The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-27
THE RAILROADS.
sam Jones Talks Quite Entertain
In Iis Is..a

ingIy of His Travels.
As a man who has been cosmopolite for
twenty years. have done great deal OF
traveliing-so much travelling that / don't
know how much travelling ! have done.
have travelled but little on water. ony
walk when l can not do otherwise. l have
Travelled much in busgies, hacks and on
horseback. l have ridden a mule. l have
ridden on a dray; but the means OF loco
motion in this country is the steam en-
CINE, which stands a thing of life and
moves as n thing Of lie from ocean 10
OCEAN ana from lakes to gulf.
am not an old man. and yet I have
marked with pleasure and sometimes with
wonder the progress made By railroads.
The sleeping cars have como in within my
day OF travel. Really have been a mar
Pullman sleeper. There have been mar
Vicious changes for the better in the mail,
baggage and express cars. In locomotive
engines and equipment, as well as in steel
rails and rock ballasted ioadoeds. | expect
have Travelled more In the last twelve
months than Methuselah did the 969 gears
he lived on lhs earth. Maybe have tilv-
eled more in the last thirty days than he
ana all his children travelled. fine .oad
he'd, frst-class rolling stock, brains and in
genuity have brought things M uatil now
almost the minimum OF time has been
reached IN travel and comforts winich cur
forefathers never dreamed of. ] travel
mIssh en- all roads.
A man who has Travelled much and long
econ learns to regard the Pennsylvania
and Vanderbilt systems as the two leaiinG
railroads OF America. | have trayelel
through the Eastern and Middle States on
limited trains and smooth roadbeds. and
wondered II the South would ever attain
unto such perfection in railroad.ng. and
vet 1t is TRUE that we are there now. The.
is no better road travcrsing any section
or this country han the old nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis i'aiiroai
There is not a better managed railroad IN
America. One can almost set his watch
by the arrival of their trains at stations
Ibe Atlanta and West Point Is n gem
Their engines. cars and roadbed, all com
bincd Wlsh the excellent management o
the road leaves 1t without superior. Th'
| old Georgia railroad. the old reliable move
| her trains with spcsd and a unitormlI'
| scarcsiy without a record. The Seabonr.
| Air Line is running spleplli trains, blu
| The Southern railway, watch has growi
| into an immense system OF railroads, !
marpiaoently managed thoroughly equip
! pri spbendidly run. Only q few days az
| I boarded their southwestern limited tran
| in Atlanta for New York. ana wneh
| comes to speed, comfort and courtesy
| ,vr1pa get off OF ehsir trains to get on no
| hody'n train. They 20 as fast as | care u
| ode Their dining cars furnish as Roc'
| grnh ma want to cat. Their conductors an
| trainnien nre as polite as | want 10 trlye
with. came back on their fast MAI tTsti'
| which In the last few days has adtei ~
| dining car feature. found the snine coi'
| fort, convenience and coca Gazing
| ANA while as travelling man ] thin
a. The thousand kindnesses that have bts
| bestowed upon me. the thousand conVeh
fences / have enjoyed the thou'ands o
niles Raw. travelled without accident 0
| harm coming to myself, caa carry meta
,pp hut acod will and Kindness to uhe ia'lu
f,n men who manage these systems 10 ID
brav,py engineer who manages me thtottis
tIhg affable conductor WAC cnals Mn man
sIcny wha way. / have received so man
lrndnesses from these working. teiing, nt
&c men caaled railrcai men ihhl esteei
HI a privilege to call thousands OF tneih ~
friends. sn5 an IN
And whenever or wherever ! ma an ~, ~
! divliuaI or legislator or a copsress 1ia
\ LAYING his hands and tongue rua,.lvs'7.
upon the railroads, think 70 ihsIs't,
/ that man had Travelled as mAich ~ ,, 10,
mi reeaiyei the kindnesses fr-m lsal' -.
,n.n that / have received. he walld az.
bis t,,ne and changs his howl. Ias 49, !,
ME politician thinks he IS popuiais", -
S5mself with the world by tumplng on y (,
n,iiroads ana bemaaniug theiI ON ,i,.
,nl more and more he IS awln e.
nnnuiar favor and the esteem O
r,tizsns BY praying With. TIE v,aes s,a,
~ against rail oais. ] know Of no Az
that has ever been as panis si,rpa
its finarces or commerce by r.,l.s
: Il has been injured by po-hoi.,i', go
! ;ackass statesmen. Talk an9n' rs, al
frfieht and passenger tarii. M -,
ro,ss are building bigger engines a.
heavier cars and cutting doMn rag
every wear TO enable them 70 hhui 80 10
: et the present tariff rates ana ca'ts -
sengers at present fares
There may have been day wnen ! ~
. preiu1loe bern OF ignorance; but iol
since have learned that when = na'lro'