Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21

/, Improvements in the matter OF sleep
/, getting little more accustomed to The
jolting, Isnppose. Went out about 6. Is
A. M., eastern time, and after toilet
preparations got breakfast about 7.3O
A. M. There are ample arrangement in
each Pullman car for toilet purposes
four stationary wash stands, soaps and
any amount of towels always ready and
no restrictions to the number used-if
you merely want to wash your hands
at any time you have a clean towel and
it is not again used by anyone till after
It is laundried ; the same with the bed
ding, you haye-2 clean sheets and clean
pillow cases every night for each man,
though be can't very we'll sleep on more
than one pillow. Stopped just at break
fast time few minutes at Charlton, Iowa,
about S35 miles from Chicago. The
country here appears more like Penn:
sylvauia, more billy, the houses in this
western country seem to be very low,
mostly one and half stories. said to be
on account of high winds. / should not /
like that feature think.
We have q nice air but feels as il it
could be hot again this P. NJ. We are
little more than half way to the Springs
the road not nearly so dusty as yesterday, |
the road yesterday appeared to be bel
lasted with sand and our fast moving
train made it fly, making it very un-
at times. There seems to be
q great many cattle in some parts of
to-day's travel. The folks here seem to
be 10 the height Of hay harvest. The
Burlington Railroad which We are on
now, is nice smooth road, said to be
The finest in the country, but can't
vouch for the truth of that. Our car 10
named "Ovceda." Have just stopped
1t Oscola, Iowa, quite town, but nearly /
avery house or store one or one and D |
half stories high, few two and three
stories bat very few, bungalo We they cal
hem. Can't build them higher on ac-
count Of the wind and they plant rows ,
If trees close 10 the houses and close to !.
zach other as wind breaks, not . very
snticing feature to strangers. / should
ihink this better farming country than J
Indiana or Illinois for grain producing. Ii
fhe corn in the latter states is not nearly 5,
ls good as in Delaware, but ia lows if,l .
o0ks about on q par with our own crope1 7
# that grain. There are ricks of hay I
md grain both wheat and oats, with 4
;anvass covers staked out over them to |;
protect them, buildings are far apart 10
he farms must be very large. Our boys 9
the farming poFtion) seem to think that Il
I the folks east who want to come west /,
o farm, wonld work and live east as they /
10 here they could do perhaps as weil J
Fhere they are without the trouble and I
Expense Of coming here. There are lots
nd lots of oats out in the field still un- 4
tackled. Their hay and grain seems to
70 chiefly put in rieks, though some is
tackled, but there is not so much grain u
n the field as there was further east. @
his western country must be great p
attle country, there are . great many !.
Tells aud pumps out in the fields. good =
nany of them are wind mills but again IT
wing TO the prevalence of high winds, q
on find the derricks very low indeed, Il
re would think in our country thgt they .
Vere too low to catch any wind at all .
)ne thing this western country den't T
elieye in is fences, except line fences.
Where we are now is quite ss billy
ountry as Pennsylvania, still one and
half story houses. They say these !;
Iouses are not hot in the middle of the :, :,
ay and that you soon ges used to the ?
Ugh winds, possibly it is 30. l have a
eard that you could get used TO any Ct
hing even hanging. Tnis road appears 3
0 be built on level-sometimes on q
ank away up above the face of the n
ountry and again down in a deep cut, .,
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