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Show HARD TO KEEP AWAKE. Difficult Task Special- OfficepJBave With Railway Paase'ngeysi v-v (Chicago Tribune.) , FoX disagreeable work in the dine of police1 d a tyy.;it is doubtful if. another man"" in' Chicago Wearing a five-point nickel star is harder up against the proposition than is the good-natured special officer in the Union passenger station, who all night long keeps a pair of gray eyes . wide onen in thi-search thi-search for closed eyes or whatever shade and hue. And more sleepy passengers pas-sengers come into Chicago railway stations sta-tions every day than into any other city in the world. Technically, it is a slight breach of nny man-made rule for anybody but a soldier on duty to go to sleep after 11 j o'clock at night, but literally and materially ma-terially for a passenger intending to go cut on a 10:30 train to be allowed to go to, sleeo at 10:20 o'clock and be left to snore till 11 :4". it is one of the most trying of situations from the point of view of the passenger. ' For this reason it has become th- duty. of the special officer to awaken anybody in the station who may be seen sleeping, and the duty of waking a worn, tired, drowsy man who would give worlds to be left alone for thre- minutes more of rest is anything but a job to be desired. . After long years of experience, however, how-ever, waking sleepy railway travelers mav approach an art. In the beginning, begin-ning, one of the first things to be determined de-termined -is whether a passenger ' is dead to the world from travel and loss of' sleep or whether he is deader still from Canal street whisky. In either case the officer has not only the time to make observations, but every opportunity, oppor-tunity, and in either face he may read signs of the better way of proceeding -with the individual. " Best Way to Rouse Drunks. If whisky from the west side of Canal street vhas been conducive to slumber, a safe aud telling method of procedur? is ' for the ' officer to step lightly but firmlv on the "deeping man's foot. High on tlie instep is'tije most effective spot for the "application of - pressure. The effect - is disturbing.-- without the disturbed dis-turbed one's recognizing the source of the irritation. Two or three passings of the office:- at minute intervals, each time with the application of . a police shoe where it does the most go-.od. are sufficient for any but aggravated cases I of Canal street inebriety. For these aggravated cases an application appli-cation of a faucet of unboiled water .alone will do. Regulations will not admit ad-mit of a conductor taking a drunken man aboard a train, and he must be sobered before he passes the gates. Water applied to the back of the neck from a half-inch faucet, allowing for .the- natural leakage down the spinal i column of the Intoxicated one. will do thework in three minutes. In most i ! cases these drunken ones are victims j of cold nights; they cross Canal stret for something warming, take too much, recr.qss to the warmth of the station waiting rooms and are drunk in five minutes. ... 1 Oddly enough, the drunken man who is subjected to a douche of cold water seldom resent' the treatment. He may even thank the c.fficer for sobering him j up,' and may express the most cheerful countenance at his improved feelings. ' Ugly Kind to Awaken. The really ugly man to awaken is tlva man who by nature is sour, perfectly j sober and yet worn out with trave' and j logs of sleep. Such a man may be na- j turally a sound sleeper and hard to awaken, and frequently he strikes out 1 in a blind rage, without realizing what his impulses are. Several years ago a cowboy of this peculiar temperament and condition was sleeping in a dark corner, of the general waiting room, and the officer went over to him. touch- j ing the fellow on the shoulder at the first and finally having to shake him vigorously. '','..' " Apparently the fellow was' awake. and it. was explained that the cowboy's train already had been called; but afte: th'' officer hArl ronp n wav Tin turned t( find the cowboy sleeping again. To see if the man was shamming, the officer stood over him for half st. Ynmute before he finally reached down with cne flne;-and flne;-and raised the fellow's chin until the light struck into his face. . Instantly, .like a jack-in-tne-rox, the 'cowboy's eyes glared wide open, and he sprang to his feet, striking out with right and left like the kicks of a muic. j It was a busy mixing up for two mln- utes, but the blue of civic authorily v.on'out at the last, in time to put th'.? I cowboy aboard the train for his native I west. ! ! "' . Women Less Likely to Doze. ,! In the main men are the sleepers in a railway station. Women are more nervous and more anxious than' are men, and, while a man will go to sleep with a grip, a cane, an umbrella and a camera piled in a seat four feet away, the average woman keeps a hand or foot on her valise while she sits awake. It is only now and then that a sleepy woman will explain to the matron of the woman's waiting room that she has-to has-to wait five hours for a train, and thus have permission to get the sleep that she may be composed enough to take. For, as to sleeping in stations in Chicago, Chi-cago, the general prohibition of it is simply to protect the sleeper against missing his train. The traveler may be distinguished from his fellow who' might come in simply to find a warm place !n w hich to lounge and doze, and as to the possibility of .persons losing baggage or pockettooks while asleep, there i3 little danger not enough of itself to cause the crder to keep awake. . In general there is little material inducement in-ducement for a passenger to go to sleep in a. railway station in Chicago. The benches are designedly . hard and straight of back, so railed off into individual in-dividual seats that orly an especially-small especially-small Tom Thumb could hope to' lie down on one of :hem. At the same time Chicago is so situated on the map that more worn out, sleepy passengers ec-me into its raiKv.iy stations than in any other city in the world. Strangely enough, too, of all these passengers coming .into the city, the emigrant and the immigrant, traveling upon second class tickets at a reduced rate, receive more attentions, and are allowed more rest than any other class, of travelers. Young Italian's' Adventure. The other night in the Union station a small, greasy Italian came up into the - general waiting room from the trainsheds lugging a bag. heavv telescope tele-scope and looiung avouhd him with wide, black eyes. The special officer saw him in a moment, and the eyes grew wider as the official stepped toward to-ward him. The bey did not speak English, Eng-lish, but the officer spoke some Italian, and at a word the boy, without a question, ques-tion, gave the officer a ticket, with which the officer walked away, entirely out of sight of the small foreigner. But the bluecoat and the prominent star were . assurances, and the boy stood without a sign of worry until the officer of-ficer had returned to. him from the ticket windows in the middle of the, long room.. The ticket was for La Grange, the hour was 10:30 o'clock and the night outside was unusually dark and forbidding. for-bidding. . "Take him up to the emigrants' room,'.' said the officer to a station usher. "If he. goes out to La Grange tonight he'll get lost. He can sleep up there and . go out on the first train in the morning." And the little Italian trudged away in all confidence upstairs in the station, where ' especial accommodations are provided, for his kind who are new to this country, its ways, and - its - language. lan-guage. - - "Yes," said the officer, in a meditative' medi-tative' tone, "that little chap can travel in this country cheapei.and with less worry and with -more comfort than any son of any citizen who is in a like j station in life." And the oddest part. of the"whole remark re-mark is its unquestioned truth. '" j |