Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
NOTES ALONG THE WAY.

Murray Makes Running Trip to Chicago
Progress in Car BuiIding-selIing Beer
ON Ohio soii-The Gum-Chewings Habit
The Porter's Hours.
frKoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
CHICAGO, Feb. 81 never travel nova
days without striking a new car, with latest
mprovements-that is to say, q new kind Of
coach newly built, with new and strange in
ternal arrangements, new-fangled wash
basins, with berth appliances slowed round
differently. One thing remains unchanged
the smoking compartment is still in the
other end
There is o constant change going on in car
manufacture. No coaches are made this
year like those OF last year. In fact, none
are now made in the leading shops as they
were made six months ago. This refers to
the finer class of coaches. think the enort
for Improvements is more conspicuous in
this line of manufacture than in almost any
other. Irode the other day in the lovliest
sleeping coach l ever saw. 1t was just out
ofthe shops and presented the usual pro-
portion OF new, artistic and useful features.
1t would be naturally supposed that car
manufacture would settle down to some
thing definite by this time. When L see
what has been done within my lifetime,
however, since I saw the first train of crude
cars enter Indianapolis on rails OF strap
iron, the possibilities of the future take too
wide range for human comprehension.
The Improvement is not alone in gorgeous
and comfortable coaches, but it extends to
every branch of railway management and to
every detail OF the service. We grow into
these things so rapidly and naturally that
no one seems to think it necessary to take
formal notice Oft.
In this particular instance the coach was
not only new but the mattresses were new,
the blankets were new, the conductor was
new, the silver and glassware were new.
Being new everything fit as tight as a fiddle.
Some of the berths had to be opened by,
three men with a new hatchet, with new
new cold chisels and new case
knives. 1t took the entire crew and the
cook, with occasional volunteers from the
passengers, to put 'em up again. BY reason
of this temporary dependence upon each
other that particular carload of travelling
humanity became so friendly and ihti-
mate that they could have borrowed money
of each other.
Gambling on the Rail-
-''It's agin the rules of the car COM
pany," said the black porter, "for any card
playing to be going on in the smoking COM
partment"
"Then bring us two bottles OF beer" re-
piled the drummer.
II CANT bring you no beer. either, boss.
We're in Ohio and it's agin the law"
"Hully gee,'' exclaimed the traveller.
"What a countryi And they talk about
fighting for it!''
II dunno, boss You gentlemen can go
and play in the inside-not in the smoking
room. You see the sports got to working
the trains so the company had to draw a
line. Gentlemen are not allowed to play no
games for money on the car-yOu can't play
anything in the smoking room. You see
Then Chicago and New York sports would
get to playing in the smoking room and
would play and play all day and all night.
They caught suckers that way and we
couldn't hinder 'em. But you can't keep
gamblers from gambling! 1 see two men
playing here with broken matches all the
evening. don't know what kind of game
it was, but one fellow said he was SIT ahead
when they quit"
Pretty, Self-sacrificing Woman.
She was nice looking and well-dressed
lady and seemed solicitous that another lady
who was talking across the aisle of the car
under some disadvantages should take her
seat. She was very nice about it and the in
was finally accepted.
THANK you: you are very kind" ;" remarked
the stranger as she made the transfer.
Not at all-not at all )" was the polite. re-
ply. at is too warm for me over there"
And she didn't seem to understand why
all the gentlemen within hearing smiled, nor
why the accommodated lady suddenly put
on such frigid look.
The Nations Jaws Are Moving.
1.-THE chewing gum trade may be said
to be holding its own," said the young man
with light clothes and a n iron jaw. "I have
1 factory in Ohio and employ more people
than ever before. We pay a cent a Dox to
girls for wrapping. They make from 50 to 50
| week at it. The output of Chicago is about
u 500 a day for every week day of the year.
That is nearly half million dollars year
in that city alone for gum. Most
Of this goes West. There are a number of
in the East also. presume
about a million dollars a year, at least. is
spent in chewing gum, counting only manu-
facturer's prices. AS we sell to the jobbers
at 35 cents q box and the retailer gets 81 q
box, Won can figure up the difference and
see just about what the public invests in
chewing gum. 1t must be something near
p 800, 900 year at the lowest estimate. Di-
vide this into cent and l cent sticks and
we are obliged to conclude that good
many jaws are on the move besides ours"
Sleep the Porter Don't Get.
81 don't get more than three or four
hours sleep night while on the road" said
The black porter "T'm supposed to get TO
bed about II at night-I'm always walked up
It 8. Sometimes there is such a rack It no |
person can sleep. The buffet man relieves |
ne when all the berths are made up. He |
wakes me at 3. Then comes the putting up |
the berths again. / don't get much time to |
oaf. have several hours in Chicago to |
latch up asleep, and little longer at the |
Sew York end of the line.
81 live in Brooklyn. We're dead sore in |
on President Harrison about ap- |
)ointments. II Harrison is renominated he |
will have n harder run in Kings county than |
le had before. I'm a Republican, and 20 |
With Republicans, and 1 know what am |
alking about There are more Democrats /
It the Brooklyn Navy Yard than there are 1
republicans. That amt right. When we're |
he Democrats get in they stay. The Brook
yn bosses stand in together, and we get no
abstraction there or in Washington"
This World Ist't Very Big.
Il stepped into the dining car on the
Ihicago and Northwestern and the bright
afe au lait waiter who extended me a seat
his hand ut the same time and
allied me by name.
"You don't remember me7" says he, re-
,eating his own.
"No, 1 DON'T" said I, ''but your voice
ounds familiar"
"Western Union-rush?" says he, laugh
ngly, initiating my style of giving orders.
1t was my old office boy who had served |
ne in Washington City seven years ago. He
ad known me ut once, but the boy had be- |
ome q man, retaining only the familiar
oice. His elder brother is q graduate Of