Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-28

, others none. Within the past year the
! railway board has taken up the ques-
/ ton of adopting new cars. and the Gem
/ tral IpdiH road has new coaches sOme-
| what Ike ours. It's cars have corridors
/ running along one side OF them from
] end 90 end. Into the corridors open
] two berth compartments which are fit
| ted with electric fans. electric lights
I and bells There are servants CONF
! partments connected with the cars. At
/ each end OF the coach is bathroom
/ with q big tub sunk tn the floor, and
Z one can have "a wash while he goes
/ flying over the country at % miles an
/ hour
I say IS miles. That Is rather fast
/ for India Many of the trains do not
make 20 miles and some not over II
per hour while a fast express now and
| then covers go or So Everything here
| is run after oriental methods. which
means that tomorrow or the day after
viii DO as well as today
THE ANIMAL RATES
Il is Interesting TO watch the traT.,
ON these Indian trains. You now and
then pass 70 freight car hloi with
1 Clmc's You may sDa tigers Iu cage,
! or baby elephants aud carloads 10
I
with the sacred bumped cattle and on
| tho messenger traIuu srccial arrange
mc1ts r1r dogs The dog ratio Ii 2.
cents frr rvcrv 5O miles of tr1ve. No
dogs can bc taken into on" cars except
with tine consent OF tho passengers. and
then only on double fare FOR tho dog
Horses are Carried az 8 cents q milo
when thav eo bv freight train. and rn-
turn tickets are ISSUED for polo ponies
| at IS cents per mile the round tr,p. two
carload calves. sheen and goats. IT.
| sent single, rurt nav double dog lAIn-.
and small deer cost the same. Wiu
animals in cages ar" charged ~ cents
per mile per truck and c1mels arc 80
| the same rate ucr carload. but only
| four can ho nut in one car Fun grown
elephants are TRANSPORTED hN sp'flAI
agreement. and elephant ''I..- "''
more than four and % half feet hlsh arc
charged cents per mile.
pAssrN-cr.p TRAFFIC.
In travelling over India have found
the cars universally Wen filled. Every
train has its first second ANA mira
classes. The first Is made up or BRIT
isb officials. Americans ana Wcll-to-do
EnClishmcn. with now ana then
rajah. or some high native omclaL
The second has the poorer classes OF
rank. with now and then a soldier or
$50. and perhaps wcll-to-do natives
and the third class carries the masses
Of the people, and, as ! have aleddy
said. 10 brings the profits. II consul
utes two-thirds Of the traffic. the rate
being considerably less than one-half
cent per mile During the past year
more man ,,st rate. and Inc
traffic is increasing greatly from year
/ to year
As TO the women p"ssehseTs' nus
| Of the first and second class nave cars
| especially for them. a Hindoo ladN
! dare not show her face without losing
caste. and no Mohammedan woman
goes about without her head N'll'1.
| The ordinary compartment FOR such
people has windows OF blue glass
which permit the women TO look out.
but through which the men cannot see
in. The women come 10 the depolS ll
closed chairs or palanqulhs' lhey pun
/ their shawls over their races as lnssy
1 walk through the STATIONS ana AT IN,
same time may leave their ankles ana
/ calves entirely bare. The ankles often
have rings Of silver and gold on them.
| and the slippers below may be or Eold
thread I'm some Of the compartments
| the windows are so hNed that tho
women cannot sec out. and upon one
| train which took me up the Himalaya
mountains Me- WE mao ao ne ef Tent OF circus
! This was filled with llindoo ladies go
9 ing up 20 Darieeling. IheN were Ilu-
ing through the hnest scenery or 'he
| world, but for an that theN mlEnl a9
l well have been tied up IN leatner p"E7
/ and sent on MS mail
,rtrr ANTS EAT THE TIES.
one Of the greatest enemies OF lhe
railroad iu iadia rs the white ant ms
insect eats the ties. the telegraph pol's
-. ~. .t.tt.,y4e and 60 "a nile
Of timber is left unprotected Il will