Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — ON SPANISH RAILROAD LINE [ARTICLE]

ON SPANISH RAILROAD LINE

Chief Thing American Traveler Notices Is the Complete Absence of “Hustling.” The train this morning is a correo, but everything is so new that you feel no more hurried than the train, and rather enjoy its ways, writes Grant Showerman in the Atlantic. 1 It creeps IntaJthe. station quietly and carefully, as if in fear that some hen might have laid one of those numerous fine Spanish eggs on the track, and it might get broken in a too reckless approach. Sometimes —but this doesn’t happen frequently—it slows up when near to one of the smallest of-the multitudinous stations, and sneaks by /without stopping, as if ashamed or afraid. When it 4 does come to a standstill, it listlessly slides back a bit, and then slides forward a bit, and then rights itself once more, and then straightens up with a jerk—as if it were tired, and its muscles not obedient to will. Then, for a few moments, every one cautiously waits to see what further'it intends ../.-.a.. About the time it is thoroughly stopped, some one pulls at the cord attached to the tongue of the station bell, and gives three signals—to let the passen'gers, and anyone else who may be interested, know that the train has officially arrived; and a station employe calls out, “San Pablo, ocho minutos! ” —meaning that there will be eight minutes of waiting.