The sun., 1894-09-30
ON THE OVERLAND TRAIN,
FELLOW PISSENGE ERs OE.tLL LtNDS
ENTERTAIN ONE dNOTHER.
nerse and Obstrcperou. Youne Ena,,sh.
men who Prove 90 he Good Fenows-
Canon RoutIedge Talks OF Julian u,I-h

dense and Obstrcperous Youne rnri,sn.
rnen who Prove 60 Be Good Peuoyvs-
Csncr RoutIeaee Talks Of Julian RaIrb.
Whenever a Canadian Pacific steamship
reaches Vancouver the managers " the railroad
always send out an extra sleeping car on tbs,-
eastward bound trains for day or two. Tn.
porters Of these cars prepare for an extra tast
They know that there will be probably dozen
or more young Englishmen on board returning
from the orient, jolly young fellows. who. a. .
rule have never seen n sleeping car.
These young men invariably fill up tho "a,
with their heavy luggage and cannot he rcr.
suaded 10 have II transferred TO the baggage
car. Moreover. they usually want everything
done for them In an instant, and they fill up the
smoking compartment constantly so that tha
American on board who wants only an ocus-
sional smoke must go early and stay late II he
would get place.
| At first the American traveller Is inclined -
dislike these men very much. He stumbles over
their luggage, and he doesn't like the way In
which they take possession Of the place. He soon
changes his mind however, for after few
hours he invariably finds them sgreeahle
passengers. courteous beneath the exterior
aad ready 10 entertain others with their ex.
perionces aboard. After the first six hour.
he becomes fond Of them and forRets their
monocles and their pajama-lke clothes, and
sees in them sturdy, manly fellows. Handicapped,
| according to American ways Of thinking, by
| unfortunate manners.
| When the porters begin 10 make up the berths
| for the night Il is study to watch them. The
smoking room becomes empty. They flock TO
their seats and ostensibly busy themselves with
book. Out of the corners of their eyes they
watch every move OF the porter Their eyes
grow larger they what he drags down
from the garret, and they observe all the fittings
and clasDs n q the placps made snug.
A SUN reporter who came East on this road
recently enjoyed watching these men hugely.
Two of them particularly were absorbed In
watching the porter, and when their beds had
been prepared one of them expressed his aston
ishment by saying:
Fancy paying one pound q day for sleeping
in dog kennel like that. But isn't II neat ?"
The next morning the reporter met these two
men in the lavatory. They we're in their
sleeping clothing and as they shuffied along in
Chinese slippers on their way to their morning
them compare their first nights experience c ma In
flow did you sleep Z" said one
"Oh, very WELL" said the other: "but do you
@ know thought several times during the night
Later In the day the reporter was in CONVERSE
tion with the engineer Of the train while riding
'Have s You heard raj; them try q Joke ?" said tn.
s4y es p pGSnS sove
He wore his monocie sitting beside me. ~
sGns % ssSP, the h kcts Hprss and had
are very regular in their formation. Well. this
hour Or two without saying anything % except e an an
occasional oc gsunt and an then what question do
added; He a asked; s How much day did the
Z" That mans face was immovabie When he
asked that question. and what have been try
Joke or whether the young fellow S1 was simply
dense You see, those mountains are as regular
ss as the and Il be
those mounds TO entertain their psssengers."
~ The engineer gave II as his solution that he
petrate an American Joke, or what he Thought
was, was one BE that % as 1t may. one 10 bound to
travellers. They are from all over the. globe,
and their chief desire seems to be to get hold o.
questions. 1t would have TO be very learned
man WHO could answer them all.
.ssTb0py Gssthedsa fsti He had Soms 20 can
and had travelled westward from Monteessi MONTREAL
Ralph ha. written in Hdrper's Weekly about hi:
dress and entire ABSENCE f of any my
in his clothes OF his calling, but the
Ssnons Ss i nhpres%sl15s h % OF his meeting with Ralph
The canon was talking about American writ
tity he did not know, and asked: 49,
Did you ever happen to meet well-known
Rsnh T5ser your country named Ralph
The reporter said he had. and added that he
5ns hsd . worked In the same ONCE with Mr.. Ralph
Bless es me; how small the world is !" ejacu-
Well: had great fun with Ralph. teasing
amsssaps .rnss Mos pp hope he didn't think was in
,o9nt may Judge for themselves about that,
american who actually didn't hate England"
I, Ihe Inc reporter started to explain to the canon
and. the canon previously having said that he
lad never visited this country, when he de-
\ little later the canon said Dc had met hun.
lreds Of Americans at CaSterbury, and had
ound them delightful people, and the reporter
ore that all Americans were haters OF Eng.
and, for IL had become evident that the canon
vas as i9Soklng .Sa IN Tor ora new victim 70 tease"
Sew Zealand. He had not visited this country
n twenty years.
before go home fsaw them 1rst while sit
ing ,d on ~ ne seat OF an omnibus with the driver
the Sassrs Of
Z your American hqmgussF The driver % said
ohs before dd Change pPd and
Ieek, and when left thought those Falls were
ne most stupendous thing In nature that had
There was an Italian count on the same train.
So Russian naval Officers, a French diplomat
ass to G'se % frIs from oregop bound
nd sn ad ana good hum9r delight 70 the eye
iupid indeed. VISA