Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — Kitten Travels to Indianapolis in a Piano Box [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kitten Travels to Indianapolis in a Piano Box

INDIANAPOLIS. —She did not have a ticket or any money, and she did not ’ have a lunch box, and there was no diner attached to the train on which she came to Indianapolis, but possibly the lack of these usual adjuncts to travel

were made up for by the musical environment in which she rode on her way from New York city. Anyway, she has not registered a complaint against the railroad company, and seemingly is quite content as a guest at the L. E. & W. freight office. She came from New York over the Lackawanna line in car 10198, arriving in Indianapolis over the L. E. & W., in a piano box. Of course, a piano box is supposed usually to contain latent musical possibilities in the form

of a piano, but this piano box, as it stood in the freight depot, gave forth sounds such as -no self-respecting piano ever produced. They might beat be described as feline sob stuff. A small opening was made in the box'by some of the employees at the depot, and there came forth, from some small nook where the piano did not quite fill the box, a kitten. She was not much of a kitten as to size, and still leas as to weight, andwen her “meow’’ was somewhat impaired, for she had tha hnx without 1 food and water for three days. , r .... Just how she chanced to be nailed up in the box in New York was not disclosed She did not appear on the way bill. But the fact that she did not have ticket or money did not bring on her small head any reproaches from the employees at the depot. They dined her on milk and other delicacies suitable to a very small kitten, and took her in as an honored guest.