RAILWAY RIDES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 124, 20 June 1901, Page 2

RAILWAY RIDES.

A burgl ir jit liuda Pes-th has just addi d another to the list of remarkable rides on the railway. The police found him in a oi'ill:>. His situation, weird as it Wii*, was at any rate pin ferabl-a to tint of the King'ii L'ro-s porter who a year; .»r two ago tr.v.Hed fr-.m London to j Ow.nl,ls .sin und .T hii r'i£ pr. s-i train. lie I was ut-t tiding th. brake, when the | train moved, an) all his shorns were! jin vain, lie Is no • t! a th» tnin wou'd | I not st ip uti'il i* icached Grantham,' and his feelings may be be'.ter imagined th >n described. Tlioy must have bean to,'nothing akin to th sa of a c lidemned man who known that be will dtaw his List b oath in live minu'es. For two hou-s th* mac held o'i to the b 'tike lube, shouting at t'ao tojj if his voice as the train dashed ths ough the station?. The neise of t'-.e tr. ii.', i oiviver, i-'eidenrd his shou s, anj it «-as not unt-1 th train stopped nt Grauth.m and th<? mm crawled out on th.t plai form thai h* was disc .vcrod. The noise :-:f tiie j mrney ian« in his ears, and ho could not, hear th l ) ques dons with which In was a*siiledon stepping on to tha p'atform. It was one of tV'e most perilous rides ou record, and the pore' declares that ho woul i r.ot, repeat it for £IOO,OOO. H'i had tome compensation fur Lis 3xp riencs a day or two after, wh n King Edwatd, then Prince of Wales, a kel to see him, and shook his hand, >Six mon hs. ago a man voluntarily U'» J erfcoi£ a similar journey from f.'ondautinople to Bailiu, miking himse'f i s eomf.,r able as ho cruld beiwesi, the spiiuj.s and tLe fl or of the car in order to save the fare which ho ! was too poor t> pay. A girl in I Americi on<e rode on the buffers of a j t ai i in a snowsto m in ordtr to reach h r lwine, anl a pojr Austrian was lusiov. a ytar or two travelling n a packing c,is , w>ich sumebody iappe ed to tu 11 the wr mg ead up.