The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-11
ANGELIC TEMPERs.,
a cARLoAD OF TRAVELLERS AND NOT
A KICKER AMONG THEM.

Party, Even For Americans
Although Americans have tho rem
utatlon of being born kickers, +" said tho
traveller, "onco i'll awhile they give sur
prising exhibitions Of philosophy and
good nature.
"On hot night started on q trim
up tho state. / had been careful to on.
gage my berth in tho morning and had
selected it in the center of tho 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 q very old car. am too old trav-
eler to fret, however, and went into
the smoker with calm mind The train
rolled out, and soon the porter began to
make up the beds Wo all turned in
carly, and l was in my berth before tho
train had got far beyond Mott Haven.
81 adjusted everything carefully, 70.
moved all my clothes, donned some nice
cool pajamas and lay back on my pillow
sleepily had just begun to dozo off
when was aroused by queer, rum
bling noise Itsounded as though some
thing was the matter with tho running
gear. 1 listened for awhile and then
closed my eyes again, thinking perhaps
that the noiso would stop. 1t didn't
though, and presently others appeared
to be disturbed also Heads were polled
out between tho curtains, and passen-
gers asked each other what the troublo
was. The porter was summoned and i'll
terrogatcd, but he knew nothing that
could enlighten us and said he was suro
it was nothing serious. By and by some
OF the callner spirits like myself felt re.
assured and dropped off to sleep i'll spite
OF the noise and jolting.
Il was i'll the midst of dream about
falling elevators and similar pleasant
fancics when was awakened by some
body yanlling at my arm. 1t was the
Porter.
~ am sorry to trouble you, boss,
ho said, but one of the wheels Oh 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 to
get up and get out, for we are going to
run this car into tho shop and put Oh
another.
Naturally 1 felt little annoyed.
When man is sleepy, he doesn't like
to be told he has got to get up and dress
and fuss and bother. 1t isn't the easiest
thing i'll the world to sleep in stuffy
car OH hot night anyhow, and inter
rupt1ons are not apt to compose the
mind. However, there was no use of
kicking, and SO 1 got up and dressed as
quickly as 1 could, gathered my traps
together and prepared to move. The car
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undress, and it took some little time 70
clear them all out so that the car could
be taken off the train. We found our
selves at Albany. We had to wait on
the platform for nearly half an hour
while tho car was rolled back out of the
way and another one brought out of the
yard
IF tho first sleeper had been DID,
this one was antique. 1t must have been
ono of the first of the Wagners to be put
i'll service 1t was smaller and had few
CT berths than the other car, and rs it
hadn't been cleaned for some time it
was very dirty. Every time we touched
anything our hands We're covered with
dust. We stood around while the coll
ductor tried to arrange for our accom-
AA4ONettiCiis NiA'A VIZ lCl tllS McIC
emily arranged this took some time. In
tho meantime the train had started
again.
The conductor was an amiablc per-
son and tried hard to hurry things us
much as possible, which relieved the
situation great deal. In allotting
space to Us he camo finally to an old
gentleman who lived up in the country.
1 am very sorry, he said to him. but
I'll have to put You, sir, in tho state
room. There arc no moro berths left >
1t occurred to all simultaneously,
guess, that that meant an extra charge
Great Scottp exclaimed the old gentle
man, have been yanked out of my
sleep and put to all this discomfort to
be compelled to pay double fare? oh,
of course not!' said the conductor. In
asmuch as it is our fault, we won't
charge You extra fare. The old man
smiled broadly at that, for the idea of
having stateroom all to himself was
naturally agreeable, but when he came
to find out later that the stateroom in
cludcd the Mushroom and was anything
but pleasant to sleep in his smile be-
came rather sickly. After awhile things
were Strengthened out, but it was fully
an hour from the time we left Albany
before we had turned into our berths
again.
Naturally You would imagine that
everybody would have been i'll temper
ed after all this fuss, but the truth is
never saw a jollier lot of people in all
my travels. Of course sleep was i'm
possible for most of us after all this dis
turbance, SO we kept up running fire
| of conversation. Jokes were ratified off