The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-01
WHEN IS AN RIGRET.
OUT OF PLACE i?
Answer-0n a Port Huron Limited
Car, of a 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 a d. U. r. Sunday
night limited.
The proud frall thing trembled with
happy expectancy on the top OF a
woman's fur hat as she stood IN the
crowd at the ST. Clair station await
ing the CLEAN OF the Detroit limited $
headlight.
Eftsoons the headlight flashed. and
then the car flashed by the platform,
packed full and showing green for a
second section.
The aigret waited in stately com
posture. No. 2 pulled in directly.
Some 40 or 90 passengers stormed the
steps fore and aft Detroit limited 20
eawled the conductor, standing room
only" Yea, even for aigretN The
slender spotless thing surged into the
car with the rest 81 the crowd aud
tried TO get into corner, but the pro-
cess of packing half hundred pas
sengers into car already full. was TOO
much for its fra,lty. 1t was jammed
against parcel rack and one OF its
tiny stalks suffered compound frac-
ture.
Still the aigret felt that It was
standing it, as well as the rest, for
everybody from St Clair was stand.
ing; SO were the unfortunates who got
on at Marine City, Anchorville, New
Baltimore and Mt. Clemens.
The contents OF that limited had
pemmican beaten for a compressed
novelty, Not novelty, either but a
Sunday night staple in ID. u. r. ter.
ritory.
Finally, by miracle the lady under
the aigret got rear seat. Men on the
d. L. Il. limiteds so hate to see "A
woman standing that they have TO
close their eyes. The crowd behind
II extended to the rear platform-Or
ganized itself into a flying wedge when
the car swayed, 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
were 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
TO be added to the other horrors.
But it wasn't burned to death, albeit
it was seriously bruised again when "A
woman tainted and had TO be carried
70, h.. M
little discontinue C. the passengers
who was taking their weight off their
feet by sitting on the platform. 1t
was a beautiful signt-the snowtiakes
and the ID. L. r. patrons quietly coy
ering the stern OF the car like a
blanket. What happened TO babies and
tC people of refined sensiblities in that
car is another story But the aigret
was a poor bruised and broken beauty
when the unpacking took place ut
Northumberland
And the fate of the aigret on the De.
tToit-Port Huron limited is the com
mon fate of all who come back TO town
in ID. u. r. cars on Sunday nights.
Human beings and ornaments alike
suffer from the kind of traction genius
that makes one or two limiteds do
where there ought &c be three or four.
The human beings don't care evi-
IDENTIFY, for they stand it like the dumb.
sad-eyed travellers i'm a cattle car; lllj"
the sheep before her shearers that
opens not her mouth, they offer no pro
test against this Sunday night oul
rage. And the suburban newspaper
believe in the conservation of thee
mileage books.
But it's tough on the aigrets-thi5
being poked and jammed member OF
standing committee Of 100 in a car
built for 6O-and they feel all broken
up about IT, indeed, the long-suffering
aigrets bristle up in ali
their fuzziness and declare they arc
willing to take their chances of getting
a seat and a few cubic feet of fresh
air under public ownership.