The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-29

ried free with every carload. Calves.
sheep and goats, II sent SINGLE must
| pay double dog rates. and small deer
cost the same. Wild animals in cages
are charged IL cents per mile per
truck, and camels are at the Same rate
per carload, but only four can be put
in ono car. Full-grown elephants are
transported by special agreement. and
elephant calves not moro than four
and one-half feet high are charged
cents per mile.
| Pnssenger Traffic.
In travelling over India I have found
the cars universally we'll filled. Every
| train has Its first, second and third
| classes. The first Is made up Of British
| officials. Americans and well-to do
Englishmen. with now and then
ra1ah. or some high native official. The
| second has the poorer classes of the
| British. army officers OF second rank.
with now and then soldier or so.
| and perhaps well-to-do natives, ana
| the third class carries the masses OF
the people, and. as have already said.
| 1t brings the profits. 1t constitutes
/ two-thirds Of the traffic, the rate be-
ing considerably less than one-halt
! cent per mile. During the past year
l more than two hundred million pas
sengers were carried at that rate. and
the traffic Is increasing greatly from
year to year
/ AS to the woman passengers. those
OF the first and second class have cars
especially for them. A Hindoo lady
| dare not show her face without losing
caste. and no Mohammedan woman
| goes about without her head yelled.
I The ordinary compartment for such
people has windows of blue glass,
which permit the. women to look out.
Il but through which the men cannot see
in. The women come to the depots
in closed chairs or palanquins. They
i pull their shawls over their faces as
they walk through the stations. and
a at the same time may leave their
ankles and calves entirely bare. The
!, ankles often have rings of silver and
gold on them. and the slippers below
: may be OF gold thread. In some OF the
com partments the windows are SO liked
that the women cannot see out, anc
: upon one train whic.. took me up the
Himalaya Mountains we had car GOV.
t cred with canvas as thick as the tent
= OF circus. This was filled WITT
B HtnQOO "OUeu gums ~ ~
: They were riding through the hnes'
scenery OF the world. but for all tina
they might as well have been tied VI
In leather bags and sent on as ma,l.
The Ants Eat the Ties.
One of the greatest enemies OF ths
railroad in India is the white an.
This insect eats the ties. the telegraph
noles and everything wooden. 1t chew!
IN the posts at the stations, and
nile Of timber is left unprotected
viii soon be carried away or SO mol
lowed out that it drops TO pieces o,
touching. I have travelled thousano'
Of miles over India. and l nave re
,, to see many telegraph poles otner 'na'
those made Of galvanized iron.
The most common pore is a tuo
: three or four inches IN oiatag rt,s no
about ten feet in height THIS ma
ron brackets with glass lnsulators, :
, witch the wires are fastened. IN olns
places the poles are made OF iron RAJ.
iuas .hnse used for the road. two o
!; s,,at rails being fastened together q
!, iron bars a foot wide. IN sons 49, -
tha stations the fences are o. az
-a;1. and now and then one $40
tances Of Stone posts with baroeo VIZ
attached
The general idea at nome 10 9
me British hold all the oMces o. aon'
India This is not SO. many H.. ss