The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17
HURRY'S DAYOF TRIUMPH
TT CAME WHEN THE BRYAN SPECIAL
CAR LEFT HIM BEHIND.
He WAS Left Clothing. hut
Reappcared i'm More than ORR
entail MagniRcence.
New York sun.

Ographer smiling eXpansiVely, dlo you ever
hear about the troubles of Hurry Peter
son, the special correspondent of the Mid
die states Daily Whoop. who used to travel
with Bryan? lie was the most spectacular
IL left person that ever 1 hope to see.
Hurry was not an individul who was given
TO being caught mapping, though. If ne had
been he would never have got out of the
situation so easily as he did.
Bryan. for reasons best known TO the
treasurer Of his campaign fund. did not NJ
dertake to furnish very extensive accommo-
dations for the people who had to go about
with him. Nobody could have been a kinder
or a jollier or a more entertaining travelling
companion than Bryan. but Il was hard
shedding on his train. We suffered from all
stages of economy during our travels.
Sometimes We got down to the point where
we had only one stateroom car. Bryan used
the stateroom and the rest of US camped in
the berths and we ate at the way stations
as best we might. There were just about
as many of US as there were upper and
lower berths. and sometimes it was neces-
sary to sleep two in a berth. All this was
highly unpleasant to Hurry. 1t was alto
gether too much like travelling in a cattle
car, he said. He was especially disguised
at getting-up time in the morning. he al
ways worked until after midnight, and he
dANdNo ndA ~ 6OOA hA1AAg A-AC1 -
around town after midnight, al OF which
made him disinclined for early rising. Then
the early risers used up most OF the towels,
and when he got up the dressing room was
In a frowsy condition., which was highly
distasteful 10 one so fastfdious. Worst OF
all, he frequently found that the water IN
the tanks had been exhausted by the early
risers.
"One morning in Indiana he woke to a
realization of the fact that he was the last
man up. but he comforted himself witt the
reflection that he could go back into the
next car and get all the water he needed.
The Bryan car was attached for one day
To a regular train, on which there were a
number of Pullman cars. Hurry made
careful explorations and discovered that
the dressing room of the Pullman ahead OF
the Bryan car was at the rear end, 50 that
he could go from one car to the other with
out being seen by the passengers In the
Pullman. He was dressed only in his I'M
derclothes. one isn't always conventional
in dress in a car used exclusively by men.
TO his great delight he found the wash
room of the Pullman empty and a great
supply of water in its tanks He reveled
I'm Ii. He filled all the bowls and stopped
from one to another in delight. He spent
an hour or more at the job. When he was
quite satisfied with his appearance he pre-
pared to dazzle the deniZens of the Bryan
car. He gathered his things in a bag and
marched out Of the Pullman.
A PREDICAMENT.
"He found himself facing. not the lit
tered-up platform Of the Bryan special car.
DQJ q lovely ldnuSCdDts III III lhlAiACuAdtC
foreground of which was a high trestle.
1t was a pretty scene. but somehow Hurry
felt lonelier just at that moment than he
had ever felt in his life before. The seem
cry didn't appeal to him. He realized with
a horror that grew and grew as he thought
the situation over that the Bryan car had
been detached, and that he was on a regu-
lar train bound for some unknown place,
and that he not only did not have a cent,
but that there was only a suit of thin fan
mel underwear between him and the cruel,
curious world. He leaned against the car
door and thought and thought. He wanted
to jump off and run back over the trestle
and look for the Bryan car. He wondered
how long he would have to stand out on
that back platform. The train crossed the
trestle and dashed by a little gathering of
houses. in the middle of which was a
schoolhouse. Hurry found himself the CEN
ter of more or less attention from a large
number of children and a gOod-loOklng
schoolteacher, and ne came to the conclu-
sion that it wouldn't do for him to stay
on that platform any longer. He hastily
retired to the Mushroom, which seemed
hateful TO him now, though but a few min
utes before it had seemed the most lux
urious place in the world.
ITO him sitting there disconsolate came
the colored porter. He viewed Hurry with
petite astonishment and seemed TO be wait
Ing for things to be explained. As quickly
as he could Hurry told his plight. The por-
ter was a man of great courtesy and no
little self-control, apparently, for he never
seemed the least bit surprised or amused.
IL was as if partly clothed strangers
walked into his car from nowhere every
day:
told his tale. how far back was that Bryan
car dropped OFF,
. That Bryan carp repeated the porter.
We left that some fifteen or twenty mile
back down the road
Where is this train going?' I don't re-
member the name of the place the porter
gave. but we can call IL JenkintoWn-
:" L thought. said Hurry. not without a
feeling that he had been defrauded some
how. that the Bryan train was going 10
lit was. sir said the porter. but it is
going to one or two other places first, and
dropped of to go by another road.
Then said Hurry, W. will get TO the
same town they do after a whileg
"tYassir.
And we are likely to get there frst?'
Have you an extra pair of trousers?'
.Nossir. answered the porter. L amt.
but maybe the conductor he has
= You go and get them and a hat and a
coat and a pair of shoes, said Hurry. and
I'll make a rich man of you when we get
.'The porter went out and was gone a
long tine. When he came back most of the
train crew came with him. They were not
all of them so polite as the porter. partic-
ularly after they found that the porter had
made a mistake in suppOsing that il was
Colonel Bryan himself who was the victim
OF the divisior OF the train. But among
them they had a hat and a pair Of rubber
BOOTS anu a White NuCN coat WIFI IuilNfan
Company buttons. There was no. d pair
of trousers in the collection. This was a
serious omission. II seemed TO Hurry, but
the rest OF them did not seem to see the
serious side of it. The train conductor
finally suggested that perhaps the engineer
might have an extra pair Of overalls. He
went forward and then came back with a
pair OF wonderful sky-blue things that he
had borrowed from a man IN the mail car.
Hurry rugged himself out in these things.
and. though he was not beautiful. he was
at least decent. The Pullman conductor
offered him a berth in the car, but Hurry
said ne understood there were ladies IN the
car and he guessed he was very comfort
able as he was.
LIVELY TRANSACTIONS.
LUST how Hurry squared matters with
that porter l 90 not know. lie certainly
had no money 20 tip him with. but l sup
pose he arranged TO do it by mail. Anyway.
when he got 10 Jenkintown Harry found
that the Bryan train was not due for an
other hour or more. he also observed that
the neighborhood OF the station was pasted
over with advertisements OF the Forepaugh
show. Hurry was very strong with that
show. He used 20 have something TO do
with Il and they can't do too much for him
now. Hurry went into the saloon nearest