Wichita eagle., 1890-02-16
sUBURBANlTEs.
MeA Of Drawn and Brain Who Work in ths
City and Live in tho Country.

! MeA Of Brawn and Brain Who Work in thu
City and Live in tho Country.
The great army that, between the rising
and setting Of every week day sun, comes to
and departs from the city, is rapidly grow
ing elementof city life and of country living.
Half Of those that toll with brain and muscle,
in the city, live on the lines of the roads con-
verging in Pittsburg. The years that have
passed since this army grew into being have
served to develop interesting characteristics
in its formation, its movements and its daily
methods. 1t possesses now much of the disci-
pline of a well trained army marching under
banners. In its diurnal, double march the
army of railway patrons reveals certain char
acteristics that grow more distinct each year,
and that are aided in development by the
train service OF the road patronized This
service is, generally speaking, SO good as to
permit the dweller in the suburbs to choose
his hour for going to work, as readily as il he
lived in toe block adjoining his Office or work
shop.
1auS the first trains cityward carry the
dinner bucket and overall brigade, the bone
and sinew; the privates in the great army;
the rank and file that must go early to work
and bear the heat and burden of full days
the smokers puff from pipes rather than CT
gars. These patrons board their trains near
the city limits, for their means do not per-
NIT their living far in the country. The car
goes of these early trains. hurrying cityward
in the gray of the morning, are q good ma
tured, manly lot of men, whose presence in
the city vitalizes its great workshops and
mills and sets their wheels going ere the more
e. oI, ba,- -
coffee.
Succeeding trains bring in the clerks and
statesmen, who are yet struggling in humble
paths of labor, but who hope, ere long, to
graduate to later train. Between and 9
O'Clock the men whose toll has been fairly re-
warded, who are employers, not employees,
come to town. Also the natty bank clerk,
that, by virtue of his calling, can tarry later
in bed than his fellow laborer in the other
places, or the clerk in the railroad Office. In
this later train the smoking car is thick with
fumes from real cigars, and the coaches are
filed with men that make use of their half
hour in the train to master the contents of
the morning paper.
A glance through the train is a glance
through vista Of newspapers, over the top
of each appearing the head of man who
works with his brains 1t is glance that,
day after day, reveals the devotion of the
business man to the press Of his city. Result:
He comes to his office mentally equipped
with knowledge; possessed of the details of
the markets, failures and all pertaining to his
position as well informed man abreast of
the times. As the sun reaches the meridian
the patronage possesses no distinctive feat
ures, being made up Of fair shoppers and
varied characteristics.
As the day declines the purple and fine
linen members Of the army that GIBBS and
flows twice every twenty-four hours fill the
early evening trains, and the conditions Of
the morning are reversal, the dinner bucket
brigade departing between $50 and $50
The stragglers of the army and those that
make up an army in itself-the amusement
out the day and add to the
variety Of the main army with its mobile |
rank and file. In proportion to its population
this moving army of Pittsburg is larger than |
in any other city of the land, and it is grow |
inc III numbers daily.-PittSburg Bulletin.