Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands

Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands

I was early aboard the fastest ship that ever foamed the seas. Later, a long, strong whistle blast blewthe signal for startingand soon she headed southward, the great vessel traveling through New York harbor to Sandy Hook as noiselessly as a bobsleigh drawn through two feet of unpacked snow. I had secured a second class ticket to Buenos Aires, Argentina, by way of England, this marking the first of several legs of the world over which I had planned to travel. Thirteen hundred and fifty dollars, representing years of economical living, was the sum deemed as necessary to accomplish what I had purposed doing. By trade I am a printer and linotype operator. In earlier years money for traveling expenses was of little concern, for the fascination that accompanies prowling about freight trains seeking an empty box car, or the open end door of a loaded one in which to steal a ride, or of turning one's back to the tender of a locomotive to protect the eyes from hot cinders coming from a snorting passenger engine while standing on the draughty platform of a "blind" baggage carone without end doorsthe train at the same time traveling at a speed of from 45 to 50 miles an hourthe "cinder days" during the catch-as-catch-can periods of traveling through coastwise tracts of country, across unbroken prairie stretches and over mountain fastnesses, are pleasant ones to recall, not forgetting the hungry, cold and wet spells that all men meet with who are enticed by the gritty allurements to beat their way about the country on railroad trains. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 41508
Author: Murray, Samuel
Release Date: Nov 28, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English