Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-09

ana on the car during th6 few minutes the train remained there.
 '.He had frequently had to stop at that station, and knew several persons whom he had met at a watermelon feast Perhaps the mother had de- liberately waited for his train and left him a present of the baby!
 'It was nearly midnight, and the pas sengers had gone to bed, so he turned down the gas and stole softly out of the cabinet, determined he would let the child remain there until discovered by one of the lady passengers, or perhaps by the porter who would relieve him at three o'clock, and whose duty it would be to take towels into the toilet-room before the passengers arose. But he was afraid the baby would wake up. He broke out into a profuse precipitation. He felt weak and miserable.
 Suddenly it occurred to him that all he had to do was to watch his oppor- tunity, and when the conductor of the next sleeper was not looking deposit the baby in a vacant berth.
 ''The opportunity arrived at a small station while the other conductor was on the platform enjoying breach of company rules in the way of cigar cite. Heaving a sigh of relief, the con- ductor hurried back to his own car and thanked his lucky and unlucky stars that he was out of the scrape. He felt | sorry for the other man, but less sorry than the man himself. when his porter found the baby, still asleep, at six o'clock in the morning.
 ''No claimant ever appeared for that child, and had frightful experience with it. had it ticketed and put in a cradle among other lost property, and as long as had it in my custody had to sleep in the lost-property room and get up three or four times to warm it's bottle. said should resign if they added the duties of matron to that of lost-property clerk, and I wrote Major Wicks about it.
 ''He is vice-president and general manager, and he induced MT. Pullman to call meeting of the board of direct ors to sit on the baby, and the board de- cided to send it to foundling asylum. A year after he was married the con- ductor. who first found the baby, re- signed and 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 made an annual appropriation for it's subsistence, and |
 senting voice by the board.
 You may take a commercial dictlon- ary," continued the agent, "and every
 thing you find named in it you may find on those shelves there. Women leave powder puffs, combs, night robes, gloves, button-hooks and books or candies
 Children leave toys and servants forget lunch baskets and babies linen.
 ''It's strange, but the latter articles are always discovered first Men leave
 their tooth brushes, purses, rings, slip
 pers, smoking caps and memorandum
 books in the cars. But it is not so much
 the personal property left that excites
 comment as it is the strange articles of
 merchandise. A Grand Army man who
 had bought a composite leg to take the
 place of an old-fashioned wooden one, started home with one strapped cn and
 the other wrapped up nicely by the
 m aker.
 ''When he went to bed he took off the
 wooden leg and laid it alongside of him
 in the berth. When he got up in the morning he unwrapped the beautiful
 new leg, put it on, patted it with admir- ation, and was so lost in contemplation
 of his new possession that he hobbled
 of, leaving the old and tried friend be-
 hind him. Later on he wrote and said he'd like to have it sent to him. An other man left pair of horse-hames
 up in hat-rack.
 Its queer, but we never have turned in on us any whisky flasks or boxes ot
 cigars. I suppose people are more care- full of these commodities than of others. ' Bibles are another thing not on my in. . ventory. Either people don't carry ? them nowadays, and so don't leave them aboard the cars, or else the nigger DOT. ters keep them for spiritual consolation, ) being deprived by the rules of the other
 kind.
 } ''Once bride left a mysterious pack
 age-thats it on the top shelf-and , she never even wrote about it. We 5 don't know what it is, but it's too big t for wedding ring or a marriage certif. } cate. It may be brides cake, but as ii was marked strictly personal, I have = parrot. l think he must have been {
 seafaring man, as the bird is so very = profane that 1t shocks even the super F intendent.
 . Another baby was left once, and 1T = a very mysterious and unavoidable manner. A married man and a married 3 woman had stopped. They took state
 room and the woman had a baby witt F her. At the next station a telegram t was handed to the man, which, after l reading, he handed to the woman. . "They left the train hurriedly at !; 3 side-track on which the train had beer q shunted to allow fast special train containing the officers of the road, tc ] pass. This side-track was miles iron ] any station and in the woods, and tho
 couple left the train so precipitately t that they forgot the baby and theil - travelling bags. The baby died during a the trip and was turned over to cor