The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-06


Using wiz do anything, save pay taxes
or bring the dead to life. Tourists
have come to California. and, becoming
stranded. have been compelled to nus
tie. They have discovered one thing
after another, and made the state more
attractive than before; they have sold
town lots and tracts of dry land to 9TH
er tourists Even the A4Ojave desert has
been utilized; mines are being opened
there. Walter Scott, the mysterious
man who made the flying trip from
Los Angeles TO Chicago over the Santa
Fe. and broke the transcOntinental rec
ord. is o desert man. L was told last
night that Scott was living very mod
estly at Los Angeles and that he is
having play written; that he will be-
come an actor, to take advantage of
the advertising his $1,000 trip gave him.
Imagine spending a night and a day
in small room with five impudent
and noisy children. That's what / am
doing. The missionary has no notion
that his children are nuisance;
neither has his wife. Every moment
they can be heard; the passengers are
greatly annoyed, but can do nothing.
Last night after I had gone to bed the
missionary having cOaXed the chill
dren to bed, proceeded to amuSe him
self by telling the conductor about his
there is a Japanese woman with two
little girls. Her children are splendid
" behaved and under control As soon
as the missionary civfiizes the Chinese
he viii probably civiIize the Japanese
In all seriousness the missionary
family is a thousand years behind the
Japanese family. II the missionary will
civilize his own children he will never
be missed in China. Yet, think of the
tired, Woodworking people who have
been bullyragged to give money with
which to send this missionary to
China! There is another man on this
car who has a suspicious look. I think
he is a missionary also. He looks
good deal like Mr.. Coulter. hero Of the
Coulter Story" He is a thin, cad
averous man; SO thin, indeed, that
the bows Of the spectacles he wears
wrap twice around his ears. He is
smooth faced and watery eyed, and his
teeth are wide apart in front. VIII
this man be a passenger on the Isl
IBERIA" alsO2 1 think so, for the .'Si-
beria's" passengers are already coll
lecting in San Francisco. 1 have met
several on this train.
Beside the track a a station where
we stopped just now was a ftatcar
with four huge tanks built thereon.
This car is equipped for grapes only,
4 sign on the car read California is
making Il desperate effort to convince
people that wine is as important as
Kansas -four F. d. COburn's celebrat-
ed booklet ''The Beef Steer and His
Sister which is devoted to the glories
of milk, does not seem so important
out here
Near the track is a collection of
large buildings. 1t is a winery; it is
almost as large as Kansas City pack
ing house. 1t is only one of a number
of such establish ments at Fresno. Near
the winery just mentioned is a yard
filled with tanks for cude Oil-they
work both the top and bottom in Cali
Iornla. There is great variety out
here. In Kansas, we have grain and
stock. In California, they have these.
and in addition, lot of other things.
raisins, oranges, lemons, oil, plums,
olives, nuts, lumber, gold, silver, cop
per, Ostriches, camels and many other
things.
When the train stopped at Fresno.
the misSiOnary's three Oldest children
climbed off and raced up and down the
PLATFORM W men the train started, the
passengers managed to catch the chill
dren and put them back on the train.
The missionary, who was in the smOk-
ing room telling about his work, "
laughed heartily when told of the in
cldent. L must be careful of what I
say about the missionary; he will get
even with me by praying that I go to
the bad place. I do not wish to be un-
just to anyone. but I have never seen
such Indifferent parents as the mis-
sionary and his wife. If my children
should annoy others as these children
annoy the passengers on this Pullman,
L should die of humiliation.
The porter on this Pullman runs
from Chicago to san Francisco. and
this morning he told me his troubles.
1t is a hard life. Eleven days are re-
CURED for a round trip. and if he
takes in $50 in tips he is doing ex-
tremely we'll On one round trip dur
ing the dull season he took in only So.
His actual expenses on a round trip
amount to $40. He does not average
more than four hours sleep in twenty
four; he is wearing out, and will quit
as soon as possible. He is an extreme ely
fat man. If he is wearing out he does
not show it. He claims that he re
ceives $50 a month from the Pullman
company: his average pay, including
tips. is about a hundred dollars a
month After a porter has been in con-
tinuOus service ten years his uniforms
are given him free. Out of two thous-
and DOrters now in service only forty
the work wears them out The porter
says he was formerly a private car
porter in the service of Geo. NJ. Pull
man, who was good to him. After
this long talk the porter proceeded to
wash his cellulOid collar Times are so
hard that he can not wear linen col
lars, but must wear celIuloid. and
scrub it every morning before the pas
sengers are up.
There are hundreds of acres of
WatermelOns beside the track. The
brakeman says the best ones are sold
and the poorest ones fed to hogs and
cattle
A big railroad official once told me