Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — TOOK THE CAR. [ARTICLE]

TOOK THE CAR.

How Two Englishmen Succeeded In Getting Lower Berthe. There is a decision and energy about Englishmen sometimes which arouses admiration, says the Los Angeles Herald. A case in point occurred on Monday. Two men, whose clothes, monocles and accent forcibly announced their nationality, called at the ticket office of the Southern Pacific Railroad and asked for two lower berths on the train to San Francisco. “They are all gone. You can have uppers, though,” was the response. “Oh, no; doneher know me friend is beastly ill, and he cahn’t go unless he has a lower berth. He must have one, doneher know?” The agent was sorry, but as he only had upper berths, he could do nothing. Then the spokesman insisted on seeing Mr. Crawley, and that official again explained the absence of any lower berth, only to receive the reply: “Aw, yes; but we must have a lower, doneher know. ” “All right, If you must, you must," answered the official. “They will cost you just 8269. We have an extra car here, and can put it in for you at that figure, it upper berths are not good enough.” “Awl Yes, thanks awfully.” They paid the money, the empty Pullman was coupled onto the train, and the boys at the depot say that before the cars left the Englishmen had made the porter make up every berth in the car. They said they had paid for each of the sections and they proposed to cotpe as pear as possible to getting their money’s worth.