Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25

when the water was running very merrily
In a brook near by. A few miles away
was a village where the two women thought
congenial acquaintances might be found.
They pictured sunny summer mornings,
when they would ramble among the green
hills, will sunbonnets on their heads,
picking wild strawberries. listening to the
songs Of birds. or fishing for trout in the
mountain brook. And in the evening, after
the trains had passed and the passengers
had been fed. they dreamed Of frolics
under the summer moon with friends whom
they would find in the village. Alas, for
stern reality! In q month from August
the cold weather came; the snow began
to fall and there we're no happy rambles
on the hillsides. Besides the work was
arduous and the responsibility was great.
And the village, not far away, was found
to be only a mining town and its inhab-
itants mainly foreigners who labored in
the mines. So the days became days OF
loneliness and anxiety.
THE Cars are placed at a station
called Rockford. twenty-five miles from
DeAdwood, 8. d. Near them is a water
tank and a telegraph ONCE. There are no
other buildings within miles. At SIT every
afternoon the southbound passenger train
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station and stops at the siding where the
Ave cars are standing. The brakeman has
announced twenty minutes for dinner
and he has made a canvass Of his train
to learn how many propose to eat there.
This he does soon after leaving Deadwood
and then he telegraphs ahead to the station
at Rockford, giving the number who will
dine, and the information is carried over tC
the young women who are preparing din.
ner. BY this they know approximately how
many will require food.
Twenty Minutes for Dinner.
When the train arrives the passenger
hurry from their seats, and stepping out
crowd into one Of the cars on the siding
These travelling people are usually yer,
nervous and excited. They have PROMINENT,
, In their minds the fact that they have onl,
twenty minutes in which to satisfy thei
2 appetites, and they are haunted by the fea
that the train outside will quietly slip away
, leaving them behind. So they rush int
4 the eating house without ceremony an
a without observing some Of the usual rule
\ Of etiquette. 1t is not until they hav
: begun to devour the food placed befor
: them that they realize that their dinin
room Is most unusual. Then they begi
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! why. look" one exelaims, sits a re
! gular railway coach"
And so II is-a railway coach with the seal
removed and in their places tables that e.
tend nearly across the car, leaving only
narrow aisle at one side. This is the dir
ing room Of The Cars" Through a door {
n one end young women enter hurriediy vii
steaming platters OF meats and vegetable
from the next apartment. which Is an o
freight car and Is the kitchen Of the estal
lishment. Those who are crowding fot
into themselves have time TO observe tn
the light comes from lamps overhead ju
like those In the usual railway coach.
/ they are imaginative. the passengers eoU
! very easily believe that they simply hi
been transferred to another train and we
still moving onward.
But most Of the passengers under Il
circumstances are not in a frame Of mil
for interesting visions. They frequent
look at their watches to see how mu.
OF the twenty minutes remains. They cor
plain that they are not waited on prompt
enough. And in order to obtain their sha
OF the food that il placed before them, tn
enter into the dinner with the fever OF
contest. There is a tremendous clatt
Of dishes, dominating every other sour
Then SOM one sees the conductor OF I
train. who haa been eating with the pa