The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-02-15
Individuality In a Psrlor Car.


Roscoe Conkling generally gets one seat
in the driving room car, and he gets all the
newspapers he can buy, reads them and
throws them all over the drawing in
mass. Besides, he always has portman-
teau full OF law papers, which he strews
all over every seat in the drawing-room,
Conkling is very vain traveller. and wants
everybody in the car TO look at him. Now.
there's Blame, he's just the opposite, he
always buys the whole drawing room and
shuts himself up and is very modest, re-
firing traveller; but Grant is queer old
fellow. When he was president OF the
United States. he nearly always Travelled
in special cor, but since he has become
private citizen, he travels just about the
same as ordinary folks. You can always
find Grant in the rear end Of the car in the
smoking apartment with a cigar in his
mouth, and there he sits with n hand on
either arm OF bis chair and smokes a,d
smokes thoroughly obliyous OF everybody
IN the car. He never looks at anyone;
sometimes he will look out OF the window
for hours; when he is not doing that he Is
glancing over newspaper. He's indiiler
ent to everything that's going on. why
if the train he is on stops on the road In
the open country for some minutes. he
never moves, never inquiries what's the
matter but sits and smokes stolidly until
the train starts, while all the other passen-
gars put their heads out of the windows
or get off to see what is going wrong.
remember q trip to Chicago Grant
made in my car some time ago. His seat
was directly behind a lady who was travel
ing alone-and who, by the by, knew very
little about travelling. She had her win
dow up for some time and it was pretty
chilly, besides the black smoke poured
into the car. I watched Grant for little
while and saw he was annoyed as the smoke
and the chilly breeze blew right over him.
Presently he got up, and leaning over the
lady's sho'der, put his hand on the catch
and put the window sash down. The lit.
| little woman give an involuntary start and
turned round fercely, but Grant never
noticed her and dropped back into his
chair. After little while the little lady
hoisted the window again and some OF the
passengers who had seen the affair smiled
at one another. Then the little women
beckoned to me and SAID Conductor who
is that hog back OF mef
"That's General Grant, said !.
"Ohl'' said the little women, and she
dropped the window immediately. Grant
heard the question, but never let on, and
went on reading his paper as II nothing had
happened.
| Herbert Spencer was the most restless
traveller ever saw, and Bob lngersoll IL
the best When Ingersoll enters a car te
90 on journey, the first thing he does u
TO hang up his sloutch hat. then he com
mences 10 make himsell comfortable, and
by the time the train starts he Just act
az il be were at home aud IN bis study
= there's no one the train that he knows,
4. t take him long to strike up an &C
il dol e. and everybody seems glad u
quaintanc uesa very jolly and yer,
know him. >, smokes nearly all th,
liberal traveller ways carries bun
time on the cars and one night tber,
die with him. ! remembe. .rain had /.
was a freight wreck. and our Ii was
lay up for three or four honrs zane
terrible night, the wind blew hurr'' :,
and the rain came down 10 torrent. IL
Colonel was one Of the passengers. Every.
boay rot tired. Nobody could get anybody
O. ,all with him. At last little Scotch
man learned who Ingersoll ~A@f aud be
tackled bim then and there ingerso''
W., just ii sbe hamor and 10 less than ten
minutes everybody in the car erowdes
around him aud listened TO him Tor owe
two hours. and the passengers seemed y
pleased and entertained that they iorso
an about the night and the accident