Panguitch Progress | 1914-01-16 | Page 2 | Was No Longer a Safe Bed

WAS NO LONGER A SAFE BED passenger thought it about time he H was wag securing quarters A friend was wai complaining the other day to captain barber port captain of the state pilots about the crowded condition of the steamboat on which ho be recently made a trip four in a room replied barber nothing you should havo traveled in the days of the gold rush to california I 1 le member one bno trip out of new york we carried more than 1000 passengers and it if y you au would put 50 on that ship today be a holler that would reach washington and make trouble tor for somebody to show you how crowded it was and ehlt crowded really meant three days out from new york achaa a chap walked up to the old man and said captain you really must find me a place to sleep where in thunder have you been sleeping until now inquired the old man well says the fellow you see its this way ive been sleeping on a sick man but hes getting better now and wont stand for it much muc longer new york sun