A Great Trip

The Pioioci.'AT man has in times past (in the privacy of h 's own home) beiabcred the University authorities. the student wor'd, the parante of students. tl e general pub ie and all other torces and nflitences that have encouraged the neck-lireak ng, the ribcrackinsr, and joint-dislc iting game of E 0 -ball. Hut now e is converted he h an enthusiast and all b cause lie ace impanied the te im to Chicago and had ihe intricacies and the beauties of the g ime explained by an expe t. He now knovvs the ditï'ere ce bet ween a punt and a qua-ter-ba'-k. and knows enough not to try rail-splitting with a revolvin wedge, or wheeling on a t ii'd in inierfeience. He now contV ses in all humility that his former eritic.sms of the game were founded on insuiti ient knowledge. Mahy things came before the game. here ws lirst thero siug send-ofï by 1 e hu dreds of studente who them lves w -re uiable to acompany the eam. They had hardly completi d :heir first chuer before the train was out of he ring The way the engineer layed er ck-the-whip with the train iround the curves between A.nn Arbor md Dextershowed thittatin Agent aves n t mistaken when he promised ü that we comd ninke bet ter time 0 ( hicago thau would the Xorth Shore ,inited. At Ann Arbor we wvere ■fventi en minutes ahead of the imited's scliedule; at Jacks'in we had amed eight minutes and by the time Kalamazoo was reached nearly half an iour had been pla-ed to the credit of the special. Krom Kalamazoo to Xiles The Demücbat representative. through the iindness of Joseph S. Ha'l the Michigan passenger agent, was put in the enginecab imder the care of Mr.Edward vlcRobert, engineerand gentleman On 1 comfortable seat he had the novel rtxperience f seeinsr tlie world from an vigin", speeding around curves, up and d 'wn grades and through sleepy little v llages at the rate of lifty-rive miles in hour. He now agrees with the engineer that the only place to travel s in the cab of an engiae, where one an get a sweeping view of the country miles a'-eal and around, where he c n get a f ai ut sngsiestion of the beauties o comewhile they are vet in the dis tance and can have them grow into heir full be mty through ten or twejity j or thirty seconds. i he eng neer has an eye for the beauües of nature as is shown by his pointing out beautifu! bits of scenery, showmg herj in the late summer and early f 11 the train plows through miles and miles of I golden rod. Harring the impudent j e nder tiiat intrnds its-lf iuto the privacy of your opt'c, riding on au e gine has no bad fe itnres, that is if the eng ne is one of the. Mie igan ('entral's lOC-toners. They are as jteady as a sleeping car, and on a cushinned seat just behind the engi eer you may watch his manipulition "f the dozen mysterious levers that are o regúlate the dolngs of the monste'engine. To the Ie ft of you you watch the flreman feeding in cóal at a fearful rate to keep the steam pressure up to 180 lbs; not every flfteen or twenty minutes, but every one or two minutes tlw iurance door is opened to receive four or five huge scoops of coal. The passenger in the cab is enjoying all this while the engineer is watching for every crossing, every switch, every semaphore and every wandeling Willie who wnlks the ties. and the flreman has his eye o:i the steam gage tha must register .from start to finish not les than 180 Ibs. The Dbmoorat man simply has to study them and the seenery. At N'iles he dismounts where he sees the Michigan Central lunch counters trying to feed two hundred people in the short space of ten minutes. General Agent Hall finds th t it can't be done and he considerately gives the boys an additional ten minutes. As the last doughnut is disappearing under t-id .Millard's mustachios the conductor has his cue for "all aboard." Our enthusiasm has been wrought up by the U. of M. Daily's songs for the occasion (sung by the scrub Glee Club) and we invest much of our hard earned cash in Dailies, "Wrinkle's Uriukles, Foot-ball souvenirs (rifteen cents ecch or two for a quarter), in hurrah flags, and everything else by which we may show our patriotism. 'I he trip to (hicago was an immense thing. Eight coaches full of well behaved students. a sprinkling of citizens, two regents, a few ladies and Evart cott made as jolly a crowd as ever traveled on a special. And the Michigan Central was in it too. Station Agent Hayes, Mr. Hall. passenger agent for Michigan, the conductor, the engine crews got the train started and to Chi cago without a hitch. Accommodations equal to the best and time that the North Limited can't equal, give the Central credit for these and numerous things thatcontributed to our comfort.