The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-06-24
ON THE WING.
"BLESS ME THIS IS PLEASANT,
RIDING ON A RAIL-

ssBLESS ME THIS IS PLEASANT,
RIDING ON A RAIL-,
The Editor of The Chronicle En- Route
To the National Editorial Associa.
tiOn at Boston
Editorial Correspondence
On The ROAD.-It is long distance
to Boston, but if one understands how
to take things easy and to accommodate
himself to circumstances, the trip may
be taken with comparative ease and
pleasure. To me it is a never failing source
of delight to watch the faces OF the pas
sengers-to laugh at the odd ways and
troubles of the women who travel with
numberless packages and half dozen
children. At every station she has to
count the children and the bundles, and
she has them numbered and counts the
children and parcels by their number as
employees are designated in some of the
great mines. She thinks every station
is her destination and plies every pas
senger and conductor and porter with
questions innumerable. But she is a
good one-her heart is in the right
place and her annoyance springs from
her love to the children with her; and if
you could look into her packages, you
would see that they are delicacies for
sick friends or loved ones at distance;
and that among them all she has few
things for herself. We laugh at her and
poke fun at her, but we all love her, and
the man who isn't willing to help her
with the children or assist with the par
cells, has a gizzard where his heart ought
to be.
There are two personages in the world,
and only two, who awe me into perfect
submission and into absolute Difference.
One is the porter on Pullman sleeper
and the other is the head waiter at a big
hotel. As often as have come in con-
tact with the Pullman porter, l have
never yet been able to feel at my ease in
his august presence. He orders me
around in such lordly way-makes me
quit talking if he chooses -rouses me
from my peaceful slumbers just as l am
anxious to take my ''forty morning
wlnks' s'-and in general so demeans him
self with a lordly condescension that l
feel afraid to prefer any request, and am
once in my life docile as could be
desired. 1t is the same way when 20
to big hotel for the first time, and see
the ''pomperious and usurperious"
head-waiter who looks upon me as If to
say: "Well, where did you come from9
and who are you anyhow?" Ishall never
forget the awed feeling had upon my
first visit, as a growing boy, to
Raleigh. Hotel life was something new to
strange garret. l shall never TurgoJ
how grand and how 81 am sir eracle"-
looking Gray Washington appeared to
me. I would have as soon thought of
being familiar with the Father of this
Country as with Gray on first acquaint-
ance. He took me to seat with such
an air of condescension that I sat down
quite awed. I felt very much like David
Copperfeld tells US he felt whenever he
would go on visit to his friend Steer
forth. He says that Steerforth's man
servant always treated him with marked
politeness and condescension that seem
ed to say: "You are young; you are VERY
YOUNG, sir" Though since that day have
come to know GRAY so we'll that I dc
not stand in such awe of him as when he
seemed to say in his looks "You are
very young, sir" have never to this day
humanity. First impressions are most
which he inspired me as boy has taker
| IOl1 <lnt
I ever fully shake it off. Though I saw
Gray three times day for two years anG
know him we'll and count him among
my friends, his lordly appearance an(
his accomplishments as head-waiter still
keep him on pedestal. l am reminded
of these early impressions whenever
stand in the presence of Pullman ca
: porter.
Bro. MCD1ARM1D, the genial editor o
| the Lumberton Robesonian, tells m
that such feelings often ''animate b;
manly breast Only this morning b
/: had an experience He said to tn
porter in tone somewhat of comman
s'Brush me off, ;" The porter drew him
Z self up and looked at him and in tone
!. indicating disdain said ''Sir!" BRt
MCDIARMID I'VE call him GENERAL Mel
q up here) tells me that he felt like b
i ought to apologize to the porter instar
f ter. Well, there is one consolation
f those who do not travel: They are NJ
|, made to feel very young or very sma
by the porter. Those who 60 a-jonk
ting must put up with Inconvenience
e The National Editorial Associate
meets in Boston Tuesday in the Sta
House, which has gilded dome. Irecke
the dome has been gilded by means
20 the money that the manufacturers the
- have made by Protection. North Ga
30 olina has thus paid its share for t
tn gliding. expected that the other de-
e. gates from North Carolina-T. B. T
,;s DRDGE, of Durham; ". w. MCD1ARMl
of Lumberton, and J. B. SHERRIL1,
M Concord-would join US on the ws
~ But Mr.. ELDR1DGE was too busy getti
on ready to give the State editors gra
're time July 23d, to come. A man "
oo has charge of the whole "Glot
IT.. could hardly be expected to put asi
ON his weighty duties to merely look at
st- the Hub Mr.. SHERRILL was too sick
ON ON leave home. We regret very much Il
MEssRs. ELDRIDGE and SHERRILL cam
come. They are on important conn
tees and will be missed in the body.
PprsmrNT MCDAIRM nf tho Tumf