The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-23
PlTHY PIECES IN
PETERS POT-POURRI.
INTERESTING COMMENT ON
THE TRAIN BOY.
POOR FLORENCE GRESS' DEATH
The Last Sad Chapter ip a Ro-
mantle Story-A Young Girl
Betrayed, Dies Of a Broken
Heart.
POOR FLORENCE GRESS' DEATH
1zFMHE train boy is b,

r~o, ENBMHE train boy is be-
al nj 6NN coming a creature of
FREMagIASk the past. Several
~ ~ YSNA8 years ago nearly every
HM&R& train was provided
-@IE0IMH IN with one of these lads,
LEVY WY=sT-:lW who made himself as
3A2SZ5ES much q part and par
eel of the coaches as
the conductor, and if appearances went for
anything he had a great deal more to do
about the running of the train than that
parsonage himself. At the present day
but few of them are seen and then 1t is
only on the express trains making run of
100 miles or over. Even with these it will
be noticed that they nc longer distribute
their wares in the seats or throw boxes of
candy or books upon the laps of the suf-
fering travellers.
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The reform was i~nsugurated about a
year ago. An over-industrious train boy,
not at all a rare sight then, insisted upon
placing a box of candy in the lap of a lady,
who repeatedly told him not to do SO as she
did not want to buy. The lady happened
to be the wife Of the superintendent of the
road and a complaint was Immediately
made. The result was that an order was at
once given to the effect that no more
material was to be distributed. More
complaints of the same nature began to
| ro1l -, a. 1ha pn,ya oo~,napiao and thap tho
train boys began to disappear.
~
In lieu of having them go out on the
trains the companies employed a man to
remain at the depots and go through the
trains a few minutes before they were about
to start with their load of passengers.
Upon entering a car he would stand for a
moment near the door, and as he walked
down the aisle would talk after this man
ner in a very quiet way:
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, here you
have your fine mixed candies, broken
candies and cough drops, msrshmallow
drops and many other things to drop into a
sweet tooth. Remember, this is your last
chance to get your candies before going
home. Don't forget the little ones at home.
Think of their smiling faces and how happy
they'll be when you give them this pack
age, bless their little hesrtsl and then think
how disappointed they will be when they
find you have brought them nothing" He
rarely failed to leave a car full of smiling
faces behind him and Outlines many pack
ages of candy, too.
50
Little has been said of "De Ate'' in these
columns lately. l have been gathering
material which l will use in q few days
that will show the combine up in an I'M
enviable light. In the meantime, the use.
less expenditure for the proposed new
water works, which the taxpayers of this
town have not yet said they wanted, goes
steadily on.
So
The joint committee on water works
have taken the advice of the HERALD and
propose to publish in hsnd-bill form q
statement of their expenditures in this
| gigantic scheme. This, l take it, is an
acknowledgment on their part that the
| HERALD's course in this matter is the
correct one. But why print it in hand
bills ? Nine out of every ten citizens will
never see it, and in justice to the taxpayers
the men who will have to pay the fiddler
to the committees d%ancing-it should be
published in a manner that every voter
may see the unnecessary expense to which
thav have been subieeted.
80.
l congratulate the HERALD upon its
endorsement by the joint committee, if
the former considers such an endorsement
a compliment. Now if it was known
who offered that block of stock'' l i'm
agine the new water committee would APP
pear better in the eyes of the people.
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The last sad scene in connection with the
suffering of a poor deceived girl is over,
and her soul is now undoubtedly resting
peacefully beyond the portals of blissful
paradise,
Poor Florence Gress, when alive, re-
sided in Wilkes-B Barre, No girl ever
prayed more ~fervently to God for mercy
than she; and no girl ever had friends who
were SO kind, so loyal to her,
%"
A touching coincidence in this sad affair
is that two years ago she plighted her troth
10 the seoundrel who had been the cause of
all her misery and sorrowful death. Now
he is languishing behind the prison bars in
consequence of his awful crime, and will
be for two years more, but that is not all.