The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-27
How the American People Eat al
Railway sIAtisns--- Restaurant Cars
Coming in Fashion.

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The description Of ''augoy juno
ton" and of the vagAriss OF It's bando.
lining young ladies naturally attracted
the attention Of tine intelligent Ameri-
can public to the defects in the system
Of feeding travellers In practice in this
country. The warning cry ten min
utes for refreshments" ia Itself Il
enough to make man sbudder at the
probable results OF treating the human
s;omsch a. II It was a locomotive boiler.
Commercial travellers are, We believe,
generally dysDeptic: the reason is obVi-
Gus.
II is true that large class OF Ameri-
cans, when on their travels, seem to
consider boiling coffee tsO-caiied) and
sponge cake suitable aiiment for the
human system, but there u still an
other large class who think diet of
peanuts aud gingerbread absorbed at
intervals of various length through the
day, suitable only for the elephant in a
menAgerie. That profane person, who
at a picnic expressed so emphallcaIly
his reverence for the name of Washing
ton and his adherence Of his pie, finds
many followers, earnest II less vehe-
ment. By them the invention
OF the lunch basket WAS glad
ly welcomed, and the honest sand
witch, the succuient saTdine, and the
nutritious chickens wing are now dis
cuAsel on lElt Thll Win UNUSUAL ItAlHus
increased, II may be, by an occasional
sip at a modest flask. This is Tor 81
party pleasant way OF feeding; for u
single solitary Individual il mas less
attractions. There are many also, who
are called suddenly to set out on a jour
ney. and who have not time to pack
more than the change OF linen which il
OF paramount Importance in a strange
land, il one may take Mrs. Brown for
authority. And 50, in one way and
another, there are plenty Of people who
would be quite willing 10 patronize
any improved way OF dining or supping
on railroads.
We lately observed that the Erie
Railroad had put on restaurant cars.
This experiment was once tried on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, with no great degree of
success. The narrow limits of u rail-
road car brought the hungry travellers
knees and nose in too close proximity
to the slender shelf or counter, while
people passing behind him stag
gered ngainst his bsck, splitting his
coffee and knocking the more or
less savory morsels from his
fork This IS nation OF Yam
KEGS. however, and perhaps some In
genious way Of avoiding these mechan-
icAl difficulties may be found; the evils
OF indifferent cooking are not SO easily
of ordering dinner by telegraph from a
station ahead and having it put on
board in neat baskets, TO be afterwards
returned, would be found more praC-
ticabie way aud attended with less
waste. We 90 not propose 10 offer any
suggestions on this point, but only to
call the attention of railroad managers
to the subject, for their own interest as
well as that OF the public. The boats
running through Long Island Sound
have for long time, we believe. found
1t for their advantage TO provide suppers
for their patrons at II price equal 10 or
less than cost, because they thereby in
creased the attractions of their routes.
Smoking-cars. introduced not many
years ago, are now found Indispensable
adJuncts Of comfort, and well regulated
roads have them on all their express
trains. At some day, not far distant we
trust, some provision for Il comfortable
dinner will be no less common. The
railroad that hrst carries out such II
plan will ind It very much TO its adj
vantage. The travelling public are not
idiots aud they are quite ready to appre-
ciate whatever Is done for their com
fort,