Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — They Kept the Door Shut. [ARTICLE]

They Kept the Door Shut.

Stage-drivers among the Rockies and Sieras learn to be as peremptory os they are daring—and probably from the same necessity. They will have their orders obeyed. This is not saying that in the instance here told the Jehu might not have built his soareorow story on some bit of fact. A correspondent of the San Franoisoo Poet relates the following incident of a stage ride through the mountains: We were going to say that on this particular trip we passengers were exceedingly a»neved by the persistence with which Foss, (the driver) demanded that stage-doors be kept dosed, particularly when their b*ing opened caused an appreciable circulation of air. Just as we were rounding a particularly narrow turn in the faoe of the cliff, Foss notioed that the inside door, so to speak, was again being held ajar. Promptly putting on the brakes and bringing his horses to a halt, he descended. “Do you see that rook?" he said, pointing to a huge bowlder ahead that barely left room for the stage to pass. “What of it?” “Only this. Last season a stage was passing that rook when somebody opened the door The door oaught on the rock, and as it opened further it pried the whole business over the cliff. That little speok way down there is one of the hind wheels oaught on a tree. Now will you keep that door shut?” It took half an hour to get that doo r opened when we grot to Oalistoga, every individual on board having separately tied it shut with his handkerchief.