The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-23


the trunk stating its destination. On arriv-
ing at the end of his journey the traveller
goes to the luggage van or to the heap Of
luggage thrown out upon the station plat
form and points out or claims his trunk.
When, as occurs at the great railway CEN
tiers, there are 100 or more passen-
gers crowding about mountain
GUS heap of trunks, each eager to
claim his property and get away, much
confusion ensues. The traveller cannot go
to his hotel and send q porter or express
man with his check to the station to get his
trunk, because he has no check. He mas to
stay until the luggage is all out and identify
his trunk. Sometimes the luggage is car
ried beyond its destination and goes scour-
ing over the country without its owner, and
sometimes, when the luggage vans are
overcrowded, it is left to come along by a
later train. In such cases the traveller has
nothing to do but to haunt the
station until the missing package
turns up. These separations of passengers
and luggage are so frequent that at
busy railway functions and large stations
there are "lost luggage" offices, where bland
officials receive the statements and COM
plants of passengers. These officials are
always busy. They are always supremely
confident that the luggage will come along
in time. In their view luggage is never
actually lost. 1t is only the tempers of
passengers that are lost. They are obliging
and really mean what they say. They tele-
graph literally up and down the line and
generally succeed in reuniting the traveller
and his trunk in few hours. One
reason for the uncertainty in the
delivery of luggage is that instead
of having a baggage car, as on Ameri-
can trains, with baggage master who is
at work between stations sorting and get
ting out pieces of baggage for
delivery at the next stopping place
the luggage on crowded
train is packed into small compartments SO
tightly that it is immpossible to get at it en-
route. So it often happens that during the
brief stop at station all the luggage in
tended for that point is not found. Still,
with all these inconvenience the English
traveller prefers his old and sacred system to
the American baggage check.
ON A GERMAN RAILWAY.
In Germany the railway employees ars all
uniformed like soldiers They are formally
polite to passengers, and always touch their
caps in miltary style when addressing
them. Every gatekeeper stationed at a
crossing always stands at a salute when the
train passes. holding the short round stave
about which his flag is wrapped as though
it were q musket. Most of the railways are
state affairs, and so every train represents
peror'S train and hence must be saluted.
No one can secure employment on the rail
way unless he has served in the army
The discipline of the army is carried into
the railway management. A young Ger
man who was my companion in the COM
partmeut of railway carriage in which |
was travelling over the state railway of
Baden, when | remarked upon the fidelity
and ceremony with which every gate
Enanar Tod troi oil
which he thought extremely funny. 1t was
about a railroad emplOye who was sick and
thought he ought to go every day to see a
doctor who lived in a neighborlng
village. The doctor at last told him it was
unnecessary for him to come and see him
so often, and proposed that as the train on
which the doctor had to travel on the "a l.
way daily passed the post where the man
was stationed the latter should thrust his
tongue out so the doctor could examine il
as he passed. The man exhibited his tongue
to the doctor in this way for several days
when his peculiar action was reported b.
the railway employees on the traln. He va:
put under arrest for showing dlsrespect t
the royal train by S licking out his tongue
at it, and had to suffer an Imprisonment Of
several weeks before he succeeded in satisfy
ing the authorities of the innocent motive
of lis act.
HAUNTED BY THE GU ARD.
The German railway guard rides in
little covered seat on top AID at one end o.
the car He has a startling way of thrust.
ing his head into the window of your CON
| partment when the train is travelling at the
! rate of forty miles an hour and you expect
| no visitors. Sometimes you will see q
| military cap rise up to the lower edge of tht
window, followed Immediately by pair o
keen, vigilanr eyes, which will gaze at 20;
an instant and the disappear. You canno
| help feeling that you are under espionage
and any word of yours hostile t.
the German government spoken il
| what you suppose to be the privacy
| of a railway department, may sub
| ject you to an examination by German
officials. The military discipline of rail
| way employees results in well-managed rail
ways. A gateman or a switchman VINO i
responsible for the slightest mishap has NJ
more mercy shown him than q sentinel who
is found asleep at his post. There is con
| sldera BILE ado over the arrival and depart
ure of trains from a station When the
| train slows up to enter the station a maj
runs in front of the locomotive, calling on
| t. people to look out for the train, and
| keeps his shouting up until the train comes
| to stop. 1t is said to be rare thing that
| any one is killed or injured by being
| run over by railway train in Germany
| When train Is about to depart an otficia
at the station blows little whistle
with his mouth. A subordinate pulls
rope which rings bell hanging in the sta
| ton. To this the locomotive driver re-
| spouds by a shrill toot on his whistle Then
there is pause, some shouting by railway
| employees on the platform, a scurrying by
| the guards as they close and lock the doors
| of the carriages and the man at the bel
rope clatters his bell again. Then the trail
begins to move. AS it does so the bells in
| little tower beside the track begin to chime
| prettiiy. These bells are rung automati
cally by the moving of the trdin and con
| tinue to ring until the train is we'll undel
way. There is no bell on the locomotive
| If there was the driver might forget t.
ring it, but these automatic bells neve
forget.
Self Defense Against Dangerous Fot
| Forewarned is not forearmed in the case o
| those who incur the risk of an attack from tha
| dangerous foe, malaria, unprovided with
means Of defense. But if those in peril ar