Evening star., 1933-11-05
HRAINS may come and trains may
60, but the Travellers Aid work.

NSA1A>o illdy IOlllt dIlI u Oils may
go, but the Travellers Aid work
ers are on their jobs forever
L Thus Miss S. Elizabeth Beatty.
worker at the Union Station
Travellers Aid booth, makes parody
of a Well-known couplet by Tennyson.
But one day spent with Miss Beatty
at the Union Station is an explanation.
Let her tell of one days activities at
the Travellers Aid booth
Arriving at work at 7 O'Clock this
morning, I found a note on my desk
from the night worker, who had gone
eff duty Just few minutes before L
left l3 colCred people sitting on bench
c3,' it read.
Two Families.
"A hurried reading Of the organizer
Informed me that the l3 colored people
were two families, one of four. and the
ether of nine: The family Of four.
en- route to Orangesburgh. S. c. Since
their train left at 1875 hastily made
out an order for their tickets and took
them to the train. The other family.
a mother. her seven children and her
mother in-laW. were en- route to Savan-
nah. Ga. They too. needed tickets
But alas, A special delivery letter
which had arrived during the night
had an inclosed chec;. for sos and the
tickets would cost s73 wire was i'm
mediately sent to the agency in Georgia
which had wired the money and re-
quest was made for the difference
Il left the Western Union booth.
after sending off the telegram, but had
not reached my desk when a messenger
boy stopped me and handed me two
kilograms. One was for an appoint
ment for a 90-year-old woman en-
route to Florida, and the other an ac-
ceptance for Tom Jones to be returned
to the State Training School in Maine,
from which he had run away.
Crippled Man Seeks Aid.
"At my desk there was a crippled
man waiting. He said he was on his
way to the Veterans Hospital and had
been told to come to the Travellers Aid
Station. A call was made to the Vet
erans Hospital and they we're asked TO
call for the man He Joined the group
ON my desk there was a wire which
had arrived yesterday from the Ycungs-
town. Ohio Travellers Aid asking us
to meet Phyliss Andrews, age and
a half. wearing a brown woolly coat
and beret. who was en- route to her
grandmother in Florida. The little
girl was being sent there due to the
recent divorce of her parents. Waiting
at the track on which train little Phyl-
iss was to arrive I noticed young
lad standing a few feet away. Just
then my train pulled in and little
Phyllis. the center of all eyes. for she
had informed everyone on the tram
that she was 'ribing all by meself,'
greeted me with a Hello, who are you?
Boy Col.apses.
"As I started back to my desk with
little PhylisS I again noticed the young
lad He seemed to be acting very
oueerly, SO I went over to ask him II
I could help him. but when I tapped
him on his shoulder he suddenly COL
lapsed into my arms With the aid
of a red-cap, carried him to nearby
bench and in the interim the informa-
ton man had called the terminal doc
tor. A porter brought wheel chair
and the boy was rushed to the emer-
gency room. There it developed that
he was a local lad who had spells of
amnesia, so left him with the terminal
doctor and went back to Phyllis, W.lcm
I had left with porter.
And then 1t was 10 o'clock and tlne
to put Phyliss on the train for Jack
sonville. When I returned to my desk
ing there. One man wanted to know
how to get to the Washington Airport;
another man and his three daughters
wanted to know the locations of the
Monastery and the Washington Cathe-
dral and still another wanted to know
where he might find 4 clean but rea-
sonably priced hotel.
Gu. OF Gas.
"A tall blond man of 80 was the
next to approach my desk. After an
interview interrupted by the attendant
from the Veterans Hospital who had
come for the man that I had called
them about, I learned that the man,
whose name was Peter, had just ar
rived in town. He had driven from
Augusta, Ca, with his wife and five
little children. They had arrived in