Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1914 — The Sleeper. [ARTICLE]

The Sleeper.

“European sleeping cars are very dear—s2o a berth, in fact—but they afford you the privacy of a bedroom.” The speaker was the well-known comedian, Raymond Hitchcock. He resumed: "Our sleeping cars, while comfortable enough, afford no privacy. Comfortable as they are, it Is very hard to sleep in them. “I was traveling one night Chicagoward. The berth above me was occupied by a 300-pound broker. It was Impossible to slumber anywhere within a half-mile radius of that broker, and at about two in the morning I climbed up to him, took him by. the shoulders, and shook him rudely. “ *What z do you mean,* he growled, ‘by waking me out of a sound sleep?* “ ‘But it’s such an ugly sound,’ said I. ‘lt’s such an ugly, horrible sound that we other passengers positively refuse to tolerate IL*”