Show PERILOUS RIDE OF TWO BOYS ON EXPRESS TRAIN determined to see mother in hos pital they travel between tender and baggage car utica N Y As the empire state express from the west pulled into the depot people on the platform were treated to a surprise behind the ten der perched on the front end of the baggage car were two small boys hanging on tor dear life when the train stopped detectives landers mason and shay ran to the front end but the two waymen step ped off as familiar as the rich stepped off the rear end of the parlor car the two lads stepped up to one of the yardmen and asked it this was new york the men looked at them in surprise the police officials took the lads in charge and heard a good story from them they were wet and besmeared with coal dust they gave the r names as george and john stel meyer george Is 16 ears old and his brother 14 the boys said they were from but talo and were on their way to new york where their mother was sick in a hospital at first it appeared as though the boys were shamming but their stories agreed their father died when they were young and they had been in buffalo with a grandmother they received a letter a few days ago stating that their mother was in a new york hospital and they wanted to see her they went to the buffalo depot and were there when the em pire came in and as t was pulling out they got aboard they passed through rochester and syracuse without being discovered at the latter city the engine was changed the lads stepped from their reserved seats until the coupling was made and were in place when the train started george told that they dian didn t seem to mind the speed that the train was making although between syracuse and this city the train made better than a mile ner minute ha said he thought they had run in to a flood when the engine began to take water while running at full speed and the water came out ot the top ot the tank and soaked them to the but they were game and did not move for if they had they would have been ground to pieces under the wheels ol 01 the fast train the risk that the lads took was something that the most experienced THE LADS CI TO THEIR UNSTEADY trainmen would not relish the space between the tender and the car Is hardly a foot wide and it would be most uncomfortable tor a person to sit there for any length of time it was certainly a hazardous ride the of heard the story of the boys and had pity upon them the railroad em aloyes took them into the office of tha wrecking department and they were washed up patrolman wryght sent them to the ponce station where they were fed and stayed over night and were later assisted on their way |