The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-13
baby TAKEN AS NAIL
TWO-YEAR-OLD CHILD SCOOPED IN
WITH A LETTER 80.
POUCH
CAUGHT ON A FAST TRAIN
One of the Recent Patent Mail
Grabbers Lands the YOungster in
the Car I'm Perfect Safety-Queer
Occurrence on the New York Cen
trail Railway Near Cannndaisua
Keeps Railroad World Laughing
rom the Rochester z(NJ.Y.) Times.


From the Rochester z(NI W Times
When they get my new mail catchers
working on all the mail cars in the country"
said Moses Moseley, the mail man, to the reg
ular ROSTERS around the stove Of the branch
postot1ce at the Central depot in Rochester
N. J.. your Uncle Sam can save the money
that he spends now for the damage done to
railroad property by the pitchfork and batter
ingram mail catchers that he uses, ard blow
1t in for civilizing the feconcentrados and the
FilipinoS and the Porto Ricans and teach
them to wear red neckties and plug hats
he can. Dgee, and get a good rake-off at
that Those old-fashioned mail catchers are
man,klllers, and no mistake. They're just
as likely to grab hold of the freight house or
a baggage truck that stands too close to the
track and pile it through the mail car door
as they are to connect with the pouch. 1
saw one OF EN- grab Ed Parrish's old setter
dog that was hanging around the depot at
Spencerport lift him up, an sling him clean
through both doors out at the other side of
the car. When he came down he lit plum
In the middle or Eds greenhouse and spoiled
couple of hundred lights of glass and a
whole swad of rosebushes-hgih- priced ones.
too. Ed got big bunch of money out of
the government for that. The blamedest
caper l ever heard of one of the darned
things cutting UP was back about six years
ago, when 1t stole Philo Bakers two
Peanut branch of the Central That was the
unit PhIio used to fire for Ham Burdick
between Tonowanda ard Canandaigua on the
Feanut. Every night about O'Clock Philo
used 10 go through Wheeer's on Mo- "a, that
carried the mail. Thirty-four didn't stop at
Wheeler's. but it took on mail there with
the catcher. and Philo's wife-they used to
i've there-would bring out the kid and
stand with him on the freight platform and
get wave from Philo
HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN.
AS luck would have it, old Bob Hicks, that
used to keep the Trout house at West Boom
neid, mad been expecting visit from his/old-
est girl, who married chap from Michigan.
she hadn't been homo for close onto three
years, and that fall she started regular
round OF visits. She had her boy with her,
ana, funny enough, he was about years cd,
same as Philo's boy.i Bob and his wife had
never seen the kid. They stopped first to see
some of Bdb's relatives that lived In Canaan
daigua, and Bobs daughter wrote to him from
there, saying that she WOULD send the baby 8
carnage on certain train from Canandaigua,
ana come up herself with the boy COUPLE Of
days later She toids Bob that she'd put the
carriage In charge of Jack McWHllams, the
mail agent on No. "a, who was an old friend
OF hers, SO as to save expressage on the car
rage. Wen, 1t CAME along to the night that
Bob's daughter was going to. send the car
rage. When No. "a hustled down the grade
toward Wheelers depot, about five minutes
behind Time Phlos 'Wifeqwas waiting with the
kid, as usual, on the platform. There were
one or two of her friends there, and she got
talking with them and Swapping gossip until
the kid, that was just about cd enough to
toddls around by himself, got away from her
unbeknownst, and walks up to the freight
platform. that was. three feet or so higher
than the platform in front of the depot. Well,
pouch that was swinging from the holder.
when No. "a whistled for the station. Mrs.
Baker looked around for the boy, but the
pouch hid him so she couldn't see him. Philo
leaned out of the cab with his bandana
a-fying and no couldn't see the kid, either.
SCOOPS TIP RARY
Consequence was that the mail catcher,
realizing that its mission was to grab every
thing within reach, no matter what is was,
seooped up pouch. baby and all. And the
train went on just the same. 1t was q dzrned
funny thing. but what between the dust ana