The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-30
retters tc tbe edftor
rhe st: Louis Expedition and the Pull- wsu sIeep1ng Car Company.

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 wsu sIeeping Car Company.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 have been, seen. returned and have uo nersonal interest in writing thts comnunication. except desire to aid my people who may desire to go, and
 Id hit imposition as hard as l can,
 wherever 1t becomes conspicuous. The lack of Information as to hotels. board. inr houses and furnished rooms. and how to find them and the price at which
 1t is proposed to accommodate visitors keeps thousands and thousands of peo- nle from attending the great fair who would otherwise do SO. When a visitor Is dumped at the Union station and don't know where to 90 he feeis quite awkward. He may not have and if he has to go he may not be able to meet the expense to stay long enough to take in the fair He will zee many rooms and boarding houses piacarded and some very reasonable terms on the sign all along the streets, but then he knows nothing about the occupants or proprietors of the house. and he wishes to know something of that especially when he has ladies or arement should long ago have publish ed in pamphlet list Of reputable boarding houses furnished rooms and lodging places with the prices-not like an advertisement of real estate great bargain, but never giving the price-but giving the charges in every instance This pamphlet should have been scattered broadcast over the coun-
 try and have been published in some of the newspapers. But 1t was not
 done. About the best way for those of moderate means Is. to step on the
 street car at the Union station which
 takes the passenger to the gate at the
 Inside Inn where if he has written a
 x4 tx ta o n-
 gagged a room on arriving, registering
 and paying in advance for as many
 days as he desires to remain. he and
 his friend can occupy one room tWitn- out a bath attached) for $S per day,
 which includes 50 cents each for ad,
 mission to the fair. which the hotel
 pays, thus giving two people a room
 for s1 each per day They can take
 their meals in the Inn at 50 cents for
 breakfast and for lunch and 1o cents
 ing room and about the house IS
 managed most systematically. Or
 parties can room there and eat where
 they please. The dining room Is or
 the largest and not a man in it. It IS
 satisfactorily it is.
 The fair is the largest of its kind and the exhibits the largest and best the world could produce. The agricul- tSral horticultural manu.aern.fns aansnortation All and varied industries are the largest and best. The United States hall. for estry and fine arts are large, varied ana interesting. The electricity hall an, ana cal power Is a world study, as well as of beauty and attractiveness The live stock exhibit shows the finest horses and cattle in the world.
 are well worth seeing. such as the Boer war the naval battle of Santiago, the creation, etc.
 Fairly liberal terms with the raii- roads have been made, but the Pullman palace cars have not. The railroads to beat scalpers require passengers nolo- ing round trip tickets to have theS1 where passengers are annoyed by the
 great delay in getting It done. Thefe are not more than half enough force there. and to do 1t expediuously the are to blame for this paucity of force. Pullman sleeper. My son as my rep resentative, by the watch, stood in the and moved up inch by inch, money in hand for two hours before he could buy berths in the sleeper to Montgomery One man as the agent of the great
 pIil%sn monopoly Sand sat and wi'h when would say, T want two lowers on
 certain line for some future date,
 the agent would phone the main office 1t came 1t would frequent | ly be lowers all sold; then would follow about taking another upper berth. ol | if the passenger awaited until the nexl | day if he could get lower berths anc | then the telephone went to work again l The crowd would press on becoming
 more and more restless and mad as they had a right to be. Now, could not tha' company have had more force? Th' people going to and from the exposi | iion are giving their cars great patron | age. and yet 1t has not reduced farei | a single dollar. paid for three oertni twelve dollars. with my wife ant son found our berths on car called | the "Gascogne." It was full of peo ple-every berth taken We left St
 Louis Sunday at o'clock a. m, ant l during the entire day and night there | was not drop of water on that car l either for washing or drinking pur poses. The porter said that there wal l something the matter with the tanks Had he tried he could have brough
 water in buckets. The conductor or
 that car seemed to think more of hi,
 car uniform and fine appearance thai
 of the comfort of his passengers
 never saw him giving them any atten
 tion only to collect their fares. H. 1 gave no orders and did not seem at al
 disposed to fatigue himself for thu | comfort of his passengers. And th' porter on the Gascogne is certainl,
 the biggest fool negro and the leas
 account of any who ever appeared al
 a porter on a sleeper. Had the con ductor half way performed his duty h. | could have made the porter do a little | better Neither of them seemed con
 cerned about doing anything more tnai l holding down his job and drawing hi \ pay, and the negro seemed too much O | an idiot for that as he did nothins 1 whatever tO earn tins from the paSSen
 gers. and I think he received few i | any.
 The Pullman company is a mann | mouth monopoly protected by patent | which Congress ought to repeal or an null for it's abuse. No amount of fre' passes which the company gives tt | Senators and Representatives In Con | gress should work a protection to thii | hundreds of millions corporation. in it, abuse of the rights of paying passen 1 gers. l hope that Congress will b. | brave enough to deal with thls mon
 ster, and the people will applaud tn, act,