Show BUS DRIVER FORGOT I HE HAD PASSENGER A And the Belated Traveler Marveled Marveled Marveled Mar Mar- at Salt Lakes Lake's Distances Say Is this a first class hotel saida s' said a n belated traveler as he walked Into one of uC Salt Lakes Lake's best ieSt- hostelries jl Just t before midnight last night night The lime night clerk started to answer In his best bol manor when the Iho I Late te One apparently gro gron growing n angrier from the tIme sound of or his own voice voicE interrupted saying Yes of cour course e you'll you say your place ia is all 1 right and amid 11 Ive I've Ive heard heald others other speak peak well of it i it too but bui wh why In thunder lion thun der tb do you OU J allow alow your our runners to say a It is on only ten minutes' minutes ride from the tho station staton when you ore are n a n good 1001 three mic miles away and amI it il takes take your blamed buses just one hour by the tho clock to tola toland la land humid a passenger h here lc The clerk showed 81 of oC sighs feigns nervousness nervousness nervous nervous- ne ness s and the tho telephone girl began to sit up and take notice while the time Late Lato One Ono wel went on with wih n a tirade against Salt Lal Lake e hotel lintel s and amid everything everything every every- thing el else e he happened t to think about The Time cl dork clerIc rl finally brul broke e r for Inn an op opening and amI managed to say ay the tho hotel stood just where where- when It I had been for CO the last ten years ears anti and he could walk wik from the station In iii le less hess s than fifteen minutes an any time Moreover he could not understand understand un un- how It could take tho time buan busan bus bits an hour to come up from the lie station You Yell say MY the station tation is right down this next street and amid theres there's only one turn lurn asked time thc Late Lale One Now look 1001 here he continued lets leis cu cut cul cutout out all al this kidding I 1 turned five coi coiners COIners corners cor- cor ners coming up here In the bus and ant we tte might have stopped to lo l let t pas i- i gers gels out at ut one or two hotels before we started on a drive of about two miles mies to this place I was In Salt Sail Sal Lake about ten temi years year ago and I here too but I dont don't remember passIng pass pass- pas pas- pasIng log Ing Ing the Temple or the Yu Young mg monument and tho the Eagle gate to ge get ge here from the Rio Grande staton station Clerk Cleric Made Explanation The Time cerl clerk explained Just how man many blocks the tue hotel was ivas wa from rum the station and reaffirmed th that l ll it was necessary ry to make only one turn lurn to lo get gel to the doors of the hotel The he Late One Ono was cooling off a bit but ho showed he t was still from Missouri Misouri b by asking Say old man are arc you eraz crazy or am I I Y You ti dont don't look like u a liar lar and I know Im I'm Im not whatever I 1 may look hike but hut Ill I'll bet a case of wine that I rode more than one mile mie In that thal bus between here and the station staton Well Yel give me inc a room and anti send a bo boy up with wih a u ln cl clale ale highball and well we'll continue this HIls argument tomorrow No o I dont don't want to leave leavo a call cal Heres Here's the stor story the tha the bus bu driver drivet told Ulti when he lie returned to lo time tho barll after Hc driving about three miles mills to deliver a load oad of oC pas passengers from Crom rein tIme the Illo Hlo Gran Grande Western station to the LIme he prIncIpal principal pal hotels If J I was my own boss os Id I'd ld fire Ore myself myself my my- self Just as ns M soon on as Id I'd put this learn tear earn awa away he wild said to lo the barn man closer I T think Lookin at al It I a little I Id I'd Id do the firm first and let Jet you Pittem put Pitt I em em awa away Im I'm Im I'm Im sure luck lucky that thai tat guy I landed banded at the hotel lintel didn't K J gut t wise for foi hed he'd a taken a shot at me or else come around after acer my job Inthe Inthe in the he morning How JIow It I Happened lI l. l It I all al happened this wn way You F rec roc I caught only six or eight oft off or that last hast train rain trin nn and I missed tho the count on the second stop slop Thinking I had hat nobody for the other hotel I turned for fh the barn Ever had a 0 hunch Well el I Ihu hu had one sure and It made me mo look lookaround lookaround lookaround around just before I got back to the time barn barn I took tool a peep Into the wagon comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- an and there was a gU guy able like and he was his watch up to lo the tho th light to lo see se whether It was of he morning yet et I knew course was vas going to the hotel ItI Id I'd missed EO o oI I whips up UI the lie team and keeps right righton on till til wo we strikes Brigham street streel Then oat east an and around the monument Hoi i Nit j t I was scared to lo look Brigham In Inho Inthe ho tho face as aM we wo cut around and start for tor or the lie Eagle gate gale but I didn't dare dar turn urn until then Well Vei I hope the JU guy Mo for the got jot a n good room roum anwa anyway Ima lay hay too Good night |