The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-09-16
Old TIMER TELLS OF
FAST TRAVELLING
Our Modern Idea Of Rapidly
Not in II With Old Time
Pace.
From the Nebraska state Capital.

SM4 SA@A SsAS ANS0AdSAd Rt0l0 SdPAkAI.S &Hs
Talk about high living and swift
travel" said the middle aged old
timer. they are nothing to what I ex-
perienced Is years ago
Tn 1884 Blaine was about to be
nominated at Chicago. and four Of us
young fellows from Pawnee county had
q railroad pass that gave us the priv
ilege OF going there to help swell the
spontaneous crowd In the party was
Clyde Barnard. now q Lincoln coal
merchant and drill master for the leg
islative employees; and also that fellow
from Grand Island who Ii writing the
Cat Creek stun for the Capital. None
OF us had travelled much beyond Clear
Creek precinct except Barnard, who
versity and knew the chorus of one
song which ran: i Am Rocking on
the Billows of the Dee-ee-eep.'
w rode from Table Rock to Wy
more on the Burlington after midnight,
walked to Blue Springs, bumped up
along the Union Pacific to Omaha, and
walked across to Council Bluffs Just in
time to miss the Wabash. That great
road was in the hands of a receiver.
n only ran one train a day, SO we
remained in the Bluffs % hours, and
finally went to Chicago by way of st.
Louis. 1t took three full days to make
the trip from Table Rock, and just as
q coming back. / guess the man
who gave out the passes those days
was interested in q string Of eating
4 houses. And when l look at the map
OF that trip, I realize that anybody but
farm boys would a viewed that pass
as an expensive insult But we thought
1t was a great favor.
Well. / started out to tell you about
the eating. When we tramped into
Council Bluffs in search Of the departed
Wabash we were awful hungry. Bar
nard took the lead. He had never been
in the Bluffs. but at the university he
churnmed with q fellow from thefe who
had told him of a fine eating place.
He told me it was about the slick
est place in the country said Bar
;nard, and / want to hunt 1t up. He
called It a caffy, and I have always
wanted to eat at one of them caffys.
It's my treat. now you remember. I
want to give Q a good meal
After much inquiry we found the
carry. 1t was pretty slick with marble
tables, and a big nickel coffee urn such
as we a never seer before. The
waiter brought aroun a program OF
the grub, and we went after it. Bar
nard urged us to take the best there
was. We had all heard of spring
chicken on toast. SO we each took some.
Then there were a lot more of frills
that I forget, winding up with pie, ice
SASoAA dA3O SCASe, Will u CRACKER dIlQ d
piece Of cheese about as big as your
thumb nail.
When the walter brought the bill to
Barnard we needed the ambulance. It
was $3.50. None Of us had ever paid
more thai rs cents for a meal before,
except Barnard. who had once taken q
35-cent dinner at the old Commercial
house in Lincoln. In that Bluffs place,
1t seems. we had been eating on the
piece-work system. The waiter ex-
planned to Clyde that everything there
was a la carly and Clyde said 1t was
dog gon steep but he paid it.
After we got out of there we held q
meeting and decided that there should
be no more treating on that trip. It
was going to cost too much. So we
elected a treasurer, which was a good
way, and. let him settle all the bills
after that. Barnard still has a $1.85
treat coming from each Of us, but he
has never mentioned 1t since. He
never forgaye his Council Bluffs friend,
and chums no more with people who
live east OF the Missouri"