One effect of the high standard of deportment enforced by the
railroads is seen in the extent to which women and children
travel alone, without fear. An illustration of this is the
experience of a Western woman who was coming to New York for
the first time. With her husband, she left Buffalo for New York
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. When they reached Mauch Chunk,
Pa., the husband got out to walk up and down the platform, and
somehow the train pulled out without him. The woman, left alone,
never having been east of Chicago before, was on the verge of
panic. Her husband had all the money; the train was to reach New
York in the night; she didn’t know what hotel to go to, and,
if she had known, couldn’t have found her way there. So the
conductor took her in charge, had her carried to a good hotel,
and arranged to have the bill guaranteed. The husband, when he
arrived, was so grateful that he hunted up the conductor and
presented to him a handsome ring.--Buffalo _Evening News_.
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