The Newtown bee., 1893-12-08
One Day Last Week

we car of gunpOwder standing right in front of the depot at Hawleyville and we thought what ii 8 thunder shower should hap pen to come up and lightning should happen to strike that and il should happen to strike it right in the middle so that it burnt both ways at the same time, it would very likely tear the depot all to pieces before the car could be shunted in on the siding and then we'd have a brand new one built, and in that case we should undoubtedly have a big meet ing al awleyViGe Ot all the prominent rail road men connected with the Consolidated, the N. Y. X N. E., the Berkshire division, the D. X N., the Bethel branch and the s., L. X N. railroads and we would adjourn to the banks of the Little Jordan" and have clam roast with champagne sauce, @ la pOllywOg, and at ter dinner we'd have tOasts and speech max ing and Mr Clark would sit on MT McLeOd's knee and they'd sing old college songs and drink Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, and tell how they used to go to school in the same lit tie red school house. and roast chestnuts Ove1 the same fire, and would remind each other how much better it is for "brethren to dwell together ill peace and unity and mutual tears of repentance would roll down and make record on MT McLeOd'S immaculate shirt front, and then they'd smoke the pipe Ot peace and fill 1t up not only seven tllnes, put zones and agree to join hands in building fine, large union depot and vie with each oth- CT in each striving 10 pay more than ms snare, and the new depot would have both 8 ladies' and gents waiting room and stove with real fire in it. and they'd have toilet roOms and light, pleasant freight offices, and a cana Iy bird and a parrot hung in the ladies' wait ing room, and the whole thing would be GOV l l they'd do everything to make it real home | like and pleasant, and while they were in this | frame of mind and full of smoke and syrup 1 and good thoughts, Baker would step across ana suggest more friendly interchange Ot | freight rates, so that furniture could be trans | ferred from one road to the other without | breaking the ten cOmmandments,andp perhaps | suggest a comparison and revision Ot passen- l ger timetables and connections. This latter, | however, would work untold injury to Baker, | as now everybody expects a long wait at flaw | leyville and they go prepared to pass away the time buying tuI nlturo. w e thought what | a wonderful change for the better all this | would make, but come to look around there wasn't a thunder cloud in sight. We had in
 our vest pocket box of these patent sweed
 safety matches but never having had occa.
 sion before to fire oil a car of gunpOwder we
 didn't know just how to do it, not even with
 safety match, and we felt a little afra1d, al
 though when a resident of Colorado we used
 to hunt with and occasionally fire oil a Sharp $
 buffalo gun, which, take it, amounts to
 about the same thing so far as general near
 by results are concerned, but we have grown
 timid since then and we let the opportunity
 and the car pass, so, dear friends, you will
 have to put up with the old depot while lon
 ger. It makes no difference to us personally
 just because others do and because we llke tC
 go with the popular crowd. We can sell Jus
 as much furniture with the old depot Tn ron ] Ot us with it's one dingy waiting room, Dnt l
 you don't like it you must step across ana XII
 time, while waiting tor trains, in our waiting
 and reading room, where you will ma tht daily papers, illustrated weeklies, magazines
 writing materials, etc etc, all Ot which you
 are invited to make free use of, or if you don
 care to read you can sit in a nice, comforta
 ble easy chair in our front window and "Sef
 the wheels go rOund."