The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-05-25

though it must be satisfactory to the steam
ship company, for if the officer watche.
the immigrants who are O. X. and ignores
the exported paupers, the company doe.
not have to return the latter.
Sometimes an inspector who can see is or
duty. Then back over the ocean go the
human hulks by the dozen.
Many greasy epic of the cooks galley
and the Storage might be sung by al
immigrant Homer. Many slip of the
soup might be recorded, or the one-sided
battles when band from Erin drive the
outnumbered Scandinavians from the flesh
pots and scoop the whole mess.
The immigrants do not have chance tc
change their clothes OF battle from the time
they leave Liverpool Their bundles
are slowed out of their reach for trip
sometimes lasting ten or eleven days. When
they land here they must either change
their dress on the wharf in sight of all, OF
wait twelve or twenty four hours till the
forinalities are finished and they are free
to go. Some men, and women too,
make change of underclothing on the
wharf. Others, who are packed directly
into the cars for the west, must make the
land journey in their foul clothing or else
ignore the presence of their fellows in their
toilet.
The sexes are not separated on shipboard.
The officers are not entirely to blame for
the discomforts of the passage. Some OF
the Storage travellers are SO hopelessly
dirty in their habits that much more saint
like persons than those in command .would
become Indifferent. "Cleaning the Au-
gean stables'' was task that was once
thought fit for the mightiest man; he\would
have had a hard time on an immigrant
boat.
Louis. NJ. Alcott's recollections or her
girlhood, written few weeks before her
death, are soon. to be published. She was
a reckless little madcap, and wandered
about town at will. ''Many a,ria]
lunch" she writes, ''have l sharedvWith
hospitable Irish beggar children, as
we ate our crusts, cold potatoes
among the ash heaps of the waste land that
then lay where the Albany station now
stands. On one occasion the town crier
found me fast asleep at 8 O'Clock at night,
on a doorstep in Bedford street, with my
head pillowed on the curly breast of big
Newfoundland, who was with difficulty per-
%
who had sobbed herself to sleep there.'
The ''bicycle railroad" is the pei hobby
of E. Moody Boynton, who once made a
speciality of greenback politics. He has
now come out with an invention which, he
maintains, is to bring San Francisco
within forty eight hours of New York, and
New York as near to Boston as Worcester
is. Mr.. Boynton has obtained patents in
several countries, and to exploit the rail-
road he is said to have organized a stock
company, with capital of 80, 600, 900. The
rolling stock of the bicycle railroad goes on
a single rail. but there is another
rail overhead, and another set
of wheels on the top of the locomotive and
cars, which serve to keep the rolling stock
from leaning over, and there are deep
fanges on the lower wheel. The widest
part of the engine will be forty -four inches,
and the passenger cars will seat 100 persons
in lengthwse seats Mr.. Boynton proposes
that his trains shall have an ordinary speed
of 100 miles an hour and possible speed of
200 miles.
CHARLES CALVIN