Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-04-20
WHEN. BEAUTf>DfD
TREAD On DUTY
Twenty-Five Pretty MaIdens They
We're, With Nc Tickets For
the Conductor
Should He Eject Them?.-Beine a
Plain Tale Of How the Plain
Path ST a Railroad Trains
Chief Was ClOgGed by Smiles
and Teasing?


With twenty-five pretty girls on one
side and his duty Oh the other, Con
ductcr Charles + Batchelder of the
Northwestern railroad this mornin!
ram against a proposition which almost
brought out his resignation
Batchelder has a reputation for per
forming his duty in requiring passen
gers to pay their fare, with a fidelity
which is almost painful.
This is the reputation Batchclder ha:
obtained and his name has been noisco
10 the uttermost ends of his run Whit
coming into Sioux City this mornin;
a loevy of twenty-five girls, apparent,
a delegation of some sort, boarded TIL,
train at Sloan, la There was on
| thing noticeable about them; all wer
very good looking while one or tw
made men gasp.
/ IN SPITE OF HIS CHARMS.
Conscious of the Importance of hi
position, Batchelder trundlcd up TIL
| aisle of the car and, in that charmin
manner which train conductors alon
possess, asked for the tickets III
| tackled the two prcttiest first.
| "rickets'' said one, why we hav
no tickets"
And we haven't any money to pa
for them either" said the other, The
both giggled Batchcldcr passed or
evidently intending to settle with tn
two later. He tried the next two.
",Tickets9" said the next, "why w
have no tickets
And we haven't any money to pa
for them, either, murmurel her com
panion.
Batcheldcr passed his hand over hi
forehead and went on. The next tw
he asked gave the same answer an
Batchclder grew white MI down TIL
aisle he went until he had asked TWEEN
ty-lour.
NO PAY, 40 RIDE
The twcnty-tifth could only laug
and wave her hands in despair a haz
idea that some one was 'guving hil
fitted across the brain of BatchelClel
But his duty doomed before him. If
passenger could not pay he or sh
would have to walk. Twenty fou
graceful maidcns crowded around him
The twcnty-lifth lay back in her sea
and laughed.
Mister Conductor they chorusce
please, good Mister Conductor Won
you let us ride We are all orphan
and we have no money
81 am honest, but poor, gurglcd
little damscl "If ] cannot pay you
money will pay YOU, anyhow"
| With these words she offered him n,
/ powder box Others offered hat pil
4 and one a veil
Good I5atchelcler startc,
and then he stopped
Sec here, ladies, he said, his di,
nifty returning to him, pay or &c, off
His hand moved Ia tho bell rope. br
al the cntrcatng looks he lowered
again
DUTY s PATH WAS nusEr
Can't VIC travel on our faces" the
begged the men say NC are rathe
good looking
llalf a dozen commercial travellers i.
dorse this statement and said I'll
country was going To the dogs who
Ipretty girls were not allowed to trav
free They thea told the other pas.
/ ongers on the train what was going o
and Batclcldcr began to blush as II
found himself the center Of a crowd
! Still, there was his duty
OH must get of at the next ST;
ton, = he said with emphasis, "a fare
a fare to the company"
But by he time the train arrived d
The next station the twenty-hfth. VII
had been laughing in her scat, pre-
sented him with twenty-five ticket
while the commercial travellers roarec