Chapter I: Front Matter

MM Shaw]

Nine Thousand Miles
On A Pullman Train

AN ACCOUNT
OF A
Tour of Railroad Conductors

FROM PHILADELPHIA
TO THE
PACIFIC COAST AND RETURN

By M. M. SHAW

PHILADELPHIA
ALLEN, LANE & SCOTT, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS
Nos. 1211-13 Clover Street
1898

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898,
BY M. M. SHAW,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TO THE TRUE AND LOYAL WOMEN
OF OUR PARTY,
THE BELOVED AND CHERISHED COMPANIONS
OF OUR HEARTHS AND HOMES,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

M. M. Shaw Frontispiece.

George W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad Face page 6

Broad Street Station, Philadelphia “ 12

A Pullman Dining Car “ 16

C. E. Wyman, Chairman of the Committee “ 18

A Pullman Sleeping Car “ 22

Sang Hollow on the Conemaugh, Pennsylvania Railroad “ 28

At Effingham, Illinois “ 34

Leaving Longview Junction, Texas “ 34

At Fort Worth, Texas “ 36

O. H. Bacon, Conductor Texas and Pacific Railway “ 38

A Group at Van Horn, Texas “ 40

Tom McDonald and Fred Beach “ 40

Myrtle Taylor on a Bronco “ 42

Residence of Jacob Hand, Sierra Blanca, Texas “ 42

Flooded District, Alfalfa, Texas “ 52

Wrecked by Train Robbers on Southern Pacific Railway “ 52

William J. Maxwell, of the Committee “ 56

Col. Si Ryan “ 60

Arizona Landscape “ 66

“Yuma Bill,” Indian Chief at Yuma, over 100 years old “ 66

The California Poppy “ 68

A Cluster of Navel Oranges, California “ 72

Winter in Southern California “ 74

Brookside Avenue, Redlands, California “ 76

San Gabriel Mission, California “ 78

Giant Palms on the road to San Gabriel “ 78

An Avenue in Pasadena, California “ 80

Great Cable Incline, Mt. Lowe Railway “ 82

Echo Mountain House and Car on the 48 Per Cent. Grade, Mt. Lowe Railway “ 84

Mt. Lowe Railway, California “ 86

Circular Bridge, Mt. Lowe Railway, California “ 88

Ye Alpine Tavern, Mt. Lowe, California “ 90

T. S. C. Lowe “ 92

George W. Brown, of the Committee “ 98

New Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, Cal. “ 102

Parapet, Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal. “ 104

John H. Reagan, of the Committee Face page 112

Hercules’ Pillars, Columbia River, Oregon “ 120

The Columbia River “ 124

J. P. O’Brien, Superintendent Rail Lines, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company “ 126

Mt. Adams, Washington “ 128

Mt. St. Helens, from Portland, Oregon “ 128

Multnomah Falls, Oregon “ 130

Along the Columbia River “ 132

C Street, Tacoma, Washington “ 134

Bridge, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington “ 134

Latourelle Falls, Oregon “ 136

The Hobo Passenger “ 138

Crossing Columbia River on the Tacoma” “ 138

Elevator A, Tacoma, Washington “ 140

Shore of Lake Pend d’Oreille at Hope, Idaho “ 140

Spokane Falls, Spokane, Washington “ 142

Spokane, Washington “ 142

W. B. Hale, Conductor Northern Pacific Railway “ 144

“Dan,” Salt Lake City Railroad Station, Utah “ 154

Grave of Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, Utah “ 154

The Mormon Temple and Square, Salt Lake City, Utah “ 160

Chas. E. Hooper, of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad “ 166

Bathing Pool at Glenwood Springs, Colorado “ 168

In the Pool at Glenwood Springs “ 168

Waiter W. Terry, of the Committee “ 174

Colonel and Mrs. Mitchell at Marshall Pass “ 178

The “Committee” at Marshall Pass “ 178

The Royal Gorge and the Hanging Bridge, Grand Cañon of the Arkansas “ 182

Ascent of Pike’s Peak by Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railroad (cog wheel) “ 184

Gateway to the Garden of the Gods, Colorado; Pike’s Peak in the Distance “ 186

On Pike’s Peak--Altitude, 14,147 feet “ 188

Bride and Groom at Balance Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado “ 190

Manitou Springs, Colorado “ 192

Bachelors and Burros in the Garden of the Gods “ 196

Who are we? Who are we? P. P. C.! Cooks, Waiters, and Porters of the O. R. C.!” “ 202

The “232.” McCook, Nebraska “ 202