Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1893-11-02

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| until the time comes to make them and
| then youhay to find it out for your
self. Your tickets are rarely examined
| during the whole of your journey and
| if YOU don't keep :, lookout all the way
along you don't know whether you'll
pull up a Jerusalem or Jericho. In my
experience I oftener pulled up at Jeri-
! cho than Jerusalem. hardly ever reach
| ing my point of destination on the first
! trial.
! The first trip made after landing in
| Eng,;,r,d Was from Liyernool to Chcs-
| ter, il distaiice Of about thirty miles. |
4 procured Il second class ticket and Sc
| cured II seat in a second class compart-
nent. The train was ii very large one
I and carried Il large number of people
as the"Chester races were then going
! on: but | had a whole compartment
to myself. | procured adaily paper
from newsbay which cost me one
cent, and got interested in the news OF
| the day. When | had got through with
| the paper put my head outside and
enqulred how far we were from Ches-
! ter. "Why," said the man, eve are five
stations beyond Chester" / got out
and told the station master that my
ticket only took me to Chester. and
supposed it would be somebody's bust,
ness to let me know when l got there.
told him that in our country it would
be difficult matter to ride beyong the
| point named in your ticket without re-
neWing 1t or paying the eadditional fare.
| ooh, we'll" he said, "these things often
happen here; go over the bridge to the
other platform. the next train will be
| here in few minutes and will take
you back to Chester" got back to
| Chester all right but nobody asked me
for my ticket, nor did anybody seem to
care whether had a ticket or not |
was led to wonder why people should
fool away their money buying tickets
when they could travel just as well
| without them.
On another occasion, had te go from
Manchester to Bolton, Il distance of
only few miles. 1t was Saturday
afternoon, time when the factory
people take advantage of cheap eXcur-
| sion rates to the popular resorts on the
sea coast. | made enquiry of four diff
| ferent erploSeS Of the company before
| could find the platform from which
the train started. Finally it was point
ed out to me and q train was fastfllllng
| up SO got In. l noticed the tram
pulled out tew minutes before the
schedule time OF starting. L enqulred
OF gentleman near II L was all rlght
| for Bolton. ION yes. he sald, "all
these trains go through Bolton and
stop there" This was not the regular
train but an excursion train going to
Blackpool, but would stop at Bolton.
The train got up good headWay and
moved quickly along, paying no atten-
tlon to any station. TOOK short5cu
and left Bolton about two miles to the
lett. We steamed along and got all OF
| thirty miles beyond bolton before the
train came to a stop. got out and eX-
planned to the station master how l
happened to be there. lie took down
my name and address with good deal
of bnsiness-llke gravity and showed me
a train on the other Size OF the station
which he said would take me right
back to my destination.
Tojattempt to describe all nv railway
adventures would exhaust the patience
of yo,lr readers. b,lt at the risk of being
tedious | shall give one more example.
I was in London on a limited ticket
billed to leave there at 2:35 p. IN. L
made sure to get there in time so that
/ could find out the platform had to
start from. | found the officer in
charge who after consulting his time
tables pointed out the proper platform.
/ went over to the platform and sat Oh
a bench waiting for my train to come,
bnt~ If, didn't come. / went in search
of the officer who had directed me
there and found that the train had
started from another platform about
five minutes before. asked him what
I was to do. He didn't know. but in
formed me that my ticket was only
good on the train that had lust left.
but if I would 90 to the station master
he woud probably pass Inc on some
other train. The station master claim
ed if was none of his business so /
asked him to direct me to the superin-
tandent's office. | found the superin-
tendent in his office: a very polite
Young gentleman. rather too Young it
seemed to me for the responsibilities If
his Office. | explained to the superin-
tendent how, through no fault of mine
had been left by the train that had
just pulled out of the station. that the
officer in charge had directed me to the
wrong platform. "lf you know the
otllcer again go ana 1eech nun mere.
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