The sun., 1891-08-10
LEE ON A DINING CAR.


10 Happens that Some Crews Have q
Deuce sf n Life to Lead.
The suit by Frederick Harvey to restrain tho
Santa Fe Railroad Company from using dining
cars Is strengthened BY his statement that, IN
addition to their cost OF $3.50 00O the dining
stations he controls have been maintained
against incursions BY hostile savages and tho
raids Of gamblers and desperadoes. These
stations are In the new and rough country
west OF the Missouri River. along tho Santa
Fe lines. and Chicago court has issued the
preliminary Injunction against the running of
the dining cars nut on By the railroad to tho
detriment OF the value OF Harvey's contract by
which he maintains the roadside restaurants.
Dining cars arc so much moro convenient
and popular than dining stations. which COM
pol passengers to eat hurriedly and at arbl-
trarily appointed times OF tho day, that doubt
less the car sys,em will pf evail through somo
satisfactory arrangement. with tho station
contractor. 1t will thon be Interesting
to note what experiences the crews OF
the cars will have In a country which
Is raided by savapes. desreradocs. and
gamblers. There is often world OF excite
ment or Of misery in tho lot OF tho dining car
crews. and not evon the travelling public is
over mado aware Of q hint OF II. The custom
is to run these coaches between divisional
poin shat is to sRy. to put u car IN for each
division. allowing 1t to run out with the daily
westbound train and back with tho eastbound
train. II the schedule makes no simple IN ar
rangement possible. But. at ail events. tho
tho rule Is to Keep each coach within
the confines OF division. II tho division be-
gins q. city and ends at another. "r II 1t has
a sizable town at either end. the dining car
crew Is in luck. for 1t is often the caso that rail-
way divisions begin and end In the wilderness.
and break their solitude only By rouudhouse
and II handful Of tenements.
On the Canadian Pacific Railroad the oiher
day a repolter OF The SUN found dining cur
crow whose members thought themselves in
very hard LUCK. East OF the Rockies all the
the company perambnlating dining saloons.
I he passengers who take their meals in the
OF Lake superior can never have any idea.
from anything they see. how strangely tsolated
on one duty. Xii .hatthe S passenxers @ % sss Is ssiS
tisl saloon daintty set with plate. cur glass
hsyspd ~ snd linn and %th
metropolitan clubs; No Sne wouli dream that
aud wildcats for their company. aud nothing
else save tho forests. the mosquitoes. and the
Such is the fact. The car runs from Matawa.
Ontario. anywhsre west until supper IL over:
when II is cHs of a. the ,t sdine tna
DnS %sa q and and S baser sn1 SantTes the esnnsi
fresh iish from Lake Sulerior ars ujl gay rsd
FAST fast. G dnnsr and 's supper. for Is CENTS meal
TO the passenges and 70 cent?. cents meal
senners sne %aS snese Havana cigars and punsh
! BRss's ale and whiskey In the elegant saloon
sS1S s Sana 81
:as 1eey 5ss s ei
| Wondering where they will be cut OF al night
| they will manage TO kill the time: terhaps
how they VII, escape being killed themsei, es.
train hsnis have had GGs Their ~ dinner the IrsS
stops and the dining car is cut or. II is sure
to he beautiful rase aGd to ouk as bors Soo and ~
those abundant lakes UP there always do look.
4 pretty sisht; too. is that Of the heavy mhles-
mna.s The nE ,roue besns
black flies; and deer nits begin their work.
they try to "nter the Car atIrac; ed BY The smell
Of food The kitchen les arc not out and II
%sS hours "'1 10 @ open the doors and widows is to
eaten alive by s shSs Ss fae Gar
course Is to abandon the coach. aud this is
| what the men do.
All leave he car and GO into the woods with
q dry wood fire and green wood smoke. Then
! tho crew sits in tho way of tho binding smoke.
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| one by which lie tecomes endurAble. Then
! the pipes are produced and loaded and lighted.
AMI Il little or q long time IL spent In swapping
! gossip and yarns. After while. if the insect
| life 10 not 100 abundant and malicious. aud II
! q lake Is near by. the crew goes fish spearinR.
| They must find a boat or build u raft. With
! one or the other. and lantern or flaming torch
| at tho bow. they sot out and have a lot OF fun
that ia. 1t would be fun IL there was a choice
! oi amusement. Thus the hours are killed I'LL
/ IL O'Clock or midnight, when all turn In to
sleep In the hot car upon the ma, Il es.es TINT
are kept roile,l w In !, grent heavy scroll
| There Is only one chance OF q change. and
! that is u cnange only ior tho two or three
| French. Canadian waiters in tho crew That Ia
when It happens that the car is cut of near
Chapleau. a drearv little, small measure Of q
our Sault Ste. Marie. or. to be less explicit
near the Apish KHnaRama River. in the Cana
| dian wilderness. At that place there arc one
or two French tayerns whore vile cognne is
dispen. cd and the Frenchmen are happy. Blu,
| The other men prefer TO haug OUT in the woods
and hear tho owls hoot and the wolves sound
their mock laughter.