The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-25

secure one Of these rooms they are certain
to enjoy better NIGHTS rest and more
comfort generally than ever came TO them
IN the old style Open-salOOn sleeperS.
Women can undress in their rooms with
the doors shut, without fear of intrusion,
and with plenty of room for the operation.
and so can men. Once in bed there is no
danger of any ones falling in upon the
sleepers as a curve Is turned and some
luckless pedestrian is flung through the
curtains. Each room can be ventilated
as desired, and the SHORES and baby's
cries and bedroom odors of the old style
cars are all shut out of these private
rooms.
But in all probability tbs average tray
eller will never know, until he gets in one
OF these new cars, how much he liked the
chance the old style cars gave for looking
at the other passengers. The other pas
sengers hghtened the Journeys. They
were interesting and amusing, and endur-
I ing friendships were often made between
men and men and women and women in
the open sleepers. Now the traveller gets
into one of these new flying bed cham berS
and understands at once that he may only
see out of one side of the car, and may
only look at whoever has the other berth
in the same room. He sees the other
mans bag and umbrella on the other seat,
and wonders what sort of man he will
prove to be, for whatever sort he is that
man and he must sit knee to knee all the
time they are in their stateroom.
suppose, " said one OF four passengers
who met in the smoking car of such a
train going out the other night, suppose
| your roommate happened to be maniac,
like the fellow met in Pullman car in
| Virginia few weeks ago, what then2"
"Oh, Lord ~ gasped number two.
"But suppose said the third man,
that it was woman with baby, such
as I met on the way 10 Buffalo not long
! ago, when-by gracious-the baby took
! the most strange liking for me, and would
sit on my lap by the hour, and wound up
at night byyelling blue murder until l took
| 1t into the upper bunk, where it fell asleep
| with one arm around my neck
But, heavensl" said No. 4. surely
they don't put women into closed bed
room where man has the other berth2
| Oh, / say conductor, what do you do if a
woman has one berth in one of these bed
room cars and man has the other
| berth2"
"Well, that don't often happen" said
| the conductor. THE ticket agents try to
guard against that by selling uppers and
lowers together to separate single women
| who apply"
But suppose it does happen2"
"Well, then we manage somehow. It
happened tonight but luckily l found a
a place to put the man in another car
and gave the whole room to the lady"
The passengers piled the conductor
with questions. They asked what hap
pened if drunken man or a lunatic got
into one of those new cars, and he said
nothing happened, because such people
aren't allowed on the trains. All the
same one of the passengers told of trip
he took IN the far west, when one of the
passengers was q young millionaire with
silver plate on top of his head where
the dome of his skull ought to be. The
young man had doctor travelling with
him, principally to see that he got moth
ing spirituOus to drink Whether he got
any spirits or not he made the acquain-
lance of young lady and her mother in
the Pullman car, and in the course of the
day he lnsulted the girl grossly. A man
who had been watching the chap leaped
at him with a view to giving him a
thrashing, but the doctor begged for his
patient, and so came to tell of his misfor-
tune. He had been thrown from horse,
and his head crushed hence the silver
plate. That night the lunatic sought the
berth into which the girl had retired, and
going down on his knees in the passage
way begged to be forgiven. The amiable
girl forgave him, in a frightened voice,
through the crack of the curtains, and
then the lunatic insisted upon kiss to
bind the bargain. The girl screamed, and
lunatic away from her berth while the
guardian doctor snored oblivious of all
that went on.
With such anecdotes the passengers
amused themselves for awhile and then,
TO give place to others who wished to
smoke, they went back to their cells in
the new fashioned cars and each sat
looking at stranger until bed time.
Whenever there was family party or a
nd rrrSfn in %
new arrangement seemed perfect and
laughter and happy voices filtered
through the door.ways. When all had
slept and arisen and dressed, the passen-
gers met in the dining car and thence the
men went forward to the great open
smoking car with it's easy chairs and its
bartender and barber, and newspapers
and the rest. Then the four passengers
met again and compared notes of how
they had spent their first night on the
new cars. One would say nothing good
for or about the night, or any feature of
it, because some one had told him the
cars We're English an absurdity, for
there is no such thing as comfort in any
form on the rails in England But the
fourth man had had an experience
81 went to bed after my roommate had
turned in, &" said he, land what I saw
made me very nervous. On the seat in
the corner was a shirt with a big dia-
mond blazing in it. On one hook was
waistcoat with gold watch and chain
boldly displayed in one pocket and
against the cloth. On another hook
hung pair of trousers with the hip
pocket in plain sight and with fat wal
let in the pocket. l went to bed, but
could not sleep, lest some one should open
the door and steal these treasures, and 1
be suspected, as 1 certainly should be-"