| Show IX 11 TUB THE 11 STATES STITES travel by road and rail not an ini anut it ing log picture washington D C may bray 15 1891 EDITOR THE STANDARD my recent journey was made largely by rail and not having to diverge at all on my return trip I 1 took the meat direct lines to this point over which I 1 wag was favored with cheri clerical c al fare fore according to the regulations prevailing now with the railroads in the east they not being permitted to issue cassea amses the S santa t fe w which ic a rune runs an ao excel excellent express train to kansas city the wabash which now conveys passengers at night in its men incent mann boudoir cars care to st louis the ohio and a nice solid clean road wish trains to cincinnati and the old reliable baltimore and ohio to new york brought me safely and speedily through and while on this subject I 1 must refer to the new and splendid equipment now supplied to the B 0 the koyal royal blue line belonging to this company running fram new york to washington is to today day the fastest train in america it it makes that part of f the journey in five hours and besides the which holds the train steady the cara cars are furnished with the nearly newly invented anti telescoping device which encamps the sleepers st eppers in steel and renders the wrecking or a of the cars care cerfee perfectly aly impossible their great speed Is easily accounted for when we learn hat that they are using several new flyer engines with driving wheels six feet six inches high and cylinders twenty inches by 24 for the mountain divisions they have nave heavy ten wheel engines weighing 67 tons eo so that they cn can climb any incline on the road with great ease on my westward trip I 1 had the privilege of seeing a good deal of rugged country scenery lor for I 1 it had ad to diverse diverge considerably and ther therA foro forn traveled not only on the narrow stages and little branch roads which app appear ar moie mote like parodies on railroading than anything else but I 1 had at times to leave the steam lines altogether and either go on foot loot or on lek though I 1 rode once in a buggy a buckboard of the old school which the driver was afraid would not bear up under us both down the can he walked and led the mue mule much as our boys boy a used to bring wood doru down the canyons it utah the roads in the east are re fearfully and wonderfully made almot a in natures s in some part consisting elt sting frequently ol 01 it rucky uneven dugway with a mountainous recent on one fide side and a creek or river on the other and boulders everywhere Atone at one place a rn man a promised to take two of us ten miles in a light wagon next morning be came and said one of bis his horses was lame and be he had to borrow one which he did of ot a country commissioner the animal ai bad never been bitchet up before so when the man drove up with this h is restless looking quadruped a c cross r oss between a Alex mexican ican cayuse and an indian broncho I 1 hesitated my companion jumped in but be he bad had no sooner done so than the animal in question leaped high in the air and springing over the back of t the ila other boree horse tell fell down breaking the tongue angling tangling up the harness and nearly hilling killing the driver bo ho held him by the bits to keep him im from falling backwards in into t the a wagon or plunging into space my companion stolid scotchman eat sat there quite composed till the animal was taken out and then quietly alighted and removal the satchels from the vehicle we were supplied with another outfit and went safely but the driver said if we had started over this road with that ar horse wed well a bin killed shah and he added that commissioner told me be would work as well on one euls side aa as the other but be he used him fr for riding himself I 1 told him I 1 thought the c 0 was right I 1 afterwards wards beard heard that be he was drunk drank and lent h hia is boree horse so ai as to have sono so no fan out of the affair however I 1 have had some excellent horses supplied aup plied me by friends to assist me in m making k 1 my rounds and as I 1 am no jo jockey akly af I 1 always took the precaution pre to try and ascertain their amiable character before mounting moun tins in this I 1 was a little ahead of mark twain who cording according to bis his own account sometimes mounted the horses first and found out opt their qualities afterwards aUer wards to hie his borrow sorrow and discomfiture CHARLES W STAYNER |
