Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-26
AFRAID OF THE CARS.

A Venango County Man Starts by Rail to
Visit Pittsburg-He Could Not stand the
Strain, and Took to the Dirt Roads-A
Costly Journey.
There are few pre-modern, historic people
left in Pennsylvania who have never ridden
on railway.
A story is told of lady in Connecticut,
who. when railway was completed from her
town to Boston, became suddenly seized with
desire to see what all the world revolved about.
Her husband and friends vainly pictured the
dangers attendant on such an expedition. Sur
vive or perish, Mrs. Dea con Pulsifer was re-
solved to see the Hun, and being like some
other New England women. somewhat strong
minded, she carried her Dolnt, and in due time
set out on her journey, husband, children and
nelehbors bidding her fearful adieu.
Madam Pulslfer got within Is miles of Boston
when the locomotive whistle sent forth shrek
after shrek, and finally the train stopped.
Madam +. stuck her head out of the window
and anxiou>ly inquired the cause of the stop.
and was told that some cattle were on the track
anu had refused to get of. That settled 1t
She had heard Of trains being wrecked and
people killed by cattle getting on the track and
remembering that Cousin Lucy lived near the
scene of detention, she alighted and went to
her cousins house. There she stayed the
two weeks she had proposed to stay in
the Hub and having stored her mind with
1ull ueScTlpIlCn OF us SlgntS anu places,
she resolved to go home and practice little
snppressio veri on her family and neighbors.
The ruse worked to perfection, and to her
dying day she was an object of interest in the
neighborhood as one that had been travelled"
On her deathbed she confessed her fault, and
died in the full assurance of life everlasting
beyond the clouds and beyond the tomb.
western Pennsylvania has within few
months turned up case somewhat similar to
Madam PulsIfer. Within few months n gen.
tleman OF near so summers named Aiken.
member of Amity Presbyterian Church, We
mango county, concluded 20 visit daughter
living in Wylle avenue this city. Mr.. Aiken.
an exceedingly clean cut reasOner and one SO
well up in biblical eXegises as to be a terror To
half-nedged clergymen had, though a man of
wealth, made by shrewdness and industry,
never in his long Ife seen railway train, but
he had read of numerous mishaps and frightful
accidents on railways, and after he had
purchased ticket at Grove City for Pittsburg.
he boarded the train with great trepidatiOn.
The old gentlemans nervousness increased
until at length. on reaching Butler, he could
endure 1t no longer. and, getting off, he threw
his ticket away SO that he would no longer be
bring him to Pittsburg and to come after him
at the end of twoMeeks. The wagon roads
were awe-inspiring, and the old gentleman was
greatly shaken up. but his nervousness was
overcome. His ride from Butler to this city and
back cost him S35, and what it cost to take him
from Butler to Venango county is not specified,
but IS believed that counting the cost OF rail-
way fare in the first instance, S30 between But
Ter and this city, and that from Butler home,
Mr.. Aiken might have ridden as cheaply and
had palace car all 10 himself.