Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19

the conductor to put It down and refused.
Also. now, after awhile, the conductor him.
sell put 1t down only to find that 1t didn't
belong to the man in the seat at all?
Yes? Well, III bet that's happened q
good many times. l saw 1t happen some
years ago. before was in the seeping-car
service, and was working out of Chicago
as news butcher. The joke was on the
train conductor. and everybody laughed
right hearty, of course, and the conductor
had fit of the sulks which you wouldn't
expect from a railroad man, now would
you?
The new married couples some fun.
but they don't interest me any more; they
are all so much alike. So are their friends
who play smart and tell everybody on the
train that a bride and bridegroom have Just
gone aboard. / can't say that think much
OF that sort Of thing myself, especially the
rice throwing. They don't allow anybody
to get on trains any more with rice II they
can help 1t.
"'Cause why? Well, some fool youngster
threw about a quart Of rice through a win
dow Of train one day, and 1t got into the
aisle. The road was full of twists ana
turns. and the train was fast one. 4
passenger, an old man-rlice old chap he
looked, too-started to go down the aisle to
get drink OF water. Just he reached
the rice the train took a shark curve. Now.
he might have stood the rice. and he might
have stood the sharp curve, but together
they were too many for him. So he slipped
and fell and broke his arm In two places.
suffered compound fracture a doctor
said who was in the train and set the old
gentleman's arm in the baggage car. The
old man was like the woman I told you
about In one thing-he was game.
He made no holler, and he wouldn't stop
over and go TO a hospital as the doctor said
he ought to. He was hurrying east from
California to some place in Pennsylvania,
where his only daughter was going to get
married. He had lost a day already; an
other days delay, he said. would make him
late to the wedding and he didn't mean to
fAf int -f.aya
All the railroad down rico
throwing, you can bet on that"
Graft on Railroads.
Making the passengers show their tick
cts at the gate has just about done away
with any pickups by the train conductors
chimed in the train conductor. because it
has shut off the cash fare. but every once
in while some sharp passenger gets the
better of one of US. Maybe you have heard
of the fellow who wanted to go to Omaha
from Chicago. and had only enough money
to buy ticket to the third or fourth sta
ton out? Well. I've seen II in print. and
I've heard 1t told. but don't know whether
1t Is SO.
This chap waited till he saw man buy
a ticket to Omaha; then he bought his
short single-trip ticket. Then he managed
TO sit in the same seat with the Omaha
man. Taking out his pencil he asked the
Omaha man to lend him his ticket for
minute--he didn't nave scrap Oh paper
himself and he wanted to make a few fig
ures. The ticket was lent and the figures
were made on the back of 1t. Then the
conductor took up both tickets and then
the man without a cent went forward to
the smoking car.
THE conductor remembered him and
later charged him with trying to go away
west on short-trip ticket.
But, said the man without cent, I
gave you ticket to Omaha, and You gave
me a check. If you'll look through your
tickets you'll find mine with some figures
on the back of it
Sure enough, the conductor found the
ticket and he had to carry the man through
to the end of his run, but he was short one
ticket, and he felt sure he'd been done.
you probably have never heard that a
year or two later the man without cent,
having made money meanwhile, hunted up
that same conductor and made good to
him? No? Neither have l, and wouldn't
believe 1t If I had