Evening journal., 1908-03-18
What l Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
sIxrY.rHlRn AarlcIr
By Washington Hastings

sINTY-THIRD ARTICLE
~ mas been said that nobody rides rst-cass in Frone
except the nobility, the Americans and fools
could not be convicted a charge OF being in the
FIRST classification could be in The second ana roiebt
be in the third. So leaving It at the ontion of ~
teaeer aier the facts in the case are fully known
to determine whether or not I belong tbere T or h,S
to confess that journey from Paris to Dresden S
tnat thing never did It second time and hereby
promise TO do It again; also solenniv ~ r by
u had known as much before the trip as did after
wards wouldn't have done il the first time So ssl
due consideration before decision mar Judgment q, 49,
case may temperate and conviction follows that
the punishment may be as light as possble. beoauee
receit ed al Of it in the commission Of tbe
and crime.
My FIRST mister in Paris came about in this vvav On
nqurng Of the hotel regard to my ticket (thev
call IL book" there) and the hest route etc 70
DIesuh he informed me that had better travel first
cass oecause r the first place. IL safer travelling
mis- way at night than class and in the second
place that it would be difficult to get sleeping car ac
Conmouat)n with second-class railroad ticket When
got out OF that palace car"-as they labeled 1.-THE
next morning tand almost tempted to jump out of
u several times during the night the train bowled
along The road did cherish any p-seated ami
mostly toward my young friend the clerk couldn't il
certainly have told him that If had only ntimated TO
me- IN the most remote or degree the kind of
seepmS car accommodation It was that he thought
1uy assisted me to obtain he would have merited and
received my everlasting gratitude If he had instructed
Wiling 20 take the risk of all the pc-pocxes and road
agents and lootpads in Continental Europe rather than
pass tnat night in that sleeping from being
palatal 1t would be properly compared with
nty-cent Bowery lodging house. 1t was divided into
by a
from one end TO the other compartment Contained
tweVe bunksi six on each side Of narrow alley.
y way, suu eoeA DUNK accommodated two persons-unless
passenger preferred to pay for a whole one which I
od-and they were all occupied that night Thus we
We tWeney -'hee miserable human beings slowed in
ooX about twelve feet by about eight feet high
ana ventilated by one little window the top which
e % Oie oil tne cheerful occupants always insisted on
having coseo; and the other compartments of the car
weie presume similarly filled Nobody removed anv
vo...ns eNfeiN mats and coats and only few hard
hearted beings who had compassion on the atmo-
sphere took Oft their shoes. I spent good portion or
the nht walking to and fro in the passage way out
size ana standing out on the platform occasionally to
get breath Of air which absolutely prohibited from
entering the car by the idiot in charge Indignantly
slammed door shut Immediately upon anybody ven
TURNS 10 open
II didn't take CALL about five o'clock in the
morning TO get all hands out the platform of a sta
G @ & AZ '9e hesan frontier to have baggage inspected
py the officers Of the customs
This ceremony over and also breakfast OF excellent
FSlah IoIls ana as fine cup Of coffee tasted
integfae our train and our sleeping car out boned
I'M met they were going to run down into close
y & put tey oidnL they simply ran it siding hold
ing It IN reserve, suppose for another cargo of suffer-
ing humanity the next night.
Relsum in this section-whch is the onl, mart % Z,
tnat saws an almost continuous succession OF man
towns so close together that there scarcely
half oile Of country between them; the roads of
which both those parallel with the railroad on either
eue anu tose extending ransversely the coun-
try Tor miles, ac far the eye could reach were ali
paved with Belgian blocks" such as are seen on some
OF he nnest streets Of largest cities The manu-
factories were principally If altogether those OF the
IRON and steel industries; bast-furnaoes rolling mills
ioundries and machine shops with their various nro
oues OF pgiron angles, beams plates and bars in i'm
nense quantity piled for miles and miles along the
'alroUd ot stations and sdings contiguous 10 the works
awaiting transportation largely to the United States
to be sold here in competition with American manufac
turefs ana American worimen help cut their nroats
anu their wages down TO the lowest possible hgure-At
least that Is what used to tell people in Wilmington and
down IN Kent and Sussex back in S2 when was rvns,
10 nreek INTO congress, and Il the truth
anon the Dom" Of the immense cathedral Of the Car
man ciW or Cologne, looming up slyward broke unon
the vision, and we crossed long bridge over tba
historic and muddy river Rhine into German territor
stopped al Cologne only long enough 10 change cars
Tor my destination as intended 70 return this wav
on my way back 20 Paris, and city then Chang
ing cars mere however, was undertaking. and n IL
iau NOT oeen 70 serious matter with me- Il would
nave peen amusing As the train pulled slowly into the
station fellow at the door yelled something didn't
thow "a but as saw all the other passengers gather
ing up their traps and leaving the train gathered IN
nine ara left too Following the crowd walked m
the platform with my book open in my hand oolns,
Il under the nose Of every uniformed "dutchan met
nut me only Information to be able TO get az
70 where 70 find my train was "yahi" % 10
Go be contnued)