The Arizona champion., 1890-12-27
TRAVEL IN THE WEST.
The Bulk of Passenger Travel
 Done at Night.
PRiVILEGES OF THE DINING GAR.
A Good Result of Low Rates The
 Train Men.

aQeuu OI IuG GiSlOTu TdllIOdOoS anu bAAS@S is in feeding their passengers. Hardly road in the east has dining car on it's local trains The limited and through express trains have dining cars, but they gre generally for the parlor and sleeping car passengers only. A man who is going from New York to Philadelphia, or New Haven, or Albany in an ordinary car must get off at some station to eat or go with out, unless he can mako meal from the cigars, fruit, candy and novels of the train boy.
 Out west they do this better. Almost all the main lines make provision for feed ing the passengers on the trains. More dining cars are run than on the eastern roads, and, though the meals are not so elaborate as on the New York Central and Pennsylvania limited trains, the price is seventy-fve cents instead of Sl. The door of the dining cars that the passengers who are not in parlor cars would enter is not locked, and anybody in the train may go in and eat. This is not so pleasant for the parlor car passengers, but it is better for the general travel Of the road.
 In many trains where there is no dining car there is a sort of lunch counterrigged Iu0 SulOA1uS SeI 1HOLO lo c-blC1O- ant who will serve a luncheon in any part of the train. He brings the things on @ tray, and they can be eaten with much more comfort and leisure on the train than in 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 the end the things are packed up ill big .I.a ( %t,or frxT oal- outfit, and the chest is taken away to be restocked and put on another train. This is a convenience that the eastern roads do not seem to believe in. The prices are moderate, a little lower than those charged at the average eastern railroad lunch counter; the dishes are clean, and a nap kin goes with them.
 In one way those travelling lunch chests must be educators of the people. No knives are served with pie. An order for pie, coffee and a sandwich brought fresh sandwich wrapped up in transparent paper and covered with tin foil like prize pack age, a thick, white china cup of coffee with a little jug of cream and some sugar, 8 piece of pie on plate, a spoon and a fork. There was no knife. The western inhabitant who undertook to eat pie with U hOu1u udNS lO lulllSA " l4lu1OGlI, for the attendant brought none. The only ways of eating the pie were with a fork or with the fingers. This is better than in the east, where at four railroad lunch counters out of five Q knife goes E:th pie, and usually it is vigorously used.
 Don't you give knife with pie?" the attendant was asked.
 s.n1 l,o gEVo,, knife to eat pie"
 "Is this q scheme of the railroad to edu- cate the travelers2"
 Il don't know about any scheme. All I know is that pie don't need any knife"
 Have you ever reflected on the results of this denial of knives to the pie eating public?"
 Look here, young man, what're you asking that for? Do you take me for kid? Knives don't go with pie, and that's all there is to it"
 There is less expectation of fees among the walters in western dining cars. They sell ten cent cigars, too, and cheap beer. Altogether, the railroads seem to be run more for the accommodation of tho aver age passenger and less for the people who pay extra. That may be because there is
 
 One good result of these low rates is that travelling is encouraged. Western men travel many times as much as east ern men. More western men come east than eastern men go west. A Brooklyn man would think trip to Chicago some thing to be thought over, and he would not go to Boston without making some preparation. A Chicago business man thinks nothing of going to St. Louis, St. Paul, Kansas City or Omaha, and Q trip to New York simply means the expense and day lost. They do not think any more of trip to St. Paul than an old Brooklyn citizen would think of a trip to Westchester county on the elevated road.
 One result of the universal western habit of travelling is that the bulk of the passenger traffic is done at night. Every road from Omaha runs night express, arriving at Chicago in the morning, while the day trains are generally slower and more for local traffic. A western man is accustomed to do his days business and then start off, while an eastern man looks on the act of travelling as serious under taking, and starts off in the morning with a feeling that he will be moro tired by evening than if he had worked in his office. A western man, on the other hand, finishes his business, goes to the station in time for supper on the train, smokes his cigar in the smoking compart- ment of the sleeper, chats with his fellow travellers, goes to bed and wakes up in the morning in time for breakfast at his destination, and goes at once to attend to his business there as if he did that sort of thing every day-indeed, some of them do.
 The relations between the trainmen and the passengers are more pleasant in the west. Tho trainmen are not ser wants, but worlImen and business men. They look forward to promotion on the road or T striking wealth in speculation. Among th.i. passengers every day they see men who sl lew years ago were worse of than they are, and whom they know on equal terms. In the east big men in the parlor cars are bowed down to by the trainmen, who mako things even with themselves by ordering around the second class passengers in the smoking car. Western conductors are more civil and less subservient, though the sleeping car porter is the same everywhere.
 The conductors are less stringent in en- forcing the rules of the railroad company. Occasionally they will let a passenger stop over on limited ticket, and it is common for them to accept tickets the time 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 con- pany's treasury. This is regarded as legitimate. 4 road that was too strict with it's passengers would lose traffic. The difference can be told at Chicago as soon as ono gets off q western road and changes to en eastern line. He at once encounters multitude of rules and an unpleasant way of enforcing them.-New York Sun