Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Niserics of a Traveller on the Mountain
Railways Of Tennessee.
Brewster aud IIurd-A Coming Tilt
Between Intellectual Giants.
The Devious Ways OF the Department
Of Justice.
social correspondence OF the Gazette.

Gently victimized by railway ticket
vendor, and to spare others subsection
TO evils / endured, would tell the story
of my griefs. In the ticket
office OF the great railway lines con-
verglng lat Atlanta, | supposed !
would at leust learn the truth about
the different routes thence to
Washington. therefore said
To the ticket vendor that, all
else being equal, would see the Shen-
andoah valley; that had passed over
but since the beautiful country, made
historical by Sneridan's ravages was
deemed most attractive, 1 would
gladly contemplate i,s charms. The
ticket vendor assured me that my
choice of routes was wise, and that L
would only change cars at Bristol,
Tennessee, where | would b. trans
ferred to u sleeping coach about 3
o'clock at night. | set out 1880 o'clock
a. m, and changed cars twice within
few hours. We stopped
at Knoxville, and / think /
changed cars there. In any event, j
changed cars at Bristol and found no
sleeping coach. Again, at Lynchburg
we changed cars, never hearing of u
sleeping coach. | had been sick sew
eral days and WAS suffering from cold
and fever. Worn out AID exasperated
by horrible contretemps, l asked the
conductor If must change cars again
and how often? He said might sleep
soundly, that changes would be no
more, and the country beautiful and
the scenery grand. There
were lofty mountains robed
in snow, and bright cottages
lutha1 In, gnnuhipn oil tha morn haan-
tiflil because of the resplendent white
ness OF the hills, and valleys and
mountains, rendered even more charm
ing by troops of joyous men and
women gliding over the frozen surface
OF ponds and streams.
DIDN'T CHANGE OARS,
but at some point near Harper's
Ferry | should have changed cars.
The conductor gave me no Inclination
of the necessity. He tore off coupon
from the elongated ticket, aud said,
"your ticket takes you over the
on that road, / only answered 81
hope il will not require me TO change
cars
Within half an hour nice young
man came along inspecting passengers
tickets He inform d me that miHe
would not be recognized. paid him
So 80 and then the Baltimore 81 poto-
mae road Sl.20 IL deposit me in WASH
ington. | should have changed cars
near Karper's Ferry, aud failing, lost
$40 sent these conductors receipts
for these sums, TO the good young man
at Atlsnta who sold me the through
ticket. III he refund will Ice pleased;
but whether he do OF not IL
signifies nothing; his roads should be
avoided.
A QUEER FACT.
/ discovered that the northern half
of the East Tennessee road, next to
Bristol. il entirely too crooked to be
navigated safely by sleeping coaches.
and the Atlanta ticket vendor should
not haze deceived me. You must
know that the inner and shorter line
of the curved trackway, where the
curve is very abrupt, is half foot
lower than the outer rails. it results
that when n sleeping coach is
hurled around one OF these
sharp curves half the occupants of
The berths are dumped down into the
.isic, and those of the other berths are
pitched out through the glass windows,
md damages to life and limb are enor-
nDus, and sleeping COACHES on intense-
y crooked roads don't pay If a very
ibrupt curve be run over by sixty
DOT sleeper tile ends of the car are
srpt on the track while the roadway
pending out to the right or left bitches
he wheels and stops the train. These
sudden jerks make loco
motives swear and pun and blow
nightly. They do talk about taking
he~e kinks out ofthP crooked highway,
,ut IL will not be done in or time
nd until the road IL Strengthened
leeping coaches cannot navigate Il.
BREwsTER's TROUBLES.
You will remember that | once fur
ished tie GAZETTE an elaborate re-
lew of this con duct of the administra-
lon, ,,s represented by Atlorney-Gen-
raj Brewster, towards Dorsey and
brady, defendants in the star route
rial The goodness OF the article
aused its authorship To be ascribed by
he New York Times 10 Bob lngersoli.
reading IL, wnxci wroth
nd was led to inquire whether the
iAzETTE had money TO expend in de-
.ndng libel suit. He was Informed
y United States district attorney
hat tho GAZETTE was owned by the
capitalists of Northwestern Texas.
III tIal lUlbluE Wpulu please tutHn
iore than ''tusslep in the courts
18th tho treasury and department. of
istice OF the United Statvs.
HuRD or OHIO.
IL is very certain hat Hurd Of Ohio
ands among the very first of intel
ctual men In the house OF represent
lives. His face and eyes and head
III the story. He IL "a unlike ordinary
len as was Daniel Webster "a Henry
lay. Nature set npoh him the stamp
greatness. Brewster. the attorney
eneral, is OF great native aud acluir-
l ability. lie II ldeously ugly, but
Is head IL enormous and his eyes do
laze with intellectual fires when
9 IL aroused 10 fury. as when
o assailed the GAZETTE. or when
le ponderous forces OF his facultItv
re set In motion 20 evolve q profess
onal argument. Iurd h.s mt assured
rew.ter'a strength He thinks he
as discovered In Brewster adoenau