The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-02
How Passengers Are Fed at Altoona

passengers on the Pennsylvania Rail
road stop for meals:
"The mountain lap in which this
young and thriving town is seated,
has an elevation of about 1,100 feet
above the level of the sea. 1t is on
the line of the Pennsylvania Central /
Railroad, and at the foot of steer as
cent of the Allegheny ridge. Many |
travellers going westward, and arriv- |
ing here at evening, ''lay Over' for |
the night, that they may see by day !
picturesque scenery afforded in the |
passage. And when in the cars the |
next morning, they have nothing to
regret, but much to be thankful for.
The train stops in front Of the Logan
House, not fifty feet from It's porch.
A choice and bountiful supper, ele-
CANT parlOrs, with or without music,
airy chambers, beds and mattresses
that allow no sensibility of boL es, bath
tubs on the same floor, and a break
fast better than you can get at home,
generally, put party of friends in
excellent relish to fly up the All eghe-
ny Mountains. They are sure to
leave a unanimous verdict of "bless-
Ings on the Logan House.
1T will not be disagreeable to the
travelling public to be little more
particularly informed as to the kind of
entertainment that may he depended
on at this place. 1t is 3l3 miles from
New York by the shortest route West
ward, which, in my judgement, is al
so the safest and least wearing. /
have tried all routes often enough to
compare their merits and drawbacks;
and am glad TO praise the best, that
| the others may be stimulated to do as
well or, better if they can. What the
traveller most suffers from, and grum
bIes about, is railway station fare.
with very good reason. 1t is most
i ly vile, unwholesOme stuff I cap
give authoritative advice as to 81 out
of every 100 stopping places between
Boston, Washington, Chicago, st.
Louis, &c. Don't eat there. You
will get bad articles, badly cooked,
pay double price, and carry away a
six hours headache One of the
three in 100 where this will not hap
!, pen, is here.
ION lighting at the Logan House,
you see the unwonted convenience of
nearly forty basins whereat to wash,
and clean towles to correspond. Wa
ter is brought in pipes from a notch
In the mountains, called the ''kettle," +"
several miles distant. 1t gives me
, malignant pleasure to name in con-
tIast the wash room at Easton, on the
New Jersey Central Road, where the
, Cincinnati night express stops for
breakfast. Within fifty feet of the
, canal and a hundred or so of the Del
? aware river they furnish ore tin ba-
, sin and one towel fortnight for f1f.
: ty or more passengers, and they ex-
! pect all to wash in the same water
: IF any entsrprising, strong minded
! woman wants clean water, she may
find hogshead outside, round cor.
ner, with tap that lets out stream
as big as a pipe stem, at which in
l half an hour she may renew the ba-
sin. The basins at the Logan House
are in line along the porch, extending
sixty or seventy feet on each side OF
the dining room door. A very I'M.
portant result of this arrangement is
that the traveller has nineteen min,
: utes out of the twenty for which the
: train stops, to eat deliberately and il
i | q NhriSfian VII yharnaS saf q
T place like Easton so much time is con
s sumed by people interrupting eacl
I other in the washing process that tx
u can do nothing but snatch and rum
: 1t is, I verify believe, part of tht
i calculation of railway eating hous,
keepers generally to reduce the tim,
= of actual eating, and to jam people to
3 gether in a squabble, so that the!
can't swallow more than half meal
l. while they pay for whole one. Ex
l. perienced travellers have discovers
; this trick and prefer to starve, if the.
1t have not homemade sandwich il
Is reserve.
Of ''The Logan House has a front {
=, 800 feet or more, with wings runnin
~ back. The dining room is $50 fee
ts long, and furnished with short table:
,e at each of which twelve people ma
10 be comfortably seated. The floor
a. always as clean as if it had just bee
ne hand-scruObed. The tablecloths al
i'll spotless, 1t was formerly a practic
to furnish napkins, but 1t became s
n common for travellers to mistake thel
a. for hand dkerchiefs aud carry them of
Mt that it became too expensive. AS Il
,r- house dimes on an average, 10,
nd persons daily, from thirty or mo
,et trains, you may infer that there is
great deal of social science Involve
in the management. Yet there is /
confusion, but perfect order and qu
etness, explainable largely by u
81 fact the house has no bar. A supp
M of liquors is generally considered
Of dispensable to make hotel populs
ere But the Logan House is popul
,1d nd Notwithstanding. So widely is
ew known and appreciated, that peop
ZEN when they get on the train at Ginci
1g-- natl coming eastward. say to each OF
zIt ,aI er, 1--WE dine (or breakfast) at Alto
lev ma. So they say at Chicago. So tn
n a say at New York and Philadelph
IN going westward. They save thu
4e 4e stomachs for the Logan House fal
bic So much influence does good whC
some eating place exert on travels
Aep that it often determines them of whi
he OF several main routes to prefer. Ta
I'D. notice, New York Central, Erie, a
os Baltimore and Ohio-from which i
viii saYe me, o Fate!
md "The Logan House has 1O6- lodgi
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