CLASS STOPPED THE TRAIN.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 3

CLASS STOPPED THE TRAIN.

Awttwc*/ PveatAent Wtlllna «• <HMM»m ' t M*.S»aa*r After «C«»i«Hto« Wat M*(k f$ Charles?. Clerk, formerly president of the New' York; New Haven ft Hartford railroad, was a- man with old* feehioned ideas about integrity. Aft- '-r er Mr. Robert Bonne* had purchased Maud 8. and sent her to Charter Oak ' park to be trained the writer met Mr. Clark under peculiar circumstances. The train we had taken from New York did «ot stop at the tracks &MJg Mr. Bonner requested u« to trr-dM plomecy. The conductor was politeß butt could not go against orders. • Atv JNew HaVss», where a halt was made; ' the engineer was approached, i' The night of a tan-dollar bill had almost persuaded him to slow up at Charter Oak, when suddenly hie manner changed and there waa a curt re-* fusel. We were informed that Mr. Clark had boarded the train at New Haven, and quickly went in search.of him. -We found him silent and inclined to be gruff, but stated the case plainly to him. ! "Why don't you see the conductor?" he asked. "I hare, but he will not '" disobey order*." "Why not, then, go forward and bribe the engineer?" "I tried bribery at New Haven, but it would not work." The absence of evasion was the best policy. Mr. Clark went to the drawing-room car with lis, waa Introduced to Mr. Bonner, •poke- in admiration of Maud 8. and •f the position of her owner in trot* tint Affairs and then ordered the conductor to stop the train.,. He also took a card from his pocket and wrote wn II • general order to conductors to Stop ail trains at Charter Oak park for Mr. Bonner. Mr. Clark had witnessed the little attempt at bribery, and ffennk confession of tba offlen>e a—mad to please him.