The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-29
TWAS JUST AWFUL
Dilemma Into Which Two Minneap,
oils Young Ladies Were y.
~-E -. ..@-s. .
~ Drawn Monday s:
M. & st. L. :"Flyer'' Helped Them
Out by Backing Train -.
.~ Six Miles.

Minneapolis: & St. Louis flyer" flew back
ward for six miles Monday morning on its
Soon after: leaving Fort Dodge the con-
ductor heard tapping, "as of someone
gomsn rp9Rs d b d Nor Of c5h
ductor," chirped a face looking out thru a
low lace curtain, you are the conductor,
aren't your g.. ~ =,
The captain of the train assented. ,..
We'll, we've forgot something, and it's
dreadful. There's two Of us, you see,'' re-
piled the face in the lace. And tho the con-
duetor ..c couldn't see-he replied in tractable
Is Eyes, and we can't come out either. We've
done our hair, but we can't come out! The
very ~ ideal Quit laughing, deatr =
to state that this appeal was not directed, to
himself. It was a STACEY aside. to the one
1--WE were going to run right back across
the platform there the little passenger con-
tinued, projecting a round chin towards the
open door nearby and its sunlit vista of dis
appearing ties. 1t was the last end of the
last car. "But when we looked out there
wasn't any place to run to-only think!' =
After thinking, the man in blue suggested,
"But there's plnety of vacant seats in this
sleeper. You can take any one not occu-
pied" .-... 49, --.:....
:" Deed we can't! Why, you should just
haven't anything, that is, hardly anything
well, we aren't dressed, you understand. We
leftoeverything3over there!': '@ n,
| lover where?" --..-.- @..,. r.. =.
WHY, don't know myself; it isn't any
where that can See.
"Well, ladies!" resumed the conductor seri-
ously, "Would you mind starting over again
| and tell me just where you came 'front.' =
The giggling halted also. and the answer
was almost plaintive: Certainly; we came
| from Minneapolis" - -.
''But this morning. mean d g.
20 yes, this morning; why, we started from
zouE s1eeper: and all our clothes are in there
our umbrella and our books and-Oh, every.
thing simply everything, -except-well, il
don't matter what. We've got ourselves here
mostly. And we simply must go back!'
+ The same idea impressed the conductor
Ewho, with on eeye' on the landscape, reflected
that his train had Travelled six miles since the
prisoner began to explain.
| "But, ladies''-in his most official accents
This is the flyer you see: We are MAKING
your sleeper, the Omaha sleeper, was cut of
at Fort Dodge UP the road. If you'd only
gone to your own dressing room!"
I eyes, If we only had, but it was full. But
| -surely-'The face grew red and wrinkled
| the gray eyes winked tears. ttYou aren't
going to = keep = us = away from-our-
| clothesH' -...- ,s--- ..,
Then into the conductors mental vision
| flashed, the company rule s'Notwithstand.
ing the abov erules all trainmen will use thei1
! best judgment in important emergencies .
| He pulled the bell cord signalled "bacl
up. and. went forward to inform the en-.
| gineer. The train hurried backwards to For
Dodge. and the sidetracked sleeper, and thu
Misses Luella Cotter and Olive Arthur O.
Minneapolis tripped across the platform Xix,
shimmerng FAIRIES, to a sweet reunion witt
their things So - = 80"