The Jersey City news., 1903-10-01
September Days Amongst
the Hardest for the
Trunk Tossers.
ALL COME BACK AT ONCE
People 90 Away Gradually
But They Return to Town
in q Bunch.

earlier in the month, the days when the
expressman has, in more ways than one,
particularly heavy load to bear, are not
yet over, says the Newark Sunday
News All day and half the night he
grunts and sweats under trunk after
trunk, and half the night and all day he
groans and swears beneath an endless
torrent Of abuse.
In the last few weteks. hundreds of
Newarkers have returned from the sea-
shore and the mountains, and more than
half of them have brought lot. of bag
gage in theshape Of trunks The hand
ling of all this has fallen, as it usually
does, to the lot of the expressfnan, and
as a result he has haA troubles of his
own. And his troubles this year have
been worse than ever before, because,
as he puts it, most Of them have come
in one bunch
you fellows" said baggage-mover
to Sunday News" reporter yesterday,
don't know what trouble is. If you
want the real thing, juggle trunks at the
end of summer season, and if you don't
go to the hospital or the insane asylum
it will be because you're in heaven, or
some other place"
YES" he continued, as he leaned on
pile of trunks and mopped his forehead,
I'VE drivers are up against it. The
whole thing comes on US in a heap
Everybody wants his trunk at once, and
there YOU are. If we deliver trunk at
midnight We get fits; if we hold it till the
next day we. get rats. It's case of
hanged if you do AMI hanged il you
don't The devil and the deep sea are
comfortable things to be between when
compared with the trunk owner and the
express agent: If we escape one we get
it from the other. Do 30 want any two
legged hosting horses at the News"
office? Do you want men that people
can swear at when they come in to make
a kick? Do you want bouncers? No?
Well, I'm sorry If you want them at
any time just give me the tip and IN fill
your shop with expressmen. They can
stand anything.
You see,' he continued, sits this way:
In the early part of the summer when
people go off to the country they don't
start in bunch. The ybegin to go away
IN June, and one by one or in couples or
families they keep going from the city
right up to the first week in September.
When they go their baggage goes with
them and so instead of having it all in
a heap, We get it a little at d time. It's
different whey they come back. Hun
erews of them stay in the country until
last minute. In a great many cases that
menas until just before school opens.
Then they pack up and ruoh home and
with them come their trunks. The result
is that in the week or two before the
baggage to move. tits dumped at the
railroad stations, and then the owenrs
descend upon US. They want their trunks
at one. Ifthe express agents were an
gel they would be honest, and ifthey
were honest they would tell these per-
sons that an immediateyl delivery was
however. and that means that they are
qualified to serve as silperintendents Of
nendactiy mill. The trunks must be
delivered at once? Very we'll! Nothing
is easier. There won't be any delay Oh
no! Not a minute. The trunks viii sure
" home before the owners.
That settles it. Theagent takes the
trunk checks and the addresses of the
returning Newarkers and then it's up to
us.
# We can deliver the trunks on time
right;h we can't we get you know what
are the agent escapes it ALL If some
one goes to him and kicks he blames the
drivers and promises to disharge them;
and then he promptly forgets his promise
If the trunk owner makes good
hard kick, its dollars to dougnuts that
the agent will blame the railroad com
pany. And there's something in that.
Sometimes the trunk your after Is at the
bottom Of q pile in baggage room and
CANT be got at without moving all the
others, They won't let up pull this pile
pile. apart and so the trunk owner raast
trunk he pitches into the driver that
brings Il. In other cases the baggage car
is filed when the train reaches Loafing-
town and your trunk doesn't come with
you. It may not be forwarded to New
arw for day Or two and just because
We happen 70 have the cheeks, We ret
fits If the trunks are not delivered at
once
Funny isn't II, tliat pp{,blo n,n.t