The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-26

WILMINGTON. Del. Oct. 26.-Mr. Bryan
has now made his home in the private ear
Rambler fer more than month Since
he last saw his home in Lincoln, Neb.
MIR. Bryan has travelled nearly 15,000
miles. or a distance greater than ons-half
the circumference of the earth.
The Rambler is a Wagner ear, well ar
ranged for the purposes of this trip. It
contains good-sized stateroom or bed
room amidships for Mr.. Bryan. where he
can be entirely private and il which there
is wide and comfortable bed Adjoining
it is a private layatory and small clothes
closet. Communicating with this room is
a smaller stateroom with desk and an
upper and lower berth. This is the work
shop and sleeping room of Mr.. Rose, Mr..
Bryan's private secretary.
At the rear end of the car is a kind of
drawing room, with comfortable sofa
and sleepy hollow chairs. The sofa can be
converted into a bed and above it an up
per berth can be let down. At the oppc-
site end of the car is the kitchen and then
the dining room. In This dining room are
six upper berths to be let down, with no
lower berthS under them ana no fixed
seats. This gives space for the extension
dining table and handsome dining chairs.
At one end OF the apartment are pair OF
upper and lower berths on each side, ar
ranged like those in an ordinary Pullman
sleeping car.
Except while meals are being served the
dining table is pushed to one side and used
by the newspaper men fer desk. There
are several IypeWriteTS, and their clicking
is almost continuous. There are two col
rE. N1Tha loo
three times day.
Reporting the Speeches.
The correspondents are all members CT
the editorial stats of their respective pa
pers. There is an agent of press asso-
citation, with a stenographer and type
writer, who makes full reports of the
speeches.
An agent of the telegraph company is
also On the car who makes ample prOYiS-
ion ahead for the prompt despatch Of bust
ness. teiegraphing for additional operators
10 meet the train in towns where there IS
to be much work. He takes charge Of the
special dispatches as soon as they are
written and saves the trouble CT looking
up telegraph offices in strange towns.
The newspaper people see little OF Mr..
Bryan except when he is speaking, which
is a good part of every day, and at meals.
AT other times he is III his stateroom rest
ing between speeches, receiving a local
committee or debating letters and tele-
grams TO his secretary
AS soon as he finishes a speech, either
from stand or from the end of the car,
he is beset by a crowd which rushss to
shake ais hand. On one occasion he beg
ged people 10 release his hand as soon as
they had shaken It, remarking that some
seemed TO wish to retain it as a souvenir
while he wanted 10 keep ii to sign bills
with.
The crowds ordinarily are absolutely
without mercy At places where Mr..
Bryan alights from the car among the
throng there is such rush to ges at him
that it looks to those standing on The car
Platform as If he were in the midst CT
street fight. No one but a man CT extra
ordinary physical strength could endure
one of these brushes AT some places he I
is protected by the local police, but such
places are few.
1t is only upon exceptional occasions
that he can enjoy meal without inter
ruption- Often the car will stop at a
ten-minute talk place Just as his soup
has been served to him, and he has to
rush off If the train happens to stop at
station while he is at meal, people
On the outside bang on the windows and
often try to climb in through them if
they ere open They yell and bang until
Mr.. Bryan leaves the table to come cut
and shake hands. He returns to the ia
bic wet with perspiratfon and resumes
his meal as If nothing had happened.
Mr.. Bryan's Good Nature.
His good humOr and kindness arg in
exhaustible. At meals he sits at the head
Of the table, and he is the life of the
party, full Of funny incidents which have |
occurred during the day, and laughing |
with tneXpressible gfee over his own sto- |
ries or those of others at the table.
He is not a prude and does not obtrude |
his views and scruples upon others. Con- |
Fersation around the table is free and !
unrestrained But Mr. Bryan is a strict |
moralist. He is a total abstainer from
all alcoholic drinks, although he never !
says anything about it except TO decline
quietly or by gesture when any is Of
Tered On the car none is served at |
meals.
Mr.. Bryan is kind and most considerable
to the coiored servants. and they almost |
worship him. Meals and sleeping hours
are, OF course, irregular. Often a meeting
does not end and the people dispense until
late IN the night, and generally there is a.
short talk arranged for early in the morn
m" 7'tting the sleeping time short at
both enu--r
Mr.. Bryan submits 70 ALI kinds of hard
ships imposed tpon him by local commit
tees without q 9urmur. On his recent
trip thr9sssh Wes' ViFginit he was due at
- Z midnight. commit
get out Of bed and show
people who might be gath
he said II Il vas considered
he would 90 It. But when Pri-
vats Secretary 3se heard about it he arose
IN his mtght and protsc ed Mr.. Bryan from
she impUsltion.
5Ir. Bryan has been a newspaper man
--nself and he appreciates such work He !
is solicitous about the comfort of the cor
Slams Tho Cou,