Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-09

The dining car service is good and
comparatively cheap The meals con-
sist OF q cup Of tea and some crackerH,
brought in by a Nubian porter at day
break: q breakfast On the dining car NJ
5 o'clock, n table dhote luncheon at ]
and a dinner along ga the evening
j have Kept the notes OF one luncheon
and dinner. The lunch consisted Of
macaroui with cheese, br0ilcd squads,
vegetable oysters, lamb chops and
fried potatoes. a salad preserved
peaches, oranges and apples and cup
OF Turkish coffee. Thc dinner began
with soup ard fish. These were fol-
lowed BY saint OF pigeon. some spin
ach, roast chicken and fried potatoes,
salad, assorted preserves, fruit ans
coffee. The breakfast cost 30 cents tbs
lunch N.20 tho dinner ST. and the
afternoon tea 30 cents. My bin was
not presented until the end OF the trip.
by averaging Il I find that nay eating
cost me s. piastros, OF SA20, per day.
The rates on that road also are dear
During ordinary seasons the frat class
passage costs S35 for the 500 and odd
miles, or between 6 and z cents "a mile.
When the tourist season begins tho
charges are raised TO $50 one way OF 60
500 for the round trip. This IS over 0
cents per mile
"a " 80 a DALI w A-Hs
In riding over the soudan mill
itary road We stopped for time
az Atbara, whore the Black
Nile from Ahysslnia flows In
90 the main stream and whore IS the
famous bridge built by Americans up
on orders given by Gen. Kitchener. The
contract was FIRST offered TO the Eng
lish but they were not able TO build
the bridge in the tim required, and
the Americans took the Job and finished
&C. Atbara IS now one OF the railroad
division points, ana it is where the
road across the desert 20 the Red sea
branches OF. AS we stopped at the sta
ton our engine struck me as being
familiar I walked TO the front OF the
train and examined &C. Sure enough.
A. was Baldwin. and with the name
philadelphia" standing out in the FUN
blaze OF the Nublau sum- A few mo-
ments later. Is ] was crossing the Black
Nile over the steel bridge which our
builders put up, I felt that I was not so
far from home, after ALL ] was being
hauled by an American engine over am
American bridge, and that IN the heart
OF the Nublan desert. more than a
thousand miles up the Nile. The
thought makes one proud OF our Amer
ican mechanics and OF American enter
prise.
WHERE THE QUEEN OF sHEBA
LIVED
About 100 miles south OF Athara we
s.Opped at Shendi, where the queen OF
sheba Is said TO have lived. This Is
station on the east bank OF the Nile,
about FIVE hours or more from hhar-
tum. II Sc a considerable town with
railroad shops about which are great
piles Of steel ties such as are used I'm
% "a
They are merely shells OF steel, 80 made
that they can be half buried in the
sand and still hold the rails. The tele-
graph poles are also OF steel, the white
ants Of this region making IL impossible
TO use wood for such purposes
The Shendi Of today consists or an old
and new town. The latter has been
laid out by the English and It has
park IN the center watered by the Nile.
In ancient times there was a great city
here. Il was the capital OF the country
and the residence Of the queen Of She
ba. II IS said that the queen went
from hers down the Nile and crossed 10
Palestine, where she had her Irritation
with King Solomon. The Abyssiniana
say that she went back by the Red sea
and stopped in their country on the
way. While she was there she bore
son, whose father was solomon and who
Is the head OF the line OF kings which
rule Abyssinia today. The Mohamme-
dams, on the other hand, say that the
queen Of sheba did not live here az
all. They claim that her residence was
IN Yemen. Arabia. and that solomon
went there TO visit her. The queens
name was Bikis She was as witty as
she was beautiful. and she gave the
wiss Solomon many a riddle which no
was puzzled 10 answer.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.