The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23
A RAILROAD MANS ROMANCE.


A RAILROAD MANS ROMANCE.
Loves Young Dream Broken by n Freshot,
Blue Jeann. ana Gum Boots.
Fright here, at this placid spot in the his.
torio Delaware Valley" said Col. ]. p. Nc
Cam, travelling passenger agent of the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company. as tho Erie train
was approaching Callicoon, II had On adven-
ture that for q time promised to leave a va.
cancy in the passenger service Of my company.
1t happened when 1 was somewhat younger
than 1 am now and:had. a right.to.b be moved by
| the rcumstance that led to the adventure.
1.-The lady In the case was visiting at tho
house of q friend Of mine up the State when /
met her. She was a charming girl. and when
she started home a week or 30 later I got per
mission from her to call and see sher ct her
fathers house.
awe live near Callicoon,' she said. DO you
know where Callicoon isl'
81 knew where Callicoon was, and II I hadn't
known where Csllicoon was I'd have soon
found out. A month passed before 1 had an
opportunity to make the call, and then, having
business along the Erie road, I stopped Off at
Callicoon. Charley Newman was agent of the
Erie at .Callicoon then. asked Charley, in q
careless, Off. hand business like sort OF way, II
he knew where Mr.. So-and-So lived.
"'Certainly,' said Charley. Hes one Of the
best farmers around here. Amt going West,
10 her
"'well.' said I, 4 don't know. He's been
writing about land aloug our line, rates, 60,
and 1 thought I'd go talk him UP, incidentally,
on my way East
OF want to know said Charley. First ia
heard of it. Sorry. Why, yes, joe. He lives
only a couple Of miles from here
81 didn't know Charley as well thon as I did
afterward. I don't wonder now that his COM
pany jumped him from ticket agent at that
backwoods station to city passenger agent In
charge Of things at Jersey City; .
Whereby / get a rig to drive to the old
i'Charley showed me where to get a rig, and
when 1t was ready no said:
"'oh "9 mo-, II / said az 70 1--WE T %Su %ii8 i hear ' q putting
you to that trouble
Seems to me that I remember now that
leading from the station toward the Sullivan
county hills, and l asked Charley IL 1 had to
mo said he. It's right on the road
~ got in the buggy and started ! ,.. .,,.
It's over yonder on the Pennsylvania side Of the
"toh,' said I. Where's the bridger
There amt any BRIDGE said Charley. You
II looked at the river, which wasn't far away.
w WGra.n Vas siVef iitt IsG matter er" Of fordin my rive river oi IN
comparison with the circumstances that had
called me thither. l thought OF Leander and
what he did once upon a time. and said, Coed
1.-THE horse started.
Let him pick his own way the liveryman
hollered after me-, Don't pull the lines on him.
He knows the path. u,,,o 1o.,,ouo... c.-
ley. But 1t amt more than an ordinary
treshet, i guess
II have to confess that for a moment I wished
that l hadn't stopped over at Callicoon, but l
put such a base thought aside at once and
went on. The road led straight into the river,
and the horse went confidently forward. We
were half way across, and the water wasn't up
TO the horses knees, Then 1t began to rise
h b! her w II kept On 'Fh riSi horse! i . s IsSs %sr the en hubs b;
sight. 1t came intothc wagon. | stood up on
The seat; It reached nearly to the top of the
The light buggy began n to Q, feat, tPa climbed
water covered the horse. l grabbed him round
the neck. The water rose TO his cara. Then
only his nose was, out, and that was out only
no was swimming. The shore was yet a long
way off. Then IL was that l momentarily won:
was thankful that there would be no widow to
mourn my untimely taking on, Just as ! had
TTiy t hsu only Ip s hhS @' nd 'r reae in' and sHiae tha Si'q TS
reach that one within the next minute or SO,
the horse struck BOTTOM, and we were soon
through, from head to foot. / had scarcely
got W Inc BFouhu "heh houru'sCouihR from u
S%H::Heii-o,o.o, Joe.
81 turned, and looked back across the river.
There stood Charley Newman on the bank,
holding his hands to his mouth like a speaking
""Yforgot to tell you,,' he hollered. that I
guess she amt home, l think she went east
on No. q this morning!'.
"'Then Charley turned and went back to the
station and never looked. round at me once. II
would take too much time and require the re-
production of language out of place in a draw
Inn rnnm pnp IN fell Won what my fanlinpya
and how on "a gave she expression re- ISnt 'S So them for a few SS
and by l concluded that the best thing |
could do would be to drive on to the farmer's.
stay there incognito until could got my clothes
dry. and then return by some other route II 1t
took me the whole week to do 1t,
"im glad she isn't home / said. I'm a
n" %i SOON Fes sca%p the / g I house o and nnay; was sab about to
boiler for the farmer or tho hired man. when
from the other side of the road came this,
o course, l needn't tell you that the voice
was hers. She hadn't gone away that morn:
ing on No; 9 at all. Did J. fall I'M, No. but |
say! Didn't 1 have to stay there until the next
afternoon rugged out in, a pair Of the hired
mans blue jean o%yeralls' one OF his hickory
clothes were not big enough for mot Yes, sir.
1t took all that time TO dry those things of
mine. She tried to make everything pleasant
for me-, but i want to tell you that blue jean
belong In the same class with loves young
S SssrSS Been an Sn ssSFs w SiEhss AK Chan use all dsS s9% fiss'
again Ssa a. / S called d for pG my 66eesrsSe.' The SiSe&0i hS al
gone Down meantime and got back to CALI
LIDO 10 conclude to go wsstT' asked
and / asked Charley II he'd go over and look
right there that II any charming girl should