Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-08-19
STANDING ROOM ONLY.
The Santa Fe Excursion to the Island City
Sunday.

Three hundred and eighty people
boarded the special at this place
About three-fourths of this num-
Der were negroes and the per-
centage of white and colored
seemed to stand at about this
ratio throughout the attendance,
The legislative barriers erected by
the separate coach law were
broken down in the indiscrimi-
nate scramble first for seating
capacity and later for standing
room. Every aisle was full and
every step occupied. The com
pany furnished fourteen coaches
and the patrons furnished twety-
five coach loads. Some idea OF
the hardships enjoyed may be
gotten from the statement that one
passenger attempted suicide on
the return trip by throwing him
self from the train while under
full Roadway. Fortunately he
lit head first in a deep sand bed
and escaped injury other than
being nearly choked to death by
the sand. The train was backed
up and the man taken aboard
and given a seat. On the broad
expanse of prairie between Alvin
and Virginia Point the second
section of the return trip was
and a negro passenger
unprovided with a ticket was ex-
PEELED from the train. In case
walking continues good he is
expected home in a day or so.
This little incident was metamor-
phosed into a report that a man
had been run over and killed and
his mangled remains placed on
board. There was much scurry-
ing around among the passen-
gers to see the unfortunate victim
of the accident, while far down
the track a weary niger, the
cause of the report, homeward
plodded his weary way, doubtless
as many other, did, to
stay at home the next time he
went to Galveston on a dollar rate.
When Alvin was reached on
the outgoing trip Sheriff league
received telegram from Consta-
BILE Burch at this place telling
him that Eliza Toland had stolen
a purse containing ST. before
leaving Brennan, and that she
was aboard the special. Out of a
thousand negroes it was no
small undertaking to locate a
particular one. Sheriff league,
however, is accustomed to look
ing for needles in hay stackss as
It were, and soon had the woman
ocated. She spent the day in
he Galveston calaboose and was
brought home on the night train,
md lodged in the county jail.
John Moore is the name of the
negro man who claimed to have
been robbed. He is known to
lave sold two bales of cotton
Saturday.
One of the 'boys" from Bren-
lam lost his hat on the way
Town and had to do Galveston
,areheaded for a time. The mu-
licipal government insists on a
proper observance of the Sunday
tatutes, and for that reason a
lace where hats were for sale
vas hard to find. Finally the
Jack door of a barroom that car
led straw hats as side line was
ound slightly ajar and a deal for
last years straw was soon con-
animated.
A man can see more of human
azure at Galveston beach than
ny where else on earth. There
GU see the human form divine
nd the human form dive-in.
Iodesty for the time being takes
back seat, while the summer
irl, arrayed like Soloman in all
is glory, (nit) and her beau,
l low neck shirt and high neck
ants, go Sin the swim" Some
Iothes appear to hang on hickory
mbs-but then aDDearaDcas are