The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-23
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crowd by going early 10 Gne tlckeC-Once,
and happening to be in the vicin ty of
the station at nine o'clock, he resolves to
sieze the opportunity and get his ticket
at once; and congratulates himself upon
finding the Office open, But "a ticket to
Leipsic? Oh, no! That cannot be is
sued till eleven o'clock; and he moves
away towards his hotel, somewhat dis
concerted, and mentally asking the au-
thOrities number of questions. At
lf-twelve" ii. e.. half-past eleven), he
takes a cab. intending to be ON hand at
twelve; and just before the station is
reached the cabman stops, steps to the
door and politely asks for his fare. Mr.
Auslander is again surprised, and per-
haps demures little; nevertheless he
pays 1t, and is driven few rods further
to his destination.
Entering the depot, he thinks he had
better attend to the checking of his
trunk first. But he finds that that can
not be done till he shows his ticket So
he turns back to the Office, which he has
just passed, and asks in as good German
as he can command for ticket TO Leip-
sic. For what class?' AS the trip is
not long one, he has concluded to do
as the well-to-dO and thrifty people of
the land commonly do, and take third
class ticket. But that cannot be bought
at this Office; he must apply at another
window around the corner. If he is so
fortunate as to understand what he is
told in a speech SO rapid that sentence
seems like one odd polysyllabic word, he
goes at once and secures the necessary
bit of pasteboard. Armed with this he
returns to the baggage master, who scru-
tenizes the ticket carefully, and then
proceeds to weigh his trunk. 1t weighs
over twenty-six kilogrammes; he must
pay a fee for the excess; and he is given
a paper which states the amount, and is
to be handed to an officer at another
window, with the money. Having done
this, he returns and receives another bit
of paper which tells the story of his
trunk for that journey-its starting
point, its weight, its destination the
number of tickets its owner has bought,
the amount paid upon it, etc. This Oe-
ing presented at Leipsic on his arrival,
will call for the delivery of the baggage
thus described.
Now Mr.. Auslander hopes to move on
without delay, and starts to take his
train. He asks on which of the various
tracks in the station it will arrive, and is
told, ION that track, yonder." He is on
the point of stepping across the interven-
ing tracks, when one of the numerous
men at hand wearing the uniform of the
railroad service promptly checks him,
and with various gesticulatiOns which
are more Ineligible than his words,
makes him understand that he is not
permitted to risk his life in that way,
but that he must go back, and down
stairway, and through tunnel, and up
again, when he will find himself beside
the proper track He follows directions,
and energies from the tunnel right side
up, but wrong side to-" East and west
have changed places during his under
ground trip, and he looks in the wrong
direction for the expected train. Soon
an electric bell sounds to notify people
than the train is not far away. A few
minutes more, aud the little engine
comes into sight; and, though it seems
to him not to be headed towards Leipsic,
yet the answers to his anxious inquiries
convince him that this is the train he
wants, and so he springs aboard the
nearest car. BY no means. The nearest
car is for first and second-class passeu
gers only; but he sees car marked III.
and proceeds to enter one of the five
compartments in that, which evidently
is not fully occupied. Here, however, a
hurley Teuten at the door protests
besetzt; so, although he is sure the man
lies, he turns to one of the guards, who
ushers him into another coupe. Enter
ing this, he finds that three of the occu-
pants are smoking, and, as he dosen't
wish to be smoked prematurely, he gets
out without delay, and appeals to the
guard for less dingy quarters. At last a
'nicht-raucher" coupe is opened for
him; he enters it, and deposes himself
and his belOngings-his Valice, his silk
hat, his cane, his umbrella, etc, for the
journey. The door opens, and the guard
calls for his ticket. This being exam
ined, and punched, our traveller waits |
for the tram to start. The minute at |
length arrives. The station agent looks |
at the clock, and scans the platform up |
and down. A guard at one end of the |
train cries .fertig; the word is passed |
.fertig. The station agent |
gives signal; man standing by a big |
stationary bell strikes its swinging |
tongue against it three times the con
ductor sounds little shrill whistle; the |
engineer gives warning tOot, and-all |
preliminaries being completed, no one |
having conceived of any additional duty |
that could possibly be assigned to anoth-
eT official-the train moves gently out of |
the station, ana Mr.. Auslander is fairly
on his way to Leipsic.
All this may not occur every time he |
starts on a journey, nor at every station,
but little experience on these imperial |
Qor this ''paternal govern
ment' controls the railroads in the
and), will prove that this description of |
the possibilities is not an exaggeration.
At the same time it is no more than fair
TO say that the measures taken to pre-
vent accident are so thorough that loss
Of life in railway travelling is much less
frequent here than in the United States,
md also, that familiarity with the mode
Of doing things in Germany soon re-
moves much of the perplexity and vex-
ltion VIII CHI attend the foreigners intro
iuction to its system of railroad manage
nent, and his first trip through one of
is multitudinous circumlocution of
ices.-J. II. w. in Waterman.
dAINTAINISG THEIR REPUTATION,
'Those Western cowboys are not what
hey used to be- said New York club
nan the other day who had Just returned
rom California by way of the Canadian
Pacific railway, and had rested a few
lays in New Mexico, "but they are pref
y lively yet in some parts of the South
vest. They're not quite so ready to
boot man as formerly, but they think
nothing of pounding the life almost out
# him. They are very proud, too, of
he reputation which the boys of former
lines made for the class, and they try