Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-21
TWITTERTNG GIRLS STOP HERE
Covey of vasar DamSels Make Things
Interesting at Union Station.
THEY ARE AFRAID OF INDIANS
Enroute East from Yellowstone Park,
They Stop Here Long Enough to
Put station Master to ROut
with Questions.

Chatering like a flock OF magples, as
happy as so many larks, as pretty as a
cluster of pinks and as brown as a bunch
of berries, twenty-five Vassar girls flut-
! tered off a privats car attached to the
Billings train on the Burlington road when
II arrived from the west Sunday afternoon.
For half an hour they remained in Omaha
and when the Chicago train came along
| from the west, their car was attached and
they were whisked away, leaving behind
| the pleasant memories of their short visit
and a whole lot of rays OF sunshine that
they had scattered about the station
About a month ago, twenty-five Vassar
girls determined to visit Yellowstone park
and at the same time get some Ideas of
the great and glorius west. A car was char
| tered, provisioned and equipped for the long
| journey. 1t was to be a female party and
no man, other than the porter and train
conductor, was to see the interior OF the
car. This was the order and it was obeyed
| religiously for even here in Omaha, no
\ male person was permitted TO take a peek
inside that car, not even for the purpose
| of seeing how the girls live when they are
| on the road.
Hardly had the train stopped at the
! Omaha station before the Vassarites hit
| the platform. There was bevy of Mays
and Maudes and Minnies and Kitties and
Rosies and they were all seeking informa-
ton at one and the same time. II was
the first stop of any length that they had
made since leaving the park and they
wanted to know everything that had hap
pened
Joe Mix, passenger director at the Bur
lington station, is recognized as the most
authentic walking encyclopedia in existence.
usually being able to give correct informa-
| ton upon every subject from railroading
| to theology but for once he was stumped
by the Vassar girls They formed hollow
| square about him and piled him with ques-
tions that no living man could answer, and
they came with the regularity of shots from
a Gating gun. For a while MIX tried his
best TO answer, but he was forced to capltu-
late. and throwing up his hands, admitted
there were some things he did not know.
Bessie Spreads Alarm,
| In pairs in trios and In quartets, the
| damsels spent most of their time walking
up and down the station platform A
bunch of them tried the viaduct, seeking
to get glimpse of the city.
It was while uron the viaduct that one
charming little brunette. who answered to
the name OF Bessie" under her breath
remarked:
Girls. I don't want to go any farther
away from the car, for there might be
Indians around here" and approaching an
expressman. who was looking for trunk
to haul in a frightened tone asked:
Say mister, are there many Indians
around Omaha"
The expressman was game and, seeing a
chance to have a little sport, answered in
a slow and measured undertone:
Lots of them Just half an hour ago !
saw 100 OF more coming down the main
street They were in war paint and armed
to the teeth. They were shooting the win
dows out of the sixteen and eighteen-story
fCont,nu.d on L,if,b p..oN