Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-11-25
TRAVELLING IN CANADA.
The Queer Way of Doise Thias. HI
Illustrated in Comments on =
BaIky Locomotive.

They are primitive people in CaEada.
OF, at all events, some of them are.
Those who aren't primitive perhaps
are too sophisticated. But that's .
matter OF taste.
Now, there is a railroad in Canada,
that may be call the Central Lower
Canada, as disguise similar to that
which the detective assumes on the
stage. 1t runs from Jacques-Cartier-
vile to Arlington, distance of about
las miles. At Arlington it connects
with an American railway, one of
those coneeitedly named roads which
combine the name of a city with the
name of a state, like the Oshkosh &
Nebraska, or something in that style.
This Lower Canada Central runs one
train day to connect with this Ameri-
can line. The train leaves Jacques
Cartierville in the afternoon and takes
in theory So hours to run TO
Arlington. 1t is only in theory that
it takes that length of time, not having
anything special to do when it gets
there and the other train having to do
the waiting, the Central Lower Canada
takes six OF seven or more hours to
make the run. OF course, the run can
be made in schedule time, but only
when the new American engine, which
the company bought ten years ago, is
in condition. That is not always.
The other day it started on time TO
the second and went slowly up the first
of the long grades which as rule
would be considered in making up the
schedule, but IN Canada are not taken
into account. As it went on, the train
lost time everywhere. Finally il
stopped half an hour late at flag sta
ton. There il waited, and kept on
waiting-it had hot box. The pas
sengers went out to see the fun and
heard the engineer and conductor, in
the intervals of the formers struggles
with the hot box, making comments
on affairs in general and on those OF
the Central Lower Canada in partic-
ular.
They oughtn't TO ha' given you this
engine" said the conductor. The en-
gineer grunted and muttered
They hadn't. She broke down yes
terday, same place"
They put those brasses in this
mornin'. though" said the fireman,
from the cab.
'Ya-as," said the engineer, drawing
out the last of the hot brasses from the
box. These was new brasses this
mornin'.''
The passengers were getting in
terested.
where's the engine that should pull
us?'' asked one of them.
''Oh, she's been laid up for two or
three days." said the engineer, pouring
more water on the hot box. Then one
of the passengers, who had been
around the engine, came back with a
capital joke.
Say, what d'you think they've got
for n headlights" he asked. "A brake
mans lantern inside the big lantern!"
'Ia-as," said the engineer, sullenly,
as the passengers streamed off to veri-
fy the statement. Lamp broke down
when we tried to light it, so we had to
put the lantern inside"
After an hour the box was cooled
sufficiently to allow the train to go
ahead, and it arrived at Arlington only
about two and half hours late, to find
that the worm had turned, and the
train that should have waited had de-
parted. The Central Lower Canada
advertises in Canada as the shortest
and best line''-but then every road
does that.
1t ought to be interesting to those
Americans who view the far-famed
Saguenay on the ''palatial double-tier
steamers of the Richelieu & Ontario
Navigation company" to learn from
| steward caught looking through the
window into a woman's stateroom that
that is the way he and his confreres
are directed to proceed to learn if the
passengers are up and ready to leave
the boat. But the manager says he
Will forbid the stewards to do it in the
future, and that they were never told
! to do SO, anyway; so perhaps the
Americans who support the line may
take comfort for next year.
Last year there was a train from this
city. which, reaching Jacques-Cartser-
vile on time, brought the traveller into
| the city at $50 in tie morning. in time
| to get the early morning boats and
trains. But the hotel keepers did not
! like that arrangement, and as the
| Canadian Pacific is the biggest hotel
keeper in the city, it had influence
| enough to have the train taken of.
| So now there is only one way of get
ting into and out of Jacques-Cartier-
vile without having to spend the night
| at some of the hotels-which is nicF
for the hotel keePers.-N. Y. Sun
Destructive Missiles.