New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-04
RO! THE "SM|LE TRAIN"
1t Leaves New York with a
Happy Fresh Air Throng.
BOUND FOR PARTS UNKNOWN
That Is, the Country, Which SO
Many Tenement Dwellers
Have Never Seen.

The smile train Is the latest thing in
! transportation circles. Biplanes, dirigibloa,
submarines and similar contrivances that
have for some time been holding down i'm
portant places on the list Of the Seven Won
| ders have been eclipsed.
| The innovation was on view Yesterday
morning. and was examined with great as
| tonishment by many people during the If
| teen minutes preceding its departure for
parts unknown, and all agreed that IT was
| not only one of the Seven Wonders, but a
| Nine DAYS Wonder, as well. The onlookers
| walked curiousy up and down beside it
and listened to what they described in their
| ignorance as its throbbing and putting,
which was really, however a merry chort-
| ling and shaking Of its sides, such as be-
| fitted smile train"
Strange to rclate-and yet perhaps IL
wasn't 80 strange. ether-thc crowd I'll
| showed its appreciation of the spectacle by
smiling. II must have caught II from The
train. At any rate. the people just walked
I around and smiled and waved their hands
and hats and shouted to the smile train.
Have a good time and "Goodby." and
a lot more things that those who have
never seen real smile train would think
very foolish
And what 4 gladstone sight that train
was as II pulled out! Each side Of IT was
one long smile. smile that erupted here
and there into a laugh aud here and there
degenerated into grin. It's true. but
smile. nevertheless. that would have
warmed the cookies OF even a selfish heart.
Moreover, within the long streak of smile
that rippled along each side OF the train
there We're n hundred little smiles and
laughs and joyous little giggles that made
the spectators stop to wonder.
But the best thing about this now trans
portstion device is its safety. II won't
tumble out Of the clouds with YOU. nor
bury itself in the mud AT tho bottom OF the
sea. II hasn't any wings-at least, not yet
no equiibrators nor compression cham
beers 10 90 back on YOU at the wrong mo-
ment In fact. the only suggestion Of dan
ger lies in that old saying n man may
smile and smile and be a villain S'il' and
the authorities have not yet decided that
this applies also 10 trains.
To make a smile train YOU lust take an
ordinary coach Erie. Lsckawanna. New
York Central. any old kind-an M "
full OF boys and girls who live their lives
in crowded tenements. When they get their
heads stuck ont Of all the available win
dow space-as they surely will IN no time
you Just say Country" and presto, there
Is a smile train.
Tho smile train" that was on exhibition
Yesterday morning was bound for Jtica
over the New York Central The mystcri-
Gus suggestion above that Il was bound
for parts unknown" was madc from tho
point OF view Of the smiles. The country IL
parts unknown" 10 them.
The smiles were trainIosd ~ Tribune
Fresh Airs invited TO spend two week. ip
the beautiful Mohawk VALLEY 10y the ucopl"
Of Utica. White Lake and neighboriug
places. II Is safe 10 say that the streak
Of smile along the train side will he con
bly, wider when these Fresh Airs come
Lack from THEN vacations.