The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-06-22
TIMETABLE VACATIONS.
A Cheap and Very Satisfactory
.,.A Way of Seeing the World.
some Points from o Man Who Believes
That the Pleasures of Anticipation Are
Greater Than Those ofParticipation
Joys of the Mental Tourist.

Iwonder If any body but myself ever TOOK
a time table vacation, asks Luke Sharp In
the Detroit Free Press. 1t is such cheap
ami delightful way Of getting round about
this little world of ours that those VINO
have never INDUCED Ia enc have missed q
great deal of Inexpensive pleasure.
| have knocked about quite bit IN my
time and have seen several places besides
Detroit, yet those actual journeys are moth
ing to my time table trips.
For instance, the first part OF this VIM
Ter t!ioa 1T would like to go down TO the
CITY of Mexico. | at once went to pas
senger ticket Office in Detroit and began 10
make inquiries ana load up with time
tables One of the great advantages OF
living in America is that you get your time
tables for nothing Now, in England they
make you pay penny for even the smallest
timetable of a railway. 1t is true that
some of the larger railways give you quite
a book for the money. You get all partlcu-
lars of how much ii will cost to ship
horse from one part of the country TO
another; what the tariff on dogs Is; what
the rules and regulations OF the company
happen TO be: what the law is II you sass
station master, and what various things
you will be fined forty shillings for, but all
this knowledge is useless to the ordinary
man He prefers to have his penny.
The railroads of America, on the other
hand, food the country with timetables as
free as the waters of the Detroit river
that is, unless you get the water through
the pipes of the Water Board.
The men in the Detroit ticket offices are
beginning to know me pretty well by Inns
time and they do not rush away from cash
customer in order to attend to my wants.
They know that am a person who asks a
great many questions, but who seldom
BUYS ticket think they believe that |
am something of fraud, but my intentions
are honorable. For the time being really
believe tn at am going to all those places
that inquire about. Take the brief course
Of the City Of Mexico fever, for instance
got the time tables Of the Wabash railroad
TO st Louis; then the Iron Mountain road
TO the borders of Mexico and the Mexican
Central railroad through to the City OF Mex
leo Then got another timetable by way
of Cincinnati; then the Queen & Crescent
route to New Orleans. then the Southern
Pacific and so on to Mexico. After that i
found that could go to Galveston and take
9 steamer there to Vera Cruz and 20 over
the New Mexican National road tc the capi-
ital. Or ! could go on 10 San Antonio by
rail and down that way to the National road.
then set to work to compare the dit
ferent advantages of the y different
routes. had great di fficulty in making up
my mind which would take or whether
would 20 one way and come back the other.
There were the delights Of visiting the
ancient and historical city Of New Orleans
Galveston had many attractions, and atSan
Antonio could see the ruins of the Alamo
How did revelin all those places goi
books about them and posted up. Then
read all could lay my hands on regarding
Mexico and what was to be seen there.
found out how much it would cost to go w
the big mountain and learned that the
guides expected five dollars q day and
thought they would be Disappointed in theil
expectations when they struck the under
signed. got many points on what thecos
Of living would be and figured up how mucl
time could spend on the trip.
After that ibid what most people Of
sensible nature would have done ut the first
Figured up the cost.
Then gave up the trip
l don't expect that the aforementione
sensible persons will enter into my enthu
siasm on the timetable trip business, bu
I then thoroughly sensible people mise lot G
fun in this world. Anyhow, they don't amas
as many time tables as do.
Although, as l said before, they charg
for their timetables in Europe there al
many advantages there i'll the way OF tai
L ing time table trip that are not to be ha
in America For a shilling or two ma
can get book containing every time-tab
in europe. Then by further expenditul
Of cash he gets, one by one, the vaiuab
guide DOCKS of every country there, mel
and compact and with red cover. AL tn
makes o timetable vacation easier al
more instructive in Europe than in Anne
lea. There is another great advantal
there for the mythical tourist The ra
way time books and guide books In Z
rope are made for the people; In Ameri
they are made for the railroad comp
MES. For instance, you can't get the rat
Of fare in an American time-tat
IN or railroad guide. never could U
ierstand why it is that the railroa
OF America are 30 anxious to CO
ceal their fares from the people Brs
shaw's very complete book gives eve
\ railroad fare in Britain, and costs only
appleton's railroad guide gives no fare
all, and imagine does not give map ,
N less the railroad pays for II. wanted
n find out about the steamers OF 10,
N steamship line on my trip to Mexico TIL
" was no mention Of the line in Applcton's,
N suppose that line refuses to advertise 8
IN 40 the traveller gets left Baedecker's gu
III book gives tho names Of almost every he
n in Europe and tells honestly whether i
] ! ! ! ! !
good or bad. 1t gives the prices by ]
"A meal or by the day. The guide book will
N cept no advertisement of any kind ats
IN price. 1t is book made for the people {
it can be depended on.
" There is nothing Of that kind in Ameri
N However to the mental tourist all I