Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
SHORT CHAPTER ON TRAVELLING
Accidents aud How to Avoid Them-How To
Travel y--Instructi0ns for Winding
Ones Own Business.

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OF the year, when seven>eigths o
the people are abroad; beside, i
would have saved your correspond
ent the labor of preparing this article
Having been a constant travele
for twenty years, think have re
duced travelling to a science, anC
believe myself competent to instruc
and direct others of less experience
Considering the frequency of railway
accidents, let me offer the following
rules for the careful consideration OF
the traveller:
l When you feel the car off the
track, grasp the inside arm of the
seat tightly, raise your feet from the
floor and remain quiet. If the cal
turns over, throw yourself into the
aisle and hold fast.
The majority of accidents happen
to people by being thrown violently
forward or backward or sideways
against the woodwork of the car
Another class of accidents is where
the trucks break loose and come
crushing through the floor Of the
car. If your feet are on the seat,
you are certain to escape damage
from this cause. This rule will hold
good in every case except where cars
telescope" or run one into and
through another. TO protect one
against danger from "telescoping, F."
observe
2. Take your seat nearest the
end of the car that couples" higher
than the one before or behind. Near
~ all the express trains show this
difference.
The few arbitrary rules that gov>
ern travellers, issued by railroad Of,
ficials, are valueless, except the one
against standing on the platform
No mans life is safe moment on an
express train under way when he is
on the platform. A dozen cases may
arise in which the traveller could not
possibly maintain his position-such
as taking up "slack," reversing the
engine for obstacles, uncoupling of
the train, etc. Nor should the trav-
eler pass from one car to another
while the train is in motion. One
may do it in safety an hundred times,
but there is death in it" every time,
and at last the reckless traveller will
! find it.
Against accidents by fire, as hap.
pened on the Erie Railway last week
there can be but one remedy suggest.
ed. superintendent must provide
two axes for each car, as Congress
requires steamboats, to carry. 1t is
hardly possible that every passenger
in car would be so disabled as to
prevent his using an ak to make an
egress for the unfortunate.
HOW TO TRAVEL COMFORTABLY.
Before people start out travelling
they should first know where they
are going. 1t is fact easily verified
by depot policemen, that every day
people come along who do not know
whore they are going or how they
are to get there. Having made up
your mind as to your destination and
route, go to the uptown Office and
buy your ticket, if the fare is over
So; if under that sum, pay the con-
ductor, by which means you may
innocently contribute to the support
of poorly>paid and much>abused
individual. AS a general rule, keep
away from depot ticket offices, as
you will avoid rush and circumvent
pickpockets. Having your ticket,
next get your baggage checked
To do this, however, requires no lit
tie science and maneuvering You
mustapproach thataugust parsonage,
the baggage>smasber, on the leeward
side; bear down smilingly upon him
with ticket in one hand and a fifty
cent note in the other speak not O
word, but smile and smile. as though
you didn't know he was a william
When the wind lulls he will recog-
nize yeu-all the fends incarRate
could not make baggage.smasher
see you till be wanted to. AS soon
as yoyr baggage is checked, and you
have paid him for Smashing" it.
"avaunt his sight,"
The next thing is to get scat
Commence at the "smoker," and &c
slowly through the train. When you
find a: seat you like Observe rule %
deposit your hand baggage, locking
it to the arm by the combination
chain" which not only secures your
seat but your luggage. No traveller
should be without the combination
chain" And now some advice Il
you have been early and secured q
whole seat, do not make an ass Of
yourself by turning cold shoulder
to every old man and offering to di.
vide with every pretty woman that
comes in the car. Keep your seat
the lady will see and "take, your
measure if you have the air of &
gentleman, and there are no other
vacant seats, she will ask you for {
place. If she gives you one look
and does the Priest and Levite, you
had better let her severely alone.
BEHAVIOR ON THE CARS.
When seeking to vary the monot.
ony OF a long ride, you engage il
conversation, do not forget that there
are others in the car besides your
self. Converse in low tone. Moth
ing shows so much the want of goot
breeding as to use loud and bolster
) ous language in car full of passen
gers. The subject you are discussin,
may be interesting to you but nau
seating to all others. Avoid children
let mothers and nurses look afte
their own "chargelings." If 20
4 use tobacco, do not expectorate on
] the window, for it is apt to blow in
to the face of your fellow passenge
sitting behind; do not expectorat
: on the foor-beside being vulgar,
S s apt to prove disagreeable to som
q lady passenger who Graves half you
}, seat. If you want to smoke go
the smoking car" II you war