The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-16
A Ride In a Drawing Room
Coach.
Whittier sa vs..
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b ess me, this is pleasant,
riding on q rail F! y

Whittier says, a.o
Bless me, this is pleasant,
riding on q rail y
when speaking even of the ordinary old-tash-
toned cars in which people sat with their
knees up TO their chins and their elbows in
each others ribs but what verse would
his muse have indited had he accompanied
the correspondent of the New York Evening
Express upon the trip so pleasingly narrated
in the following letter Says the writer:
Chow many readers of the Express, won
der (and their. name is legion,) have made a
trip over the Erie Road /? Most of them may
be familiar with it, and others strangers to
its many objects of interest and attraction.
Having just been over portion of it for the
SEVENTEEN time Cat close guess and discov-
cred new points and new beauties among its
varied and rare Scenery, hit herto unobserved
or passed By unnotced, it occurs to me that
a brief description of my ride may not be
amiss in your columns-may interest some
who have it yet in store to make their debut
on this celebrated road.
81 left New York on the s O'Clock morning
train, and, for the first time, found myself an
occupant of o Drawing Room Coach, an in
stitution of which had hearI much but new
or tested by practical experienced would ad-
wise all who travel to partake Of the comfort
and ease to be found In this really great
modern Improvement Journeying is rob-
bed of much of its WEAKNESS and monotony
in these Coaches The inmates are those
generally who are bound quite distance,
avoiding much of the confusion, slamming of
doors and other disagreeable features to be
endured in the ordinary Car. How often
have my nerves been painfully shaken by the
entrance of q family with large number of
small children, encumbered with such articles
as bird cages, bandboxes. paper bundles a
few flower pots, lunch baskets and other
'trfes too numerous to mention : in seeing
them undergo the agony of getting settled
and all their chattels disposed Of, especially
in crowded car, and in close proximity to
parties unwilling to yield an inch of space
that they dared lay claim to. Such annoyan
ces one is exempted from in the Drawing
Room There is freedom for the tired limbs,
a little space to walk aboutain, and very little
motion or noise. One may easily read or
write, and in fact be very comfortable every
way. The windows are deserving of particu-
lar mention. They consist of one very large
sheet of glass, framing large sections of seem
cry, and giving an opportunity of viewing
the outside world never before known in
travelling by rail, At first I did not realize
why the views seemed so much more exten-
sive, so much more grand and beautiful, but
soon ascertained it was due to the magnif-
cent windows, which allow so large and ex
tended a range of vision. .6
All the way from New York to my destin
alton one complete and perfect landscape
succeeded another, like panorama of won
drous length, SO We that no panorama ofrarest
skill and cunning could compare with the
living loneliness spread cut in all it's wealth
of midsummer foliage. Bold heights, with
rocky strata jutting out, clothed at summit
and on the sides with rustling pine level
swoops of meadows, garnished with daisies
and buttercups farm lands in all their Vari-
ETY. of ripening grain, emerald grass, orchards
and the burning fallow,' whose blue, smoke
lifted lszily up to the white masses of cloud
which foated like heaps of down against the
intensely blue sky pools, upon whose sur
face bloomed pure white lillies, so near l
could almost imagine their faint but exquis-
itely delicate perfume reached me streams
winding, away in the dim distance, their shad
ed banks suggesting cool retreats groves or
groups Of feathery elms where the wood god
Pan might hold his court tiny brooklets
shining here and there in the rich sward !;
shadowy hooks which could easily induce one
to leave the train and wander about, forget
ting the very existence of the great and heat
ed city, SO recently left, in deep admiration
of Natures bounteous gifts deep cuts
through the brown earth or blue hills, term
mating some charming vista, carefully clos
ing the view as though to say one should not
ask too much, and be content some other
time to witness whatever of beauty was jeal-
ously concealed behind their sheltering forms.
Add to these glimpses of country homes, dis
tant spires, thriving villages through which
we pass, "the noisy children just let loose
from schooP' gazing at US as onward we fly
all these in quick succession charm the eye
| with their constantly changing and ever.vary-
ing effect. ~