Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-14

coaches, the car Of the vioeroy being
attached to the end OF the regular train.
These second-cla S cars were well hllcd.
They we're OF half English, aud half
American pattern, cacn coach being as
long as one OF our passenger coaches,
but the seats running IN the same way
on the two sides oi the car with an aisle
between them. Each car was divided
by partitions running across IL into three
sections aud IN some OF the cars one
section was devoted to Chinese ladies.
who sat with the toes of their club feet
resting on the floor IN the solitary gran.
deur OF their paint. powder and gorge.
Gus silk clothes. In the mems compart-
mcnt every seat was occupied, and each
passenger had his bed land baggage
piled up about him. The seats were
plain wooden benches with straight
backs, and we're very uncomfortable.
Many Of tho passengers had their shoes
OIL and their gaudy panlalUons Of
wddded silk were tied about the ankles
above their socks OF white waddcd
cotton. Some were smoking long.
stcmmed pipes, with bowls no bigger
than a tumble, and others slept and
snorcd. There was only one FIRST class
compartment. In this the seats were
we'll cushioned and II was as comfort
able as any American passenger coach.
The occupants were a half dozen for.
Cigners going to Taku at the mouth Of
the pciho river to take the boat for
Shanghai. and a couple Of richly dressed
Chinese merchants.
The stations all along the line are
well built. They are Of one story.
painted white, and their platforms are
Of stone. which run almost parallel with
the bed Of the cars, and below which the
tracks are sunken They arc comfort
ably furnished In Chinese style, with
different rooms for the different classes
Of passengers. and the people Of every
class gather about the stations Ia the
small towns Of China Just as they do In
an American village. There are sol
ders IN their red and blue cotton uni
forms everywhere There are swell
mandafins. with servants bearing their
official caps, with the feathers OF rank
sticking out at their backs. There are
coolies carrying great loads on their
shoulders aud halfnaked men aud al
together naked children, who stand and
look at US, the foreign devils, IN open.
mouthcd wonder. Now and then they
crowd US TOO closely, when the guard
makes assault upon them with his red
club, swinging Il about as though il
were a scythe, or pounding them Justify
over the heads with H.. aud starting the
hundreds into q screaming run to the
rear. a bell rings at every station be
fore the cat starts, aud the switches and
signals arc carefully managed. No
Chinaman Is allowed to touch a switch
without he IS connected with the road,
and yesterday when the engineer saw a
coolie with his hands on the point of
one, he stopped the train, jumped down
and caught him. lie was dragged by
his cue TO our car, and will come before
the magistrate tomorrow When ! saw
him he was CHASTITY pale and was tremb
ling all over. lie was probably a farmer
who had seen a railroad for the first
time, and had no thought OF injury to
the track. Still, the sentiment against
railroads among the people Is so great
that the greatest caution is preserved
and the least oiiense Is punished with q
good logging across the bare thighs
with clue OF bamboo.