The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
ON FAST FREIGHT
Editor Swenson, of Wilmot Tells
Of aiTrip on Fast Train on
the Western Division
GOOD CHANCE TO ENTERTAIN

Editor Richard SWenson of the Will
mot Agitator recently read a poem be-
fore the Lincoln Club in Racine and in
order to make the trip to Racine he
was SO inconsiderate as to make the
trip as far as Kenosha on way
freight. The Editor had plenty of
time to take notes on the trip and in his
paper for last week he gives the follow
ing in regard to the trip from Salem
to Kenosha via slow freight.
People who like to visit should take
their company and make trip to Ken
osha via the way freight. This train
has regular schedule. The time is
set down to the hour and minute the
train is due. But an hour or two later
than the scheduled time is when it US
ually puts in an appearance. Of
course the train might come on time
and the prudent traveller must bear this
in mind and act accordingly. Thus at
the start there is considerable oppor
comes, you get aboard and have ample
time to point out all the attractions
along the way even renew old acquain-
tances by the wayside, as the freight
makes it's leisurely progress across the
country. AT each depot there are am
ple> stops long enough to point out the
beauties and peculiarities Of the differ
ent towns. It was morning when you
started and as there are still few
hours Of daylight left when you APP
proach Pleasant Prairie you imagine
that you must have travelled at light
ming speed and begin to dream of an
arrival in Kenosha before the street
lights are turned on. Vain delusion.
powder mills. There are always cars
of material liable to damage either by
fire or water that must be backed into
the mills. Here the mills and the
whispered tales Of blasting powder
stored in the vicinity make an admira-
BILE subject of conversation and you are
RECALLED with the information that two
or three explosions occur each year and
that as it has been some time since
the last another upheaval may be look
ed for at almost any old time. You see
the engine as it creeps along the side
tracks to the mysterious looking build
ings, stop to cap it's smoke stack to
avoid any danger from flying sparks.
Ever and anon it stops and waits and
stops again, making sure as they are
treading on dangerous grounds, the
coast is clear. All the while you look
and listen and talk and dream and tell
stories, some Of the hardy spirits even
are merry and discordant laughs cause
the sensitive ear to fear the commotion
of air waves produced thereby may
have disastrous effect on the powder
stored near by.
To see anything which lies along the
beautiful route you open the doors or
raise the windows. You can not see
through them. The windows have evi-
IDENTIFY not been washed since the rate
railway regulation law went into eff
feet. The railways are now in politics.
This is to be observed on every hand.
The dirty windows, the Uttered floor,
the cigaret, pulled at unreproved in the
forward compartment of the car, shows
q contempt for the travelling public
which some pains are gone to in order
that the same may be properly dis
played 4o
At each depot is long wait as the
cars disgorge freight upon the plat
form, the side tracked cars speak of
larger business done1iT bulk, the army
of men at work on the ice along the
lakes are preparing work for. the com
pany rolling stock next summer. These
things mean royal revenue for the
corporation. Then why this resentment
against the harmless passenger compel
ed to journey over their right of way
Yes, the railroads are in politics now
and they are following course which
will get them deeper into it with the
government not only as the regulator
but as the owner and manager there
of. y