The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-01
WHEN IS AN AIGRET
OUT OF PLACE 4?
Answer-0n a Port Huron Limited
Car, of Sunday Night-No
Room for Ornaments.

This is the tale OF an aigret and the
anguish 1t suffered while coming down
from Port Huron on @ d. L r. Sunday
night limited.
The proud frall thing tremhled with
happy expectancy on the top OF a
voman's iur hat as she stood in the
crowd al the 81. Clair station await
ing the CLEAN af the Detcoit hmited's
headlight.
Eftsoons the headlight flashed. and
then the car flashed by the platform,
packed full and showing green for
second section.
The aigret waited in stately COM
posture. No. pulled in directly.
some so or 80 passengers stormed the
steps fore and aft. Detroit limited, +"
eawled the conductor, standing room
only Yea. even for aigretN Tho
slender spotless thing surgeG into the
car with the rest II the crowd and
tried to get into a corner, but the pIo-
cess OF packing half a hundred pas
sengers INFO a car already full, was too
much for its frailty. II was jammed
against a parcel rack and one of its
tiny stalks suffered a compound frac-
ture.
Still the aigret felt that II was
standing IL as well as the rest, for
everybody from St Clair was stand
ing; SO were the unfortunates who goJ
on at Marine City. Anchorville. New
Baltimore and Mt Clemens.
The contents OF that limited had
pemmican beaten for a compressed
novelty. Not a novelty. either, but
Sunday night staple in D. L. r. ter
ritory
Finally, by a miracle the lady under
the aigret got rear seat. Men on the
ID. L. Il. limiteds so hate 10 see a
Woman standing that they have 70
close their eyes. The crowd behind
IL extend "a TO the rear platform-Or-
ganized itself into a flying wedge when
the car svayed. and somebody's elbow
broke the back OF another fuzzy stem.
MANY were the backs that were ach.
ing. but this was the only one that
was actually broKeL)
Then the conductor fought his way
through the aisle, helping himself TO
tickets as eagerly as If the passengers
we're getting something for their
money lie hung his lantern over the
passengers heads-that being the
only unoccupied space ayailable-and
the aigret feared that a holocaust was
10 be added TO the other horrors.
But il wasn't burned 10 death albeit
It was seriously bruised again when a
woman tainted ana had TO be carried
20 the rear door. thereby causing 40
little discontinue 10 the passengers
who was taking their weight of their
feet by sitting on the platform. II
was a beautiful signt-the snowfiakes
and the d. L. r. patrons quietly Gov
eriug the stern OF the car like a
blanket What happened to babies and
&C. people Of refined sensibilities in that
car, is another story. But the aigret
was a poor bruised and broken beauty
when the unpacking took place at
Woodward-avenue.
And the fate Of the aigret on the De-
tioit-Port Huron limited is the con-
mon fate of all VINO come back 10 town
I in D. L. r. cars on Sunday nights.
Human beings and ornaments alike
suffer from the kind OF traction genius
.
where there ought e be three or four.
The human beings don't care evil
IDENTIFY. for they stand It like the dumb.
sad-eyed travellers In cattle car; like
the sheep before her shearers that
opens not her mouth, they offer no pro
test against this Sunday night out
rage And the suburban newspapers
believe IN the conservation Of their
mileage books
But its tough on the aigrets-ths
being a poked and jammed member OF
standing committee OF 100 in a car
ltuilt for 60-and they feel all broken
IuD about il. Indeed, the long suffering.
down-trodden aigrets bristle mp in all
their fuzziness and declare they are
willing 10 take their chances OF getting
seat and a few cubic feet OF fresh
air under public ownership.