Smyrna times., 1888-08-29
TRAVEL IN THE WEST.
CONVENIENCES WHICH EASTERN
z PASSENGERS DO NOT KNOW.

cONvENENCES WHICH EASTERN
! z PASSENGERS DO NOT KNOW.
Privileges of the Dining Car-Traveling
Lunch Chests-A Good Result of Low
Rates-Fravel in the Night Time-The
Train Men.
In one respect the western railroads go
ahead of the eastern railroads, and that
is in feeding their passengers. Hardly
road in the east has dining car on It's
local trains The limited and through
express trains have dining cars, but they
are generally for the parlor and sleeping
car passengers only. A man who is going
from New York to Philadelphia, or New
Haven or Albany in an ordinary car must
get off at some station to eat or go with
out unless he can make meal from the |
cigars, fruit, candy and novels OF the |
train boy.
out west they do this better. Almost
all the main lines make provision for feed
} ing the passengers on the trains. More
dining cars are run than ON the eastern
, roads and, though the meals are not SO
}. elaborate as on the New York Central and
PENNSYLVANIA limited trains he price Is
seventy five cents instead or 81. Inc
door OF the Qlllll9 CSfS IilStG INC P.lo9SAeSAS
y who are not in parlor cars would enter Is
W not locked, and anybody in the train may
90 in and eat. This is not so pleasant for
the parlor car passengers, but 1t Is better
for the general travel Of the road.
n In many trains where there is no dining
o. car there is sort of Il lunch counternggeu
up in the smoking car. There IS an attend
ant who will serve Il luncheon III any part
of the train He brings the things on
hov- lac
more comfort and leisure on the train
oSh Elan in the hurry Of Il short stop and the
crowd and confusion Of a railroad lunch
room. The apparatus is kept in the
e, smoking car during tho trip, and at the
end the things are packed up III Dlg
chest the way u neWsboy packs up his
outfit. and the chest is taken away to be
restucked and put on another train. rms
is IL convenience that the eastern roads do
not seem TO believe in. The prices are
moderate, a little lower than those charged
at the average eastern railroad lunch
II. col,,,<er; the dishes are clean, and nap
ssVs kin goc5 with them.
In one way hose travelling lunch chests
must be educators OF the people. NO
- knives are served with pie. An order Tor
pic coffee and 4 sandwich brought a fresh
-Do sandwich wrapped up in transparent paper
and covered with tin foil like prize pack
aqc. a thick, white china cup Of coffee
with Il little jug oI crc4Ef and some sugar
a piece OF pie on 4 plate spoon ana
fork There was no knife The western
!. inha5itant who undertook to cat pic witt
a knife would have to furnish 1t hlmselI
nd, for the attendant brought none. Tn
,na, only ways o. Si els NE tle p9 9s %ei !. bette
-esh than in the cast where ut four railroa
lunch counters Ou: of live q knife goe
with pie, and usually 1t Is vlgorousl
- used.
Don't you give knife with pie:' IL
l4sb attendant wGs as..cd.
"Oh, no, ," he replied. "Iou don't net
a knife to eat PIE.
lis this a scheme Of the railroad to ed
cc cate the travclers!'
us, Il don't know about any scheme.
| know Is that pie don't need any knife
'sHave YOU ever reflected on the resul
of this denial of knives to the pie eGtil
HIN public?'
HID, Look here. young man, what re y
asking that for? DO yol take me for
kid? Knives don't go with pie, and tina
all there is to it
Gty tn1 g 6 S fs ss SsPss5adGn d1f 3f fs2s S 'P2 II
sell ten cent cigars, too, and cheap be
Altopether the railroads seem to be 1
7 MES more for the accommodation of the av
age passenger and less for the people
nav extra That may be because ther'
III more competition.
-, One rood result of these low rate
NiON' that travelling is encouraged. West
hereto men travel many times as much as ei
lance of ern men. More western men come {
IN 5-u than eastern men 90 west. A Brook
man would think q trip to Chicago so
thing to be thought over, and he VIC
- not 90 to Boston without making s.
m preparation. A Chicago business
] OG5 thinks nothing of going to St. Louis,
Paul. Kansas City or Omaha, and q
onn to New York simply means the exp
HIN and day lost. They do not think
U1UI more of a trip to St. Paul than an
BROOKLYN citizen would think of a tril
Westchester county on tho elevated I
One result of the universal ives
z IL. habit of travelling is that the bulk Of
passenger traffic is done at night.
House. s2pG opv6g hg@ at Vdaa chicago 6s in the m9nn @
tho dav trains are generally slower
GlbA more for local traffic A western m
ea%4 accustomed to do his days business
then start off, while an eastern man
H on the act of travelling as a serious u
taking, and starts off in themorning
a feeling that he will be more tire
evening than if he had worked il
III Office. western man, on the
Al hand finishes his business, goes Il
station in time for supper on the
smokes his cigar in the smoking con
- ment of the sleeper, chats with his
grades fur. travellers, goes to bed and wakes
nd prompt tho morning in time for breakfast q
adv atten destination, and goes at once to atte
II desired. his business there as if he did that
length OF thing every day--indeed, some Of
Vi INC OeS' do.
The relations between the trai
ndS sP6 R s.F sef FPs saBn9n B1 moP1 srJ P9Ss
1,,,A ,oTa oTaA hrICi
sses Spring They look forward to promotion 0
Line guar road or to striking wealth in specul
II tlle same s.F Among their passengers every day
see men who a few years ago were
off than they are and whom they
- on equal terms. In the east big n
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MNNHHfA the parlor cars are bowed down to
W~NA#I trainmen, who make things even
NJ IS1 themselves by ordering around the
sVENNH class passengers in the smoking
w<SNS~ Western conductors are more civ
~ less subservient, though the sleepi
porter is the same everywhere.
o ncn y iS JHo The conductors are less stringent
iSesfion n forcing the rules of the railroad cor
ength, and Occasionally they will let pas
,st9blished. stop over on limited ticket, anC
y eIntion' common for them to accept tick
olson. Es- time Of which has expired The
n a. curing one man to travel on another
elinas : en- mileage book, and a fair proper
, Consump- nanv's treasury. This Is regar
neisl, ei pys py "a legitimate A road that was to
lungs, Spit with its passengers would lose
Bronchitis The difference can bc told at Chi
q larea tt antS- soon as one gets off western 70
" changes to an eastern line. He
or Liver encounters q multitude of rules
yestion,, ~ Is unpleasant way Of enforcing then
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