Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-24
THE WOODY WEST.

EFFETE EASTERNERS WHO ARE
SURPRISED AT THE PROGRESS
AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE
WEST.
w. E. Curtis in Chicago Record: 1t
is always amusing to watch a tender
foot from New York or Boston out in
this country. They act like the Eng
lish noblemen who used to come over
with the camping outfits and flying ar
tlllery they used in the jungles of In
dia to shoot buffalo in the city of New
York. There is no concealment of
their ignorance concerning the condi-
tions of the western county; their van
ity is too great to permit them to pre-
tend to be anything but tenderfeet,
and their establishment at finding
churches, schoolhouses and book stores
they do not attempt to conceal. l
suppose the day will come, but it is
still in the distant future, when the
inhabitants of New York and Boston
will understand that the west is civil
lied and settled by men and women
of their own kin and tastes. More
and more of them are coming out ev-
cry year to recognize that fact and re-
turn to Boston and Newburyport to
relate the surprising news to their
neighbors. Raymond and Whitcomb
have done a great work for civiliza-
ton in getting up excursions for the
Yellowstone Park and other sections
of the west. Most of their patrons
are Yankee schoolma'ams and old
maids with money and good memories
who have nothing to do but gossip
about what they have seer and done.
They are the best kind of advertisers.
What %astonishes the New England
barbarian most is the fine equipment of
the railways. There is no train in
New England, for example, that will
compare with the North Coast Limited
on the Northern Pacific. No train in
the world will surpass it. 1t is as
good in every respect as the Pennsyl-
vania limited, which we in the east
have been taught to believe is the
highest standard ever reached by rail
way rolling stock. The Lake Shore
limited, the Empire Express Of the
New York Central and all the other
crack trains on the eastern railways
have no comforts or luxuries that are
not found on the western roads, and
people of New lork and Boston who
come out here think they have dis
covered them.
Il tell you what" said a Raymond
and Whitcomb excursionist in the Vel
lowstone Park the other day, I'VE are
jusht travelling in style. You car bet
your life on that. Raymond and
Whitcomb certainly do get up things
in fine shape. The train we came or
had a reading room, with all the maya
zines and illustrated papers free; a
bathroom and a barber shop, electric
lights in every berth, and, by lingo,
you never saw more elegance on a rail
way train in your life"
And then we "joshed" him. We
taught that Yankee a lesson in west
ern ethics, and it did him good. When
we told him that the Northern Pacific
had eight such trains, built for that
especial run by the Pullman company,
and that the western people were so
fastidious that they wouldn't travel on
any other, he didn't want to believe
us, but we convinced him OF that fact
and several others equally important
before we let him go. He admitted
that the New England railways fur
nished no such luXuries to their pat
rons, and that the s~econd-class or tour
ist sleepers on the North Coast Lin
tied were as elegant and as comfortable
as the first class sleepers u by the
New ENGLAND roads