Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-07-20
the SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

the SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Its Passengers and Its Fine Passenger
System.
Staunton, July Ii.
The traveller who comes from Flori-
da to Virginia at this season OF the
year when there are so many dlscom-
forts and 80 much calculated to put
him out of sorts, should make the trip
If he can by the Southern Railway,
where everything connected with the
journey tends to minimize the disagree
-ables. In the first place the agent who
sold me my ticket from tue new and
elegant up town j Jacksonville office was
gentlemanly, answering every one OF
my many tiresome questions with a
courtesy that could not lie improved
upon. A sensitive and retiring travel
er, about to take long journey, must
needs ask good many questions.
which he does with reluctance, but
that young gentleman never tires OF
his railroad catechism. He knows it
by heart and be ans wers as if it were
II pleasure to tell the same old story
dozens of times daily. He takes your
money as if it panied him to do it and
thanks you for it rs if it were dona
tlon and you are to get no Quid pro
quo. The porter lifts out your bag
gage at the station with bow and
touch of the cap, the uniformed bag
gage agent checks it and takes 1t In
with the appearance that s all right
sir, you need not trouble yourself any
further" and you find he spoke truly.
when you alight in Stanton and your
baggage is all there by the same train
that brought you. The conductor,
when he scans your long through
ticket, punches it with deprecating
sort Of. bow as if he disliked to mutt
late your property, hopes we will not
find it very warm today and suggests
that the other side of the coach is the
cooler side, and even the porter seems
to find out that you are a through
passenger who proposes to spend the
day, brings a cinder shield. fastens it
in your window and tells you the name
of the river you are crossing and the
town you are coming to next, and
every now and then brushes off your
seat and turns the next one for you
when you look tired. In fact they all
make it so comfortable for you in the
handsome and luxurious ladies coach
that you do not feel the need of the
Pullman till night approaches and you
are thinking of bed. when the cOnduc-
tor informs you that you can go on the
parlor Car at Columbia at 6 o'clock and
| it will cost no more than if you wait
till you reach Charlotte. Then in the
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