Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-17
sTbLLED ALL HIGHT
FAR OUT III COUNTRY
Some Two or Three Hundred VI
B. & A. Passengers Slept on
Cars.
TROLLEY LINE BROKE
Altar Seyea Hours Il Torture UBdar
Barber Shop Tenars Arrive 10
Baltimore,


Between 200 and 500 men. women
and children arrived In Baltimore
yeste rday morning after an eight.
hour trip from Washington They
were neither Wsnderlusters nor sui
frsge hikers. They were not trying
to raise the walking record Far
from il. They were just plain, mat
ter.oi-fact travellers only they
were very angry.
The sll-night party left the Capital
Sunday evening in six detachments
on as many cars Of the Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway. II was not q special exeur-
sin, nor was it intended that the half
dozen squads should overtake each
other, but they did and thereby
hangs the tale
The car carrying the first consign-
ment Of pilgrims left Washington
about 10 o'clock II was due at the
Liberty street terminal about II 80.
At least, so said the timetable. The
car vas near Lloyds Station, speed
ing along gaily Dt the rate of 30
miles an hour, while the travellers
gazed out upon the escaping landscape
in It's mantle Of white, or amused
themselves holdingshands or matching
uiekels, according to the taste and
fancy Of the traveller, when there was
a spluttter Of sparks, the lights went
out and the car was stopped.
The conductor Gained the fears of
the feminine passengers and assured
them that there was no danger The
trolley wire had snapped from the ex-
IRENE cold, he said. mo, he could
not ssy exactly when the trip would
be resumed, but it would not be
long.
The passengers settled down TO
make the best of il, Half an hour
later a second cav arrived and also
stopped. This had a tendency to re-
vive the dropping interest Of the first
detachment, while the conductor OF the
second car reassurS his charges and
said the wait would not be long.
Then, at regularly half-hourly inter
walls, other cars brought up in the
rear of the first, until there were six
OF them in a line As each new car
arrived, the passengers were told
there was no danger and that the wait
would not be long.
AS the hours dragged by AID the
town of Lloyds extlnguished its oil
lamp, the marooned passengers began
to feel a sense Of loneliness. In fact,
az one of the survivors expressed il,
Crusoe and Friday were like an all
night session Of a lodge Of Elks COM
pared to the way the travellers felt.
Several volunteer quartets struck up,
as they always do in time of great
mental stress, but they only served to
arouse the watch dog at the station,
whose efforts to initiate the barber
shop tenor We're so uueanuy that an
undertaken in the party said it re-
minded him Of his business, which
was not pleasant as he had gone 20
Washington entirely FOR pleasure
About 2 a. m most Of the p8ssen-
gers had succeeded in making them
seles comfortable beds, and many Of
them slept till o'clock in the morn
ing. when the arrival Of the "trouble
car, with a gang Of men to repair
the broken wire, was greeted with q
shout. Soon after that the trip was
resumsd. and the travellers arrived in
Baltimore about 6:4b.
The comm snts Of the passengers as
they alighted at the terminal were
varied ana interesting. Harry Kirby,
1913 North Eutaw street, said that il
oue-night stands OF theatrical troupe
were anything like his experience he
intended to suppress his yesrnings
for the tootlights. Other expires.
sions were more forcible and conse-
quently unfit for family newspapers.