Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1893, Page 7

_ THE EVENING STAR: ae WASHINGTON, D. Cc. aivuuhaxD mange 18, 1898—SIXTEEN PAGES: ing, Itis ber that the STREET DRESS OF ASHES-OF-ROSES. Whipcord changing to heliotrope: skirt panel-gored a: the sides, che front being of striped goods. Round bovice, with «lightly full back anda draped front. Rolling collar, faced with darker wool Hat trimmed with swallow’ bottom of the skirtis edged with a double raffle. | In the front there is a jabot arrangement of | pleated material and srourd the neck isa CRINOLINE IS HERE. | yest” ana” tte tue very wide and Ieper hae cuffs = the pleated ss * ‘a crepe, over which fall flounces of the same. Will Fashion's Decrees Carry Its Use | “vie second illustration shows a dainty prin- | cess costume of bengaline in a delicate gray to Extremes? | tint and velvet, somewhat darker. In makin | it the under dress of bengaline must be fitte IT SPREADS AT THE BOTTOM. perfectly or the velvet will show creases. The ee eee front is cut from one piece.the bengaline being taken cross vice, and the side front seams are 60 curved as to do away with darts. The sidesare joined to the front and are slightly gored, wh: the back has one seam in the center, which is very biae, to form the bell skirt, The sleeves are tight as far as the elbow and then forms puff. The upper dress of velvet is perfectly tight-fitting, and, like the under dress, closes in ‘The Skirt of the Season—Some Moderate Ex- amples—Costumes That Will Be in Style— Skirts Must Ee Wider Anynow—Bodices and Jackets—Various Materials. Written for The Evening Star. New Yor, Marcm 17, 1993. E MAY MAKE AS much of a face as we choose, but they are remem! of fashion not be plunged into at all. The strles for spring seem to admit of no leu ef sommrcaiioegamsie wel eketcee conservative ‘cau- tiously before they take up any of the startling If you want to use yards snd yards of trachan fur for your spring dress you cover the front of the bodice with a series horizontal ruffles, each edged with fur, about four in all. Then the top of the collar is edged. The sleeves are a series of flounces—three—that come to the elbow, atight sleeve fitting ander from the shoulder to the wrist. The skirt is made double, the top fitting oer the hips and flaring slightly to half way tothe knee. There it is edged with far, and three rutties are set yon below the other, to sbout the oa e under part of ihe skirt aj in to half way to the hem, and then Amished ‘with three rufties. All the rufiles are finished with far, and, since the whole dress flares from hips to hem, you can make use of a quantity of far. Incidentally you will have a lot of fur on hand for making over next winter. If the style suits you especially, as it will if you are thin and tall, you can carry it out with silk and lace- edged organdie ruffles. POST-LENTEN FABRICS, Like Battercup’s Song of Ribbons and Laces for Pretty Faces. Crepalines, crepons, dotted Swisses, organ- dies, illuminated silks, embroidered bengalines and the new half linen, half silk wash goods will be worn for the high function, the post- Lenten ball, and the promenade of the first warm spring day. Wool and shadow erepon will be a favorite combination, while satin, lace and one of these fabrics will be the choice par excellence. As to the machine-made garnitures, galloon tafe to need Acs Ad UNUSALLY SIIPLE. and laces, a mushroom industry in their manu- facture has sprung up during a single mood of | fashion, and, with the true American faculty of | producing in our own land something almost as | good as that which made another famous, we have brand-new laces, marvelously | cheap, ‘in delicate, airy patterns, cunningly tinted to the yellow and copper shades of RAILWAY NICKNAMES. How Some Well-Known Roads Are Designated by Trainmen. HUMOROUS AND UNIQUE. How Legal Titles of Railroads Are Abbre- viated and Twisted—Some Short Cut Names Are the Result of Singular Incidents of the Country Through Which They Pass, or Ac- eldent. frequently come from the west telling of rail- rosd accidents on the roads and the reader that is not well posted on railroad nomencla- ture is at @ loss to locate the scene of the catastrophe, Re- cently an order has deen issued to the effect ‘that unless an accident has occurred in the neighborhood of a large city the road upon which the break up has happened must be given in full in the dis- patches. This move is a good one, because there are as many nicknames to railroads as there are roads, and in many cases the nom de plume does not indicate whether it is in the West, south, east or north. A fact not generally known is that the rail- ronds of the country have nicknames by which the high officials know them and that railroad employes, those in the ranks, have entirely dif- ferent synonyms. A close study of this ques- tion reveals the information that the high of- ficials nickname the roads for convenience sake, while the trainmen do it to express some hase of personal experience thereon. If the tter’s christening is a good one it generally sticks, and as their experience bas generally been a vivid one an original and worthy nick- name generally crops out. ONE CHANCE. To illustrate this point the Columbia, and Port Deposit railroad running from Columbia, Pa.,to Port Deposit, Md., can be aptly cited. The railroad men call this road the “One Chance.” Tt runs along the river shore almost its entire length and is as crooked as any in the country. Train dispatchers at Columbia fre- quently find it difficult to secure seasoned train- men to work on this road, as the accidents aver- age almost ones day. If not onaccount of road- | bed then the cars will be found at fault. For this reason they have no doubt given it the significant christening, as to go ont on the run over the road and come back alive the trainman. has taken the advantage of the one chance in one hundred. Newspaper readers will recall the great rail- road coup in which Senator Brice was inter- ountry | ested some ten years back, by which the New | York, Chicago and St. Louis road was built and the New York Central paratleled from New York city to Buffalo. ‘The road was built in a day, | “There is a road up in Pennsylvania that runs from York to Peachbottom that the coun- try people living in the country through which it passes called the ‘Accommodation.’ It was, when originally built, a narrow-gauge road,and as business had to be developed the train serv- ice was much on the order of the go-as-you- please. There were two trains and each made one round trips day, the road being about mxty miles long. ‘The’ officers gave orders to the trainmen to make friends with the people, soas to make them go out of their way to patronize the new road. The trainmen took advantage of this order at every opportunity. “There were no telegraph or telephon tions on the road, and when a train left the terminal stations the conductor was master of the situation until he got back again or arrived atthe other terminus. They say that the su- Perintendent of the road had the hardihood to Tide over the road one day and that he hired = horse and buggy and rode back to York, as he was ina hurry. “The train that ‘puts up’ at Peachbottom for the night leaves York about 2 o'clock \in the afternoon, and it is optional with them as to the time theyarrivehome. Oneof the trainmen on the road told me some time ago that on the trip down they picked up adranken farmer who Inid down ‘on the track. The conductor chanced to know him, and held the train while ‘the brakeman and baggage master carried him to his home, nearly a mile away. In about an hour the two men returtied with an invitation from the farmer's wife for the crewand passen- gers to come over to supper. There were only three passengers and they readily acquiesced. We went, and after the repast an old negro. with a cracked fiddle, was brought in anda wanted .to proceed, but the engineer had be- come sweet on the farmer's daughter and per- suaded him to dance a few more rounds. “The train was due in Peachbottom at 6 p.m., but that night we arrived at midnight. Only one tnore passenger was picked up on the lower end of the ran and he only grumbled a little. so no harm came from the incident. That road is now owned by Baltimore people and is broad- gauged and the train service is almost first- | class. I might add that it was a common thing for the trainmen in the earlier days of the road to take large tin pails along and stop the train ata good locality and ill them with black- berries before proceeding. But that only oc- casioned an hour's delay and was little thought of. No wonder they called it the ‘Accommoda- tion’ road, eb’ “Have you ever known of .a road being christened through a specially exciting inci- | dent?” inquired the reporter. THE DAVY CROCKETT. “When the Erie road was first built, which now runs from Harrisburg to Canandaigua, Y., it was nicknamed the ‘Davy Crockett,’ and for a good many yeurs thereafter the name stack. It was brought about in this way: One dark night when the conductor was taking three passenger cars through to Sunbury he noticed the headlight of a locomotive in his j rear. dance was indulged in. The conductor then | IN THE SHOSHONES. Where the Finest Sport in America is Found. POACHING ARMY OFFICERS. Relation of an Amusing Experience—How a Game Constable Was Induced to Become the Guide of = Hunting Party—Game Laws That Were Suspended for the Time. i Fort Custsr, Mont., March 8, 1893. ARRING THE EXPE- rience of such unfor- tunates as the banished mines, and, perhaps, of ypoleon’s on St. Hel- ena’s rock, every spe- cies of exile has, per- haps, some alleviations to ite unbappiness. Many army officers, condemned to what are still western wilds— bachelors without the compensations of family ties and at isolated posts, where military balls, pretty women and patent leathersare only remembered as features of some happier past—have yet before them resources of no mean order for the dispelling of ennui. A jolly mess, the companionship of agreeable comrades, horses, dogs, sport afield, books and a heaithy interest in one’s military duties—these should be, and are, to many o | chap in the western service specifics against the | Woret attacks of any devils, black or blue, that | of sport especially was tor the first time strongly impressed upon me during a six weeks’ hunt T was making in the northern Rockies in °86. We were after mountain goats—the stupid but well-nigh inaccessible chamois of America—and pointed expedition of ten picked hunters from the cavalry, an army wagou. pack mules, packers, cooks and an outfit selected carefully as the result of many years’ experience in such work. The pitehing and striking of tente, | Preparation of meals, even in wet and woodless camps, herd duty and night guard—all this was jan old story to our troopers, and was xccom- | plished with a celerity and perfection of system | outside of the army. As for expense, there was none to speak of. Uncle Sam encourages such expeditions, furnishing to oficers and men tentage. animals, wagons, packs, ammunition and rifles absolutely gratis. The officers, of course. carry ustaliy their private rifles and trout tackle on such ‘hunts, but their oni essary outlay is for their mess, and in agame and fish country #25 month would be consid- ered a howling extravagance fot this. In the | fall, when the weather is enough to pr [serve game, I have more than once seen in |camp larder of elk, decr, bear, mountain | sheep and goat, blue’ grouse, geese, duck, beaver tails and lake or brook trout, all at one | Mime, and the embarrassment of our soldier | cook often proceeded from his inability to de- wretches in Siberian | | may assail him. Our good fortune in the line | had left Fort Assinniboine with a perfectly ap- | | that neither money nor experience can atiain | Joe” and “Poor Face.’ Experience had taught me the ‘of odd numbers on such a trip, and I around for # fourth good fellow for our own tent. Some brilliant inspiration Co * far-off friend in Washingion—Mr. W.T. Horna- day, then chief taxidermist of the Smithsonian. Mr. Hornaday’s renown as a scientist, writer and successful hunter in all parts of the world extends from Washington to ‘Frisco, but it is only those who know how his genial’ qualities can brighten camp and the march who can understand my satisfaction when inansver to my telegraphic invitation to join us he wired that he would start wost by the next train. As time was valuable and I feared snow | Lieut. B. agreed to await Mr. Hornaday with a light rig, with which be could overtake me by | short cuts, while I set out at once with the wagons and packs bya longer route. On the | | sixth day they overhauled us near Pryor's Gap, | whence Pryor's creek (named after Sergt. | Pryor, with Lewis and Clark in 1803,) bubbles | into ite sinuous career from the bosom of sev- | eral mountain springs. We bad been traveling up this creek and past many Indian lodges that dot its banks for three days, and we were now encamped within «few vards of the camp of “Plenticones.” the wealthy and fine-looking chief of the Crows. It did not take me long to | get ont of my tent to welcome the arriving hunters. There is no piace where smiling | countenances and good spirits are more appre- ciated than in camp, and the presence of these two congenial souls left our expedition nothing to desire. I found that they had had some sport in their route up the Big Horn river, and tbat they bad cemented their recent friendship, with a fine hunter's scorn for the store of fresh | beef they had with them, by eating togetber | lynx they had shot the night before, and which Mr. Hornaday afterward beautifaily taxider- mized. Ashe is the author of the best stand- ard work on taxidermy in existence we felt our- selves fortunate in being able to profit by ob- servation of his methods. Our admiration of j his celerity and skill, however, was frequently | tempered with sympathy, as during some wake- i | ful interval in our slumbers we would find bi fier midnight ina cold tent, lit dimly by r two candies, wrestling with the specimens shot during the day. His principle was to finish up all work within the twenty-fours and | start the next day with a clean score. | A MAGNIFICENT vinw. | Bidding good-bye to our Crow friends we | pushed on next day through the beautiful | scenery of the Pryor mouutainsand found our- selves in the afternoon on their southern slopes, | with a vast panorama of wild prairie ter | minating in snow-ciad mountains a hundred miles away before us Here wo had our firet | glimpse of the besutifal “Heart mountain,” | rearing its rocky crest in solitary grandeur | from the plains of Wyoming. Farther to the north were the peaks of ranges lying in the | Yellowstone Park, and south of these our own | promised land—ihe dark canyons and. pre- | Cipitous divides of the Shoshones. To those | who imagine the western wilderness to have | disappeared it may be said that during » course of 160 miles, from Fort Custer to the | crossing of the Striking Water, we passed but | j one white man’s house~and that but a rude }iog cabin. Keeping down mge creek—one of | the fifty Sage creeks in Montana—we crossed | the line into Wyoming next day. Ina country | where even the dem: the possessions of the Uni Britain 1s represented simply by small stone monuments crumbling in decay, we were not | the discovery before there appeare’ from bee sereeersree onan whoned stranger upon a still more ra “broncho.” He wore the stern look » de.cctive who bed jest discovered a murder might display. I was not a moment in doubt It was s constable’ He ‘was evidently going up the river for assistance and must be stopped at every hazard. He re- turned my “good morning” in « sulky tone, and to. my question as to where he was bound he replied vaguely that he was “just going upthe river a piece.” “No, you are not if I can it,” thought I Saying that I thought it pretty early on a snowy morning to be moving about, T insisted on bis dismounting and taking break- fast with us before starting. ile acknowledged that he had had nothing to eat that morning, but was evidently reluctant to be under obliga- tions to such lawbreakers as ourselves. I re- Peated my invitation. insixting that I never let man go ont of my camp without breaking Dread with me when grub was ready. He fiually Fielded to the masions of an empty stomach, and tying bie ill-favored steed toa young cotton: wood, entered our Sibiew with me. The rest of ite occupants were making their toileta and did Rot present a very illustrions appearance in their bunting shirts and towsled ir, but in order to impress upon the stranger the dietin- guished and scientitic, and consequently lawfal, character of our party, [presented my friends with as much eclat as possible. Mr. Hornaday’s connection with the Smith- sonsan Was a bonanza to us. After throwing into my reference to this feet the suggestion thet Mr. Horunday was in © manne! main pillar and «apport to thie great temple of science and consequently one of the most celebrated men in the United ‘States. I casualiv remarked that be bad come ‘out with us to have « look at the country apd possibly might obtain a apectmen or two of mountain sheep or elk for the Smithsonian, Our new acquaintance was not more than twenty-five years old, I should say, and though he was very lent, with all the cautionsness of the native westerner, I could see his brow re- lax somewhat at this, and at the appearance of conscious rectitude beaming so plainly fro our mnocent countenances. We gave the stranger, whose name, by the by, was S—, a good breakfast, ul he had thawed into com- parative loquacity oy the time it was finished, Over our pipes tue talk tarned upon game, and was skilifuily led by our party all Machiavellis now in conspiracy) to the aubject of Wyoming game laws A discussion having arisen over some point in them, X—— finally decided it, ex- with an expresmve glance through the oor toward the pile of frozen dees himself was ® game constable. We expreased innocent surprise at this,and some one re- marked that sucha law must be pretty tough that be [ou both aliens and citizens of Wyoming and that he thanked heaven ‘we were an army party and could hunt where we pleased.’ This was a w idea to 8. . Who had doubtless been an- ticipating the reward his zeal would receive on our arrest. He seemed to be revolving it si- lently in hie mind for some time, and, appar- unable to grasp its immensity, he blurted Do you gen'lm'n mean to say you can gcraie through this here territory a-sbootin’ dowa came as you blamed pleased and not bein’ bebaiden to nobodv?” We gave each other one glance of surprise, then, with another of mingled pity and con- tempt at the speaker, lnaghed as if we had just beard the most humorous and absurd of human propositi What! We bound by the petty game laws of @ territory! This was rich, and off wewent again. If there was a false ring in our voices our constable didn't discover it, for he sat in red-faced em- barrassment and vague uneasiness that some- how he had “put his foot in it.” Our assumed merriment was go absurd that ‘Sask the! adlaclaaee fragile old Irish point. comparatively speaking, and the buying of it by He informed the engineer of the fact | cide what not to cook rather than as to where surprised to find that a single rickety post, | finally we found ourselves in genuine jaughter, rience warns us that « fashion never stays where it starts, but it goes on end on till i exaggeration brings about its diamiasal. But fashions are now more promptly set aside than they formerly were, | and, therefore, are now | likely to be given up before they become mon- strous, This fact is developing a class that will make few radical changes in their wear, no Matter how fashions rise and fall. This is going to bring about a state of things where there are no extremiste, but that blessed time is not vet, and our cheeks biench and our hearts begin to quake with fear when we see so man signs of approaching general use of these dreadful things. All the examples shown in the spring gowns show skirts with a distinct spread at the bot- tom. Some of them stand out from the waist smooth and stiff like an inverted funnel, Others spread from the waist in # series of A HOME-MADE BLOUSE. the back. It is also lined with silk and forms a| kind of peasant bodice at the vop. It is desira- ble to eut the upper dress from one piece and then fit it over the hips and in the waist. ‘The standing collar is of bengaline and a second, | cape-like, of pleated bengaline. The cuffs, col-| lar and the hem of the silk dress, as well as the | top and bottom of the velvet overdress. are trimmed with narrow bands of fur. | ‘The surplice is pretty, and the kerchief our grandmotners used to wear looks pretty in the pictures, but somehow it won't stay in place wnen it is worn by today’s granddaughter. | Make ita permanent part of adress and your | difficulties disappear. Arrange it in the folds you like and then sew in ail down around the armhole, but nowhere else. The point is free in the back, or, if you like, there is only the effect for the front. The ends vou leave free to cross over the breast and around to the back to be tied. ‘The eifect 1s demure and pretty. and may be carried out on a wash dress with wash- able stuff, or over a plain velvet or silk bodice in cashmere of a lighter shade. Itisa good way to freshen up the looks of @ bodice that bas become somewha: worn, Auother novel and pret tari In this case 1t consists of epaulet-like revers, which are a continuation of the material of the sleeve puffs. At the elbow there is a cuff formed by turning back the edge of the same piece of material which makes the revers. Tbe revers and cuffs are ornamented with two rows of braid about an inch and a half apart, the space be- tween being filled with a lattice work of narrow | white cord. In this dress the material of the | dress was dark blue cloth with braid of the e shade, but the costume would look equally well in almost any shade of blue or brown. | A pretty and becoming blouse can be made |at home by almost any one, of any light col- ored silk or surah, and will be very nice to wear with adark skirt. The material used in the example pictured is old rose surah, trimmed with fine white lace. It has a slightly pointed yoxe of the silk with three insertions f Ince. The front and back are cut rather bat the side forms and back are tight- ing. ‘The sleeve is a tight cuff as far as the | elbow and from there forms a large wide | put. The waist is finished with a folds, the front breadth being flat and forming an inclined plane from the waist to the edge. ‘Then there isa fold that sets out straight to the sides with no tendency to draw toward the back. The side breadths then cline outward to the gronn three folds, one to each side of the back and one straight out at the back, cons tutes the fullness. A skirt of this kin treme and lacks all grace. Others set smoothly out, without folds or fullness, where the back slant comes. 1! rial liew 1 a se: least it seems to have some motive and the gen- eral tendency of the fullness to the beck gives some grace. Occa-ional examples of these are Siready seen out doors and they do look “floppy.” bat they will improve in sppearance as the number of them increases. The white crepe de chine robe of the initial has a band-painted front which is finished at the top with yellow velvet ribbons. The slee are of yellow veivet. It is made over an nary princess dress. The back of the over- ress has no seam and is vewed to the lining on one side and fastens invisibly wich small books on the shoulder snd underneath the band. Th: MODERATE EXAMPLES. | bet of sural and the yoke is trimmed with a | rafile of narrow lace, while a rufiie of very wide | Isce forms the epaniette on the shoulder. The | standing collar is also covered with white lace. | The back of the blouse is the same as the front. It closes in front with invisible hooks and eyes. Even thongh you do not intend to adopt erinoline vou should have your skirts a litt wider. They need not be “stiffened or wired, nor, indeed, be a great deal wider. Almost any last’ year's skirt will do if the fullness at the back be distributed all round for greater width. Two entirely moderate and correct | examples are sketched. They are both of the | silks with narrow stripes of color brightly eon- | trasting with the ground, which are so much | worn, “as indeed they | Such” a i too much to ated by taking distributing the fullness with most of it at the sides of the arm. of India silk with @ lattice-work wide bodice beit is ox brocade wit and the bodice showing above the wide 4 JACKET EYPECT. outside material, as is shown in the picture, is pore folds front, which ex- belt is again of Indin silk, but not the pattern gathered into the told? ieyerslaidia one large | of the skirt. It looks all right, but” dress bellow pleat, hanging loose from the dress. The | makers do things with an sir is convine- | points just reach the bust line, in unconfined skirt. | ‘The round, seamless bodice is tied about with asach of gray shot with lilacs. A scant puff of the same material fills # queer cut of the bengaline across the bust, which suggests a yoke and pointed bodice effect. Shoulder caps of very broad point de Gene stand out almost straight from the arm seam. Sleeves are huge drooping puffs, finished with @ wide lace ruffle. Another crepaline gown i trimmed with four lace jabots from waist to skirt hem. A third has an entire bodice of gathered lace in Puritan style, worn with » large figured cheviot skirt. ‘Truly there is no end of ventures in combi- | nations “calculated to astound.” ~se0— THE HOUSE GOWN. It is sm Most Determined Neglige and Seorns AN Bonds. ‘The happy day when the house gown could be worn upon the street and the street gown was not out of piace behind the tea table has anished for this, and, prodably, more seasons to come. The house gown of the present is long, dragging, apparr“Iv indifferent to the | THE ZOUSE GOW CONTROLLED. impression it makes upon the masculine, to say nothing of the feminine, mind. It is more bent upon making itself useful, convenient and @ friend to be welcomed with fire light and the teacups. Itis aggressively empire in its commonest phase; indeed, so much so is it that it fallsfrom the bertha or ridiculously short jacket, whose fullness to the feet. Its idiosynerasies are un- restrained. A man encountering one of these gowns said of it: “The thing was tied around her neck and then it made a piumb line with the point of her shoe. It looked like a Mother Huvbard, by Jove! and it wasn't as aweet under another uaime, either.” Man is a barbarian, but his speech’ bas the candor of densest ignorance. A house gown notemancipated to this state of being is of light beige taffeta. It is cut aquare across the neck and over the decolletage is drawn a heay- ily embroidered jacket of purple and gold. A wide rache of purple satin stands high around the neck and extends to the bottom of the jacket. The fuilness of the taffeta is box plaited in front and fitted toa light two-boned lining sufficiently to give a slight curve to the waist at | the sides and back. { Another ove is redeemed by a crusted belt of | ' gold, which encircled the hips like a Cleopatra girdle. From Vogue ing turn of mind, recently accosted a prominent railroad official in this city as to how many railroad nicknames there were. He replied: “Just a8 many as you have a mind to make. have heard the ‘Pitteburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road called ‘Paddy Finnigan’s Wife ad Children,’ but where the name came from is more than I can tell. SOME WESTERN RoADs. “Here are a few of the roads with nicknames that I can now recall without referring to books. The Minnespohs, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie is called the ‘Soo’ and isan abbre- iation of the pronunciation of the latter name. The ‘Big Four’ is taken from the consolidation of four big roads, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago, the Cleveland, Colum- bus. Cincinnati and Indianapolis, the Indian- polis and St. Louis, and the Cairo, Vincennes A Chicago. This consolidation took place many years ago, the nickname given, and it has stuck to it ever since. Many railroaders claim thai the words “Big Fonr’ are taken from the four big cities touched by the road, viz: Cin- cinuati, Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis, but [think the right origm is the one I have given. ' “The Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City road iscalled the “Maple Leaf.’ By drawing a line around the cities after which this toad ix named on a map it will be found to form a perfect leaf of the maple tree, ‘The Pittsburg. Cincinnati and St. Louis road is called the ‘Pan Handle’ for the same reason—a line drawn through these cities making 2 good counterfeit of the pao handle, The ‘Clover Leaf’ is given to the ‘Loledo, St. Louis and Kansas City road for the saine cause. inasmuch as it doosn't come near jing a clover leaf under the same cir- cumstances, Possibly the road Ge plume on acconnt of the exceedingly fine grass lands through which it passes, QUEEN AND cRESCENT. “The euphonious name *Qucen and Crescent’ isgiven to the Cincinnati, New Orleans and ‘Texas Pacific road. This nickname comes from New Orleans, the crescent city, and Cincinnati the queen city. An old railroader that worked on that road some years back told me that the best part of it was the name. He said the train- men called it the ‘Chills and Fever’ road, as it took the best part of their salaries to buy qui- nine with which to keep off this demoralizing bat fasbionabie malady. It certainly runs through a bad country for people whose livers are likeiy to be troublesome. “The Lousville, New Albany and Chicago Toad is catled the ‘Monon’ from the fact that the main junction on the road is so called. The unique name ‘Nypano’ is given to the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road and is simply an abbreviation and consolidation of the first letters of each stace. ‘This is the road, I think, that the late Mr. Vanderbilt threatened to use asaclub against the Penusylvania roud on ao- count of a belief that the latter road was in- truding in his territory. A compromise was \effgeted between the two great railroad mag- nates, Vanderbilt and Roberts, and the re- sources of this road were never properly de- veloped. THE COTTON BELT. “The St. Louis, Arkazisas and Texas road is called the ‘Cotton Belt’ and, of course, derives its name from the great product of that region. Among the trainmen it is nicknamed the ‘Stand-and-Deliver’ line, no doubt from the fact that of late ‘years many daring train robberies have occurred on this ) ine. It runs through a country sparsely settle d, which afords the highwaymen every oppor- tunity toescape after their assault upon the train, ‘Blue Grass,’ a pretty name for a railroad, is given to the Kentucky Central on account of the exceptionally rich grass country through which it passes. Tom Scott's great road, the Southern Pacific, is called “Ihe Sunset.’ I have never learned the origin of this name, but, per- haps, its connection with the Pacific, the home of the setting sun, brought about the christen- ing. The names given this road by the em- ployes and the investing publit are so numer- ous that it is useless to mention any of them. ‘They represent personal experience in most cases and in reality have little in common with the history of the road. ‘The road was con- ceived several years before its time, and, of course, caused many heart burnings among in- vestors, but the experiences of trainmen in the dreadfully wild country of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have furnished stories enough to fill volumes. “The New York, New Haven and Hartford is nicknamed the Consolidated. The Missour, Kansas and Tezas line sails under the pretty sobriquet of “Katie,” no doubt taken from an imaginary blending of the words Kansas and ‘Texas. road with the elongated name, Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big ate ee the last words of ite corporate title, “Big Bend; chi and goes by t name, a fd plan to follow in that case. For short je on in the rear for a considerable distance. “The conductor ordered the engineer to put ‘on more steam and the latter pulled the throt- tle wide open. ‘Then followed a wild, weird chase through the night. Pursuer and pursued tore along at the highest speed. Everybody on | the cars believed that the engineer of the pur- | Suing engine was either drunk or crazy. Atlast | a bright idea struck the engineer. He recalled |the “fact that locomotive can make litle progress on greasy raile. The contents of two huge cans of lard oil were poured on the track from the rear of tho last nger coach. ‘The idea was a great one and proved highly successtul. Soon the headlight of the hen it was safe to doso the train was stopped | and backed up to solve the mystery. funny sight was revealed. “One of the finestengines on the road, called | the ‘Davy Crockett’—they * gave locomotives. names in thore days instead of numbers—had broken away froma hostier up at Williamsport and started down the track on a voyage of de- struction. ‘The oil poured on the track had baited Avery jail the “destructive abilities that locomo- tive porsessed. ‘There stood the ‘Davy Crockett,’ pufing and snorting and pawing (hike a’ wild “Texas steer, the driving wheels buzzing around on the greased track like a fly wheel in a. machine shop, but not moving an inch. Not a sign of an engincer | was found and the tireman of the pursned train mounted the engine and shut her off. ‘hey towed her into Sanbary and there found dispatch ordering them on to a side track out of the way of the runaway, but the oil had saved them. “A large excursion train was returning from Niagara Fails that night and the escupe from destruction was really brought about by the oiled rails. ‘The ‘Davy Crocket:’ made many trips after that, but the road went under that nickname for a'long time owing to the peculiar way the lives of many people had been saved.” Walking dress of Neapolitan blue wool ina basket pattern. Princess style, fastened on the lett with three buttons. Draped revers lined with changeable chamois, silk edged, with pattern in black soutache. “Jacket of chamois cloth, toque of blue, trimmed with mercury wings and a jetted aigrette. —— . — Spring. the callow poet ! ‘gins to sing of gentle epring, | of bursting’ bnds and running brooks and all that { sort hing; blizzard from the north with whis- | Ketas on it throat, And freezes up his warble in the middle of a note. ‘Tis now the maid of high degree assumes a Lenten frown, ‘Yet sometimes lets her thoughts to stray toward an Easter gown; When come: Is sending home for shamrock to be worn upon his tine ig Goods as smooth as silk and durable ‘That wil uot wrinkle, shrink nor fade in any kind | pursuing engine grew dim in the distance. | Upon exchanging experiences we | foana that they had come all the way from England to hunt goat in this particular «pot. | ‘They had with them sixteen pack horses at €2 a head per day, two guides at $10 each per day, an expensive boat brought in two sections and launched upon the lakes, tentage, vehicles anda lot of impedimenta—much of it of little use for all of which they had, it proved, paid e travagant figures. In round numbers. I was told, they had expended nearly $10,000 for their trip. ‘They were just about to return and their bag had amounted to a few lake trout and five goats! ‘This was paying about $2,000 a goat. Our protest that they were ruining the market price did not secm to inspire them with the slightest remorse, but the spectacle of even these very wealthy gentlemen making « journey | of eome'ten thousand miles and spending ail | these shekels for a few skins and heads, travel- ing and camping with neither orde-, discivline nor comiort, and going back pleased with the result, was so pacuetic a picture to us that we j forgave them. Our one bag of eight goat. | twelve mountain shi and mach other gamo and fish had cost us less than $75! ‘This must not be taken as the exuitation of a sordid mind over the cheapness of benefits obtained. It is simply a commentary on the good fortune of the army in having ‘access to sport so grand and so within its means, PARADISE FOR W | Despite the total extine and the almost complete diseppearance of the ante- lope certain portions of the west still furnish territory in which the hunter may find his pai adise. It hax been my xood fortune during nearly fourteen sears of sezvice to have car @ rifle through nearly evere considera mountain range in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. If asked for the most populous haunts e game in our country today I would refer the sportsman to the vast mountain area in central Idaho, covered by the Salmon river, Cour d’ Alene and Bitter Root moun- tains to the Wind River mountains in the vi- cinity of the Three Tetous, Wyoming. and to various ranges and spurs running southward and southeastward from the boundary of our ; National (Yellowstone) Park. in these ranges, amid peaks eternally capped wita snow, and many of them more dificalt than the Matter+ horn, the noble elk. the nimble and wary sheep and the «tupid goat in his cloud-wrapped habi- tation among the highest crags still occupy fastnesses dificult of human discovery or ap- proach. In these ranges the valleys are often seamed by foaming torrents of snow water. alive with trout, innocent of the seductions of the sportsman's fly—streams, in many cases, rivers were they only in a prairie country. ‘These streams, the perpetual bogs which often line thems. and the precipitous and rocky char- acter of the mountain peaks, render penetra- tion in their dark mysteries well nigh impossi- ble toany but the most determined and best equipped of hunting parties at any season of the year, In addition to the above species of game, it may be said that deer and bear, in greater or less abundance, are scattered with catholic impartiality over all the western states and territories. Of all the western commonwealths Wyoming best preserves her game. Her laws are iron- d in this direction. and what is more to the point, they are strictly enforced by game con. stables who constantly patrol the mountain regions. THE HUNTING PARTY. This fact came very near being fatal toa hunting tour I made into the Shoshone moun- tains m November, "89, I had came back from leave only a short while before and was pining for the odor of the mountain fir and tamarack, and the sight of savory ribs of sheep and deer Toasting on their willow spits before an old- time camp fire. I was stationed at the time at Fort Custer, Mont.,and from my indulgent post commander I obtained the hunting leave of a month which had asked for. Knowing ‘the Shoshone mountains to be a magnificent field tor elk and sheep I decided to make my hunt in that range. would take me abont 180 miles from the post and across the Wyoming deep enough to assume the title of respectable | printed “notice,” which I commenced idly to read. THE GAME Laws. It soon proved full of interest. It announced an act of the Wyoming legislature, but recently passed, forbidding, under severest penalties of tine and imprisonment, the killing at any season by persons not residents of Wyoming of any spe- cies of four-footed game. Italso forbade the killing of elk and sheep by residents themselves “except under stress of direst necessity, when other food could not be obtained.” Of course this threw the door fairly wide open to Wyo- ming people, but it was pretty rough on us. | | We were clearly ‘rank outsiders” and were | punisbabie by law should we proceed, i talked to the proprietor of the “shack,” an old-timer who was well posted,and he gave me little com- fort by declaring that not only was tue law out- le correctly quoted, but that throughont that part of the territory there were number of active game constables, who were paid $75 @ month to enforce it. | Here was a nice dilemma. I had no desire to Ray, £500 per sheep to the territorial fund of } Wyoming. Neither did I view pleasantly the | humiliation of an empty-handed return. We | were then about 120 miles from Caster, and | Mr. Hornaday had come over 2,000 miles for this hunt. The bunting grounds were almost in sight. It would never do to go back. We de- | cided to press on and trast to luck or stratagem to extricate m |. The next day we turned westward and crossed the most complete desert [have ever seen in the west. I< was forty miles across this stretch, On it was no le of grass or leaf of sage. A trickling thread of alkaline water was its only | moisture, and not even a bird or prairie dog enlivened its solitude. The day was dark, with occasional spits of snow, and this, with the sight of the biack, frowning mountains just in front of us, served to complete the impression of utter desolation around us. Hurrying across, this by @ forced march we finally reached the | ‘Stinking Water—a broad,deep mountain stream, | ‘ whost crystal waters are as beautiful as name is unhappy. ‘The latter ix derived from | the existence of gevsers of sulphurous fumes in | | some of the canyous through which it flows. G00p sroRT. Here we decided to halt and hunt for a day ortwo, Blacktail deer were very numerous | | in the bad lands on the opposite side, we were | told by the Indians. ‘accordingly crossed, | and, with the possibilities of game constables | in my mind, I drew the wagons off the road to a rove of thickeotton woods about half » mile lown stream, where we made the coziest of camps. We were off any route of travel, were thoroughly concealed and were pretty sure of not being molested if snow should only fall during the next day or two and cover up our tral. “It can hardly be said that we liked our | roie as quasi-poachers, but after all there was acertain novelty and ‘excitement in realizing | that while bunting in this region we might our- | selves become game for the representatives of the law. | During adayandahalf ye had fine | something over a dozen biacl having | brought into camp. Some time after dark the ‘ second evening several of us strived in camp with four or five deer. It was snowing and the , Weather very coli. The deer were unloaded, | damped ina pile near our tent and the ‘er- geant cautioned by me to be careful before morning to put them in a safe place. Dead deer, like dead men, should “tell no tales.” There was no use to explain my meaning—we were all paciners in crimeand common guilt rendered us readily comprehensive in certain di- rections. Unfortunately, the sergeant, tired out by ahard day's hunt, fell asleep and forgot, perhaps in blissful dreams, my careful caution of the évening. We all slept late next I was the first to arise, and to the tent door was confronted by the legs and ears of our four- footed victims pr in a most comical fashion from a snow bank in front of the tent joor. THE GAME CONSTABLE. But whet is this? A fresh pony track cireling around the pile of game? I had hardly made ‘There is such a thing as being too tall now— A GOOD TIME COMING. Therefore we dare to use it lavishly on our | Willizm H. Vanderbilt resnited in a grent profit | and both began speculating what it meant. | bis market supplies were to come from, bent earthward with neglect, was the only evi- | With the teara running down our cheeks, have come, and the best gowns, knowing that the ensemble will be | for the selling syndicate and the ebristening of | The train was running at a high rate of speed, | It was with an abundance of this sort that in dence of the Wyoming border. Beyond thix,| As soun as I got breath! looked reproachfally question is, will they richness and elegance rather than tawdry imita- | the road, the name of which has stuck to i¢ to | but = _beadlight in the rear its | the year shove named we left the main range | at a distance of two miles. was the settler’s | at \—andeaid: roll you areanice constable, th ym m. | . gaining steadily ot em. ere | of the Rockies and found ourselves ii pres- | cabin just refer a here we for you ever read the Constitut ‘nited _— << Ona vary nites ectagew gees el ccna | ioe; ee grumbling at the price he| "ere no lights in the "rear of | encoof astranger's camp ‘on ‘St Marr's fakes | the niu Athos sea a aoe ae cama, for | ee ee Or ee Dengaline. | The finely gored skirt fite smoothly | had to pay and remarked, “‘Why, if the infernal the headlight they coneluded it must be an at their base and near the British line im north. | ing of our atock T'recressed. the, creck tor the | s"Ve-es," was the hositating reply. stay where they are to the sides, where it flares into the new fan-| road was nickel-plated it ‘couldn't cost more,” | °™Pty engine. That road twists in and out | west Montana, The unknown hunters proved | house. On one side of the door was the ," said I, “the next time you come ont now—in the fashions- shaped, close-laid plaits. | and the road has been known as the “Nickel #mons the mountains and skirts the banks of | to be two members of the great banking firm | inevitable coyote skin tacked upon the | Ona trip you'd better carry a copy of it along bie windoys and mo- Seven rows of narrow point de Gene headed | Piate” ever since. the Susquehanna in euch way as to permit| of the B——g Brothers, London, and their re- | logs to dry and onthe opposite side’a large | and roa then won't ask officers such « foolish distes’ parlors? Expe- by milliner's twists of bengaline are laid on the | An Evexixo Stan reporter, with an inquir- | 88¥ one looking back to observe what is going | tainers, question as you just have. . But I guess you ate new in the business or were joking and we'll call it square.” Now. if there isa weapon feared by a certain class of western man it is ridicule, and I knew this man would face a pair of “Colts” before be would let us amuse ourselves over any confes- sion of ignorance on his part. He tacitly as- sented to our last impeachment, and ine few minutes we bad him so far placated that be agreed to go with us to our next camp, twenty miles up the river, and actually promised to show us some good ground for . Fear- ing be might change his mind, aud recollecti Napoleon's saying that the fate of the worl might be changed by an hour's delay, we hastily put food and blankets on our saddles and, leaving the wagons to follow next day, hustled our new guide off with us, We slept at the foot of Rattlesnake divide that night, and the next day 5. became @ particeps criminis with us by helping Lieut, B—— to kill «couple of mountain sheep. QUOTING THE CONSTITUTION On the trip up the river S——, in whose mind that reference to the Constitution still re- volved, rode alongside of me, and, saying that his memory was very bad, asked me the exact wording of that article allowing us hunting privileges—‘he had really forgotten = part of it.” Without a moment's hesitation—my mem- ory bemg also bad—I quoted rapidly: “And the different states shall have power to raise armies and deciare war: and uch state shal! enjoy in its own limits all the privileges enjoyed by other states: and be it further provided that the President of the United States, state governors, and nations! and state legislatures, and officers and enlisted men of the army, navy and marine corps, shall at all seasons be entitied to take, suare and kill, to keep and to have, all and fish of any state or territory of United States, wherever found.” That settiedit. S—— remarked, “that herecob lected it now,” and rode ahead satistied. It may be said thaton our return, after @ most successful and delightful hunt, we wrote to Col. P——, the genial superintendent of the game constabulary in Wyoming, relating the substance of our meeting with his deputy and exonerating him from all blame. We also sent the latter one or two tokens of our regard that may bave caused him to forget bis temporary lack of acounintance with the Constitution of the United States. 8. C. RopEnTsox, First Lieutenant, First Cavalry. ——_ +02 From Vorme, ‘There was a young man of Eau Claim Who thought it was awful to ewaire; Reengephowe spique some Which seldom are uttered in are uttered in praire. Little Josie—“-What do you suppose all thems holes are in the cheese f ‘think you would know, Little Leah—"-Oh, I'd it’s to let the an "Chicago Inter Ocean.