Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-09-13

Their Immense Advantages Over the
Old ways of Getting About.


Old Ways of Getting About.
While old Father Time Is quietly and
swiftly making many charges in this
great country of ours, in nothing mas
more marked end, we are sure, more
welcome Improvement have been
made than in the means OF passing
from one part Of our county to another.
Less than fifty years ago it was
herculean task, so to speak, to go a
few hundred miles, requiring nearly as
many days as it now does hours, TO go
four or five hundred miles, rot to speak
of the many discomfoTts. Then Iall-
reading was comparatively in its in
fancy, and the accommodations were
OF the. crUdest kind, but even thea
they were very highly priced as being
much superior 70 what the people had
Teen used to, but as there were
scarcely any railroads at that time in
the United States ride Of even a
few miles. with all its discomforts,
was a thing to be boosted OF. We we'll
remember how a gentleman gleefully
and joyOusly related in our presence, as
late az 1856, in what a marvelously
short time he had been carried a few
hundred miles. But even then one
could scarcely make trip of five hum
dred miles without having to make
part Of it in a rumbling, jolting, old
stage coach, drawn by four or six
horses, at the rate of four Or five miles
an hour; but now what great and
marvellous change has come over the
spirit OF our dreams. These thoughts
were brought to the writers mind a
few days since when he seated himself
in one of the modern and palat1al cars
of the Vestibule train &C that great and
Justly celebrated national thorough
fare, the .eaboard Air Line railroad,
and almost at once found himself
swiftly and pleasantly being carried
from his home in the Sunny South to
the land of his BIRTH in another State.
The train was pulled by an engine OF
modern make, with a competent en-
gineer at the throttle, and although
we are Always a little nervous when
riding in a railroad car, yet the car In
which we sat ran so smoothly, with
out jar or jOStle, seeming to glide
along, Or skim through the air, that
we could hardly realize that We were
not sitting in a Well-furnished parlor
instead Of being carried rapidly from
one section Of the country to another.
But then these cars lmpllcate the
finest parlors. so far as a railroad
coach can do so. Every convenience
is to be found in them. If person is
an invalid or from any other reason
desires to rest in gentle sleep, there is
a coach attached to this train for their
especial accommodation. More than
that, every attention is paid each and
every passenger by the gentlemanly
and polite employees Of the company.
Conductor A. G. Martin, whose run
ends at Richmond, Va, is model
conductor and is justly held in high
esteem by all whose good fortune it is
to travel with him. At Richmond,
Va. the engine is unlocked from the
train and another engine attached, and
the run to washington city is con-
tinued without disturbing the pas
senger-the same car carrying MIN
into that city. these cars make
continuous run from JacksOnvnle, Fla,
to Washington city, and to Baltimore,
we suppose; but as We didn't go beyond
Washington We can speak. FROM
Richmond, Va, to Quantico, within
thirty miles OF Washington, we were
on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Division Of the Seaboard AIT
Line. From Quantico to Washing
ton the train runs over portion OF
the Pennsylvania Central, but without
disturbing the passenger. The car IN
which he seats himself at any point
between Jacksonville, Fla, and Wash
ington city, is the car in which he
finds himself when he reaches Wash
ington. At Richmond, Va, Mr.. |. II.
THOMPSON, as conductor, takes charge,
and a more genial gentleman 1t would
be hard to find any where. And right
here we want to say to our friends IN
Dixie. who propose to visit the North
this fall that they can scarcely do
better than to travel this swift and
safe railroad route on the SeabOard
Air Line, both for comfort and econ
omv of time. For with the major
part Of the travelling public, time Is
money these days. And to the North
ern tourists, we would say take the
Seaboard W Line for all points South;
more especially if you are seeking
health.
President Williams and his company
deserve much credit for having united
in one so many disjointed links and
making it possible for the public to
travel with so little discomfort and
ANNOYANCE as can be done in going
from one section of our country, via
the Seaboard Air Line railroad.