The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-11
AN ASHEvILLE ROAD.

AN ASHEVILLE ROAD.
| be ashamed of. Yet it does not come
and put its hand on ones shoulder and
make one feel like taking off his coat on
warm day and sitting out on the piazza
The New York Central says in effect, 81
lead a blameless life, and of course like
my friends, but do not care to extend
my acquaintance very generally"
The Illinois Central is sort of an in.
| corporated hoodlum. 1t does not care
| for God or man. 1t was given so much
valuable land for building its road that
its head Immediately swelled, and ever
since then the poor farmers along its line
have had no rights.
The New England road is very gentle.
manly, and even its railroad hands, they
tell me, are manicured every day. Yet
it is not so cordial as some roads.
came nearer freezing to death last winter
on the New England road than ever
did in snow blockade on the Union
Pacific.
The study of the personal peculiarities
of railroads in the United States is a
very interesting one indeed to me.
have been thrown among all kinds of
| railroads this season, but never so hard
as 1 was by the Baltimore and Ohio.
1t was on the Baltimore and Ohio
that l passed very restless night once
in lower eleven. Upper eleven was
occupied b boy who was car sick. OF
course the ugh road was to blame
mostly for ut the things he had eaten
would dis b anybody's digestion a
little, think. He did not try to conceal
anything from me. He was perfectly
frank with me regarding the matter.
l am gla to notice in the matter of
highways that country roads are attract
ing good deal of interest. Two great
magazines have recently printed excel
lent articles on the subject, and the
whole country is wakino up to the fact
that millions of dc annually go
toward roadbu NJ as well
go 20 the bottom - Lake Vict.-
ANA.
Our wagon roads throughout the coun-
try are generally disgrace to civiliza-
ton, and before we undertake to supply
Jaeger underwear and sealskin covered
Bibles with flexible backs to the African,
it might be well to put few dollars into
the relief of CALLED and broken down
horses that have lost their health on our
miserable highways.
The country system, as l recall it, was
in my boyhood about as poor and insult
fcient as it could well he. Each town.
ship was divided up into road districts,
and each road district was presided over
by an overseer of highways, whose duty
1t was to collect so many days work or so
many dollars from each taxpayer in the
district. Of course no taxpayer would
pay dollar when he could come and
make mud pies on the road all day and
wilt and gossip with the neighbors and
save his dollar too. The result seemed
70 be that the work done was misdirected
and generally an injury to the road.
With all due respect to the farmer, l
VIII state right here that he does not
know how to make roads. An all wise
Providence never intended that he should
know. The professional roadbuilder,
with the money used by ignorant sap
heads and self made road architects,
would in few years make roads in the
United States over which two or three
times the present sized load could be
easily drawn, and the dumb beasts of
the republic would rise up and call US
blessed for doing it.
Ruf fbJy,crc ora 1ool-ircr Ill a.
time. Even North Carolina is beginning
TO wake up. Asheville has sold her
street bonds, and Buncombe county
fully realiz that good highways will
make it paradise, while poor ones viii
scare away everything but the buZzards.
The other day we ran across a young
man who was formerly a caterer for
big Broadway restaurant Now he is
running thriving hotel out west. He
rs cordial and bright young German,
and In the course of an evening told us a
good deal about the New York waiter
and caterer.
There Is regular system" he said.
governing walters in New York. ana
the man who is not IN it gets left away
behind Walters do not of course de-
pend upon their salaries, and not entirely
on their tips. AT big dinners no one
knows just exactly what quantity of
anything is actually used, especially the
wine.
I'm the kitchen two bottles out of each
case are turned bottom up in the case AT
once. which means that they are empty
They are clear gain. Then you know
walters are instructed TO keep the glasses
fun. 50 even the host does not know how
many glasses are actually consumed at
the table, for glasses halt and two-thiris
full are filled up as web as those that are
empty. Many guests do not drink or