New Jersey Herald - September 11, 1902 issue

Sunday evening two Newton boys, about sixteen years of age, stole a ride on the milk train from Newton to Cranberry Lake. While the train was standing at the Newton station they seated themselves on the narrow platform of the head milk car, with their feet braced on the cross beam of the tender. When they arrived at the Lake they were begrimed with soft coal dust and dirt, and it was hard to tell whether they belonged to the native born or had recently been exported from Africa.

One of the boys wore a nobby bright red slouch hat. When he arrived at the lake it was hard to tell what the original color of the hat had been. Going down the steep grade from Slate cut to Andover they were compelled to hold on for dear life on account of the jolting of the cars and the swaying of the tender. They succeeded in working their way back on the pretext that they had lost their tickets at the Lake.