Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1913 — WHO WERE THESE RENSSELAER MEN? [ARTICLE]

WHO WERE THESE RENSSELAER MEN?

Story Printed in Lafayette Tells of Hardships Which Two Men Had Last Thursday Night -iri -■: xZijjfL -=£- ""■ .St’. Lafayette Journal. Albert Marcus, who was coming down from Chicago Thursday night to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Marcus, happened to look out of the car window about twenty miles south of Rensselaer and discovered two men clinging to the .hand rails between two coaches. Conductor Charles Moore was in charge of the train and Mr. Marcus called his attention to the two men. Conductor Moore opened the vestibule doors and admitted the men to one of the coaches. They were 'almost exhausted and it would have been impossible for them to have clung to the hand rails much longer. They had intended to board the train as passengers, and reached Bensselaer just as the train was pulling out. They caught the hand rails between two of the coaches and planted their feet on the lower steps, thinking that some of the train men would see them and open the vestibule doors. They rode for twenty miles before they were accidentally discovered by Mr. Marcus.