The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-02
HIS new YEAR ON A PULLMAN.
ALBANY MAN WHIRLS JOYFULLY
DOWN THE HUDSON.
Had the Car All 20 Himself and Made Merry
With Ills Imaginary Guests -Bousht
Refreshments for Them at u
keepsie His Greeting To Sing sing.

keepsic His directing to Sing sing.
An Albany man who had fairly flooded
the old year out with spirituous and malt
liquors came down TO New York yester-
day TO finish up He didn't let the trip
interrupt his festivities. He held n recep-
ton for imaginary friends in the Pullman
car. Ellerslie, all tho way down. The
trees. telegraph poles and mountains all
going the other way didn't improve his con-
dition Except for two porters, who seemed
nervous, the Albany man had the Ellerslie
all to himself for most of the trip. The
other passengers who had paid for chairs
vent forward into other cars, They didn't
go because the happy passengers little
reception annoyed them but TO keep warm.
By some oversight the Pullman had been
attached to the train at Albany without
being heated The temperature was s
below zero in Albany yesterday morning.
The temperature of the car was 20 when
the train started and it gained a degree
every fifteen miles. II was SO when the
train got to Forty-second street. But
the Albany man didn't mind that. The
last thing he needed was a high tempers-
ture even If he was in evening dress after
sunrise.
f1Is TeCepVon IN u1e CIR WHS opcncu
with an overture by himself. He had,
among other things, a harmonica, and as
the train rolled out of Albany he began to
play a medley. Then he pranced up and
down the aisle Of the car shaking hands
with imaginary guests In the chairs and
wishing a a very happy New Year.
He was painfully polite. Every time he
lurched too heavily against tie arm Of a
chair he would apologize for the next two
miles TO the occupant that mons but he
could zee.
Ii was m express train. and that both
cred him some. He wanted TO stop at each
village long enough to wish all the inhabi-
tants a happy New Year. That was what
he had planned to do whom he left Albany,
and he told the porters all about II
But at Poughkeepsie, ten minutes for
refreshments.- he let loose all the BON
gratulations tbst had heen pent up for
seventy-fve miles. He congratulated
everybody in sight at the station and Wits
pered IN zach girl behind tie ten-minute
refreshment bar that he loved her truly.
This stop at Poughkeepsie enabled the
passenger to make the last hall Of the rde
and reception more interesting. He bought
a dozen cream cakes and a dozen oranges TO
take aboard the Ellerslie and then ran for
the train.
Plenty OF time. sah, plenty OF time
said the porter who had seen the purchase
OF the cream cakes and wouldn't have cared
If the Albany man had got left in Pough-
keepsie.
Thank you my boy hank YOU said
the man. and he rushed back, bought an
other dozen cream cakes and then got on
the train.
lie wanted every one TO have q cake,
including the porters and munched three or
four himself without improving his looks.
He called il a light collation. and It was
followed 10y songs and recitations by the
host. He had evidently been reading A
Million Gems FOR Defamation. " and couldn't
remember the whole of any one Of them,
out he filed in, though
After bowIng down both sides OF me car
ne began:
$50 live that when thy comes
YOU will be a dead one Applause and
shouts OF go on" by the speaker
This wa followed by more pieces with
now and then a song and a cream AXE
The train went through a tunnel and
all vac dark but not still
hOllNt NtilSu wv ibll' laon'lAbtis Nhth
you pay that gas hill2 They've gone and
taken the metre out
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apolos zed TO Molly and every chair. lie
also thought 81 a drink. another drink. and
started fprW ard for the buffet car. That u
lust what the porters had been on the watch
for They stopped him gently 81 the door
aud he invited them to come and drnk
with him.
$50 buffet car on the train, sab said
one - &C. porters, lightning the new year
with a '
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