Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-09
ALL NIGHT RIDE
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There are some people in Water bury who attended tho bridge cele' bration in Hartford yesterday who had an experience which made much more lasting impression upon them than the ceremonies. The peo- pie who will hold In memory Thufs- day. October 8, 1908, for some lime to come are the ones who left Hart- ford last evening at hye mihu.os after II o'clock and landed m thiS city at 5:30 o'clock this morning A special train left Hartford TOT this city last night at 1O:30, ana 90 large was the crowd on 1t that stanu- Ing room was at a premium. Apous fifty Waterbury people, some oi whom were late for the train, ana others who claim they were unable to reach the train, although they ar rived at the station on time, were left behind. The reason why they could not get tho train they claim was due to the policemen, who locked the doors of the station ana would not allow any more people on the platform. The Waterbury residents found | themselves in pretty predicament.. Alone in great city, where hotei rooms could not be had at any price. | Nevertheless the pleasing announce | ment was made that a train would leave for Waterbury some time dur | ing the night-none knew just the exact time. The men and women walked up and down the platform while trains continued to pull out for almost everywhere but Water. bury. But at five minutes after II o'clock some one passed the informa' tion that it was all right to pile on to train that was going to New Britain and Bristol as 1t would con- tinue on to Waterbury On they jumped, happy at the thought Of arr irving home within couple of hours. But their happiness was premature. The late corners were having merry time of it until they reached Bristol, then something dropped and dropped like a thousand of brick.
 This train goes no further" was what they heard, and they were vamoosed from the parlor cars into the waiting room at Bristol, and 1t was after 1 o'clock before train 1 finally left Hartford and landed in Bristol some time between and 3 o'clock. As it rolled into the Bristol station it seemed to those waiting there not unlike relief boat sent to party stranded on some desert island. All piled on and the party forgot everything that it had al- ready suffered. The conductor was under the impression that he was to pass some kind of a freight train at Bristol and he held the train there for more than an hour. The brake man suggested that they go along as 1t was not quite the right thing to keep passengers there any longer in view of the fact that they had been studying nocturnal conditions for more than two hours. But the con- ductor did not seem to think there was any need of worrying about the | passengers claiming that 1t was | special train just made up to accom- modate those left over and that IL was due at Waterbury any old time | It was quarter after 3 when that train pulled out and it must have gone at least half a mile before an. .l other stop was made.
 | Finally the freight train was passed somewhere along the road
 and from that time on the Hartford special took on a new lease of life
 and 1t rolled into the union station at just twenty minutes after o'clock
 this morning.