The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-08-28
A LESSON FOR AMERICANS.
Indignant Londouers Show Them How
to Treat Railway Managers.


Every morning at 9:21 train from
Wimbledon stops at Streatham to take
up strong contingent OF stock broA-
ers, which party it is timed to denver
in good condition at London bridge
at 9:43, in order that bulls ana
bears alike may be safely ensconced
in their respective stations before the
clock strikes 10, says the London Daliy
Mail. Earlier trains have already car
ried off hOrdes OF city clerks. business
young ladies" and sprinkling of pros
Porous merchants of the early-rlslhS
persuasion; later ones are provided TOT
the sluggard journalist and the COM
pany director. The 9:21 is the stock
brokers' train and is treated by them
in quite proprietorial way. few days
ago the $50 sun shone brightly down
on the up platform, upon which some
EiXty stalwart stock brokers displayed
every variety of city-nade clothes,
while awaiting the arrival OF their
overdue train. There was no fog, and
The distance from the Wimbledon ter
minus is hardly worth mentioning.
" iSiitC, lHtll, COuil the utlhy a ioS'
These questions agitated every mind
during the intervals of perusing such
items of news from East or the Cape
as might, perchance, affect the subse-
uuent doings on change. Presently
passenger happened to remark, genial
~, to a reporter: Train very late TINS
morning" and received the astonish-
n rp,1v- to- :, 81
'OH?" A dozen pairs OF ears had
caught the reply, a dozen mouths re-
peated it. of? Where's the station
master?" With the promptitude that
characterizes their race. sixty shouting
stock brokers swarmed into the station
masters office For answer to their
ciamorous questions the official repre-
sentative of the l.. B. & S. c. railway
company explained that, as the train
had not gone down to Wimbledon that
morning he was afraid it would not
come back. Capel Court promptly re-
1ected this logic as being OF a spurious
type and as promptly presented an III
timatum. 1t took the form Of ordering
the station master to stop the express
from Mitcham at 9:32 He refused to do
SO, and since pacific blockade was al
ready in force without effect other pres
sure was employed. Threats Of claim
ing compensation, demands for the re-
turn OF their money, fell unheeded up
on the official ear. Pale-faced he met
the ultimatum, fortified by the exam
pie Of little Greece, with a sturdy nom
pOssumuS. Then voice from the back
of the crowd proposed in distinct terms
that Mr.. Station Master should be
dragged on to the platform and public
ly denuded of his neither garments.
Wild legends Of similar doings in the
house had evidently reached the station
master 5 ear. He capitulated at dis
cretion. He wired to Mitcham, the ex-
press pulled up and the Mitchamites,
who condemn the Streathamites as
these latter despise the Tulse-hillers.
were too much taken by surprise to
make any effective resistance by bar
Reading the carriage doors, to the
boarding of their private train by sixty
triumphant stock brokers, flushed with
their victory over the l.. B. &, S. c. rail-
way. The 9:21 up service was resumed
without explanation on the following
day and is still running.