Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — Twenty-five Shoeless Passengers. [ARTICLE]

Twenty-five Shoeless Passengers.

St. Paul Globe. An amusing contretemps, though an awkward one for the persons principally interested, occurred on the Milwaukee train to Chicago one day last week. It was the regular train leaving St. Paul at 8 p. m., and arriving in Chicago on the following morning. One sleeping car leaves St Paul with the train and goes clear through to Chicago. Another is added at La Crosse and dropped off at Milwaukee. It had become a habit with the porters of the two cars to take the shoes that were to be cleaned from the forward car to the rear one, where they would converse while on the necessary polish. On the particular night referred to both the porters had been regaled rather freely with drinks from traveling flasks. They fell asleep over the shoes, and when the car was dropped off at Milwaukee two porters and all the shoes belonging to the people in the forward car were dropped off, too. The, spectacle presented at the Milwaukee depot in> Chicago when the train arrived was, to say the least an unusual one. Twenty-flvs shoeless passengers k ieked vigorously for their brogans, and a big crowd, had fun with them. The railway, management was equal to the occas- 1 ion. A shoe clerk was promptly on < the spot; every man, woman and child was rapidly measured, and in less time than it would seetn possible all those passengers were newly shod at the expense of the Milwaukee© Railway Company.