Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-11
By Diana l.. Slime.
Written for the Democrat /.

EsWS3EA2.SJEsls3A s1ksjsAs,
Friday, July 10, was the day we
planned to leave San Francisco. Some
people held up their hands in horror
to think anyone would start out on
long trip on Friday, and doubly awful"
would it be to have Friday with Is.
Not being burdened with belief in
superstition the warning and admoni.
ton fell unheeded. If two negatives
make an affirmative why should not
two evil forebodings make one good.
We were supposed to leave the
mole at o'clock in the morning but
somehow 1t was not convenient for
the Southern Pacific to get an engine
or make up the train so we simply had
TO content ourselves and wait in tnat
delightful place, the Oakland Mole.
Anyone who has ever been there
knows how inviting that waiting-room
is and can therefore readily imagine
how it sweetens ones temper to stay
there for two snort hours, thinking of
long journey that is about to begin
Think of 1t! Wait two hours to get
started! OF course no one blamed the
Southsrn Pacific. 1t undoubtedly lid
Its usual best. A railroad companv
and its employees are not supposed to
know that the passengers time is
worth anything. 1t seems at times a
traveller is supposed to have an un.
limited amount OF patience and be
thankful to be alive. People who go
on a vacation certainly ought to nut
up with little of the unexpect ID rail.
road kindness.
The primary purpose of a dessert
is TO leave pleasant lasts; hence the
afterwards" of a dinner is usually
characterized by delicate flavor
what a dessert is to a dinner the re-.
turn trip is to a vacation. CALIFORNIA;
natural scenery is feast to the sight.
seer The Southern Pacific supply the
dessert, which, good as it is, doss
not create desire for a second helm.
ing.
After we at last began to move
fairly good time was made. At Porto
Costa the whole train was put on
board the ferryboat--the largest of it's
KIND In the world-a6d carried to the
Bernicia side of the bay. While pass.
ing through the Sacramento valley
the intense neat was all that could
be thought about. The thermometer
must have registered 10 degrees In
the shade. No one was sorry for the
change that came when we began
the climb up the cool, shady Sierra
mountains. Fortunately we reached
the summit before nightfall. The Bue
gorge, Downer lake-where Downer
party We're drowned-and "rou,1
ing Cape Horn" are places well worth
seeing. That clear, blue lake up Ia
the mountains is as beautiful as II is
rare.
AT Truckee word came there was n
wreck near Boca, the next station
The only thing for us TO do was tn
stay at Truckee, and there we STAYED
Tor IL hours or more. We Infer II was
not convenient for the Southern pa
enc 10 get help so as to clear that
track any sooner. 1t may be cheaper
Tor a railroad company to keep one
man at work for twelve hours than IN
nave six men at work for two hours
or twelve men at work for one hour
AT any rate, the Southern Pacific did
its very best to clear the track Com
PARSONS are always odious and there.
lore 1t would not be fair to even thin,
what some Eastern railroad employees
would have done under similar cir.
cumstances.
Many drew sigh of relief when wa
were at last transferred to the Denver
ana Rio Grande, an entirely different
concern. People do not like In he
kilt@d by kindness, especially the KIM
oifered by the Southern Pacific Altar
leslng Ogden, the Southern Paci1.
might nave been entirely forgotten
Tor q while at least, had not some of
the passengers been thinking of the
excess baggage charges. There wa
one trunk that had been sent a great
many times over eastern roads bnt
never with an excess label.
In fact, not a word was said abopt
excess a few moths .go when thai
very same trunk containing the very
same articles (only then It had ten or
hfteen pounds more than now was
creehei from large city in the east
strange, is 1t not? Did the Southern
pacihc weigh IL? Indeed II did. and on
southern Pacific scale. There js M
reason to doubt that 1t did IT fairly for
southern Pacifis and all It's employees
are honorable men. They weighed
mat trunk and found the excess
charges would be only $4.55i
why do you call that e..tortion7
ealing such work extortion might NOT
De Just to the Southern Pacific, for
you may want to use the same word
70 some other concern some other
time. No, 1t is not extortion. II ia