Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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A Story of a Train Ride (Mr. Helter, Engineer; Mr. Hall, Conductor.) Winifred Angle A RED faced and very much out of breath individual swung himself aboard the last coach of the departing train. Two or three girls and a boy or two stood on the station platform and ruefully viewed the vanishing train. As it turned a curve and was lost from sight one girl touched her handkerchief to her eyes and almost inaudibly sighed, “There won’t be another until next year—Oh dear!” Once inside the train the fortunate individual, whom we will call Sam, had sunk into a rear seat and was alternately mopping his brow and fanning himself with his battered hat. “Doggone it,” he muttered, then as people took notice of him he smiled a charming smile on them and exclaimed, “Well, I’m glad I made the old train anyway.” As one after the other of the passengers recognized him, they sprang up to congratulate him on succeeding in getting the train. Rubbing his hands with a very self-satisfied air, Sam once more smiled on everyone and said, “I thank you for displaying such an interest in me and being so kind, but to tell the truth, I don’t think it’s any more than I deserve. Last summer I worked hard enough to get to go on this trip and it’s a good thing you are glad to see me for I intend to stay on this train.” page nine

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Fivshman Group Picture 84 Freshman Class Roll 85 Freshman Drawing— S. Tracy 86 Freshman Class Efforts 87 Freshman Laments—G. B. ' ll 88 Success — Reed McBride 89 The Seniors as Freshmen 90-91 The Staff Group 92 Editorials 93 The Alumni 97 Debate 98 Music Drawing— S. Tracy 99 Orchestra Picture 190 Male quartet 191 Music 191 Janitorial Crew 192 Junior-Senior Reception 193 Athletic Rooter — S. Tracy 195 Athletics 199 Foot Ball Picture and Schedule 197 Foot Ball Drawing —Shafer 119 Basket Ball Picture and Schedule 111 Here ' s to the Coach 112 Athletic Editorials .113 Base Ball Drawing— S. Tracy ..----- -H5 Base Ball Picture and Schedule 119 Miss Marie Marks, and Cast of Junior Play 117 The Annual Staff 118 Joke Frontispiece— S. Tracy 119 Advertisements 151

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Pushing aside any more who wanted to speak to him he started through the train. As he made his way from coach to coach he was hailed with the most joyous of shouts and exclamations, and he in turn did his share of the “shoutin ' . ” At last he came to the smoker (gasser, more appropriately,) and to his horror he found it full of girls, and may the saints bless us— every girl was talking as fast and as hard as she could. Thrusting his head in a little way, Sam admonished them to “turn off the gas. ” The girls looked indignant and gave Sam their cold shoulder, leaving him to return to a more congenial atmosphere. Walking back through the train, he noticed nearly everyone was read¬ ing. The books were dry and uninteresting-looking ones, and slowly Sam extracted a similar one from his own suit-case and began to read. In the course of a half hour or so, sonorous noises proceeded from his corner, filling the whole coach. No one took any notice of it. Suddenly the door burst open and the conductor rushed in, immediately beginning to lecture the crowd on their carelessness. Many were surprised at this sudden outburst, until the conductor pounced onto Sam, who had been peacefully sleeping; then they realized he was really the object of the lecture from the very start. “Don ' t you know you have no business going through the train when it is moving? Can ' t you realize that you might get killed by such carelessness? etc., etc., indefinitely, until Sam was very indignant. The anger of the conductor broke forth anew, and when he had finished his tirade he was obliged to gasp for breath. But this conductor was an extraordinary mortal, as the passengers realized thruout the trip. It seemed as if he was con¬ stantly berating someone of the party all the time, but at intervals he became hilarious and jolly with the rest of the crowd. The passengers took little notice of the country passed thru, for it was much the same all the way. However, within the train, events had come to pass that furnished talk for a long time. One young fellow had become decidedly annoying to his fellow travelers. Several trainmen in turn argued with him and tried to get him to be quiet. Their efforts had no effect what¬ ever and at last the irate conductor took a hand in the matter, and without listening to any excuses, he dragged him from the train. The young fellow picked himself up, and shaking his fist at the vanishing train, indulged in very uncomplimentary phrases about the conductor. Various views were taken of the affair by the passengers. Sam felt very sorry for the young fellow and was loud in his denunciation of the con¬ ductor. A very studious girl took her eyes from her book long enough to remark that she thought it was no more than he deserved. He didn ' t need to think this trip was being taken just for fun. But this event was overshadowed by one occurring soon after. It seems that a trainman had gotten into a violent dispute with one of the passengers. A great many sharp words were exchanged. The passenger insisted on “sticking up for what he termed his rights and the trainman declared he was overstepping his bounds. Not one of the other passengers cared to interfere so the dispute continued. It waxed hotter and hotter until the page ten