Mohave County miner., 1888-09-01
TRAVEL In THE WEST.
coNvENiENcES WHICH EASTERN
e PASSENGERS 90 NOT KNOW. 4
Privileges Of the Dfning Car-Travsa1n4
Lnneh Chests--A Good Result % KSu
Rases--rravei I'm the Night Tims-Eks
Train Men.

Rases-Travei in the Night Ttms--xhs
Train Men.
In one respect the western railroads G.
ahead Of the eastern railroads, and th4t
is In feeding their passengers Hardly 3
road In the east has a dining car on IL
local trains. Tho limited and through
express trains have dining cars, bu. th4t
are generally for the parlor and sleeping
car passengers only. A man who is going
ffosa New York 20 Philadelphia. or Ne4
Haven. or Albany In an ordinary car muEe
! get Of at some station TO eat or 60 wttk
out, unless he can make a meal from ~
cigars. fruit. candy and novels Of ~
train boy.
Out west they do this better. AlmoQt
all the main lines make provision for fee&
ifg the passengers on the trains. Non
dining cars are run than ON the eaStA44
roads, and, though the msals arc nQt III
elaborate as on the New York Central e44
Pennsylvania limited trains, the pr1t& III
| seventy-flve conts instead OF 81. III
door Of the dining cars that the passeneE
who are not In parlor cars would ent9$ II
not locked, and anybody In the train p1fy
90 In and eat. This Is not 30 pleasant f4
| the pagior car passengers, but 1t ID bsttR
| for the general travel OF the road.
In many trains where there Is no dining
car there Is sort of q lunch counter ri9GS4
up In the smoking car There Is an stSen&
ant who will serve luncheon In any pa{l
Of the train. he brings the things 6n d
tray, and they can be eaten with muck
more comfort aud leisure on the train
than Ia the hurry of short stop and the
crowd and confusion OF railroad lunch
room. The apparatus Is kept In the
smoking car during the trip, and at tho
end tho things ere packed UP in big
chest, tho way newsboy packs up his
outfit, and the chest Is taken away TO DO
Festoclscd and put on another train. This
Is convenienee that the eastern roads do
not seem TO believe In. The prices are
| moderate, a little lower than those charged
4 at the average eastern railroad lunch
counter; the dishes are clean, and nap
| kin goes with them.
In ono way those travelling lunch cbests
must be educators of the people. No
knives are served with pie. An order tot
pie, coffee and sandwich brought fresb
sandwich wrapped tip In transparent pap>t
ard covered with tin foil like prize pack
age, thick, white china cup Of coffee
with little ing Of cream and some sugpH
o piece of pie on q plate, spoon aid y
! fork There was no knife. The western
lIhabitant who undertook to eat pie with
knife would have TO furnish 1t himself,
for the attendant brought none. Th4
only ways of eating the pie were with y
fork or with the fingers. This Is better
than In tho east, where at four railroad
lunch counters out of fve knife go<b
with pie, and usually it is vigorously
used.
Don't you give knife with pie" the
attendant was asked.
| "oh, no" he replied. you don't need
la knife to eat pie."
els this scheme of the railroad TO edu-
cato the travelersT
II don't know about any scheme. All
know Is that Piedon't need any knife, >
"Have you ever reflected on the resu1to
Of this denial Of knives to the pie eatanS
public?"
Look here, young man, what'ro yoy
asking that fort Do you take me f6y !
kidf Knives don't so with pie. and thasA
ell there Is TO 1t.
| There Is less expectation of fees among
the walters in western dining cars. Ths4
sell ten cent cigars, too, Snd cheap bee&,
Altogether, the railroads seem to DO Ydh
more for the accommodation Of the avy
age passenger and less for the people wA8
pay extra That may be because there z
more competition.
One good result of these low rates g
that travelling Is encouraged. Western
men travel many times as much as east
ern men. More western mon come ease
than eastern men go west. A Hrookly3
man would think a trip to Chicag, sonlf,
thing to be thought over, and be would
not 20 to Boston without making son3&
preparation. A Chicago businesA m18
thinks nothing of going to st. Louis, 81
| Paul, Kansas City or Omaha, and D tr41
to New York simply means the cxpen1
and day lost. They do not think aAH
more of trip 20 ST. Paul than an oN
brooklyn citizen would think of o trip u
Westchester county on tho elevated foad
One result Of the universal western
habit of travelling Is that the bulk OF th4
passenger traffic Is done at night. Every
road from Omaha runs night expreq4
arriving at Chicago In the morning, Nhux
the day trains are generally slower A4d
more for local traffic. western man 81
accustomed to do his days business ap4
then start of, while an eastern man look&
on the act OF travelling as serious undet.
taking, and starts of In the morning WITH
feeling that he will be more tired by
evening than IL he had worked In hi1
Office. "A western man, on the othe1
hand, finishes bis business, goes to the
station in time for supper on the train,
.snlokes his cigar In the smoking conpart-
lment OF tho sleeper. chats with his fellow
travellers, goes to bed and wakes up in
the morning In time for breakfast at bis
destination. and goes at once to attend 10
his business there as II he did that sort Of
thing every day-indeed, some Of them
do.
The relations between the trainncn
and the passengers are moro pleasant In
tho west. Tho trainncn are not ser.
| wants, but workinen and business men.
They look forward TO promotion on tho
road or to striking wealth la speculation.
Amongdheir passengers every day they
see men who few years ago were worse
oil than they are. and whom they know
on equal terms. In the cast big men In
the parlor cars are bowed down TO by tho
trainmcn, who make things even with
| themselves by ordering around the second
class passengers In tho smoking car.
! Western conductors are more civil and
less subservient, though tho sleeping car
porter Is the same everywhere.
The conductors arc less stringent In en-
forcing the rules of the railroad company.
Occasionally they wifi let a passenger
stop over on limited ticket, and II II
common for them to accept tickets the
tine Of which has expired. They allow
one man to travel on another mans
mileage book, and fair proportion Of
the cash fares never reaches the COM
pany's treasury. This is regarded as
legitimate. A road that was too strict
with its passengers would lose traffic.
The difference can be told at Chicago as
soon as one gets of western road and
1 cbanccs TO ri, eastern line. He at oncA