New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-02-04
CHARLES DICKENS AS HE AP.
FEARED IN THE WINTER OF
1867-'68.
Photograph, taken while he was in this
country. showing the peculiar quilted
overcoat which he wore.

! steamer The steamer rises and falls with
the river which the railroad don't do and
the train is either banged uphill or banged
downhill In coming off the steamer at one
of these crossings yesterday We were
! banged up such height that the rope
! broke. and one carriage rushed hack with a
run downhill into the boat again. ! whisked
out in moment, and two or three others
after me; but nobody else seemed to care
about it,"
HELD UP BY FLOODS.
Crossing New York State from Niagara
Falls later in the winter, on his way to
Albany where he was TO read. he encoun-
tered floods the description of which sus-
gests that II was a worse flood than That
which afflicted Exmoor on one OCCASION X
one may believe the words OF another
English novelist. There were no such speed
and comfort as the eghteen-hour Chicago
trains now provide as the latter sweep
across the plateau Of Central New York.
Said Dickens in a letter:
There was a great tina ". and the melted
snow was swelling the rivers the whole
country for three hundred miles was food
ed. on the Tuesday afternoon the train
gave in, as under circumstances utterly
hopeless, and stopped at place called
Utica, the greater part of which was under
water. while the high and dry part could
produce nothing particular to eat. here
some of the wretched passengers passed
the night In the train while others stormed
the hotel. was fortunate enough to get
bedroom and garnished IL with an enor-
nous jug of gin punch, over which i ana
the manager played a double-dummy rub
Der. At in the morning we were knocked
up TO come aboard and try it, Al $50 we
were Knocked up again with the tidings
that il was no use coming aboard or Try
ing IT. At all the bells In the town were
set a-going to summon us TO come aboard
Instantly And so We started, through tho
water al four or five miles an hour, seeing
nothing but drowned farms. barns ddrift
like Noah's arks, deserted villages, broken
bridges and all manner Of ruin / was to
read in Albany that night. and all the tick
cts were sold very active superintend-
ent of works assured me that IL could be
got along he was the man TO get me
along: and If / couldn't be got along
might conclude that IL couldn't possibly be
fixed. He then turned on hundred men
in seven-league boots. who went ahead OF
the train, each armed with long pole,
and pushing the blocks of Ice away. Fol-
lowing this cavalcade, we got TO land at
last and arrived in time for me to read
the Carol and Trial triumphantly. IL We
had not come We did should have lost
1850, and Albany would have gone distract-
ed You may conceive what the food was
when / hint at the two most notable Incl
dents Of our journey-hrst, we took the pas
sengers out Of two trains, who had been -
the water. immovable, all night and all the
previous day. second, We released large
quantity of sheep and cattle from trucks
that had been in the water ! don't know
how long, but so long that the creatures In
them had begun to eat each other"
PUDDING HEAD DOLBY"
Dolby used to be knocked" by the papers
and the public now and then because ne
could not crowd four thousand persons into
an auditorium that would not hold two
thousand. surely it Is time that the pud-s
ding head Dolby retired into the native
gloom from which he has emerged, one
paper growled From that time forth he
was styled by Dickens and MS party play
fully, "P. H. Dolby" Dolby was not the
only fixture attached to the troupe" that
was roughly treated. Despite the excellent
system of checking baggage, TO which Dick
ems paid tribute, the baggage smasher got
in his work. On one occasion Scott. one Of
his men. was observed leaning his head
against the side Of the car end weeping BIT
terly. DICKENS asked him what was ~
matter.
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