The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
A DOG AND 4 PIPE.
True story Related by n Recent Guest
of the City.

William Townsley, who represented the
Grasselli Chemical Company, of Cleveland,
at the manufacturers meeting here last
week. was fond of telling an especially
thrilling story which went the rounds.
Some time ago" said Mr.. Townsley. 81
got on a train at Erie, Pa, and started
for Cleveland. When about half way TO
Cleveland a woman got on the train with
a small pet dog. She was refused admit
tance TO the ladies' coach with the dog and
the brakeman finally suggested that she put
the little creature i'll the baggage car. She
Indignantly scorned the suggestion and was
finally told that if she wanted to brave the
discontinue that she might find i'm the
smoking car she could sit there with the
dog. Giving the brakeman an indignant
glance she walked into the smoker. She
took a seat just behind a husky looking
commercial travellers who was smoking a
pipe. After they had gone a little way the
woman, half choked with tobacco smoke
from the mans pipe, leaned ever and in
dignantly exclaimed: Sir, you are no gem
tleman.' The man took the pipe from his
mouth, looked around at the woman and.
after giving her a good, long stare. re-
marked, is that SOP He reasoned that as
the smoking car was made to smoke in
anu IL TIE MOlildH Hdu IO DuSlileSS InGTG.
she could stand his tobacco. After this
reasoning he placed the pipe in his mouth
again and began to pun great volumes of
smoke. The woman became almost speech
less with rage. She stood il as long as
she could and finally her Indignation got
the better of her discretion. She deliber-
ately rose from her seat, reached forward
and grabbed the pipe from the mans lips.
Before he could recover from his aStOnish-
ment the woman threw the pipe out of the
window and coOlly settled back in her seat
,~I HoUon rnrcGofn0 1nUnrr Tho rnr~.Ts--
man, as soon as he could recover from his
amazement. stood up and gazed at the
woman long and critically. In all his life
he had never been subjected to such an
~indignity. He decided TO not stand ii and
deliberately grabbed the dog by the neck
and threw it out of the window. The
woman screamed as the dog went sailing
through the window and declared that the
man was an absolute brute. In a short
time the train drew into the depot at Cleve-
land. The wOman her eyes flashing fire
ried from the smoker and ran smack into
the arms of 2 big man who was evidently
her husband: The travelling man came
along about the same time, and the woman
pointed him out. That man-that man.
she almost shrieked in her rage. pointing
toward the travelling salesman, that man
threw my dog out the window The hus
band glared at the traveller and then
started for him.
Sir he exclaimed. catching the travel
er by the arm, did you throw my Wife's
dog through the Window
"'Sir.' replied the travelling man. shaking
off the irate mans grasp, IF that woman
is your wife l certainly did throw her dog
through the window At this the hus-
band struck the traveller square in the
face. Then they began TO fight and a crowd
gathered. Finally the depot police sepa-
rated them and the crowd dispersed. The
husband, however, had not received salts
faction and IN a few minutes he and the
man who had insulted his wife were fight
ing again. 1t looked as If some one would
be badly hurt and people were beginning
TO get anxious when some one shouted:
Look what's coming Everybody looked,
and what did they see?
well. what did they see?' breathlessly
inquired one of Townships auditors.
''What did they see? Why. they saw the
little dog coming into the depot carrying
the mans pipe in his mouth"