Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-29
SEPARATED BY ACCIDENT


One of til" Embarrassin. Things About
Travelling in Big City.
Did you ever get separated from your
| wife at an II station, YOU on the DEPART
ing train and she left on the platform,
and then try to find her again? No:
Wei. never try it as funny experiment
just 10 see how 1t works" SO spoke a
country merchant. MY wife and !
came from Tarrytown. We arrived all
night at the Forty-second street station,
! got on the down train in something of
pushing crowd. only 10 look around
and SEQ Miranda. my wife, on the plat
form looking around for me in startled
way. She tried to get on the train. but
the gates were closed. tried to get off,
but the guards shook their heads. 50
my wife and | were separated. What
was TO do about it,
There are several things that look
feasible enough which would suggest
themselves to you at once, but, sir, none
Of them is feasible at all except on one
conditiou-that both You and vour wife
haye already agreed on it. Then that
plan is feasible enough. Any plan is
feasible then But how many ont Of tho
great hosts of people who ride on the
l. agree on such plan? Certainly not
many Of them. My wife and do now
but we hadn't then.
The first thing that occurred to me
ut the moment was to get off at the next
station and so back Ny wife would
wait for me had to cross over in a
hurry at Thiry-fourth street, ride up
and cross over back again. Tins cost
mo two extra /, tickets. and as | got
them | remembered with horror that
my wife did not have either money or
tickets with her.
"1f she were lost, how could she get
about town. how even get her fare again
homo TO Tarrytown? We were COM
muters, and of course |, as the man of
the family, carried the Communication
book As these things required to me
1t was with q sense of terror that |
looked around the Forty-second street
platform, She WAS not there. Hooked
inside, in the ticket office. in the sitting
room. Nowhere was she to be seen.
How beautiful would her old face have
appeared TO mo at that moment, asked
the ticket cruncher if he had seen such
and such n lady, and if she had asked
him anything
"Tickcts!' he remarked in reply.
Then I remembered that as l had
walked into the sitting room would
have 10 pay 10 come out again. went
back and got a ticket. Then asked him
again. There was some one who had
tried 10 tell him something about having
got separated from her husband and not
knowing what to do, but there had come
y rush. and he told her that she had bet
ter ask some one else, as he couldn't be
interrupted. 80 she disappeared, and he
knew nothing more
Then there came to me thought
which 10 thus day thank heaven for
and thank heaven also that tine idea
came TO her. Sine must have gone back
to the Grand Central station TO Wall for
ne. With no money or tickets she
could 90 nowhere else except down. and
then she could not get back. She would
not want 10 yecr very far away from
the Grand Central. because she would
understand that however much | might
run around town after her, | must come
| there at last. There / found her. very
| comfortably looking over the list OF
| things we were to buy, and not at all
| Disconnected ut the incident of our sepa-
ration. She even laughed at my dis
| turbauce. Then and there tucked
| dollar bill inside her glove, and told her