Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-14
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Z Great Tr;o---The American "SsAt Dog
VS. IKE Festive Train KcoDer---Eome OF
tue swamp .Ansei---Cotton Ticking !
Little Rock and Hot MISREPRESENTATION
Hospitality, Etc. Etc.
Especial Correspondence OF the Giobe.l
Uov SPRINGS. Ark. Doc. 9.-"From Lands
of snow TO lands of SUM- This is the @7ay
ii reads On the brilliant Autographed time
card bats intended to advertise the winter
resorts of Southern railroad companies. !
A glance at the dare LIKE OF this etfusian will |
furnish incoutastihIe9 prooS that yours
truly has got there, that is to at leest one
of the objective points Advertised Sd glow
ingly IN the seductive title page Of the
aforesaid time cards.
Bat the geatle reader is requested 10
Waste no regrets before hearing concia-
sious. the fact being that soft snaps
are no 70 be always met with by tho way
fariag man il ra;.d- winter IL Arkansas. To
get down 10 the 'arass 6 the matter your
CORES ponde1.t IL ignt a&ve been seen, cow
hide grip-sack IT, hand, last Sunday Right
in ST. Fa1l, making faE the anton depot,
five inmates before train time, with a
binding snow storm 80 combat. OF course
he { lugIet or, tine G1 ORE staff find il nee
essarv to SO do III their
line.) and laxUrioas accommodations
were found oa the sleeper attached to the
Chicago. Milwaukee aud ST. Paul express.
The TIE from st. Paul 80 Chiesgo has
formed, So far, the most endUrabie
and pieesaEtest portion OF a somewhat
lonely and extended trip and the way
faring man Will travel a long distance
before ke strikes more agreeable road
to travel over than this same corporation.
This puff is voluntary, as the
writer did something unccnmonly clever
for newspaper man, purchase his ticket.
Some OF the purse proud and bioated read
ers OF the GLOBE may regard this COM
fession as q weakness, and become justly
Indignant when they remember that the
fare was only dollar. Soft. ye hsughty
possessors of the superintendent dollars of
our dads, know ye not, ye scoifers and
revilers. that the humble scribe had 70
plank down eight large coins, each of a
dollar in magnitude, 1.-THE rebate being
seven dollars at the other end of the road)
and when in st. Patrick's name was
news paper man known to possess SO much
hard lucre!
A soiourn of two days was taken in
Chicago, bat the sights of this wond. esfuI
and wicked city are as an Old song to the
intelligent readers of this paper. About
the only thing that might suffer brief men,
ton was the cold snap, it being breezy
enough last Wednesday. as friend re-
marked, to freeze the tail Off q brass
monkey, and the production OF ''Rolnany
Rye" at Haverly's. This play is remarka
bic Cor its superb scenery and settings.and
situations.
But cmj bono9 1t will no doubt be
brought out in st. Paul shortIy-that is, if
enough of the scenery can fnd stage room
for decent representation, and then the
amusement goers will find out all about it.
But beg pardon, this was to be 4 Southern
letter. With the warm rain patIering on
the roof and the musical mosquito! dirt-
ing with the feeble flame of the kerosene
lamp as write, it is with some reluctance
that my pencil is moved from the more
cheerful topics Of the North, with its
bright firesides, CHEEKY homes and brave,
hardy manhood, which stands out in such
pleasant relief when constrasted with the
Incidence aud tired appearance of things
in this out of the way country.
Boarding the morning train on the Chi
cago & Alton railroad, the GLOBE man was
shown to a seat on areciining chair in one
of the mptuous and we'll advertised cars
OF this company.
The surroundings were indeed gilded.
but on this particular day Of the year, last
Thursday, the car was more like refrig-
orator. 1t was bitt IL cold day and in
spite of everything the frost would con-
geal layers thick on the windows, and the
passengers could not be kept warm. It
was a blue crowd: the nose of the hand
some young lady going to st. Louis to be
home during the holidays, looked red and
pinched, and the interesting young person
did not seern half as charming as when she
kissed her lover goodbye in the morning.
The old ladies, God save them, grumbled,
the children spurned, cried and fretted,
the mothers were anxious and worried and
even the dapper young drummer, repre-
ssnting the great house of Goldpiate &
Co., for once il his life, looked as though
life wasn't exactly the cheerful thing de-
scribed SO eloquentiy by the psalm;st. There
was one feature of the road that almost
compensated for the lack of car
bon, that being the dainty
meal served in the dining car.
The viands were choice, we'll cooked and
served to lie queens taste. Besides, at
the CONCLUSION of the repast each male
diner was presented by the colored wait
er with buttonhole bouquet. On receiving
this souvenir, yours truly tumbled to the
racket. but innocentiy inquired, ''this goes
with the meal!" to which his royal nobs in
the white apron responded, ''the gift of the
waitah, sah." saw vas, Geuced clevah NV.
exactly was the response as the expected
quarter was received with thank We SIR
st. Louis was reached at $50 O'Clock o.
m, the train being one hour and a half