The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27
Experience of a Man Who Went t.
Bed Before the Train Started.
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1O:45-Ah. this is delightful. There is
nobody in the upper berth; the night is
just cool enough for comfort, and I'll
have over four hours of good, solid
sleep before the car starts.
1O:56-They have run a switch en-
CINE up beside this car. and it is blow
ing off steam with a roar that would
make Niagara sound like the humming
of a mosquito. 1 wonder why they
don't save their COAL
11:Ol-They are now ringing the bell
on the switch engine. 1t sounds as
il it were about five and One-haf
inches from my ear
11:I4-Bim, That was an awful bump
1 guess / was doing. I thought for
minute that we had been wrecked.
They must have let a freight train
get loose and bang into us. Another
shock like that. and my heart is like
~ to jgmp Nhe fence.
1I-16-We're moving. l can't under
stand il. The agent said our car
would stand in the yard till 8 o'clock.
Oof, Confound it, what are they try
ing TO do with us. anyway? We must
have run against stone wall.
11:29-NVish I hadn't come in so early.
What a beauty Grace bennington is
and as clever as she i pretty I might
have been with her instead OF wasting
time in this stUffy car for the past
hour too, I'm Rocky Mountain
sheep if they haven't run that switch
engine up beside Us again. ] wonder
why they keep ringing the COMPOUNDED
bell, They certainly can't be afraid
of running over people while the old
machine is standing still at this time
OF night
1i:40-No use / can't go to sleep
here They've run the switch engine
away, but that fellow in the next
berth IS going to die in a minute or
two. No man can use his breathing
apparatus to make such sounds as
he's making and live. I wonder If he
has wife and family tn be a sad
task To break the news TO them
11:53-Oh, heavens. but this is lovely
The conductor and porter aye now
quarreling with somebody about his
ticket. I was just going TO sleep, too.
] wish 1 had sat up and smoked.
12:07-At last things are quiet. The
porter has turned down the lights.
Now for a good, refreshing sleep I
need il. wonder If Grace bennington
IS liable 10 get stout in her old age?
12.2f-Cm-mf Heavens. We must
have been run into by the fast mail
that time. I hope nObOdy's killed. It's
that COMPOUNDED switch engine. 1t has
come back and hooked onto US. L Won
der where were going now? Oh. we'll.
7 don't care much. Danger and death
no longer seem terrible TO me. Maybe
they're going TO shove US into the
roundhouse. II they'd only keep the
car moving 1 believe I could go to
sleep easier than when it's standing
still ] wouldn't be surprised If Grace
might get rather heavy after she's 30
or 20. Her mother must weigh at least
10 pounds.
12.33-Bang. once more. I'll bet the
man who's running that switch engine
never had hold Of a throttle before
But perhaps his brake is broken, so
that the only way he can stop is by
running against something. I'm so glad
got mere as soon as the car was
opened. II would have been pity II
I had missed any of the refreshing
rest I'm getting.
12:49-Im going 10 report this con-
ductor. / don't believe the company
pays him merely to stand in the aisle
and gossip with the porter while pas
sengers are trying to get the sleep
they've given up their cash for.
1:O2-There It is again. The switch
engines got back. Oh. toot. dad burn
YOU. foot, You cant disturb me any
more by blowing your whistle than
YOU 10 by ringing your boil. The next