Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-08

Amusing and humorous incidents like
these served to bring a grin to my
face, which otherwise was steadily
assuming a sterness, the presence o.
which l was aware of from the way
l felt my lips and jaws were pressed
together and l did not need a looking
glass in order TO know that l looked
as if l was ready to bite a ten penny
nail.
The shocks and bumps which my
car received during the journey were
something awful. The worst seige
the a sustained was at the railroad
yards of the Illinois Centeral at New
Orleans. Here the car was jerSed
back and forth for several hours, and
all of this fierce humping was uncailed
for and unwarranted as later found
out when l accosted one of the men
in authority at the yards and told him
how the a had been handled. A
great big beam bearing up the floor
of the Car and running the whole
length of 1T was broken by the shocks
1t received.
In New Orleans l experienced a
lot of difficulties which made my
stay in that town anything but plea
SAINT. 1 had written Mr.. Doering,
who would reach New Orleans long
before l did from a town in Miss
issippi, telling him that l would reach
New Orleans about midnight Friday,
Nov. II. 1t was arranged before
hand that Mr.. Doering was to meet
me at New Orleans, where the car
would be unloaded and the stock and
stuff taken on board a ship which
sailed between New Orleans and
Havana. Well Mr.. Doering not ex-
pecting me so soon, did not call for
his mail at the Post Office Saturday
as 1 had expected he would. So he
did not know that 1 had arrived and
we did not meet before about IL
O'Clock Sunday and there I a The
Illinois Central Railroad Co., which
bro't me from Pierre, Illinois to New
Orleans, was anxious to turn the car
over to the Southern Pacific Railroad
Co., to take the car down to the
wharf. The ship was not to sail
until three days after my arrival and
in the meantime neither of the two
Railroads Co.'S, named cared to have
the car with the stock and stuff 1t
contained and in It's broken and
damaged condition on its hands. So
they moved 1t around here and there
all the while %'chewing the rag
among themselves and with me
wanting to know what l wanted done
with the stock and stuff. Finally l
told them to send the a back to the
Illinois Central people who had
stock pens, as the Southern Pacific
Co., did not have any and that the
stock be unloaded and put in the pens
and the car left ear the pen so that
l could tend to the cattle and the
poultry also. After a lot of rag chew
ing this vas finally done, but it was
after two O'Clock Saturday afternoon
this was accomplished and all the
time the car was being held or moved
back and forth on tracks lying along
hot and dusty and i'll smelling streets.
Tall buildings or either side shutting
off any cool air that might have been
moving around. The negroes crowded
around the car like flies around sugar.
l could not very we'll leave the car,
but after / had got the cattle into
the pens and had some definate place
to come back to l left the car anyway
and went out to hunt up the l. 9.
freight Office and inquire if Mr.. Doer'
ing had appeared and ask about his
car. They had e nothing of him,
| went back to the Office and inquired
several times but there was nothing
doing. ga nice stew this" thot
to myself, but l had plenty Of grub
left in the box and could sleep in the
car so l figured 1 could stand quite a
siege of it. l slept (?) three nights in
the car while at New Orleans, and
during that time the mosquitoes had
Toasted so heartily on the deliciously
tender skin Of my Northern face that
looked as IL l were wearing a mask
Of some sort of brightly colored calico.
Sunday forenoon I finally a across
Doering andythe pleasure at meeting
1 am pretty we'll assured was mutual.
Looking for and trying to find a mar
in New Orleans is hardly on a parallel,
with looking for a man in Beloit
Worthing or eve Canton. Tuesday
morning Nov. Is with all the STUFF
loaded into the hold Of the ship, w
sailed down thru the mouth of the
Mississippi river and into the Gulf o
Mexico. We had a pleasant trip from
N. O. to Havana, arriving at Havan;
on the morning Of Now1S
Havana is quite a modern and VI
to date city, has electric railway lines
good street car service, is well lighted
and has a good sewer system. Thu
public parks are certainly a pleasing
sight to the Northerner who come!
from the snow banks of the frozel
North into a country where there Il
continual summer and tropical verdur,
instead of the bleak plains and bar
trees Of the North.
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