Box Elder News Journal | 1910-10-06 | Page 6 | Reason for the Slow Time

REASON FOR THE SLOW TIME irritable traveler may not hot have been convinced but he had to be reconciled the on the alio branch road never wont went very fist fast there bere ero various reasons for this all good ones icv erth erthel eless cB travelers from more populous sometimes expressed forcible opinions opInIon 3 on oil the subject silas wetmore fetn ore 1 aho l 0 o rude rode lack back and forth to tind and front from the junction almost every day took it upon himself to lo pacify such as were unduly disturbed distin bcd by the waits slid and stops of tile the little sawed ofa string of cars one day d ay iy a particularly irritable passenger sat next to 0 o him ile he not only complained that the train was as slow but wished to know ully it was slow w what are wo we stopping for now flow lie he asked sila i looked out of the window this la Is a station lie he said mildly dont see any said the other oil oh there any building said silas but its a stopping place by and by the train went on pres antly it stopped apparently in the middle of a field this thia time the stranger did not inquire into the reason for halting but li it after another 20 minutes the same thing occurred finally he be broke out again ag din what are we stopping hero here for any station heie Is they 0 no o station said silas were stopping tor for water water exclaimed the othir other water why we jus juit t took in water not fro five minutes aw aso what to do you mean lenks leaks said silas patiently and tile the other relapsed into silence youths companion