The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
CRUISING ON THE RAIL.
HOW RaLRoADNo GROWS ON A MAN.
The Great run That May BE Got Out of
Steam Travel with Right Manage
ment-Inhnitely Cheaper
Than Yachting.
Philadelphia Times.l

Philadelphia Timesl
A goo J. natured and laxative conductor
on the Pennsylvania Road leaned against
the stove in the smoking car of an incom.
ing train the other day. and remarked to q
passenger who smoked near him: you
have no idea how raiiroading grows on a
man. The more you railroad the more you
want to. Any other life seems as fiat es
dishwater compared to it, and from the
way that things are advancing in rail-
reading, it looks very much as if there
would never b. a limit to the fun that can
be enjoyed. just now the great scheme is
to go cruising round on the railroad. You
talk about going off in steam yacht
Why, it can't be compared to yachting on
railroad"
- " nat do you mean?
"Why, a man can go yachting over the
American continent with more comfort
aud plea ure than he can over The Atlantic
Ocean. 1t will cos him a good deal of
money, but not as much as it viii TO run q
big yacht, and lie will have no end of fun.
Fogs will not affect him; he can live like
a prince on the fat of the land, and just
drift from one place to another. The only
cost will be for mileage over the roads AMI
ductors, cook, brakeman and attendants.
He eau have any sort of an engine he
wan S. IL can be gold-plated from stem
to stern, and have an alabaSter bust of
Venus on the cow ca cher if he is willing
TO pay for it. He can buy his own engine
AMI car, or he can own his car alone and
hire an engine on each division as lie goes
over the railroad system of the country.
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money, would do it up in proper style.
There are great many men, you
know, who have tn ir own cars. They
hi ca them to the tail Ell OF express trains
and go atou. from one watering place to
another, or OF on little picnics with par
ties Of friends. Actors and actresses Gct-
ualiy find it cheaper to travel this way
than to live at hotels. l saw the car last
Thursday in which B1ucicdulG travels. 1t
is fitted up so as to accommodate his en-
tire troupe, including everything and the
light luggage of the company. They eat,
sleep and travel in this car, have no hotel
bills, and thus come back to almost the
same conditions that characterized their
great-great- grandf a,hers, who were known
as play actors, and who went about the
country in a caravan. heard of man
ago VINO had an ambitious scheme in
this line. He wanted to hire special
engine ana car and take trip over the
entire sys TENS of the country. lis idsa
was to sell railroad supplies of every
sort. He wanted to supply tie needs OF
the big round-houses as we'll the sta
ton masters, aad he was going to sell ev-
eIythins from wheels to potted plants.
a., L. al "a II f.,y. 9n1-
supply house il, New York. He expected
10 make such reputation by his unu ull
way OF travelling as to earn a fortune in
five years. The sch me didn't go. Our
Superinten Ielt diIl'5 See it, ana he had
to give it up"
"Isuh there more or less danger to regu-
lar passenger trains from these specials
flying over the road ~
mot On any road on which the trains
are VII scheduled and care "uIly run. A
cruiser eaa start ont at any point of this
road Tor ms ance, aud make Tip with
out the slightest danger of COLLISION, t.
any point. The system of signals is per-
feet, aud the trains are rul on TINE /
don't know how 1t would 20 in the Sou.n,"
added the conductor, redec5ively, las
they are often bit behind time
there. no Southern gentleman believes
in business-l,ke pauctualIty. Most of
the Southern engineers are Sout ern
gentlemen. They run their trains down
there il a way that would make a North
ern engineer tremSle from head to foot.
When the engineer gets good and .Saiy
to start he jumps abe trd, lights pipe,
says goo lby 10 his fr' ends, and lets her
go. Probably at tne first S alton he s.ops
at mule v Ill appear in the dis sanc2 bear
ing on his back al aged colore man. The
engineer stops the train and goes GU. AMI
Sis Oh the fence and swaps sto. is with
the fireman while they wait for the mule
to draw near. When he arrives the negro
tells them his master wants to each the
train. Presently the master is seen il the
distance. TIE train waits his arrival, and
Starts On again. No collisions ever occur,
because the trains are slow there is al
ways plenty of time to stop before they
come together. A cruiser scooping along
al the ra5e Of fifty miles an hour on ons
of these roads would have to play leap
frog with the trains, or else hitch on be.
hind"