The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-12

OF course those acquainted with the ways
of the regular cut-rate broker could pick up
a ticket on any of the above roads at a
couple of dollars below the regular rates.
Well, when our minds had been suffi-
GENTLY cleared of the above financial inves-
LEGATIONS we decided on the Pennsylvania
railroad because of the famed beauty of its
Allegheny scenery, the perfection Of its
service, aud the wonderful stories current
of the beauty and comfort of its limited
vestibule train-of which more anon.
PREPARING FOR COLORADO.
But to go to Colorado-eSpecially into the
widest portion OF the SaDgre Christie
branch of the Rockies-required something
more than a railroad ticket. After con-
sulting with several friends, whose vaca-
tions were spent in the Rockies, and whose
study rooms abounded in heads of deer, elk,
antelope, and here and there the head Of a
grizzly, | came to the conclusion that
1t was "the unexpected that always hap
pens" and 1.-The unexpected in Colorado is
either the mountain lion or the grizzly.
That famous boxer has not, like John Suili-
van of Boston. yet retired from the arena
He turns I'D when least expected. He is
always an Immense surprise He doesn't
always 60 back on you; he sometimes comes
forward, although you have no desire to
make his acquaintance. Therefore, it was
necessary for me. having generally come
within one of the leather medal of the
Guards battalion, to go thoroughly
equipped. Well. what was necsssarys Sup
pose you are out stalking a deer or an ante
lope in your corduroy pants-on your
knees-spectacles across the bridge of your
nose, when you should hear sudden growl
and Dakota cyclone, weighing a thousand
pounds, should make dive at you-what
would you deem necessarys 1 have in
qulred, so l can tell you. You would need
a Winchester repeating rifle, capable of
fourteen shots. promulgated by eighty five
grains of powder. The grizzly can stand
eight or nine shots before he bites the dust:
then you would need self-cocking Greener
revolver for the times when you had ex-
hausted your rife, and the stranger
was getting uncomfortably near,
and finally-when the great boxing
act was done, and a left-hander had
stretched you on the turf. you would very
surely need hunting knife, about the size
and proportions of a Roman short broad
sword. | secured all of these-the knife
from friend who had been out among the
grizzlies; the greener, from a Broadway
store, who had purcha sed it from a gent
who had been out in the Cape Town dia-
mond mines; the Winchester, from an
ordinary agency by paying $14 so in cold
cash. You will therefore observe that the
unexpected" is prepared for.
SOMETHING ABOUT APARTMENT HOUSES.
10 think of leaving an apartment house
on Fifth avenue for the wilds of the westi
Every one of those equipments mentioned
above seemed to be out of place. Since
leaving my sunny home in the south, had
been hoteled in sumptuous Apartment on
Filth avenue Here was building that
lowered eleven stories up into the sky-in it
contained ten ordinary houses of the size
llveln. You or /, or anybody else, who
has the blue blood or the money bought
them. We paid $4,000 or 1000. or
SIS, 900, for them. Then we owned them.
We took possession of our purchase aud
found two elevators running up stairs. one
OF them to our kitchen, bringing up coal,
groceries, meat and all heavy articles, the
other bringing to us our friends and
visiting acquaintances. You touched a bell,
you rose IN an elevator, you came upon a
vestlbule-two families who never saw each
other on the same platform-then you
touched an electric bell and were admitted
into an hall. Here You deposited hat UNI
brella and overcoat, and, throwing aside
curtain, you were ushered into a drawing
room, a parlor, dining-room, and the an
mex OF a kltchen--a here all the coal was
Drought up, all the wood was stored in
boxes, all the Steamboat turned on by cock,
az phe water forced down from the top of
the mouse, eleven stories in the air and
everything else necessary to keeping house:
Duylng groceries, storing ice, making fire.
was done without any trouble to
ene proprietor. If you wanted
ransom or carriage, you touched an
electrlc bell and presto it was done; if YOU
wanted the BEST seats at a theater, you laid
your nnger on the same electric knob ana
preStol the tickets were there: If YOU desired
70 telegraph to Savannah or Afghanistan.
you touched your little finger to a button
Auu Immediately, forsooth, the wave was
Lasslng under the ocean, aud Afghanistan
hnew you. Over all these lower convenient
&c.. ms ei.s ca re seco story, where men
slept and enjoyed the daily bath. Within