Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — The Water Boys in Connectient. [ARTICLE]

The Water Boys in Connectient.

The water boy who goes through the passenger trains in Connecticut, with bis pail of water and tray of tumblers, offering free drinks to all the passen* gers, is a survival of the war period. During therebellion thousands of sick and wounded soldiers passed through the State on their way home to be

nursed, and many oi them, their canteens being empty, longed in vain lor a draught of cool water. The late J. F. Trumbull, of Stonington, who was in the Legislature at the time, having ridden on a train in which were home-re-turning soldiers, and noticing their distress on account of their inability to get Water, at once pushed a law through the Legislature providing that all railroads in the State must carry water boys on their passenger trains. The statute still remains in force.