Judge — December 1936 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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game, I have directed the following letter to the president of the road Glendale, Cal. President, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco, Cal. Dear Sir 1 am the fellow you hold up at the Fletcher street crossing with your trains The man in the blue sedan Now, sir, I would greatly appreciate it if you would cooperate with me so I can get across those tracks. Can't we work something out? You will not find me unreasonable to deal with. I am not demanding that you re-route your trains over the Union Pacific, I am not even asking that you rearrange your schedule Your trains can come and go just as they do now. At the stand I don’t like to change my habits any more than you do. I mean I don't care to go to work at three o'clock in the morning and come home at four in the afternoon just to avoid being de. tained at that crossing. Here is a proposition for you. On even days of the week, [ will wait for the “Lark” in the moring and the “Owl” at night, and on odd days the “Lark” and the “Owl” will wait for me. same time you will under. v I think you'll admit this is no more than a fair request when you consider that for the past six years I have done all the waiting. The brief pause you make for me on odd days won't mean a thing. There's plenty of good level stretches on your “Now listen to her knees crack“ when she gets up!” road where you can make it up like pie. All you have to do is insert this notation in your time.table for trains arriving at Fletcher street: 2 Stops on odd days for Mr. Ullman You can have the Sundays. Trusting you will give this matter your carnest consideration and awaiting the favor of an early response, ctc., etc. As yet I haven't received an answer to this petition, which was mailed nine weeks ago. Still, this delay was to be expected. The railroads are very busy right both freight-car loadings and passenger trafhe are ahead of last year—and it'll take them a little time to get around to me. I'm looking for a reply, and a favorable one, most any day now. most now On my first turn at the crossing, I'm going to settle up an old score with the engineer of the “Lark.” I'll show him what it feels like to be held up by a freight train. I'll make a couple of false starts, back up, switch around and then stop right in the middle of the tracks. I'll hop out of the car with a hammer and an oil- can, tap the wheels, oil up the motor, get back in the car, sound my horn, start forward, back up, wait, sound my horn again and then crawl over at a snail's pace, dragging one wheel after the other until I finally reach the other side Judge comicbooks.com