The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-13
JULIA.
Her Compromise With the Railroad
Company.

Company.
Julia is the sort of girl who always
breaks an arm or something just before
she goes on a vacation This time she
waited till she got up here; then one
dark night she stepped off moving
train and when the conductor picked
her up she had acquired about ten
bruises and a cash in her chin that will
interfere with the dimples for some
time Some names We're exchanged,
and her friends walked her off
The next day, adorned with a plaster
bandage and tuft of cotton that made
her look like a beared lady, she re-
ceived three lawyers. They all wanted
her to sue the road The most conser-
vative estimate placed the damages at
$500 and one tle-browed man refused
to consider the case at less than $4,000.
/ All this, coupled with her physicians
similar advice, brought her to feel that
she was not the idiotic idiot her rela-
tives had insisted she was, but an IN
jured individual, the victim OF a grasp
ing corporation, and the thought OF the
two stitches in her chin made her feel
more injured than ever. So she gave
the matter into a lawyers hands and he
proceeded to get UP a case.
Julia never knew before what it was
to feel truly important. She was inter-
viewed. and every day she had her
wound dressed and new bunch of cot
ton planted on her chin and she llmped
perceptibly. Her lawyer said they
would ask for $500 and he encouraged
her so literally that she began to feel
sorry for the defenseless road.
When the day of settlement came ana
Julia, and her lawyer were ushered into
the railroad lawyers Office and she
saw the thick pile of papers headed
with her name, her first qualm came.
The railroad lawyer was so ominously
pleasant that for the first time in her
life she sympathized with mouse.
He not only referred in the most open
manner to her wound but treated the
injured chin in a jocular manner
throughout and Julia was too conscious
of her ridiculous tuft OF cotton TO
blame him. AT the end of five minutes
she was horribly and palpably bluffed
and, with his minor success achieved,
he turned to her lawyer and informed
him that there was no case to discuss,
that he had examined the papers and
found the road liable at no point.
Julias heart turned over with shame,
but her attorney, with brazen GOODNESS,
inquired if it was not the conductor
duty to keep people from walking off
moving trains.
Probably this young lady would
have thanked him." said the guardian
of corporation interests, In the case
of another woman we might have had a
damage case on our hands for an at
tempt at hugging her"
Both the men smiled and Julia lost
faith forever in the honor of her highly
recommended lawyer. She also realized
that her native idiocy was still present
and that only a hopeless imbeeile
could have been led on so far as she
had been, suddenly she came to, with
a start. The railroad lawyer had
offered to clear the whole thing away
with a free gift of $25. Her lawyer
had risen, so she staggered blindly
and unrcasoningly to her feet she
almost fell down when his demand for
$500 crashed ON her ears. She did not
blame the other lawyer for smiling at
the idea. She wanted to scream with
laughter,
TN make it $685. said the railroad
man, and if that won't satisfy you.
Wen stand for lawsuit
1T won't satisfy" said the relentless
man beside her
'"Then wen have the lawsuit" said
the great official cheerfully.
Julia crept out, dazed and ready to
cry. They had said she would have
to have a lawsuit. She didn't want
lawsuit. She only wanted to get home,
away from all the men who were going
up and down the corridors. She was
lonesome. She wanted to see a woman
and she only saw hundreds of men,
and she knew every one of them had
heard about her attempt to backmall
a great railroad, Her lawyer was say
ing something about going back and
Offering to settle for 49, unless she
wanted a lawsuit and she scraped up
voice enough to say that she didn't
want one, and then he disappeared
and she was left all alone. After half
an nOuT ne CdltlG DUCK anu SoIu Ppp N"p
all she could get and she said sh'd take
it. She had to go into the room again
to sign some papers and the railroad
lawyer was sitting there with the same
smile on his face. He had her check
all made out and as Julia took it he
felt exactly like some whining charity
child And Julia is nothing IL not in
dependents While she was getting her
check cashed her lawyer Swallowed her
as if he shared the railroad lawyers
opinion of her general untrustworthi-
ness. After she paid him and her doc
tor she counted up. She had exactly
$2.S5 left and she decided that 1t wasn't
worth it. She went home and dragged
the cotton Whskers off and resigned
herself to be laughed at. The cut is
getting along very well, and by de-
grees her self-respect is coming back
She has almost concluded she had
case after all, but that the other man
was better at a four-tlush game than
she.-Chicago News.