The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-10-18
Notes Of Travel.
A MODEL RAILROAD.


A MODEL RAILROAD.
Every thing on the route worked
charmingly. Steel rails, road bed down
to spirit-level grade, comfortable
coaches, Injurious parlor and sleeping
cars, fast trains to ride in, and beau
tiful country to run through, conduc-
tors who wear good clothes, shave twice
q day, and know all the new stories, and
can tell you the names of all the other
passengers on the train; brakemen who
have soft, exquisitely modulated tenor
voices, and can call out the names of
the stations in four languages; where
they burn smokeless and cinderless coal
in the engine and pack the hot boxes
with pink jewelers. cotton and rose oil,
and the company gives yen white
duck suit If you get your linen ulster
dusty, and q man comes through the
train Just before the end of the run and
asks you if you have money enough to
pay your hotel bill at the next town, and
lends you some, if you say you haven't;
where John Frawley and Mr.. Tichenor
and Harry Townsend and Frank Snow
send you kilograms every few minutes
asking after your health and ordering
lemon-ices and fans for you at the next
station-just remember the route, will
you, when you 60 to Niagara Falls and
the lakes!
THE PROFESSIONAL TOURIST.
We saw one person at the falls who
acted originally. He wore white can
vas shoes, q cork helmet with q veil
twisted around it. He was q profession
al tourist. He had come all the way
from London to see the falls, and he
wouldn't look at them. He wanted q
(" bawth." We were at the falls three
days. The first thing we heard when
we got there was this tourist clamoring
for his I" bawth," and as as we went to
the train we heard him shouting over
the balusters to know il 8 my bawth was
hever going to be readyp"
Why he didn't 60 down to the river
and drown, never could understand.
But do know that he never looked at
Niagara all the time we were there.
When we went out for q walk, he walk
ed with his back toward them, and
when he came back he lifted up his eyes
and looked resolutely toward the clouds.
don't think he ever saw or ever will
see Niagara, but / would like to bet q
large amount of money, say 1915, that
he got his bath.
OFF FOE TORONTO.
We struck our tents at Niagara the
Falls and took the train for Niagara the
City, and there we embarked on the
h<<ok 60, Tko 1rou =
rough one. A heavy northeast wind
chopped the lake up into most dis
tressing state of irregularity and abrupt
ness. The steamer was crowded with
excursionists, and they were happier
when we left the dock than they seemed
to be when we got we'll out on the lake.
Lake Ontario, observed, is just like
Niagara Falls.
1t takes every thing you have. - s.
At least, 1t took all the excursionists
had. ns-
Talk about casting your bread upon
the waters! f3i u +
Supper was served ON the boat and
saw one man pay 76 cents for supper
that ought to have lasted him two weeks.
1t didn't last him i've minutes.
/ never saw such reckless extrava-
gance In all my life. - p { s
One very pale young man told me he
had crossed the lake twenty times, and
had never been sick, in all the term i'm
plies, in all his life. s., - ~ -
In ten minutes saw that young man
looking down into the angry waters,
and am sinner if he didn't throw mp
every thing he had in the world except
his situation. SS
He looked wretched.
In fact, it was the retchedest time I
ever saw anywhere. Bxrdctte. (