Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-21
CORRESPONDENCE.
Lenox-Why the ContempIative Vfsf- tor Should Keep Away-What Peri- ander Has to Say.

LENOx, 0ept. 1I.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 If New Havener contemplates visiting Lenox let his friends get together and dis suade him. He won't feel at home in the place and will soon tire of its ways and manners. There are too many swells, or would-be swells, and an insuficiency of good, square, honest, comfortable, every day people. If he be obdurate and will go, then devote your energies to dissuad ing him from taking the Little-D Derby. Suggest any other route. Sooner start him around by the way of Kalamazoo. If, in spite of remonstrances, he will go by the Little-Derby, detain him by force if necessary till the requisites for so perilous journey be provided. In the first place purchase large rubber receptacles, fill them with atmospheric air and attach breathing apparati. The cars of the Lit tle-Derby and it's adjunct, the Housatonic, are discarded, self-superheating, Consoli- dated, dramatically -sealers; discarded be- cause so saturated with the various odors produced by the human animal that even Consolidated nose revolts. It is an odd fact that though you blow a hurricane through an odorous car, the moment the doors are closed again it will stife just as before. If you don't believe it, take 8 short trip with hurricane anywhere up or down the Housatonic valley.
 In the second place provide your friend with eatsbles and drinkables. In the prosperous days of the Housatonic, when the stock was worth something, trains were allowed to pull up at Kent, or some where thereabout, and the chicken-fxipg were famous. Now, in it's distress, every second of time must be economised, and considering the comfort of passenger is obsolete. In the third place provide him with handbags stocked with clothing for about week, and instruct him to keep them within his grasp, for articles conf ded to checks and baggage-cars may turn up within a day or two, or they may not. The laws governing their turning up are ! unknown. In, it's desperate bucking against the Consolidated the Little Derby has come to economising in checks. One check does for the whole system. If a trunk be for Lenox. for instance, the bag | and the card is appended to the omnibus check. As rule baggage masters are not calligraphists, nor are baggage-car masters epigraphists. Though the baggage master may at home be able to write "Lenox" in a way to make his wife and family proud and happy, the baggage-car master may not be able to make out any more than the initial hieroglyphic of his performance at the. depot. So the trunk is as likely to be started for Louisville, Liverpool, Leghorn, or any other place beginning with an "L. 7" | n tk na that tho xyafa h,% baggage-msn left, that he is moved from place to place, and that baggage is only | taken out at the station where he happens | to be at the time.
 Whatever the cause, the traveller from New Haven to Lenox by the Little-D Derby l must be prepared to be separated from his checked baggage for an indefinite period. | If on arriving at Lenox he make a row, he | will be told that the thing of it is of such | ordinary occurrence that nobody rows any more. Besides it is very English, you | know, to have lots of hand bags and to put them about so as to incommode as many people as possible. "Brasses" are American and consequently vulgar Per | haps the Little-Derby is going in for the cultivation of '"eavy Henglish."
 | Well, finally an hour or so behind time | you reach Lenox station, where your friend meets you with his drag and you are rapidly transported to his palatial resi- dence on a hill top. All residences in Lenox are palatial and all should be on hill tops. To go to @ hotel is very bad form. If folks stay at hotel they must proclaim, and proclaim loudly, that they are about purchasing hill top, specifying the hill top; or that they are holding them selves ready to purchase any hill top as l soon as one be offered for sale. This in- nocent fraud may answer for year or two, but no logger. As Berkshire hills