The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-23
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been car builder for many years and be-
ing familiar with railroading. he paid par
ticular attention to the workings of the
state railroads and pronounces state own
ership total failure. He said yesterday
of the trip:
AZ left here with nv daughter on October
%. We went TO the Worlds fair and then
10 PhiladelpEia and New York city. IN
tended TO make typical Yankee trip of IT,
and | did. We sailed by the steamer
Hecla for Chrisriania, Norway, and had
beautiful passage. with no fog. On the
wegian Worlds fair commissioner.
one of the great national poets
of Norway and part of the crew OF the
little Viking ship which xas brought from
Norway TO the Worlds fair. From Chris
tlansa We wentto Copenhagen. and then TO
hiei, Germany, the headquarters of the
North German Lloyds Steamship Com
pany; from k.ei TO Ham and then 10
Seigen, where | was born. | spent several
DAYS living over my boyhood days and
visiting my only relative living there, an
old uncle who did not know me, but no
wonder; had been away thirty-six years.
Ihen We went to Cologne, where | saw my
daughter safely settled down 10 her studies.
after which L went TO Bremen and took
passage home. There were storms all the
way across, and the New York papers had
columns about our arrival.
AT my old home, which Is in The IRON
working district. saw many iron mills
Idle, and was told that il was the effect of
the Mckinley bill which Cleveland would
repeal But most particularly did | notice
the railroads. They are run by the gov
eminent on the military plan. The cars
are fifty years behind the times and are
first, second, third aud fourth class. You
ask the guard for the first class car ana he
Will tap his hat, you are a gentleman; but
If you ask for the second class car the can
stays on. and he stiffiy gives you direc-
tons. When man asks for the tnird
class car. the guard shows him the car and
tells him 10 get in and not To raise the
windows or look ont. As for fourth class.
saw one poor emigrant ask the guard
about IT. The next moment he was picked
up by the seat OF the trousers and thrown
into the car, where the occupants stood q |
crowded together in the foul air.
The railroads are run in the interest of
the government and emperor not of the
people. There is no pretense of improy-
ing. everything IS antiQuated and run
down, yet there are a few things 10 be
praised about the system. The tracks are
fenced, no one is allowed to walk upon
them, there are guards at ali the crossings,
the trains run regularly and stop but
minute at station. Their ticket system
is also good. You buy your ticket at the
station, IL Is punched before you enter the
car, In the car and at your destination.
II you ride further than you have paid for
YOU are liable TO tine. They
have very recently put on be-
tween Cologne and Berlin a train of
imitation Pullman cars about like those
on one of our narrow gauge roads, which
they call the Harmonica cars. | have no
use for them either. The system is one
that iorbids Improvement, leads to toady-
ism on the part OF officials and is democrat
lzlng all around. | would rather ride four
days and nights in an American day car
than day in a German first-class car; it
would tire me less.
II would also say that we do not know
what hard times are here. In Germany
banks are failing, the papers TEEN with
accounts of failures; men who were a few
years ago reputed 10 be worth millions are
now without credit. You can't realize the
condition OF affairs. Seattle suits me yerv
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