The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25

from the station master, the train gets
ready to start.
QUEER RAILROAD FEATURES.
There are many queer features in Rus
sian railway management. The Russian
cars are like no other cars in Europe.
They are half European and half Ameri-
can. They are of three classes, and the
rates are no higher than they are in the
United States. The distance from ST.
1 Petersburg to Moscow is 400 miles, and the
road is as straight as string. There are
five trains every day, and it takes about
two days to go from one point to the other
on an express train. There is difference
in fare on the express over the ordinary
train, and the first class express ra:es are
81 cents a mile, while the second class,
which is almost as equally good, are only
~ cents, and the third class are less than
2 cents mile | have Travelled quite good
deal in second class cars and | hni them
very comfortable The most of the we'll
! TODD Russians patronize the second class
cars and as one is expected to carry his
own bedding, by the use Of a little feeling
comfortable. l found it very inconveni-
ent even in the first class sleeper during
the first part of my present tour. l had
neither soap nor towels with me and had
to rely upon the guards for these as well as
for my pillows and bedding. In none of
the sleepers do they expect to furnish you
much more than a place to lie down upon.
You are expected to carry your own sheets
and in first class hotel, which l found at
Saratoff. l had to make very pronounced
kick before could get any bedding. There
was mattress on the iron springs, but
there were neither sheets or pillow cases
and the nights were cold. After time
got a rather comfortable Quit for the
night, but the next day found that this
was all charged up in my bill, and have
had to pay for bedding at half dozen
hotels since then. The passenger boats on
the Volga, which, by the way, are very
comfortable in other respects do not fur
nlsh bedding, towels, or soap, and you al
ways pay extra for these when you order
them. If-you don't understand the Rus
sian sometimes you pay when you don't
ORDER them. ] remember a swallowtail
waiter who made me pay 30 cents for a cake
OF soap at the hotel at Mini. l wanted
towel and in order to convey that idea to
him | rubbed my hands over my face as
though | was drying it. He rushed off
and brought me q piece of soap. 1t was
wrapped up in tinted paper and he tore off
the wrapper before could tell him that
did not want soap. He then took Inc soap
away, ana | noted that it was charged in
my bill, whereupon / ordered him 10 bring
it back and took it with me. as l had to pay
the bill anyhow.
RAILROAD RESTAURANTS.
The Russians are always gorging. The
average man is q glutton, and | have seen
slender, ETHEREAL, 2slhetic-lo looking Russian
girls during the past week who could get
away with more solids and liquids than
any beefy Englishman have ever met.
The people seem to eat at every station,
and the beauty of it is you can find some
thing good to eat every time the train stops.
wish | could show you plate of Russian
soup. One plate is big enough for meal,
but the Russians take it only as an appe-
tizer. The favorite soup is called stachee
and it Is made of cabbage and other vege-
tables with q piece Of meat about four
inches square and two inches thick in the
middle of it. In addition TO this they bring
you bowl of thick cream, which is some
times sour and sometimes fresh to pour
into it to give it body, and this molasses-
like mixture you eat, and you like it. 1t is
not bad, assure you. But have never
found myself able to get beyond the first
course, for after you have taken the LIQUID
part of the soup you are expected to carve
up ans eat the meat, and the meat forms
quite meal in itself. The trains usually
r,ake lung stops at the sstations aud from