Evening star., 1922-08-13
Heard and Seen
They waited for ten days. from
am. to 8 pm. each day.
Than thov cauOhf hfYnt

They waited for ten days, from 8
am. to pm. each day.
Then they caught him!
| No work of fiction contains a more
dramatic scene than was enacted re-
Gently at the Washington city post
| office.
A married man in another city ran
away with = young girl. The parents
Ut the girl learned that the couple
were in Washington.
7; The man and his wife came here at
once and made arrangements with the
| city post ONCE to keep watch on the
| general delivery window. 1t is not
| generally known. but the ofices of the
postmaster. directly across from the
| general delivery window. are espe-
cially arranged to facilitate such
watching.
| 1t is q known fact that fugitives
will seek the general delivery win
dow. That is why there is an tnno-
| cent iron grating and specially ar
ranged windows across from the gen.
Often postal inspectors sit there.
! day after day. hour after hour. wait,
| ing for their men. The police avail
| themselves of the method, too. For,
| sooner or later, the fugitives Will come
| to see IL there 10 any mail. The place
seems to have a sort OF Fascination
| for them.
That was how it came that the
| elderly man and his wife sat waiting
| for ten long days. day after Gay,
hour after hour. to catch the man
who had run away with tnelr siri'
and also to get their daughter.
Employees Of the post ONCE became
familiar with the couple. They were
| so patient so nice In their general
demeanor and 20 in earnest. Interest
| ran high in the ONCE. .
I'VE Will wait q little longer" the
| man always said. The wife nodded.
yes. we will wait q little longer"
1t was shortly after o'clock on
| zone. only Postmaster Chance and
| his colored messenger were In the Of
A cry cams from the watching
There they are" breathed the
As Postmaster Chance hurried out.
| he saw the father spring out and
grasp a man standing at the genera!
delivery window. The mother had
her arms around young girl. who
="
The glory of the railroads is some
thing the country is in danger OF
overlooking, in all the bother about
the strike. But even a strike cannot
| dim II.
All one has to do is go on an ex-
tensive railroad trip to replenish his
admiration for perhaps the biggest
| thing in the United States. Certain
ly no other work of man comes so
near rivaling nature.
II nature has her rivers, cutting a
continent in two. the railroads have
| their far-hung lines from ocean to
offer their railroad bridges and tun-
nels, and for her vast plains they pa
rade their great yards. overnowing
with freight and refrigerator cars,
seemingly by the mile.
As swift and sure as the flight Of
the carrier pigeon. almost. the mod
ern limited train runs across country.
Like q natural path through the for
est, unmistakable to all who have
eyes. the right of way becomes equal
forms an integral part.
And certainly. for unsurpassed
grandeur, nature offers no thrill COM
parable to what the sensitive may Sc
cure from the passage of the great
limited train sweeping past the viii
lage on its way to the great termi-
nus.
1t is not for nothing that everybody
goes down to the station Ito watch
the train como in 1t is not just
laziness. just the eternal seeking for
something new. Instinctively the
rudest villager recognizes the specta-
Gle as a great one, although he may
express 1t not.
AS the great train roars smoothly
by, something In the spine of the on
locker is stirred, as when patriotic
music causes like sensations. To ride
on one of these trains and see the lit
tie children stand and wave is al
ways a new and great experience.
Custom cannot stale nor time wit!1er
the glory Of the railroads.
CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.