Sharp County record., 1911-12-08
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There's a man on earth whom I'm
hoping to meet some day" mused
the girl who likes to talk Hes the
president Of a railroad don't care
so much about merely seeing him as
do about cCnversng with him, |
should be satisfied with saying
few things to him over the telephone
if | couldn't do any better!
1T isn't that | want to rage at him.
| want merely to assure him that |
am filed with the deepest admiration
for any human being with nerve as
colossal and a contempt for his fellow
man as sublime as are his!
He runs the railroad which is the.
only means Of getting out OF my sum-
mer resort All during the season |
heard vague rumors and rumblings
Of discomfort from the floating popu'
lation at the inn who, Of course, were
obliged TO escape by rail, In an in
dolent fashion | learned that nothing
ever occurred on that road In the
way that it should. People rather
inferred that the train crews sat up
nights planning new and ingenious
ways to upset the schedule and keep
people waiting.
ITO be sure, it was annoying to
have to take a train at II o'clock at
night. but we got to the village by
dark and had our dinner. The bus
left at for the station mile away,
so we went in It, Three OF Us could
kin time easily, we said, We sur
vived the blighting depression Of the
village station for half an hour and
then We took walk 1t began to
rain
"On going back we heard the bag
gageman saying that the train was
forty minutes late, but that sleeper
would run down from somewhere else
earlier and we could get aboard that
and be picked up later by the train
In half an hour the report was that
the sleeper was delayed by sand
slide on the track, We had talked all
we knew ard were getting to the
point where we eyed each other with
growing dislike.
"A woman with five small children
added to the Joys of the evening be.
cause If one child cried all the rest
piped up, and If they all stopped |
think she must have pinched them to
start them up again.
"Then Harry Gilfist burst In upon
his wife and me to report a lunch
room a block away, We fed to It,
and started in on ham sandwiches to
XIII time. We ate sandwiches with
deadly seriousness, and then we be.
gan on the Gagged apple pie and the
petrfed doughnuts, Harry reported
that the main train was two hours
late now, because Of washout,
"The rain poured down, The sta.
ton agent slept on the table The
baggageman said terrible things out
loud to himself and demanded to
know how any man could live on four
hours sleep a day and why was a
railroad anyhow? Mrs GIlAst and |
sat hunched up In a dry corner and
yawned and Strengthened our hair
irritably 'Whadyu say?'
Down the track two men were
carrying lanterns close to the ground
In waverlng way, 'Wha.they doing
Mrs, GIlAst demanded, GROSSLY,
They're searching for the train, my
dear told her soothingly, They
think maybe they'll find It slipped
down crack where the rails Join
Don't be silly she snapped I shall
die II cant go to sleep' And the
rain poured down In the miserable
black silence, We could hear the
agent snore,
"There isn't any train, there never
was train and there never Will be q
train on this line Harry GIlnst
chanted mournfully. They put ~
this station Just as an ornament and
added the ticket agent for a touch OF
realism, II he had Gothic nose
| now
1.-THE sleeporll get here ot
o'clock they report said the desper
ate baggageman, "l'll resign tomor
row.,
"And we have to get up at G. salt
Mrs. Gilhst hollowly, oh, how those
ham sandwiches made me feel'
AT 10 minutes after 2 train am
bled In from somewhere, and, reelIne
from wearIness, we dashed to The