Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-06
HERE'S A HOWDY DO
Mr.. Geo. A. Norwood Arrived
Honle Wearing Another
Mans Shoes.
And His Experience in Getting Them
Makes Him Guilty Of Contribu-
tory Negligence In the
Premises.

For weeks and months, measuring
in its backward sweep the lapse OF
years, The Argus has been insisting,
and punctuating with pointed in
stances our contention, that the sleep
ing car operated by the Southern Rail-
way on it's eastbound night train,
which arrives in this city at an early
hour in the morning, should be main
tanned on said train into this city, in
stead of being cut OFF at Raleigh, as is
the prevailing rule.
Passengers on the above train-No.
112-for Goldsboro and through pas
sengers east, north and south, taking
this sleeper at Greensboro at an early
hour in the night, are awakened from
their sleep and routed out of their
hunks at an unearthly hour in the
grey dawn, or earlier, at Raleigh, and
hustled forward into day coach, %
while the Sleeper" with its sleepers
for Raleigh undisturbed, is cut off and
side-tracked in that side town.
The Argus has always contended
that this should not be; that this
sleeper should be maintained on to
this city-the longer route passengers
being given the preference, as is their
right, over the side-town passengers
The ethics of travel-the underlying
principle of quid pro quo-demands
that the travelling public whose route
extends the furthest should be given
this service to the limit, and for this
The Argus has ever contended, and
continues to sue.
In the meantime cumulative evil
dence sustaining our contention has
been forthcoming as regularly as the
train itself. The latest along this line
is the instance recorded in the head
ing of this article. Our good friend
and habitually sober townsman Mr..
George A. Norwood, travelling from
| W1nston-Salem last night, arrived
home this morning wearing some 9th
er mans shoes two inches too long
for him, and all around too big in
proportion; and his explanation of how
he came by them and into them, while
it explains, is certainly by no means
calculated to be satisfactory to ths
other fellow, who was left shoes pre-
sumably as proportionately too small
| for him as are these too large for Mr.
Norwood; and the gravamen of the
| latter's mistake lies in the fact that il
his first reach for shoes, in the gloam
ing, he got hold of pair Of women:
shoes, which he readily discovered h'
could not get his feet into. This, WI
unbiasedly suggest, should have pu
him on his guard and made him mor'
careful in his second attempt to &c
possession of his shoes, and herein lie
the gravamen-as the lawyers say
of his mistake. However this may be
in his press for time he got some othe
passengers shoes as above described
1t is presumed that the other felle1
was some aff1uent farmer (the siz
and quality of the shoes would so in
dicate) delegate or visitor to the bi
National Farmers Congress in RAJ
eigh today; and certainly did he hav
to get out in his stocking feet, or tel
ephone some city store for a pair c
shoes ''his size"
All of which goes to show that tn
Southern Railway should run tn
: aforesaid sleeper on to Goldsboro, fo
l the greater comfort of the create
: number Of the travelling public