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Updated: May 28, 2025
"The corpses of the passengers killed in the disaster up at Spuyten Duyvil was fetched down here and laid out in The room was darkened and I could just make out the out that storage room," said a Grand Central depot baggageman. "That's what give it the name of morgue. Some of the boys got scared of going in after that, 'specially in the dark; and a lot of stories was started about spooks.
There were three of them, all of shining black leather: one on top of the pile of trunks; one on the ground; one in the owner's hand; all going to Philadelphia; all waiting to be checked. The last bell rang. The baggageman bustled, fuming, from one pile of baggage to another, dispensing chalk to the trunks, checks to the passengers, and curses to the porters, in approved railway style. 'Mine!
A railway baggageman was on our train returning to his home in Cleveland, Ohio. In conversation, he said: "I have been with this company for twenty-two years; have drawn two dollars a day, 365 days in the year for that time, and I haven't a dollar in the world, but one, and I gave it yesterday for a dog. But," said he, "I have a good woman and the greatest little girl in the world, so I am happy."
Night operator, porter and baggageman, working from seven o'clock in the evening until seven o'clock in the morning, and receiving the magnificent sum of forty dollars per month! It was enough to make my bosom swell with pride and it's a wonder I didn't burst.
No one was looking and he mounted the rear of the baggage-car and opened the door. There was the baggageman sitting by the side door, his back to Bailey. Bailey closed the door softly and squeezed behind a pile of trunks and bags. Finally Del Mar reached a spot on the railroad where there were both a curve and a grade ahead. He stopped his car and got out.
"Any hotel in this place?" he asked of the ticket agent, the telegraph operator, and the baggageman, who was pushing a crate of vegetables off a truck. "Swan's Hotel; only one." "Do people sleep and eat there?" "If they have good digestions." "Much obliged." "Whisky's no good, either." "Thanks again. This doesn't look much like a summer resort." "Nobody ever said it was.
Earle!" he called as he swung aboard, waving his hand back at them like a man unaccountably happy and relieved. Earle looked down. Tommy noticed that his mouth was grim. "Come, son," he said. Tommy looked at the dog with fear and with mute apology. In his heart was hatred of that baggageman, and vain, vain regret that he had ever come to Breton Junction to see the train.
The laugh was not repeated, and with a dim feeling of disappointment she went back to the window where on Willie's neck she wept the tears which always flowed when she thought of George's desertion. There was a knock at the door, and the baggageman appeared. "If you please, ma'am," he began, "the Terrace Hill carriage is here. I told the driver how't you wanted to go there.
Out there miles on miles of freedom were rushing forever out of his life. He began to rage, to froth at the mouth. The baggageman closed the door. "Hard, old scout!" The baggageman shook his head. Resignedly the dog sank on his belly, his long body throbbing, his nose between his paws. A deep sigh puffed a little cloud of dust from the slatted floor.
Gibb Ogle is going over to watch the baggageman load trunks. It is Gibb's life work. Pelty Amthorne is a little late, but he'll have time to arrange himself against the east end door and answer the roll-call, as he has for thirty years. Miss Ollie Mingle is going over too. She must be expecting that Paynesville young man again.
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