The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-12
PIR11s OF sL1Hp1Ho CARS.


There Il . good deal Of interest
manifested these days 90 the part Of
the American people relative to The
matter Of separate slsePing can tor
the two sexes. 1t = Q move in the
right direction, and we hope it will
win. Az it 10 nov, no gentleman
travtliog alone 10 safe.
Several mooths ego. entirsly alone.
We Travelled from Lsramis to Chicago
and back, making the round trip With
no Escort whatever. Our wife was de-
iained ut home. and that the entire
journey was made With no one u
whom We could look for projections.
When were turned Cur hair had
turned perfectly white With the hos-
ror Of thOse drssdfa: nights.
There wss one woman from Phila-
delPhis, whose name 10 will not men.
ton, and who rode al the way b.
tween Omaha and Chicago 10 our
car. Almost the 6rst thing when ~
started ont Of Omaha. sbs began to
make advaoces toward 10 By asking
10 il re would hold her lunch basket
while sLs vent after . drink. She
also asked 70 for our knife 10 peel a
orange.
These things look email and issig.
ni6osnt. but in the light 0t later d.
velopmeots they are Of vital import
anea.
That evening We saw with horror
that the wOmans section was adj0in-
ing our own.
We asked the conductor IL this
could not be changed but he laughed
coIdly, and told - to soak our head,
or some such uufeeliug remark.
That 10 one bad feature Of the pres
ent system. A mao travelling alone
gets no sympathy or assistance from
the conductor.
1t would Be impossible to describe
the horror end apprehension Of that
awful night. All though ito virgils
re suffered on till near morning. when
tired nature yielded, aud We fell into
. troubled sleep.
There We lay. fair and beautiful. in
the soft gray Of approaching day,
Thousands of miles from home. aud
less than ten feet away . great horrid
woman from Pennsylvania. to whom
Ne had not even been introduced.
How We could have slept % sound
" under the circumstances We are yet
unable to tell, but perhaps twenty
minutes Of slumber ve saw. above the
footbUard of our berth and pesring
over 1t ue, the face of that woman.
With q wild bound We were on our
feet in the aisle If our car. The
other berths had al disappeared but
ours.
The other passenger were sitting
quietly 10 their seats. and 1t Mas half
past nine o'clock. The woman from
Pennsylvania was in the day coach.
1t was oaly . horrid dream.
But surprising it had been . reality!
Aud any man who travels alone h
liable to be iusuItsd At any time. We
do not care for luxury in travelling.
All We want is the assurance that We
are safe.
The experience which We have mar
rated sbove 10 only one OF thousand.
Did you ever note the care worn look
Of the man who u travelling alone !!
The Wild. hunted expression On the
c.uuteuance and the horrible spPre-
hension that is depicted there!
You NAV talk about the various ex.
cuses that are leading men downward
to early graves. but the nervous st!a'"
induced by the fear that while they
are taking out their false teeth OF but
touiug their suspenders. pryi"g eyes
.rs looking over the footboards OF
their berths % constructing more new
made graves than consumption or the
QIfah vnr.