The Virginia enterprise., 1895-03-08
q BRlTisH sPH. Il,
One of the Charming Amenities OF Travel

a. Oh an English Railroad
Ehere are usaxeEal things. that -strike tlas,.
American traveller on English ruifrOads
s4s e :belng & rurious, said returned New
Yorker 'but none more SO th,in the G,s-
tom that obtains of the passengers talk
ling to each other. There is Il sliding
window set in the door ut each end Of the
stransyerse compartment, ns you Know.
and there is no other airhOle in the whole
outfit The PERSONS WHO sit by these door
%m%"ws Sts%t s"ntr9! tie ,Xentlatien , Of the
diversity Of opinion. on the subject Of ven.
tllation between those who sit by the
window; the party who travels with his
back to the engiM.. declaring in favor Of
having the window open, while the other
man who wonld then sit in the draught
e m xstSSd saSoi OF fa',ts naX,ng the window closed
primarily responsible for these inconyen-
iences: but the Briton perpetuates them
ny. refusing to attempt anything in the
line of concession. Nobody ever, or rare
" ever, thinks of appealing to a fellow
passengers idea of the fitness of things
ana they content themselves with groWr-
ing at each, other or else appealing to the
guard and talking ut each other through
that official =.
II saw very amusing instance of this
while travelling OH the, Great Western
railroad. | was ono of two passengers in
"a second-class car, the other being 4
chunky, midd!e-aged man, with very
and the blucst blue necktie ever saw.
At one station, Bath, I think it was, Il
third passenger got into our cOlllp;lrt.
ment. This was 4 lady. also of middle
age, as prlm, chilly ana severe as a new
x granite grpyestone in ;snowstorm., Both
the gentleman and myself had been sit
ting with our; backs to the engine and
wIn1nVS <h.,k
there WAS plenty of fresh air for both of
US WithOutgOur being in it,. a
: When the lady got iii it was OH the
other, fellows end of the compartment,
and, as he did not attempt to move, she
arranged her parcejs ana her cage and
herself on the seat opposite him, facing
the engine" As soon as the train started
the; wind; rushed in, and nearly blew the
tail feathers out Of her parrot. She at
once reached over and pulled the window
up: The fellow, who had been watching
hex:0ver the top of his paper, instantly
reached oyer and let the window. down.
Out streanied the ribbons of her bonnet,
rot and up flew the window. This sort
of thing was kept up continuously with
short intervals Of glaring ut each other
but without n word, until sthe, next station
was reached.
!: THE fellow jammed the window down
IL uituieHcu 10 De I'LL upeSpcll - anu
yelled for the guard.
-. Look ere, guard he cried, as soon
as that official presented himself, ham
to be smothercd to death because there.
'appens to be u rheumatic ole critter. in
ere who caun't bear ii breath of fresh
hair"
"'Mr. Guard screamed the lady, there
is no reason, even if. am unprotected,
WHY! should be insulted by a rouge
faced BRUTE - ~.
$50 they went at it, hammer and tongs
larruping each other over the guards
back, until the gentleman knocked the
lady out by. telling the guard that he knew
it was against the company's rules to al
low parrots in the passengers compart,
ments, and threa tening to report him un-
less he instantly took the thing away.
AT that the conductor whispered to the
lady. and, seizing the parrot and parcels,
she hurried away with him, evidently to
some promised seclusion, giving her late
antagonist Parthian shot as She swept
out about travelling hogs 1t was the
funniest thing I ever saw, and certainly
could never have happened anywhere out
side of an English railroad."-Ne York
Sun