Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — RIDES on a pass [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RIDES on a pass

'This DOG A, PET OF TRAINMEN AND TRAVELERS. .'For Years He Has Been Traveling to ■nd Fro on a Pass Issued by the President.

There 1b a dog on Long Island that nobody owns and that does not want

any one to own him. At the same time he probably has more friends than any other dog In the United States, and he Is believed to be the only dog In the world that owns a railroad pass, says the New York Sun. His name Is Roxle, and uponhis collar is a brass plate with an Inscription which sets forth that he In an employe of the Long Island

railroad and which commands all conductors to “pass Roxle between star tiona. It Is said that this pass was Issued to Roxle by order of the president of the road because a brakeman had tried three times to kick Roxle off tne president’s private car. When the president and his party inquired Into the cause of the trouble between the dog and the brakeman they soon learned the dog’s history, and not only was the dog made welcome to a seat In the private car at once but the pass was issued to prevent any further Interference with Roxie’s peregrinatlonse. Roxie's occupation in life is railroad traveling. How he came to take his first ride and whom he belonged to before that time are both disputed points. Roxle himself 1b silent on the subject, although he can express his opinion of men and things very clearly and can make his wants known. Curiously enough Roxle will never make a return jourpey with the same train crew. After he has spent a day

or so with one of his acquaintances along the road, perhaps a station master or a signal tower operator or a switchman or the postmaster or the hotel keeper, he will suddenly take a notion to go down to the station and meet a certain train. As soon as his train comes along Roxie jumps on board and appropriates any vacant seat he can And if he cannot find a vacant seat he will curl himself up on the floor and dose ■quietly until he arrives at his destination. The moment his station is called he will Junffc) up and get to the front platform ready to make off. After a visit of what he considers the proper length he quietly boards another train and proceeds to some other station. It is considered lucky to have a visit from Roxie. Sometimes he goes back in the direction from which he came; sometimes he goes further along the road. He has "been at every stop on the road from Montauk Point to Flatbush avenue hundreds of times during the last ten years, but he has never been known to go the entire length of the road in one Journey. As a passenger Roxle’s tastes are very democratic. He does not seem to care much whether he rides in the cab with the engineer, in the baggage car, in the smoker or in the day coaches, but he seems to have Borne doubt about the validity of his pass for the parlor cars and seldom ventures into them, although he will enter the president’s private car with the utmost assurance that he will be welcome wherever an officer of the load is to be found.

Roxie.