The farmer and mechanic., 1915-11-02
A JOURNEY TO THE FAR FAST
(isy n. BRYAN. Dec Negro Philippine Islands

ui'Ae@lS- <AIter the unpleasant features
necessarily attendant upon taking |
leave of home and friends for long |
scJourn in distant lands. I start on /
what promises to be for me q very I'M
portant journey.
On The Tourist Sleeper.
Leaving Wilmington on the after |
noon of June via Savannah I reach
Montgomery. Ala. late on the after
noon Of June s. There | get 4 berth
OF tourist sleeper going through to |
San Francisco. At $50 a. m on June
the porter announces in i loud voice
our arrival in New Orleans. It is two
hours before the Sunset Express
starts west over the Southern Pacific,
| SO l take a short stroll about the city
| This is my second visit to New Or
leans Many strange looking old
| buildings, of curious architecture
| BUILT by the French, / suppose The
French quarter is as different from
| the average American city as is
Havana or Mexico City \ large
| busy city, but it is on very low
ground, and is rather too hot.
reach the Southern Pacific depot in
good time. Have 2 great dread of
getting left, for the Tourist car con
ductor has my ticket | find the train
ready to go, our tourist car having
been shifted across the yards and
coupled on to the Southern Pacific
| train. SO all | have to do is to climb
aboard and take the double seat as
signed to me at Montgomery.
Most of my fellow passengers are
already aboard. There is the young
wife from Lexington, N. c., going to
join her husband in Los Angeles. Two
, berths ahead are the dignified old
gentleman who reminds you of Mark
Twain, and his daughter. I learn
ItIN \
are on their way to visit son and
brother somewhere in Arizona. Just
, opposite my berth is the matronly
looking lady going to visit her son in
/ San Diego, Cal Toward the rear is
the crippled, sad faced man who is
: escorting half a dozen undesirable
2 Cinnamon to San Francisco to see
t them safely aboard ship and leaving
. cur usually hOspitable shores. II
2 front is the noisy party of three per
V sons, consisting of a brOWbeaten ole
/ man answering to the name Of Papa
= Il r.d haired girl With a frightfu
!. | temper; and q very, very stout lady
n | who never finds it possible to stoI
O | scolding and fratting at Papa Ove1
: some act omitted or committed Blu
i horrors, A new Offense. Now indeed
o there is cause for scolding. Papa ha
G just discovered that he has lost tn,
IS of despair are over, very diligen
i search is begun for the missing tickets
q SuitcaseS, handbags, and all of Papa
pockets are hurriedly turned insid
out and the contents examined closely
Ie but the search avails nothing. tn
0, | Pullman conductor is consulted an
=. tells them that, as much as he hate
)r to put them off, they can't possIbl
Sc go on his train without their tickets
il and advises to get off and telegrap
Ia the office where the tickets wer
Sc bought, and arrange to have tn
I'd tickets reissued at New Orleans. S
s, after thoroughly subjecting Papa wit
le wrath and scorn, the stout lady an
S. red haired girl file sadly out, Pap
90 bringing up the rear, burdened wit
ne numerous grips and bundles, an
ne looking more abused and browbeate
Mt than ever So the Sunset Express
at begins the westward Journey Ieavin
ar the Henpeck family with all their so
rt rows.
IL few miles out of the city we GRO.
d the Father Of Waters on a tremene
lily Gus barge, three trainlOads a a tim
or Two tugboatS tow US across, and y
SIS. are soon rumbling through swami
ne and. past sugar plantations in southel
n Louisiana. The road bed is rOcl
ed ballasted for about hundred mil
he from New Orleans, and as the lOcom
an tives are oil burners, there is neith
n smoke nor dust. After passing II
he rockballaSted section, however, the
IA is so much dust that one must obser
IS the panorama from behind ClOSt
he Shutters Just before dark q
pal passing through the oil fields Of eas
In erp Texas. Arrive at San AntOni
nd Texas at half past seven on the NOR
lay ing of June 6. Stop one hour, tn
S. westward again. Gently rolling plai
co. covered with cactus and mesqul
SEQ Not much agriculture in this part
re- the state In the afternoon we CrC
It's, the Pacos river gorge, three hundr
md and sixty odd feet above mean wat
per | Makes you dizzy to look down II
nes such an abyss. Our route lies rig
lie, ALONGSIDE the Rio Grande for quite
Ell way in the region Of the mouth