The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-31
AT HOME IN A PALACE CAR.

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Oh Young Coloreo MAN anu riis
White Wife.
For eighteen months Allan Dudley. a
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nave been living IN city resiueHce
which is valued at fifty thousand dol
LAWS ;s titted IN with the most modern
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eon Ve''ieee'' CIV -
big assortment OF valuable soma plate
vet Dudley has as many times been re-
| duced almost to a point of threatened
starvation, and even now does not
know where he will get his next weeks
| food. Dudley is the porter of the finest
| public palace car ever built, which has,
since January rs, 1899, been standing
| idle on a sidetrack In the grounds of the
| Wason Car Manufacturing company at
Brightwood, and he lives in the big
coach, taking care of it and guarding
against thieves, although he has not re-
ceived any salary for two years, and is
apparently forgotten by the company
The big sleeping car was invented
about six years ago by a Boston man
named Harris, and at his order 1t was
l.
liarity is that the berths fold up under
the floor Of the car during the day,
thus permitting the car to be used as a
'parlor during the day. The car was
built to exhibit the invention. and ac-
cordngly, was constructed as a mag
nif1cent hotel car, with every conven-
fence The American Palace Car COM
pany was formed to exploit It, In
charge of Harris with Dudley as porter
the car visited all parts of the United
States and Canada, attracting wide at
tention from railroad men In the
course Of the trip Of the car Dudley
visited Springfield many times In 1897.
when on trip to Montreal he became
acquainted with a white girl, and the
two soon became engaged. The car
then came to this CITY, and the Young
woman followed, and was married to
Dudley soon after by CITY Clerk New
ell, after she had obtained written per-
mission from her parents.
The affairs of the company became
somewhat involved about two wears
ago, and Harris was "frozen ont" of
the management. The car Was sent TO
Springfield to be repaired January 25,
1899, and since that time il has re-
mained on side track in the WATSON
yards in Brightwood because of contin-
ued difficulties among the Stockholders
Dudley and his wife live in the car
which Dudley keeps in good shape He
has never been discharged and is still
in tho employ of the comnanv but he |
has not received anv of his salary of
sixty-fve dollars a month since Nav
1898. He corresponds occasionally with |
the officers of the company who always
give him announcement but no money |
In various WAYS. with the assistance Of !
Brightwood people. he has eked ont a |
precarious living. He does not take a |
regular position. because that would on
tail legally q surrender of his nree,ant |
position. and he might never he able 10
collect his bill TT Ia on1v his careful
watch of the car which has already
heavy loss from tbiavea who |
have made three attempts to break in
and rob the valuables suoh as silver
plate, The car at nreeant ia in nosees-
sion of the WATSON compauv which has
q hill Of thirteen hundred dollars for ra-
nairs on II. The various creditors of
the COMPANY are renreeented nv six
la1yvers in this citv WIN will oil at
taynnt TO attach the car If # 10 avar
taken from tba waeor ororr1s
The car itself is a mapnificentlv buff