The morning times., 1895-12-15
Al-Oay Trip in Washington for
a Nickel.
ABUSE OF THE TRANSFER
Pictorial Card as a Check-Hop-
GRATED Buck heat Cakes the Lat
est Culinary NOveIty-Butter milk
and Soda.

tst LII Al tAS NOifd iohbC1 tohc
long rides in that interlying period be-
tween twilight and nightfaii.
These opep-car rides are distinctive
feature OF entertainment in Washington
and are enjoyed by all classes-rich, inter-
mediate and poor. Women fashionably at
tired and those wearing misfit garments
here meet on common level, as nowhere
else. They all pay the same per capita
tax for transportation. breathe the same
air and are entitled to equal accomnoda-
tions and facilities for enjoyment.
In no city in the United States are the
street railway compa MES so liberal In the
matter OF transfers as here. Fer one
6-cept coin passenger can ride three
miles through the city and five miles into
the country and get the worth OF the money
invested. This ride Is made on one straight
out -apd-0ut transfer.
But some of the lines which exchange
ira nsfers are SO situated that 1t is I'M
possible to prevent the passenger riding
until the exercise is suspended from wcari-
ness. or the cars turn ia for the night. IL
is simply n question Of swinging around
the circle and obtaining transfers at juno
tions situated on opposite sides thereof.
But car riding So far rs health and anuse-
ment is concerned is at an end for this
season.
The companies haze suffered heavy losses
during the season by being beaten on trans
fers and they are moving the mountains
and hills to devise some method OF pro-
lection. 1t is almost sure that against the
open car makes its appearance next spring
there viii have been invented cast
iron system OF transfers so that the devetee
Of fashion and the gossiping school girl
will nike be cIrc1mrepted in their COM
bination OF democracy and economy.
There is at least one street railway sys-
TEN in the world which does not propose
TO be beaten out of the smallest percent
age of its revenue. This is the system in
operation at A shcviie, n. C., and the intro
duction of its methods here would cause
more CONSERVATION than shower OF mice
at u lawn party.
An Asheyiile transfer is a work of art
and the inventor deserves q monument OF
pasteboard at least 1t is In the form OF an
elongated slip, about the size OF that on
which railroad conductors give receipts
for cash fares.
In one corner of the slip are eight niinia-
ture photographs, representing the fol
lowing types of men: SmOOtil-shayen, mus
tache, side whiskers, mustache and Side
whiskers, and nmstache and goatee. The
conductor giving the transfer critically
inspects the passenger, and punches the
photograph which he resembles. The con-
ductor who takes up the transfer must see
that the man presenting it corresponds
with the type punched, or the slip Is re-
fused and fare collected.
In the other corner are lkenesses of two
women, the one OF elderly appearance and
the other young. The line Of demarcation is
drawn atforty years OF age. Theconductnr
takes his life in his hand, and after esti-
mating the iady's age, dcsignates her as
above forty or under that figure. and the
receiving conductor must corrobOratc that
estimate. Itissafeto predict that no woman
has ever had a transfer refused by reason
of being mere than forty years old.
The letters W. and C. are also printed on
ti,e slip and Ihe conductor musb punch
one or the other, thus Indicating whether
the passenger is white or cpiored.
Such q system o transfers in Washington
would more than iii Il luDg-felt want and
leave a respectable surplus. The guides who
escort tourists around the city would make
independent fortunes by selling them for
souvenirs. and the ladies would boycott
the street railways using them. In addi-
lion, the force of caEdnctors would have
10 be materially increased and possibly
IL would be necessary to have an expert
on ages accompany each car, So as tn make
the estimates as to whether the fair pas
senger is above or under forty years of age.
1t is fact that admits Of no disputatiun
that large proportion of even the ultra
t2SnloD1Dle women IN W
or less cilsely superintend their own Gull
nary esta ahlishmeuts. Scores of those who
move in the must exclusive circles OF up
perteDdom do their own marketing. Or
course they do not walk dnwn tie street
with an abnormaily large basket on their
arm and have their purchases lugged home
by small Ethiopian. But they are driven
to market in the family carriage and by the
family coachman.
fol, n nl; aS,;..a
ripe and ready to be picked is the ever
welcome cold-wcather favorite known as
buckwheat cakes. People of all grades and
the maker of either genuine or acidulated
maple syrups aid and abet them.
The process of preparation has been has
tened and simplified by the manufacture of
self-raising buckwheat flour. This leaves
no cause for worriment to the bousekeeper
and the inexperienced are placed on n foot
ing of equality with those who have made
cooking a fine art. Failure to have palat-
able and digestible cakes is presumably rem
dered impossible.
But. the argument has often been ad-
vanced that injurious ingredients. such as
alum, frequently enter into the composition
of self-raising buckwheat. thus interfering
with health and happiness. 1t is even al
legged that the purest of these preparations
have their drawbacks, and that any Inn
proyement by which these deleterious con-
stituents might be eliminated would be
hailed with delight by all classes and con-
ditions.
A resident OF North Dakota. gentleman
of high standing, exceptionally good char
acter and reputation for ycracity that
cannot be impeached, has stepped forward
at this critical time and announces solu
ton of the problem that is both natural
and logical. After a long series of care
fully conducted experiments, he has sue
buckwheat stalk as to produce the most
gratifying results.
Flour made from buckwheat treated by
the grating process is of very superior
self-raisiDg quality. 1t does not require
the admiXture of ammonia, salmoniac, yeast
or any leavening ingredients, but possesses
within itself natural, vegetable, self-rais-
ing properties.
The new combination plant, IL It may
be SO desig mated, is destined to become ex-
tremely popular. It is easy of cultivation,
is hardy, not cumbersome in growth, of in
creased yielding powers, and the product
can be placed in the hands of the house
keeper at much less expense than the buck
wheat flour prepared ready for use.
The gentleman from North Dakota ex.
poets that next year many farmers in his
State will devote themselves exclusively to
cultivating i,opgrafted buckwheat, and
twelvemonth hence cakes made from the
new product will be on tap In every house,
hold.
1t seems like loves labor lost again, but
buttermilk has at the eleventh hour takenits
place among the list of delicious drinks
which are fixed out of the silyer-orna-
mented onyx soda fountain. II is just. the
right thing in the right receptacle. but the
season is too far advanced for it TO attain
any great degree ofpopnlarity until another