The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-09-06
BAGGAGE
SMASHING DAYS

.-the seDry Of what The baggage smash
er aid % the trunk was hardy per
ennsa1. ever blooming and unfaibng-
ly appealing hass where Is that story
nov?
In tboes days when the baggage
master wanted 70 eet . trunk down
from the top Of high pile Of trunks
he newer lifted n down. but Just pull
ed It tAr enough inward 10 let gravh
ty eet II and then. with tust the night
sleS on II that v would land on It's
corner. let II fall
And then bassase masters used
simply to push trunks out oi car doors
and Iet them fall any way they vouid.
and they'd tear the straps on trunks
lifting on them. and yahk on their
handIes- all tbsss variations OF the
baggage story being supposed 10 be
funny and oftsn repeated
People seemed never 10 tire OF il
In what vas perhaps It's most favored
form. which told how the bravny bag
gage beaver Afed the trunh b. one
handle and s~HnG Il tEtos around
his head and then launched " on It's
flight from the station platform TO
the baggage car TO land violeOtly
there and AplK vide open and scatter
It's oootsots every where In those
DAYS. indeed. the baggage master was
the b6kgaEs smasheF. and. always pPo-
vided that Il was not ones own trunk
that was thus dsmolished everybody
enjoyed reading he stories told about
this hFavny mans feats OF strength
and destruction. which tormad indeed
4 coospIcnoos Dot the LaAding tsa
euns Of the oomIa lbseraanps 81 tbs
day But whSpe srS tboes stories
now
They vsSa slsed ont 1oF a time BY
baggage stOF+ss a another sort tboes
dealing Dot with what the baggage
srnashes d1d b us tPunA. boa Win
what ths t-unh d1d 10 tbs baegaS.
suAsher rhsSa for iDStaoOA wa
the stnsy widely DeprDeed al the tina
Of the ctS01s man who having hts
trunks smashed MP I'll be vs. tired
d Y ftnAlly nnsd q fyan trunk WIN
boa consersUeWs and eOt-thaa checked
and vhn the bassase snashor had
Enashsd the tyunk The boa construct
OrS tbus released from y wrapped
themselves AROUND and crushed him
And these vas the STORY Of tb<
d1sgruDfbed mining man Woo nnAiiy
nlisd and cbscsed a tyunh Gull Of dy
mantle -the baasaOs usase9 ,vho han
died thst iEpnh nsver bandlnd trunk
ang more And ths gso~y Of a. hum
ouo1s tps~es~ -vho had his tv1nh %
ted vtn enrner pieoes OF peculiar
fy elastic Puboes. 90 that when N.
hasgage master dropped this runl
Oh, Of the car doos 10 tan on . eospes
as be YES snSe % 90. he trunh voult
~ up and biz han uDdsr the chm.
But es4dehtly he trSnk smsshfD.
Story In Shaeeves borm vs. peteyfu,
out vben n cana 70 thu. and soos
theseaftss n passed n. Of fashion snt
ciaAppeaSod entires, pos hoard n
more from thas TO ~ bressnt tine
-P~haps the people bad tired Of II
- thsy do Of all things; psEbap,
thsPe ives less reason for wiring 8,
Trunks came 20 Be better made. 10
one thips. lsss eoSy 10 smash. Ant
Ne sFe generally La9 botsnerous nov
Than We were Inn. things THAI "
seood for End laughed oper then v,
would NOD stand for n&..
w DO smAuy thtns betner nov
and one Of ou many imprO~ement
h. tnuDd IN our mAnney Of haDdiin,
Gunz Ths ,ailyoa6s nov disoouras
ksnh snAshhs land seea 10 des3ve
baEgASe IN the shape IN which u }
reoesSed Not bot that thtnss do bar
pm even nov 10 trunks. but the
dont happsn - thaC used 70.
In fact what WITH the requirement
Of the T1lroad company and his ov-
sense q th1 a,sr and higher art q
: hagSAge handling h.is not oonsidsre
e good torm now for a baggage man {
: smash a trunh He .stffl docs pa
! trunks down from the OPS Of tail pile
, and dsASs trank.AfPn'ear doors an
from De tAtissf v2sos. but no IoDI
~. ~ = rusa. TO Iet them fall on thei
corneTs
-No~ vhSn he poils down OF dfop
D q trunk he 50 mAniputates II IN fallfn
. a. To make It drop not ON a oorns
n b1i sqoarefy On rs end This stir N
contents Of the trunk up pretty VEL
and II may strain the truuh more {
less bat dPoppans 81 squarely on th
end distributes the strain; u doesn
smash The trunk a. trunks WEI
smashed In The old dsyr when the
$ veSe dropped on their corners. In II
T present day. Development of'the ART {
4 trunk handling 60 Smash any bM
d very weak and fragile trunk would I
, Considersd bungfing.
SO umes have changed. and II
old story 10 longer goes The o.
times were brought back TO me yesee
day by seeing a trunk fall on a ba
gage wagon into the street. a sight
confess. that was Joyous 10 Pee
but suppose II Is better as II Is
Many ni,.. q, io.h..n.