The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-09

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Gentlemen: Among the innumer-
able abuses which you have habit
uaIlv imposed on the business inter
ests of this community and its yicin-
ity, two pretty long chapters might
very pertinently be devoted to your
freight department. But l forego
the opportunity and the pleasure it
would afford me TO write them, for
the reason that the vagaries of your
passenger service more sforcibly ap-
peal to nv sense Of the humorous
and the ridiculous. l dropped my
subject, in my letter of last week,
while considering the Inconvenience
OF travel over your lines between this
and outside points at LaSalle, and
to LaSalIe ! now return. In fact,
l have been returning to LaSaIle and
getting left there for more than
twenty years.
Now it happens that a multitude
of people living in this county, and
at Greeley. are interested in Morgan
county Morgan county was origt-
nally a part of Weld county, its
numerous bitches and reservoirs were
all constructed by Greeley people, a
large minority Of the shares Of stock
in them is still owned by Greeley
citizens: and not by any means Il
small part of the lands and farms
under them are also owned by Gree
ley residents. Even It's towns were
originally largely settled by migra-
ti0ns from this place. You can
readily see, therefore, how important
it has beeui and even now is, that
communication between the two To-
calities should be regular and your
service conveniently conducted. 1t
has never been so, and to illustrate
your delinquincies in that respect
cannot do better than to cite you my
own habitual experience. 1t is only,
however, because my experience is
representative that it need claim
your attention. Don't mind me.
In the deferential language of our
friends, the Japs, August potentate
high. cOndeScendingl deign my
humble carcass for your door mat
use. And if through what | say
YOU manage to get glimmering
conception Of your duty to long
suffering public l shall be delighted
with my experiment.
: As indicated above l have been
travelling over your short line from
Julesburg and stopping off at La
le-stopping off is the word, and
getting left there was the rule-for
nearly a quarter OF a century. l
made a little sojourn the other day
into the half forgotten past, and as
a result of my Investigations | con-
clude that | have waited at LaSalle
for three months. that | have
travelled hundreds of miles between
here and that delightful rural re-
treat, on foot. on wheel, or by prl-
vate conveyance, or the hack, when
at various times you made no pre-
tense of connections, and enterpris-
ing outsiders, for that reason, under
took for brief periods to do your duty
for you. And let me illustrate with
the incidents which contributed to
their gaiety two trips which | re-
Gently made down in that county.
/ may affirm in passing, as one Of
the amusing phases of your manage
ment, that those of your westbound
trains not scheduled to connect at
LaSalle sometimes do accidentally
connect, while those which are
scheduled to connect then, practi-
caIly never connect. Singular fact
isn't it? Knowing these facts |
tried both trains on these two trips
and Of course got left both times.
1t is more convenient to come home
at night, when down there, if the
train is on time, although it does
not connect at LaSaIle, but | always
carry wheel and do not mind the
distance Of six and half miles.
So on the first trip | came up on my
return on the evening train. 1t
was very late, of cOurse-three hours.
1t was also very dark, and there was
dry wind storm accompanied with
some thunder and lightning. No
conveyance there of any sort as an
alternative, so l mounted my wheel.
But between Evans and Greeley the
authorities had recently been grad
ing tie road, and hadn't known of
it. At the top of the hill just
north of Evans | struck this newly
graded portion, with its six inches
of fresh soft dirt from there on to
Greeley. Well | walked and pushed
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