New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-20
.&s From the Albany Register
who is tho Confidence Mani "

We beIive we took q ride with him the other
night 1t was dark Erebus II wauted ve minutes to
ton te iast trunks were being checked The aassrds
were searching for seats in the crowded coaeeea Afew
hanging Up bats yasss se ses a
were quietly reading newspaper letters and books
number OF mnzzer's dsrIings and iadsrs pets we're
crying il they we're darings ana pets got up pur
posely 10 scream and nothing else. .as
Outside storm had set up dismal howl and roar ana
the rain fell In torrents
But the passengers by rail needed not the warning Of
the clements They were dry warm and comfortable
they had paid and adorned their hats Win tner
All is ready The time up warning bell nglss in
the Office The conductor cries all aboard r. and We
Jump upon the engine with the driver and the stoker,
bent on ride with them The conductors lamp swings
az the little bell tinkles again sFoot Tsot " wnfezes
the whistle The driver moves the iever Cur iron steed
wen broken and obedient the slightest wish of tbs
MASTER moves slowly steadily but with prodigloHs
and the long ;s hse ass on IF &
station. and is of on its journey at ones quicker
quicker and quicker yet revove the great
Whrw Bsfore We can compose ourself think.
get used this sort Of journeying. the stormy night
air is ed for miles around with the Impesuons foar o
/ the rushing train.
railings q Cur standing place and jus. Desln 10 70
of the coaches or firm footing on the surface Oh
| mamma Earth
Not quick enough yet Camly the stoker feeds the
greedy furnace Just calmly The driver turns on the
Il Irresistible steam
We tre1nbIe from head to foot The engine seems TO be
i mad--nstnct with motiop-determiped to run away
The night black with darkness The rain dahes in our
face and there is tempest Of wind to buffet We cannot
see rod ahead We hear the train flying over bridges
around curves through deep cuttings and close tunnels
and we wonder the engine leaps forward Ike WIG
racer on his mettle, and aung with forywe wonaer
all the people the long train Of coeces behind us are
sitting quietly in their seats chatting dre ming ana
reading is they did when we were among Them an
hour before.
Just as terror and superstition begin actually to gain
the mastery over our unyerng and we begin to
think it would be all right throw the toker into tne
furnace throttle the bis post turn on the fui
a. head Of steam jump overheard with wild yell
little string is pulled the whistle scrseehes shy u
mining alarm the Ia partly shut on the speed ne
gins to sacken apace the brakes clapped on
4 and in minute or glide quietly into station
where people standing about and step stop just
| If nethng extraordinary had happentd
\ How did you enjoy your ride; SIT asks the en6in
v driver .
Good night srn we reply. and jump to the ground
glad enough totread the earth again
Il But what about The Gonhaence Man aforesaid!
o sExactly se,n
WHY Just this The engiuedriver of an express traif
ia black night If Storm who calmly pupges cut into tn
utter darkness and urges his invaluable charge at U
rate thirty forty and Fifty miles an nonr ~ tn
very TYNE of The Confidence Mani. Indeed he Is tna
. gentleman himself Confidence reigns supreme IN ri
breast Confidence ia the master spring that moves m
without that he would shrink, and and tremol
u as we did and rush into the jaws Of destruction
lr We very greatly and much respect the Eugif
Driver He the Coadencs Man Of the Nineteenth ce
tury.