Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-06
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ms pocket me forthcoming harvest OF quarters
"Au aboard THE cry FASTENED the negotiation
which had opened for passage, at Sc, 90 from
Harrisburg TO Pittsburgh, and hastily securing
my porte monte in one hand, and my ticket in
the other, pushed with the crowd for the cars.
| but was brought up midway with bow and mo-
tice from his black attendance, that my baggage
was waiting to he ''checked, and that lie was
pleased to relieve me from the GlisagrccabIe ne.
cessity of doing it for "a two-bit" The service
was performed, and hastened to secure myself
seat. Whereupon, not liking to sit near the
engine, anddTawsin ut every breath an untold
amount Of cinder dust, and have my eyes tor
nented with the smoke, / presented myself at
the door Ofthe second car, which Hound blocked
by . BLACKBOARD of n gentleman, who iniperi-
ously demanded, "where to 2" pittsburgh"
Go back" said he of the guard Being an
obiging individual, went and presented my
self at the door of car No.3 Here the same
command, the same majestic waive of the hand
bid me "back." AT the fourth and fifth cars
no better result AT the SIXTH becoming wary
Eabout ascending and descending the platforms, |
! first instituted the inquiry if could obtain n
seat therein. ''Yhcre to, was for the fifth time
asked Pittsburgh was for the f1ftli time an
swered. Walk in, then, said the guard, and
| did so with alacrity- Tho sixth car was a
reserved car" for males, and was "fuII Of &C.
Communications As it lacked twenty minutes
of starting time, found plenty of vacant seats,
privilege which custom has made absolute, to-
wit: of occupying one, if not two seats, by nm
ingenious disposal of myself, carpet bag, shawl
and walking stick, which piraticaI act / was
just congratulating myself on having accom-
lplished, when the conductor, wearing a blue
cap, coat, and his yvhiskers with military cut,
doomed up in the doorway, like an out-p post sem
| tincl before guard house. "Clear the car"
was his order Down from the pegs came the
carpet bags-from the seats the dusty and nicely
polished boots; into the pocket, torn and crum-
pied, went the Ledger, just from the news boys
hand, and, every one FASTENED to secure him
SELF q seat comfortable if poSsibie-in No.
O. which was already full. But we, the
crowd7-torty stout masculincs-knew it not,
aud rushed, at the bidding Of the military con-
ductOr, from our comfortable quarters into the
narrow carnage OF TINT already packed car, only
to be wedged in the jam at the stern end of It
As WAS to be expected o reaction cnsuet
and headed by portly DR.. A., of Philadelphia, a.
aretreat was ordered, to reoccupy No. G. But the
wary Condu stor was too quick for us. The keys.
at either end of the car were turned upon us,
and No. already detached from the train; evil
IDENTIFY VIC were s'in for it''-yes sir in for it.
standing. Wood box water tank shelf and
every other place. available, was installed a seat
In vain we directed our anxious glance through
the car in search of some happily seated philan-
thTopic man to barter places with; our "look, !"
PitiFul asst was, met only agrin from the fortu.
tunate, of don't you wish you'd got in sooner"
We would have pled-we would have fought,
with the Conductor, but theiheretoEore officious
individual was not to be seen, until We were ten
miles out of the city, and heNwas round after
the Fare" Then he could give us 10 comfort
further than the hope that possibly seats would
be vacated at the different stations along the
road. There was no other alternative, since we
were not permitted to go into the 'way car"
but to ttstaud and bear it." AtneccsSity [ must
that VrO q Fos fl0aT ~,
mendable stoieisn. however was fortunate
enough to secure, after the first fifty miles, half
of the ''watcr tank shelf, which held on to as
far as Altoona, when Obtained seat
The cars on this Road are well built and in
capital running order. The road is entirely free
from dust, being laid with broken stone through
out, and wateT, cushions, mats are p1entifully
supplied But among NIL these excellencics, I
enter my protest: list, that when they force Il
through passenger into the hind car they should
permit him to travel without Awakening him at
every few stations, from sound sleep, to exam
inc his ticket and that too, when the said ticket
is erected, like feather ia his hat band
I'd, that they should make windows in the
ends of their cars to enable. one to look out
upon his "bacEl track, which in many i'm
stances is advisable; md that they should.
not stall their passengers, as farmers do their
cattle, with division boards in the seats
Sd, That they should have more confidence in
LLAS AlIl HONESTY Ol .SlelI- passengers ana
not lock them in-lcst the cushions and mat.
tresscs should be carried off or otherwise dis
posed of j was about to add the 18th in protest
against the separation of the male and female
portion of the travelling community, into diff
teTent coaches,-but on further reflection, and
withal after little experience, withhold it,
especially since am reminded of standing an
hour and a half on one of the New York rail
roads, while just opposite me was lady who
by dextrous arrangement of her person, shawl
and poodle dog had secured an entire seat and
dare not, for the life of me, ask her for the pri
vilege of occupying the one-half of it-even at
the price of carrying her "Poodle" the whole
fore determined to take my chance, which
find altogether the best in the car reserved for
the Bucks, widows, and grumhling old bache-
loCs. The custom that prevents man, no mat
ter how well disposed, how aged, or how wearied
from taking vacant scat beside a strange
lady incur public couveyanccs-withou il nine
cases out of ten, giving offence cannot DO too tho
roughly condemned. 1t often happens however
that the ladies themselves become the victims
OF this very law which is apparently so well de-
signed to protect them in their exclusive prive.
| legc. An instance of this fell under nv notice
once when travelling ON tho Cincinnati Railroad.
to indianapolis, My friend Hamilton had secur-
red freshly imported Irish lass, whom!he was
taking on with him to St Louis, to serve in
Madam Hamilton's Kitchen; OH coming with
the lass to Cincinnati, he found, rs is not unu-
SHal on that line, cars crowded with passengers.
But his eye detected space of two seats occu-
pied by richly dressed lady, with two small
children and carpet bag, and his ingenious
mind quickly planned how nicely the children
and carpet bag could be disposed Of, so as to
allow allparties comfortable seats. Ny lady
occupants face, however, wore decided refu-
sal to any such arrangement, and II. did not
venture to ask it Of heE--but on the contrary,
stepping upto her sent, he politely asked her to
allow Lady to sit beside her. The request.
could not very we'll be refused-an in a moment
more 1.-THE Help" was in the seat-the Calico Of
the Kitchen Maid in enyiable proximity to the
silk of the Parlor ornament.
The scenery of the Monongahela and
Juniata Rivers. and over the AllechaniesI