vice-President anc
General Manager, and he induced Mr.
Pullman to call meeting of the Bo irC
OF Directors to sit on the baby, and the
Board decided to send it TO foundlihl
asylum. A year after he was married
the conductor, who first found the baby
resigned aud / was taken into his conf
dence. and that's how know the story
OF the Pullman baby as it is called to this
day. The Company makes an annua
appropriation for its subsistence, anC
the appropriation is made without dis
senting voice by the Board.
You may take a commercial die.
tionary," continued the agen', land
everything you find namet in it you may
find on those shelves there. WomeI
leave powder-puffs, combs, night robes
gloves, s,.button-hOoks and books or can
dies. Children leave toys and servants
forget lunch-baskets and babies linen
It's strange, but the latter are always
A4bOONCA0A lAEbs 44El lcdN0 IuGlI
brushes, purses, rings, slippers, smok
lng-caps and emorandum-books In the
cars. But 1t is not so much the persona
property left that excites commt mt as 4
Is the strange articles Of merchandise
A Grand Army man, who had bought 4
composite leg to take the 7 lace Of an old
fashioned wooden one, started home will
one strapped on and the other wrapped
up nicely by the maker. When he went
TO bed he took of t. Q wooden leg anC
laid it alongside of him in the berth
When he got up In the morning he un
wrapped the beautiful new leg, put it on
patted it with admiration and was so los
In contemplation Of his new possession
that he hobbled of. .aving the old ant
tried friend behind him. Later on h,
wrote and said he'd like to have it SEN
70 him. Another man left a par OF horse
hames up in hat-rack, and q medica
student left womans head In a papel
bag under the seat. It's up there In thaf
glass jar filled with alcohol, and wisl
that the present owner would turn up, a,
presume the original owner is resigned
70 her loss.
Its queer. but we never have turned
In on us any whiskey TASKS or boxes o
cigars: l suppose D, ople are more care
ful of these commodities than OF others
Bibles are another thing not on my In
Ventory. Either people don't carry
them nowadays and 80 don't leave then
aboard the cars, or else the Niger por
ters keep them for spiritual consOla
tion, being deprived by the rules OF the
other kind. Once bride left myster
ious Dackage-that's 1t on the top shel
-and she never even wr1te about It
We don't know what 1t is, but it's to,
big for q weddlng-ring or a marriage Ger
tlhcate. 1t may be brides cake, but a.