The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-02-28
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The approaching Pullman car por-
tors are the recipients OF good
many knocks from press and public.
but they are not the worst. in the
WORLD, " remarked commercial travs-
.eler to Washington Star man.
.They may have pretty fierce way
OF drilling for tips, but when 1t comes
Is the matter of honesty know one
OF them that's there with the goods,
. the saying goes. =. - i :.=;.%. !:
/: II left San Francisco, or, rather,
Oakland, on the Santa Te line for
Chicago at 8 o'clock in the evening
couple Of weeks ago last Sunday.
The gang that I met in Frisco had
been rather too enthusiastic in Civ
ing me : good time of it out there
On the day $of my departure, 30 that
when woke up on the train along
toward o'clock the, next morning
the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm
and my coppers q whole lot warmer.
The nearest, in fact, the first stop
at which 1 would have q chance TO AK
those hot coppers out was Mojave,
and so I hustled into my clothes to
be ready to hop of the train during
the stop at Mojave for one of those
katzenjammer alleviators.
II asked the Pullman conductor
how long the train would stop at
Mojave, and he replied that the stop
would last ten minutes. I raced into
the station cafe when the train
pulled Into Nojave, and instructed
the man in charge Of the bar to rig
me up one Of those long, long damp
thin 30! ! He went at the job in pref
ty scientific manner, and the piece of
wet work that he set before me was
q "a Re thing to find right alongside
Of the California desert. It was such
: fine and effective creation, in fact,
that I asked him to frame up an
other one, and I got away with this
with equal Joy. Then leisurely
strolled to the door to take a look
ct my train-and saw the end Of it,
curling away in the raref,ed distance
on it, way toward the land Of the
rising sun. II had pulled out without
notifying me. I hustled into the
ticket Office to ask the man in the
window when I'd be able to corral
another eastbound train, and he said
that it 'ud be along at o'clock the
next morning-the mate TO the train
that had departed without me; there
was only one Of the overland ex-
presses per diem. So there I saw my
self stuck in. Mojave, CAL, the most
miserable little sand dune on the
globe, for full ,twenty-four hours.
: But that wasn't tne worst of It.
I had left my Gladstone bag wide
open on my bunk, with my wearing
apparel thrown around the section
every which way, and in the bag I
had placed, on the night before, $500
in gold coin, the stun being too
hea w to carry around in my pockets
with any comfort. -
live got q chance Of getting the
'ag back said to myself, but what
;he black porter'n do to those $500
y gilt money will be something
3 voopingly scandalous.'
II had no idea on earth that I'd
sTer see q dollar of that money. I
figured It all out that the porter
would corral tho money and then
stun my wearing apparel into the
bag and hand It over to the conduct
pr: knew then I wouldn't be able
70 prove any such fact that I had
700 in gold money in the bag. and
1 gave it up for gone. told the
sltation agent at Mojsve about the
beg, and he Immediately telegraphed
70 the next station to be made by
ny lost train along tho line, q place
aslled Barstow, N. Mex, directing
that the bag be shipped back to Mo-
tve on the west-bound overland.
! The bag was returned to Mojsve
On the west-bound late that night.
and: eagerly opened it up to see
what I had left in the bag. Every
thing was there, including the stack
Of gold money. counted the gold
roll, and it amounted to an even $3.50
The porter, felt certain, had appro-
priated just one Of tho SO gold pieces
to compensate him for his trouble
in packing the bag, and I afterwsrd
found out that was right in this
supposition.
:, II caught the train east on the FOL-
lowing morning, and when 1 got to
Kansas City I got OF to take bit
Of rest ct . hotel. As I. was get
ting of I met the porter OF the train
that had left Aojave without me. BE
was walking about the station, wait
ing to 60 aboard his car for another
western trip. He saw and recog nized
me a. soon a. I recognized him, and
he grinned broadly when he saw me.
J. T.. Boss, said he, coming over to me,
All suah did look eve'ywheah TO- dat
pthuh ten: dolluh gor piece, but All
suah couldn't fin It nowheah,' and
then he: burst into q happy darby
laugh and slapped his thigh joyously.
told him how welcome he was to
ma GIN Snioco that hA ha1 v>}nnhn1 .,,A,