Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-02
BY PROF. J. d. BUTLER.

"Did you ever lodge in o sleeping car,
and, an hour after leaving the train, dis.
cover that you had left in your berth
something you would be very sorry to
loose ?" If you have, your experience tai
lies with mine. Coming from Madison
the other night, and arriving in Chicago
before light, I left in my Pullman bed
several papers which would not enrich
any one else, bat without which felt
poor indeed. When I became aware of
my loss returned to the station where /
had left the cars, and discovered the bed
maker just stepping aboard departing
train. Before l had time to speak of my
loss, he said "You will find your papers,
air, at Mr.. PulIman's Office, on Michigan
avenue. We always send there everything
which our dodgers happen TO forget or lose
in their bed clothes" The train hurried
him off, and / hurried to Mr.. Pullman's
Office, where at No. of the third story /
found what I sought and feared / had
lost What wayfarer will not feel easier
to know this? Two centuries ago Pascal
used to say that "rivers are roads which
march and carry US whithersoever we
wish to go" Had that genius lived
in our times, he would have reserved
that eulogy for railroad trains. But old
world folks have yet to learn the Ameri-
can uses of steam carriages. / have steam
ed from Moscow to Cadiz, and from Liv.
erpool to Grand Cairo, without Fonce dis
covering sleeping car. Railroad vehi-
cles-ftly called wagons, abroad-do not
there surpass the campaign carriage of
the First Napoleon,o or the travelling coach
of the Russian Catharine, more than they
are themselves surpassed by Pnllman's
palaces.
John Bull complains of our ordinary
cars as gregarious, and mixing him up
with either Fenians or people whom, il
the car runs into a river, he must let
drown, because they arc not introduced
to him, but in any of Pullman's drawing.
rooms, or even state-rooms, he may jour.
ney az isolated from Fenians and Yankees
as in the castles of his iusular home
Yankees have no fear of compromising
themselves by travelling contact with
their fellows; why, then, should they pre-.
fer the Pullman car
1t is safer. Its place is always hind
mast on train. Accordingly, if we meet
train and collide, the Pullmanites feel
the shock last and least. If the roadway
or bridges are defective. the formost car,
are the foriorn hope, and in most cases are
the only ones that suffer. The Pullman
cars being built for special view tc
strength, when telescoping occurs, thew
cut their bigness through the cars agains,
which they butt like bstterirg rams
When certain deacon was re-
primsnded by his clergyman fol-
sleeping in meeting, he answered, %
never do when you exchange with othel
ministers" This excuse at first appeared
to the aggrieved parson an aggravation O.
the offense, till the deacon gave the rea
sons of his conduct. "When stranger
he said, appears in the pulpit, I am al
ways suspicious of his orthodoxy, ant
keep wide awake to watch him but wher
1 see you there, my old reliable guide,
know you are sound in every iota, and st
resign myself to slumber with perfec,
composure." That deacon's experiences il
mine when I 60 railroading. In a com.
mon car ! sleep with one eye open 70,
breakers ahead, but in Pullman I seem
borne on haloyon seas, and lie down tc
pleasant dreams. a
But If you are SO well insured as to be