Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-03-18
Train Hog Must
Go From Texas
The Man Who Takes Up
Three Seats With His Bag,
gage on a Cheap Ticket Will
Have to Pack His Trunk in
Future

The train hog must so In roNao. ac
corl'ns 10 he general pass niger AMI
baggage agents, This species of the
pork fariiy which travels In passen.
ger coaelts. 0as caused i great deal
OF complaint of late and tn, officials
have doomed him for extinction.
STRINGENT instructions have been Civ.
en- To 'silroad conductors 81 so,ne OF
the trunk lines. and the general bag.
gage agents al their meeting will take
up the subject Of curtailing the am.
cunt of bagg lge hat may be carried
in coaches.
The facts are, according to one Of
fetal, that The present train rules are
really am"le as they prohibit en-.
croachment on the rights Of the travel
Ing public by any selfish individual,
could they be enforced. The code is
to Ne strengthened. 1t is figured that
the carrying capacity of cars is de.
creased ten to twenty per cent by rea.
son of selfish travellers who insist on
occupying two or three times as much
space as they are entitled to.
The present train rules of most
Texas lines prescribe that a passenger
may carry only such packages or
grips into cars with him. as will in no
ways interfere with the comfort of
others or lessen the seating capacity.
The custom has prevailed so long of
allowing a man all of the seating CO.
pacity he cares to occupy with his lug
gage that many regard It a right be-
l)nsiEg to them
y Tar climbs aboard with ,wo q
three grips, selects the best seats,
faces two of them. occupies one side
with his grips, throws his overcoat
into the other and then saunters into
the smoking car, where he sits, thus
ap%propriating five seats to himself.
Women enter and seek for seats. II
the car is filled they may have trouble
in finding a place to sit. The grab of
the train hog is respected. His mort
gage on four single seats is undisput-
ed, Each may have to take a seat
remote from the other, separating
themselves from each others society.
The train hog has things all his own
way as a rule. If the attention of the
conductor is called he may be forced
to give up a part of the space he has
staked out or some gritty passenger
may assert his rights and force an an
trance.
Frequently a man will enter a car,
seat himself in the center OF one seal,
stick his feet up on another and then
add force to his claim by pretending
to nap.
Women sometimes occupy much
more space than they are entitled to,
especially If they have children that
are riding free. A woman with two
babies will occupy seats intended for
four persons. and SO forth and so on.
Trains through from the coast are
expected to reach the city tonight.
w l.. Essep has been appointed
general brennan of the Ration shops.
t LpN A1n11nnn tho COR aaEnDntHT.
has returned from a visit to southern
Missouri.
Tim O'I.eary, special agent for the
Santa Fe, reached Las Vegas from The
south on his travels last evening.
All freight for points east OF La
Junta is being held here for the pres
ent. on account OF the La Junta rail-
road yards being blocked.
Conductor Hawkins has been as
signed to Conductor Cramer's way
car, while he is manipulating the
ticket punch on the Santa Fe branch.
Arthur X. Jaquay. who has been
foreman of the boiler shop in Ration
for the past year or two. has resigned
his position to accept the general
~'foremanship at Atchison, Kan.
r. Meredith Jones, Of Las Vegas,
locating engineer for the Santa Fe,
was in albuquerque between trains,
en- route to Los Angeles, where his
family is spending the winter.
The mother of W. X. Brown. div.
ision freight and passenger agent for
the Santa Fe at FL Paso, died Recently
at Los Angeles. Mr.. Brown and his
father left for that place on receiving
the sad and unexpected tidings.