The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-23
EXCURSION OF THE
BACHELORS CLUB
They Take a Trip Down State Ia an
Auto. Have Tire BIoW-outs, Run Into
Mud Holes and Other Minor Troubles.
Arriving there, They Feed on Ancient
Grub.
BY Paddy

BY Paddy
The Merry Bachelor Special, that left
the city the other Saturday, had several
mishaps before reaching their desti-
nation. After getting the baseball reports
at the St. Croix drug store, Fitzgerald, the
engineer, was given the high-ball to throw
the throttle, which he proceeded to do by
giving an exhibition of how they draw wa
ter from a we'll in Ireland-which is by
turning crank-after twisting it till it
pulled like broncho with the heaves.
Mr.. Rosing gave the all board signal
and the NJ. B. S. was on its way.
After eating up space for about three
miles they had to slow up on account of a
wreck on the main line; but after throwing
the switch and getting by the wreck on a
siding and lacking the Ha! Ha! sign on the
back end of the car, so that the victims of
the wreck could plainly see it, they pro-
ceeded to make up lost time. Everything
was running like watch and everyone on
board began to smile at his own happiness
when something happened.
ssDid someone shoot at us?'' asked Mr..
Mcclellan, as he came out of pleasant
slumber. "No," said Mr.. Rosing. Gone
of the tires are punctured, and as you are
the master mechanic of this outfit, it is up
to you to get busy which he did and in
short time the lung power was once more
working, and after the signal was given to
proceed they started on their way and the
Special blew for Lake Elmo station just 80
minutes late.
Lost one hour between Lake Elmo and
Cottage Grove, caused from the lung pow
er of the tire giving out twice. No signal
in sight at this little berg and went through
without being tagged. Everything behaved
pretty we'll between Cottage Grove and
Hastings-only one puncture- they
made up one hour lost time between the
towns, which left them still thirty minutes
late. Got new lining for tire lung in
Hastings, but the dealer saw them coming
and the tube gave its parting gasp when
about FIVE miles out and right in the center
of mud hole, and the Special blew into
the terminus on fiat rim just two and
one half hours behind time. Then the
passengers proceeded to look up food ba-
zaar, but not being satisfied after cleaning
up everything in sight, they started down
the s'main STEM trying to locate some
chicken, but there was nothing doing, so
headed toward hotel and reached the
flop about l G. m.
Mr.. Whittier discovered cat in the
street about Ills and nicknamed it Kittie,
but remembering that meeting a cat is a
bad omen, he turned in a hurry up call |
for the cop to come and pinch the hoodoo;
but Kittie being wise made her getaway
before the cop showed up.
About LAS a. m. Whittier and Nickel
lar felt vacancy near the belt line and
sent Rosing and Fitzgerald out to buy up
all the eats in town, which consisted of |
one pie, one dozen cup cakes and one doz-
en- doughnuts. The pie soon disappeared,
but the other part of the eatables was so
near ancient history that they laid it aside
for future reference.
"What are you going to do with the
doughnuts7'' asked Rosing, as he blew in
on the scene. "We are going to play ring
around Rosing,' said Whittier as he
threw one, and it landed on Rosing's
head.
About 2:15 a. m. Milwaukee RATHER
came in and unloaded a consignment of
which they tried to wing, but
the chickens took flight and there was
nothing doing. Mcclellan wasn't in on
this, but was pounding his ear peacefully
through it all.
Things quieted down about 3 G. m. and
hit the hay, but were up in time
to go to mass with Fitzgerald in the morn
ing at 8o'clock
Just after services and still in the shadow
Of the church Buck and Rosing thought
they saw chance to make good to even
up the night before. Rosing came through
all right but Buck fell down hard.
Mcclellan and Rosing beat it for home
IN the train that night, while Whit
Ter and Buck held down the berg and
trolled into town next day with the Merry
Bachelors Special. K
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