Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
ANGELIC TEMPERS.
AcARLoAD OF TRAVELLERS AND NOT
A KICKER AMONG THEM.

They Had to Change sIeepers In the Mid
die of the Night, and Yet They Remained
Good Humored-This Was an Exceptional
Party, Even For Americans.
Although Americans have the rep
utation Of being born kickers, " said the
traveller, "once in awhile they give sur
prising exhibitions of philosophy and
good nature.
"On hot night started on trip
up the state. had been careful to en-
gage my berth in the morning and had
selected it in the center of the car, SO /
felt assured that would be reasonably
comfortable. 1t SO happened that travel
was heavy that night, and my car was
crowded. To my great disgust, too, it
was very old car. / am too old trav-
eler to fret, however, and I went into
the smoker with calm mind. The train
rolled out, and soon the porter began to
make up the beds. We all turned in
early, and / was in my berth before the
train had got far beyond Mott Haven.
"I adjusted everything carefully, re-
moved all my clothes, donned some nice
cool pajamas and lay back on my pillow
sleepily. had just begun to doze off
when was aroused by queer, rum
bling noise. Itsounded as though some
thing was the matter with the running
gear. I listened for awhile and then
closed my eyes again, thinking perhaps
that the noise would stop. It didn't,
though, and presently others appeared
to be disturbed also. Heads were poked
out between the curtains, and passen-
gers asked each other what the trouble
was. The porter was summoned and in
terrogated, but he knew nothing that
could enlighten us and said he was sure
it was nothing serious By and by some
Of the calmer spirits like myself felt re-
assured and dropped off to sleep in spite
of the noise and jolting.
''I was in the midst of dream about
falling elevators and similar pleasant
fancies when was awakened by some.
body yanking at my arm. 1t was the
porter.
"'I am sorry to trouble you, boss,
he said, but one of the wheels on this
Car has gone wrong, and the conductor
is afraid we will have smashup if we
don't take the car off. You'll have tc
get up and get out, for we are going to
run this car into the shop and put OF
another,
Naturally felt little annoyed.
When a man is sleepy, he doesn't like
to be told he has got to get up and dress
and fuss and bother It isn't the easies
thing in the world to sleep in a stuff,
car ON hot night anyhow, and inter
ruptions are not apt to compose tn
mind. However, there was no use O
kicking, and so got up and dressed a
quickly as I could, gathered my trap
together and prepared to move. The ca
was full of people in various stages o
undress, and it took some little time t.
clear them all out SO that the car coul'
be taken off the train. We found our
selves at Albany. We had to wait o.
the platform for nearly half an hou
while the car was rolled back out Of tn
way and another one brought out of tn
yard.
"If the first sleeper had been old
this one was antique. 1t must have bee
one Of the first of the Wagners to be pu
in service. It<was smaller and had few
er berths than the other car, and as
hadn't been cleaned for some time
was very dirty. Every time we touche
anything our hands were covered wit
dust. We stood around while the col
ductor tried to arrange for our accom-
mediation, and as the berths were diffel
emily arranged this took some time !
the meantime the train had starte
again.
'The conductor was an amiable pc
son and tried hard to hurry things {
much as possible, which relieved IL
situation q great deal. In allottin
space to us he came finally to an ol
gentleman who lived up in the countr.
4 am very sorry, he said to him, 'bl
I'll have to put you, sir, in the stat
room. There are no more berths Left
It occurred to all simultaneously,
guess, that that meant an extra charg
Great ScottP exclaimed the old gentl
man, have been yanked out Of n
sleep and put to all this discomfort
be compelled to pay double fare? %
of course not!' said the conductor. L
asmuch as it is our fault, we won
charge you extra fare The old mi
smiled broadly at that, for the idea
having stateroom all to himself W
naturally agreeable, but when he car
to find out later that the stateroom
cluded the washroom and was anythil
but pleasant to sleep in his smile b
came rather sickly. After awhile thin
were Strengthened out, but it was full
an hour from the time we left Albal
before we had turned into our bert
again.
Naturally you would imagine th
everybody would have been ill tempe
ed after all this fuss, but tho truth il
never saw jollier lot Of people in ;
nv travels. Of course sleep was il
possible for most Of us after all this d
turbance, so we kept up running f
of conversation. Jokes were ratified I
in delightfully."- impromptu fashio
and everybody who had had any expe
ence on sleeping cars recounted them
the edifcation of the others. Althou
we did not have any sleep, about eve
one who left the car the next morni
wore a broad, good humored smile. "
New York Sun.