St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
POINTERS ON TRAVEL.
A st. Paul Lady Travels to
!. New York and Return,
/ Stopping at Chi
) eago, Indian
apolis,
Cincinnati, Washington, Bal
timore, Philadelphia, UP
the Hudson
Via Albany, Buffalo, Niagara,
Detroit and Toledo,
For $33, the Regular Fare
Being About $71.S0--She
Deals Exclusively With
Members Of the
American Ticket Brokers'
Association, and Finds
Them to Be Public
Benefactors.

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~SJ-A<> her a fortune
-<> ample 10 satisfy
her ambition, which was to see the
world. For Shakespeare and her ideas
were very much alike on the "AdVan-
tages of Travelling"
He cannot be perfect man,
Not being try q and tutor'd in the world;
Experience is by industry achieved.
And perfected by the swift course OF time.
She commanded a fair salary and had
saved some money; so one day when her
employer informed her that she could
have thirty days vacation she was de-
termined to make tour OF the East.
She visited the ticket offices OF the hve
representative Chicago lines and alb
sorbed all the information relative
to routes and rates within
her power, and was easily con-
WINGED that the Chicago, st. Paul q
Kansas City was the popular route, ana
in consequence it conveyed her 10 Cnt-
cago on a superb train that was the
acme of railroad architecture. She en-
loved the ride to the Queen City by the
Lake. very much, passing en- route
Southern Minnesota, Northern Iowa
and Illinois. crossing over the "Fatlier
of Waters" at Dubuque. AS Chicago
was second hand to her, she boarded
the MOnOn train for the HooSler capt.
tai, and whiled away day at the home
of the preSident-elect, seeing all the
sights, especially the state house, En-
lgllsh's opera house, TomlinsOn hall and
circle. We next see her stepping
aboard the c. Fl. & D. train in the union
depot for Cincinnati, and she trods
around the city on the Ohio for two
days, looking at points of interest,
Arcade, Fountain square, public build
ing, over the Rhine, Geological gardens,
Exposition building, Walnut hill, New
port; Covington, theaters, hotels. 'Fall
of Babylon" and like the boys In gray,
starts for Washington via the Baltimore
IL Ohio, and to attempt to decry the sur
passing delights of a trip over that
crooked road is to argue ones self In
sensible to art, to cultivated impulse
and refined sentiment. A person to
travel a day in the Alleghanies past
Oakland. Harper's Ferry John Browns
Fort). and by the Potomac, has some
thing to see, to feel and to enjoy. AS
for the Garden City, she was infatuated
with the numerous parks, extremely
wide and handsome avenues, White
house, capitol, Botanical gardens,
department building, galleries., and
before leaving for Baltimore
elevated her optics to the uppermOst
pinnacle of Washington monument. In
the Monumental City she had relatives,
who did their utmost to make her visit
pleasant. and exerted themselves to
show her the innumerable sights of the
handsomeSt residence city in this coun-
try; and before she took her last Whit
of the old Chesapeake, avowed she
would rather reside in Baltimore than
any city she had ever visited. Terre
frma was touched next at the "City of
BrOtherly Love-" and, with her usual
Western independence, she struck out
and Toasted her eyes on Wannamaker S
huge department store, Pennsylvania
depot. the finest in the land; the famous
Paramount park, court house, Memorial
hall, Centennial building, Franklin IN
stitute, Apprentices library, Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts, mint, and
was confident that real estate was lower
there than in st. Paul, or they wouldn't
have cemeteries in the heart of the city.
After a pleasant ride through quite a
manufacturing district on the fast ex-
press of the New Jersey Central, she
lands in Jersey City, and gets glimpse
of that enormous sentinel on BedlOe's
Island, the Statue of Liberty En-
tightening the World. By the aidaof
the ferry across North river and
the Harlem train on the l. road she is
soon with relations on Eighty-third
street, who do their utmost to show her
Gotham to the queens taste. They are
excellent pilots, and before she leaves
New York she has drank in the follow
ing sights: Central and Riverside parks,
Fifth avenue, Broadway. Bowery, Bat
terry. Brooklyn and Bridge, principal
buildings, COney and Governors is
lands, theaterS and hotels: and we next
discover her reveling in the beauties OF
a trip along the scenic Hudson; sne
continues in the same car by Albany,
Buffalo, and has an elegant view OF the
worlds great cataract (Niagaral, and
after flying through the queens domain
brings up at Detroit, thence to Toledo,
and, before re ching st. Paul, makes a
limited visit with relatives in HOOSier-
dom. When last | saw this estimable
Young lady she was thanking w. r.
Gitt. ticket broker, 175 East Third street,
for his kindness in giving her letters to
the various members of the American
Ticket Brokers' Association" in the
cities she visited, enabling her to travel
at such reduced rates. Mr.. Git had Sc
cured her a round trip to Cincinnati for
81. Il. C.. Meader, member of high
standing in the association, at 80 West
Fourth street, Cincinnati, had made her
a 50 rate to New York: and u. &. Lans-
ing, 397 Broadway. New York. a very
corteous gentleman and an officer in the
A. L. B. A, put her to Chicago for Sl3,
she. taking a rebate for s. on Ed List,
member of the association in the last
al ha t,coH rho rnfnrn
ton of her Cincinnati ticket to st. Paul,
and there. you are" The American
Ticket Brokers' Association is quite a
power in railway passenger circles. 1t
was termed in 1879, and to-day is repre-
sented in 1855 different cities of the
Union by PIG offices, all doing a large
and honorable business. The moduS
operandi is similar to chain OF banks,
tie different members drawing rebates
Tor checks on the various members in
the many cities. Eligibility 70 men,
|. bership requires that broker, to join
| the A. I. B. A., must be a gentleman
of good standing in the locality he
wishes to represent, and in consequence
the association guarantee all his dealings
and a rebate made by Tor ON broker
belonging to the A. T.. B. a. is as good
| as the check of our heaviest capitalist.
W. r. Git, the local representative OF
| the association, is an affable, obliging
young gentleman, WHO'S well known to
most of our citizens; for In the past
| seven years he has saved them con.
siderable sum in railroad fares; and as
he Is not working for any particular
road, he is in position to give informa'
regarding routes and rates In an unbi.
ased manner.