Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-09-25

Car Held Up to DerisiOn-What IL
was Devised for-RailrOads in Gem
eral and Restaurants In Particular
Attacked.
HOTEL CHAMPLAIN, BLUFF POINT, VT,
Sept. 13.
To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AsD COURIER:
When DIR. Chauncy Talktoomuch Depew
and other railroad magnates on returning
from Europe tell the suffering citizens of
these United States that the railroad trav-
cling is far more agreeable, comfortable,
etc., here than there, they are talking for
pure buncombe, for they are not precious
fools and know better. To be a railroad
magnate and to go about in a private and
princely car is one thing. To be an ordi-
nary citizen and go about as an ordinary
citizen is quite another. If the windy L.
L. D. wants to know what ordinary travel
is, let him disguise himself and take any
one of the accommodation trains on any
one of the railroads over which he presides
and stick to it all day long, or let him s,ert
with me from New Haven for the Adiron-
dacks via the little Derby, Housatonic,
etc In the first place there is no through
car from New Haven TO Albany or even to
State Line. Before reaching Albany you
may be obliged to change cars three times,
certainly twice.
You leave. at $40 am. and you reach
Albany at $40 pm. During that time
you do not stop anywhere long enough to
get bite of luncheon, and there is only
did stop long enough. There is not a sta
ton till you reach Albany where there is
protection from rain when getting into or
out of the cars, and at Albany the protec-
ton is limited. There is not station pro-
vided with ordinary comforts, or even
necessities. There is not place in any
one of them where you can wash the dust
from your face unless you have brought
with you provision of soap, towels,
etc. At Albany you are left in the midst
of tracks and moving trains to find
your way out of one station, down
| through narrow streets and into another
| station. 1t is taken for granted that you
| know exactly what to do for there is no
one to direct you, and if you ask your
| way the chances are ten to one that you
will receive rude reply. If by good luck
you reach the D. and H station in time
for the 3:05 p. m. train you may be GER
tain your baggage wont. That will come
| on at the convenience of the baggage
master. You may be happy indeed if you
get it at Saratoga by bed time. All the
time in the cars you are being solicited to
buy decayed pears and rotten bananas;
stale candy and vile chewing
gum; bound books - as if a
'bound book" were species of
literature-aIl the latest novels and all
the weekly papers are continually thrust
into your face and dropped into your lap.
1t is hotter than Tophet; but if You sue
ceed in opening window some male sis
ter with an ear ache, or some fat old wo.
man with the tiawisies, bawls out, AND
down must go the window. The tempera
ture of the entire car must be regulated
by the crankiness of the crankiest person
in it. In this particular q so-called parlol
car is no better, for its temperature is IL
the hands of an ebon brother, and oul
ebon brothers show their Afric descen
by rejoicing in heat which takes the skin
off white man.
When Herbert Spencer was dined il
New York and asked to give his impres
sions of the United States and of the peo
ple in it he said thing that was not rel
ished. He stated that the trait in the peo
pie that surprised him the most was sub
mission to impositions. He must hav
} travelled in buffet car, for a people VIII
will submit to that will submit to anything
of liberty and are abject slaves. A buffe
car was devised for the purpose of dispos
ing of old canned soups and meats, and
answers the purpose admirably. Every
body has ridden in one No one can sui
nit to the regulations of on
> without a mournful sense of degrs
> dation and complete collaps
, of self respect. To be twirled about in one
i, chair SO that table may be inserted b.
t tween you and the chair back of you; b
!, made to face disagreeable stranger;
! have spread out under your nose the feal
full things from the darkey's internal cab
net, and to be hemmed in that positio
1 till the chap has whipped the last offel
sive crumb from his unknown greas
y mouth How is that for Fourth of Jul,
i. declaration of Independence, cherry trt
and ALA The American character has b
: come SO abject under this infiiction thl
y it is the easiest thing in the world to fin
l. an individual who has the spunk to refui
q to be twirled. Old men and young men a
twirled; women are twirled; del
), cate women, sensitive women, feeble W
IS men-all are twirled. So infamous
"a low have some people fallen that they vi
even ny to smile and look pleased viii
munching the poisonous compounds q
n loted them; supinely endeavoring to NAL
4 others believe that they are in their rig
IA mind and doing well. And the stem,
thereof! No fourth-class restaurant
e. Chatham street emits such noisome odo
O as buffet car when it is fully aroused
: action. If either of the political part
sr about convening desire the suffrages of
j. suffering people and the most enthusias
rs assistance of the pen of that public's mS
<. humble and obscure servant, let a pla
~ be inserted looking to the total suppressi
d. of buffet cars. Freed from this servitude
be American people may regain spunk torecS