Show WILD OSTRICHES IN N I n SOUTH SOT UD AFRICA STOP TRAINS Strange Railway Tour From I Cape Town to Port I Described I IBy IBy By By Edward M. M Thierry II rI N. E E. E A A. A Staff Correspondent With I Universal Smithsonian-Universal Expedition Ii i PORT ELIZABETH South I IDee Dec Dee 25 Traveling 23 Traveling on a South African African i railroad requires a n a great deal of oC time but it Isn't so very expensive I i lom Irom l- l om Cape Town to Port fort Elizabeth lIzabeth I ml miles es about the distance from Crom New J i York Tork to Cleveland the fare was Yas 30 30 i though we spent two forty-two hours in inthe inthe the train The far fare entitles you OU to a seat in a compartment for four The economical I and hardy traveler sits up both nights i But it only costs coats half a crown 60 cents for a bed bcd The porter comes I around and asks you if you 3 want a bed and and he makes up two lowers and two uppers in a compartment PORTERS ARE WHITE Its It's a paradox that in a a. land of black blackmen blackmen blackmen men the sleeping car porters are not black They Ther like all trainmen have to have certain qualifications They must b able to speak and write two languages languages languages lan lan- English and Dutch And they must be thin thin because because the corridor along the side of ot a car is is' of a minimum narrowness due to the fact tact that the tracks are narrow gauge and the carriages carriages car car- not very ery wide Meals are many but cheap A cup of coffee Is brought to your berth at 7 in the morning for 6 cents Breakfast in the dining car comprises oatmeal al fish meat eggs toast marmalade and coffee coffee and and It only costs 60 cents Luncheon and and dinner neither of less than six or seven courses only cost 70 and 85 cents respectively CARS STOCKED WITH WHISKY Afternoon tea and cakes can be had I Ifor for 12 cents And the dining car is stocked with whisky beer and wines galore Whisky costs a shilling 24 cents One and sometimes two small en engines engines engines en- en gines are used and they wheeze and snort and grunt STunt as as they taka tak their tedious way over sm small ll hills The first night we only made 12 miles in ten hours and twenty minutes minutes' When we got to the village of Heidelberg Heidelberg Hei lidi- delberg in the morning we were two hours and a quarter late Then we waited an hour while hour while an engine that had been sent out from Riverdale I two twenty-two miles down the road ambled ambled ambled am am- bled back home home and and got out O of the way wayt The custom is when a train is ismore ismore ismore more than an hour overdue to send an engine out to look 1001 for it to find out if an accident has occurred Telegraphing Tele Tele- graphing p. would be useless for Cor stations are so far apart LIKE CALIFORNIA DESERT I The car windows give a desolate picture of a veldt that is depressingly It Is covered with small brush like the California brush land The strangest sight is of wild ostriches os ostriches ostriches os- os roaming around sometimes I getting on the tho track and clogging I transportation I You also see plenty of springbok a aI I I small antelope Its It's the national emblem emI emblem em em- I blem lem of South Africa like the eagle I. I I in America and has a multitude of I commodities like beer cigarettes and mineral minerai waters named after it it Though largely desolate the scenery Is brightened often by a sight that would make male a Fifth avenue florist I dream he was in heaven Here Ilene funeral bouquets are cheap calla lilies that break your our bank account back home I every time a friend dies grow wild I cou-I Natives sell them to tourists for a coui cou cou- couple pie of pennies Normally they are used I I to feed hogs hogs and and are called ho hog ho lilies i |