The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-24
QUICKLY NOTES
THE CHANGE
What the Reserved New
Yorker Sees in the West.
CONDOLENCES ARE PLENTY
Types of Western People
Which Interest Him.
CONDOLENCES ARE PLENTY

the East from the West, no traditional
Mason and Dixon separation OF sentiment.
but as the obseryant traveller wakes
from the seclusion Of his Pullman one
night out from Buffalo he soon becomes
aware of the difference. He win wonder
for minute what has come over tn.
spirit of that grim, low spoken carload
OF men and women he came up from
New York with-this chattering OF wo-
men. this activity OF newly acquainted
children, this friendly chatting in the
mems washroom. all this strange and
inexplicable. The thought intrudes that
he has inadvertently come into the spe-
cial car of a family party. That a man.
clean-red from the wash-bowi and ha-
zardous. staggering shave. offers, with a
broad grin of fellowship. TO brush the OBJ
servant travellers back and 10 go into the
dining-car with him.
Wen go In and hit the grub-pile now.
he says. grinning broadly at the Fictitious
slang, and the observant traveller knows
that he has come into that big, vague.
indefinite West.
Into the dining-car the others come, just
as scrupulously dressed as those who
lunched with the traveller close 10 the
Pennsylvania border. with only little
lengthening Of stride. only little loosen
ing of the shoulders. but with vast
daring of spirit. The genial man Will not
shout from one end Of the car TO his new
friend. cracking an egg in the middle
with knife, four tables down from the
door but his ample grin win search him
out and get a friendly wave of the knife
in return.
you come from the East?" queries the
genial man.
Yes; from New York. answers the
observant traveller. and falls silent But
he soon discovers that his answer has
been too brief, unfriendly. insufficient.
He has not been frank with his friene-
II the hope Of atonement he forces
show of interest In his tone as he asks
in return:
You come from St LOUISE" The good
natured mans face clears in a fash. After
all. it was nothing but that awful East
ern reserve: he will show his way TO
frankness.
i've been in St Louis since 1876 I went
there TO work on the bridge-helped finish
it-and was superintendent for ten years.
The observant traveller is surprised-ths
nan does not show his age-and frankly
says he can hardly believe the other to
have been in harness so long. The genial
man is pleased and goes on:
But I quit active engineering work In
rs. Ny wife said she wanted to get &C
quainted with me. And so we sent our
boy OF TO college.
Where did he go?" interrupts the OBJ
servant traveller. secretly hoping that ii
might be Harvard or Yale, for he left
New York just before the boat race, and
would like to know which crew won.
Hell finish at the Colorado School OF
Mines. next year" 1t is the proud father
who answers now. He was al Harvard
for two years but It looked like he wanted
to get out close to the mines. so that
he could get in a little practical work
in the summer. Did you happen TO go 10
Harvard" The observant traveller says
somewhat proudly that ne was Harvard
q
Your son is IN the mines this sum
mer7" II is A fortunate questionable
face Of the found father is even better
than that Of the merely genial man.
"Oh. yes. he's up in Montana now"
He considers for a moment. smiles APP
preciatively a, what ne Is about % say.
and makes half unconscious motion
towards his inside pocket before he
speaks.
My wife sent me letter from the
boy. just before started hack Tor ST
Louis. Il seems he thinks he's having
a hard time. They put him down In
drift funnel that is leaky. lie gets soak
ed every day. and he hasn't got used 70
the food that miners 1--we on. But he tid
not want his mother 70 tell me that part
az the letter What - wrote 70 me was
that he's like me 70 send him S5o- said he
wanted 10 change boarding houses. and
sidn't have money enough 20 pay bis
I'm az the old place. ard take away his
trunk ard books
Before the sfter-brszkfsst cigar is IN
fsh~d the obsersant traveller knows that
his companion has dons some notable en-
efrrerirr work FOR 81 Louis. that his
vIfe's sister j. an invalid. ard has far
years stood fl the way ~ the realization
q his dream Of a quiet summer alone
with his wife. that In aeue piece ~ early
railroad work BE- successfully fought the
influence q Fisk ard Gould. that sumner
n 81 Louis - rot 80 bad = one win
live quiet and carefully. that he Is con-
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the ozrsr q eighteen inches - realty
bordering o. a big iot n 81 Louis that
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