Show QUEER VIRGINIA stopping a train to vito ITC a little girl a bide ulde A sleepy switchman 0 V Y suj su san j washington feb 18 time in virginia has no value whatever and P as it is tho the uni universal vereal practice practice there never to do to day what can be put off until to tomorrow morrow little inconvenience arises the railroads are run on a happy go lucky schedule which is extremely diverting to those who have time in abundance and the few ho are pressed for minutes being in a hopeless minor minority rather afford occasion for mirth when they begin to kick at virginia methods railway time tables are in perfection in the rural districts not long ago a night train with a party ot of new yorkers on board was bumping along comfortably fort ably at a ten teu mile per hour gait ili through h it remote parl part of virginia when all at once hii with h a tremendous jerk it stood still the tho native in in the sleeping car did not think it worth while to ak the reason of if tho n sto stoppage page the aliens did though M and when the conductor strolled through the car a roar of indignant atit inquiry went up the conductor soothingly explained thai that they always stop stopped te ed at a switch for fear it might not be get but good gracious graci oua exclaimed an irate new yorker where is the switchman the conductor non ductor explained that the particular switchman they then needed was probably asleep followed by the con ductor got off the train went to the station bouse house and pounded bounded vigorously shouting atle at the same time I 1 gi git t up jim the trains here and 0 them burned folks folka from up north is raisin a breeze causo cause the switch aint set jim jini called back im a comin and evidently turned over and went to deep again the virginians on the train began bean to chuckle their sympathy waa was entirely with jim and the conductor the latter continued to urge jim who was al waya ways comin but come the conductor at first apologetic being goaded by the new yorkers now became pr pressing ess i ing do jim he anxiously eaid vaid git up and set the duru durn thing co to the train can go by 01 jim continued obdurate until one of the new yorkers arose from his berth and clad in rage and a checked ulster got off the car and threatened to set fire to the station house and make a burnt offering of jim if that switch was not set in ten minutes within the specified time jim appeared boiling with indies nation and threatening to resign if he were again subjected to similar inconvenience it is the custom along these provincial roads to stop the train at any point upon bein being g signaled people can be taken on and put off ot anywhere they like A fast train that is what they call a twenty miles an hour train was going through a plantation a month or BO so ago and the passengers gera observed three little girls on the wayside their white aprons frau frantically at the conductor the train of course stopped the tallest of the ci girls rs a ten year old with long longere ey C rashes ashes bashfully remarked wont you please give me and katie and fanny and the doggie do gie a ride the conductor promptly prompt promptly fy consented and assi assisted ael miss E eyelashes ye lashes her companions pa pan ions and the doggie on board they rode on for a mile or two and then they announced their readiness readi nets eia to 10 get t off OT the train was stopped and t they hey jumped down and scam pored off just as 03 the train had started Aliss eyelashes rushed wildly back oh mister if you please dont po fro away till we get arwa cross the creek mamma docant let us go over it less watching usand we have to cary carry the doggie the con conductor actor waited until a final waving of white aprons on the other aide side of the creek signified that hi hia passengers were safe nobody in the train expressed surprise except the aliens nobody who has ever been there before rushes to in meet e et a train in virginia when th the e first railway t train rain went through the ancient town of williamsburg williamsburgh Williams burgh in october 1881 it was advertised G it was the time of the yorktown centennial and the town was full of strangers these grashl rashly appeared at the station at 9 0 precisely the natives meanwhile went about their business toward 12 those of the iia natives tives who meant to board the 9 train assembled after waiting a while they went off and eat mat on the court house steps leavin leaving g orders with a negro to call them when a train ar rayed it did come some time in the afternoon and the negro running about the town informed the pass passengers eDgers when the train would start the present norfolk western W estern road was once the atlantic Bli si ia ohio then senator mahone hon gobbled it up the senator refers to mrs mahone as otelia and she is popularly supposed to own more than her dower in all the senator has one day as a train of freight cars care marked A M 0 was backing into the freight yard in N norfolk or folk a pessimistic gentleman remarked dolefully yea yes there i it i 6 A M 0 that mean means all mahonec it h 0 nos 8 and etli Ot elias li |