Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-20

soon became engaged in conversation. After q
few words the conductor said:
''Do you see that woman sitting at the other
end Of the car on the left?''
The passenger nodded.
well" continued the conductor "shes one
Of kind that make Pullman conductors grow
gray and old before their time She's made it a
point to be always wanting something ever since
she left Chicago. She wants the window up and
then she wants it down. Then she wants a
drink OF water and asks me to get it for her.
VI course have to get it because she is travel
Ing alone. Thank God" said the gentleman In
brass buttons and blue cloth as he heaved
sigh, her husband Is to join her at Pitts
burg"
why. do you know" continued the conduc-
tor as he stroked his moustache, II have heard
party of ladies travelling together recount all
the horrible railroad accidents they ever heard
or read of, and every little while there would be
chorus of oh, dear, just think OF it. Suppose
lt would happen to our train That's the way
they wOnid entertain each other for hours.
Il had better traveller the other day. He
was young fellow. well dressed. and looked
and acted as If he had always been very rich
he came into the car, and pointing to the draw
ing room at the other end of the Car. said, any
body in there2"
mo, SIR" said /.
"HOw much?" said he.
Eight dollars" said [.
lie handed me -. gave me 81 for myself and
the pest cigar ever smoked. He walked into
the drawing-rOOm. and. as he closed the sliding
doors. said. Il don't want to be bothered until
we get to Philadelphia"
PROMINENT TRAVELLERS
Roscoe COnkling generally gets one seat in a
drawing-rOOm, and he gets all the newspapers
he can buy, reads them and throws them all over
the drawlng-roOm in mass; besides he always
has portmanteau 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
Blaine, he's just the opposite; he always buys
the whole drawing-room and shuts himself up,
and Is very modest, retiring traveller but Grant
Is queer old fellow. When he was Presi-
dent OF the United States he nearly always
travelled In special car. but now 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 cigar in his mouth and there
he sits with hand on either arm of his chair
and smokes and smokes. thoroughly Obvious of
everybody in the car. He never looks at any
one; sometimes he will look out Of the window
for hours; when he's not doing that he's glanc-
Ing over newspaper. He's Indifferent to every
thing that's going on Why, if the train he is
in stops on the road In the open country for
some minutes he never moves. never inquiries
what 8 the matter. but sits and smokes stOliily
until the train starts while all the other passen-
gers put their heads out of the windows or get
on to see what's gone wrong"
II remember trip to Chicago Grant made in
my car some time ago. His seat was directly
behind lady who was travelling alOne-and
who, by-the-bye. knew very little about travel
ing She had her window up for some time,
and it was pretty chilly, besides the black smoke
poured into the car. / watched Grant for
little while, and saw he was annoyed as the
smoke and chilly breeze blew right over him.
Presently he got up. and leaning over the ladys
shoulder put his hand on the catch and let the
window sash down. The little woman gave an
involuntary start and turned round hercely, 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 pas
sengers who had seen the affair smiled at one
another. Then the little woman beckOned to
me and said: Conductor. who is that hog back
of me?"
THAT'S General Grant," said 1.
''Oh!" said the little woman and she dropped
the window Immediately. Grant heard the Ques-
ton but never let on and went on reading his
paper as If nothing had haIpened."
OSCAR wILDE's FRANKS.
"But Oscar Wilde took the cake" said the
conductor, warming up as he saw the reporter
was highly entertained. oscar Wilde was more
bother than all the women who ever rode on a
railroad car. He had an idea that he was the
greatest man that America had ever seen and he
put on more airs than ii he had been the Car of
Russia, the Prince of Spain and the Emperor Of
Germany all in one. Would you believe it. he
paid the porter of the sleeping car to tell people
at the stations along the line wherever the train
stopped that Oscar Wilde was the car. He was
the yainest, most cOnceited mule l ever saw.
He wouldn't drink water out OF the glass at the
cooler, but slipped it out of silver and gold mug
he carried with him, and he'd sit with the tips Of
his fingers pressed together and look up at the
roof OF the car as If he was about to offer up a
prayer"
Herbert Spencer was the most restless tray
eler ever saw, and Bob IngersOll is the best.
When lngersOil enters a car to 90 on q Journey
the first thing he does is to hang up his big
SLOUGH hat. then he commences to make himself
comfortable. and by the time the train starts he
just acts as if he were at home in his study. II
there's no one on the train that he knows. it
don't take him long to strike up an acquaint-
ance, and everybody seems glad to know him.
He's very jolly and very liberal traveller
smokes nearly all the time the cars and
always carries bundle of choice cigars with
him. | remember one night there was a freight
wreck, and our train had to lay up for three or
four hours. 1t was terrible night, the wind
blew hurricane and the rain came down in
torrents Col. IngersOl was one of the pas
sengers Everybody got tired. Nobody could
get anybody to talk with them. At last little
Scotchman, who was travelling through
America sightseeing, learned who IngersOll
was and he tackled him then and there Inger-
Bull was just Iii tue numOr, ana In less than ten
minutes everybody in the car crowded around
him and listened to him for over two hours, and
the passengers seemed 80 pleased and enter
tanned that they forgot all about the night and
the accident"
CABINET MINISTER'S AND OTHERS.
Secretary FOiger Is q very quiet traveller
He generally has pile Of legal documents
along with him, and puts in the time examining
them. Secretary Frelinghuysen is great news
paper reader on the cars. and always puts me In
mind of Joseph Jefferson. Jefferson ia a re-
markedly quiet Traveller. He's good listener.
but talks very little Salvini is a very enthusi-
astic traveller admres every little thing in the
shape OF pretty scenery along the road, and he
sees everything. He's q noble fellow, and lib
era with the pOrters."
Secretary Lincoln is q business-like traveller.
does good deal of work on the train, and reads
more newspapers than any man l ever saw.
He's so different from his father in this respect.
His father used to sit as quiet as mouse with
his arms folded and look out Of the window
nearly all the time"
Perry Belmont Is very nervous man-twfsta
his moustache and plays with his watch-chain
half the time. Every now and again he pulls
out his watch and looks at the time. as if he