The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-21

is almost invariably in French. All the
reaoing matter belonging TO the train is
printed in three languages, but only the
Srench is spoken. save when another IAN
Suage Is absolutely necessary The cards
posted in the cars have these h SsS l
Ing car service is equal to the best IN any
country, and the rates are reasonable
Che first breakfast is the regulation Eu-
ropean bill-bread, butter and coffee, with
fruit If you want it. for l75 francs 90
cents.) At II o'clock they serve good
deJeuner for five francs Zone dollar. ana
at at evening a1i splendid dinner Ior o SD
meals for S2.55, which in America IN tne
average dining car would cost S5u.
When dinner, is over the men men
lounge in the smoking room for
to their boudoirs.
In a few hours we were rolling away to-
smooth track. Shortly after. midnight
l was awakened by a commotion at my
door, opened my eyes and oeheld an
officer in the corridor. He was grand
beyond description With every move
ment of the train he flashed back to me
the fickering light that went out OF my
ditions to the cord on his cap and
his brilliant buttons, he wore festooned
about his breast enough gold cable to
rope a steer, and 1 knew then that we
individual stood without while his as
sistant, a less imposing parsonage, in
spected my ticket and hand baggage.
officials BY the Way.
When the train atc2s at a station of
any Importance, an officer with large
book, followed by two or three ASSIST
ants, goes TO the locomotive, secures the
autograph of the engineer, and gives MN
a lot of vocal instructions. Ihey an an
talk at once, ''Snacking' their ks I'LL
one is reminded of a skating party
breaking through the ice. Finally peace
is declared, they all salute, and the train
moves on.
Everything has a military air about it
The old woman sweeping a crossing
brings her broom TO her shoulder anu
the one-legged watchman comes TO the
proper position, with a rad flag for a
musket as the train goes BY.
Down the Danube.
Twenty-four hours takes the traveller
TO Vienna over eight hundred miles. The
locomotives used in Austria are more
like American machines than those of
England and France, and the day cars
are the best L have seen on the con-
tinent. They are heavier than the or
binary European railway carriage ana
rest on eight large wheels. First-class
tiful Russian leather, clean, cool and
comfortable. You enter these cars. not
at the side, nor at the end, but at the
corner; the compartments open into
corridor.
On the Locomotive.
dropping DOWN the Danube IOT SIX vi
seven hours, we see the sun rise in Ser
via, and the first stop on the following
day is at Belgrade. 1t is warmer here.
the earth is dry and the sky clear. The
voyager begins to feel that he is in a
new world with strange people. Here
are evidences of dress reform. The
pantaIoon is merging into the gown, or
the gown into the pantaloon perhaps, as
1t is in America. Each succeeding hour
takes the traveller farther into this desc
late country, so old and yet SO new; with
so little of what are now regarded as
signs of civilization.
When we have travelled through it we
wonder how the International Sleeping
Car company can afford TO run a IRAN
AT noon we met and passed the west
bound train. It may be we had passed
other trains, but this was the first pas
senger train 1 had seen for forty hours
Something OminOus.
I carried with me a permit TO ride, Ito
of the Orient Express when 1 wished TO
do SO, and now / slipped into my engine
clothes and mounted the machine. Inc
engineer was a native and about all We
could say to e;ech other was Yes, and
No. in French. Nearly, if not all
the railroads here are OPERATED by the
governments of the various countries
through which they pass. The ORIENT
Express, however. is operated solely by
the Sleeping Car company. This COM
pany's conductor, who goes all the way
from fdrlS 10 COHSIdnllHOp - lIAS CAP
tain of the train. Only the government
inspectors of the different countries come
aboard - inspect luggage and lock after
the interests of the government.
The track was only fair, but the loco
motive was in good condition. The time
is slow, not more than twenty or thirty
miles an hour At the first road crossing
outside the town we found u long line
of wagons drawn by small cattle waiting
at the closed gate. Behind these wagons
out TO the hills away, were
strings of pack animals loaded with
corn. Evidently this was an important
market fer the surrounding country 1t
was a beautiful afternoon, soft as Sep
TENDER in Paris or New YORK.. The road
here ran up a broad vale, which. how
ever, grew narrower as we assembled the
waterless stream. On either side of the
wash the country grew rough: the Hills
In the distance would be called mountains
in the Holy Land. The wagon road lay
parallel with the railway, and in half an
hour we passed hundreds of OK teams
bringing wood down from the hills.
Some women ana children were driving
g flock of turkieS, q man was leading a
sheep. and others were carrying jars of
something honey, perhaps-on their heads
The Mystery Explained.
All at once the air grew still: an op-
pressiVe silence seemed to hang on vale
and hill. and all the people stopped short
piece of track, or that our train had
quickened its pace. ! saw a
Servian woman with child in her arms
stagger. stop, take the water jug from
to her naked breast. Hundreds of yoke
,attle were lowing. burras We're braying,
the whole hockS of sheep were crying on
the distant downs. Meantime the curves
seemed to increase, and although we were