The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-10-30

ALBANY, Oct. 2S, 1871.
Editor Democrat: ~
nEAR 9tR: BY inserting the follow
ing in yoar valuable paper you would
conier 4 iayor on the undersigned, anu
may be on those who come after me
to your fine State.
/ / started from Chicago on the morn
ing Of the 29ih Of Sept, after buying
Immigrant tickets to Portland. We
We're told by the ticket agent at Chi
cago, that we would have first-class
ride to Omaha, and fror: there west
ward, we would have passenger coach
es,, but the train would make fast
freight time through to San Francis
co. As far us Omaha they filled their
contract, at which place wt;were trans
ferred from elegant coaches to misera-
BILE cabooses on the n. P. II. R., and
crowded like so many cattle ready for
shipment But it was not on this road
that the trouble really commenced.
Wren it did come it came with ven
gance at Ogden, the junction of the
U. P. r. r.. and the C.,P. r. II. and from
this point all the way to Portland, had
we been so many dumb brutes we
could not have been treated worse.
Ask II conductor or brakesman civil.
question, and in nine cases out of ten,
you would be answered with Il gruff,
"Go to h-lv" or some such answer.
They managed to huddle together in
the car which was in, SIXTY t,0o men,
women and children, and there we
lived for a whole week. Half of the
time there was po wood in the car and
a great part of the time the kerosene
barrels were devoid of water, and when
they did fill them they put round
piece of pine wood on top to keep the
water from stopping over, which gave
the water splendid favor. The cars
were only swept out twice by the Com
pany on the way from Olgen to San
Francisco, had it not been for the pass
passengers. buying brooms tortheiro own
use, oar cars would have been a sorry
sight, indeed.
The road all the way from Elko to
TruclSee is infested by thieves and
gamblers who prey on the uhsophisti-
Gated passengers unmolested by the
officials of the train, in fact, riding in
the caboose along With the conductor
Jim Roach, "Slim Jim" and Canada
Bllr have each season tickets in order
to ply their vocation, or else they are
in "cahoots" with the conductors, as
they are allowed TO get on and off with
impunitv, and no one ever sees them
present their tickets. / ask how long
can such things last9 Are the immi-
grants-the bone and sinew of any
new State-to be always treated like
brutes, or does tle c P. r. r, intend
to renovate their road? If they do not,
| predict that two years from now they
will not have one tenth of the present
tariff on their road. One thing l must
speak Of if it does not occupy too
much space in your valuable paper, is
the gentle way in which they start
their cars from the depot or any other
place they are at. I have known them
to blow out both lamps simultaneously
and slop the water out of the kerosene
barrels with their Internal jerking.
One might imagine that the cars We're
telescoping did lie or she not soon get
used to it after leaving OAgen.
When we arrived at San Francisco
we expected to have our baggage ship
ped to the city, as it was checked to
that point, but they had the impu-
dence to charge us fifty cents per pack
age for the transfer. We got on board
the j. L. Stephens, Capt, Conner, com
manding, and we were crowded in the
steerage, as they called it, thehoil, as
l would call it, worse than any hogs or
cattle which ever saw packed in the
Union Stock Yards of Chicago; | do
not say that this was the Captains
fault. AS much us Isaw of that gen
tleman, / think that he was every
thing that a Captain ought to be, but
then there is Il screw loose somewhere.
The food was far below par Imagine
mothers with their large families from
their pleasant little homes in the
States being reduced to soldiers fare
for short voyage Of 81 or 4 days at
most. / have been in camp and biv-
ouac and Uncle Sam fed us with as
bounteous a hand rs did the owners of
the j. L. Stephens. The sailors had
soft bread, aud we had hard tack or
sea biscuit. They had chicken and
good beef, and we had salt sea bass
(by-the-by, as salt as Salt Lake ITSELF
and jerlied Texas, OF some other infer
llal SUN lltJ EdltFu pSpis ~ BifS
you some idea Of how we were packed,
Just think of 800 men women and chill
dren living in room 30x30 for 3 or 4
days. Shame on the owners Of such
wash tubsl What right have they to
call themselves citizens, when they
treat their fellow-citizens like coolies?
might go on and enumerate griev.
anees by the score, but nm afraid I
am using too much of your space, so,
III closing, l trust that ere long such
nuisances will be done away with en-
tirely, and that the immigrant will be
able to find good home in Oregon,
without being iieaced out Of his last
cent by railroad and steamboat COM
pantes. Yours truly.
CHICAGO.
nORN.
CUEDIFF.--In this city, m Sunday The zjth
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