CHICAGO’S WHITE City: A REMINISCENCE. 357 
United States point d’appui. No redu€tion on ordinary 
fares could be obtained at the opening of the Fair—nor 
indeed, did anything like a “ War of Rates” set in till 
long afterwards. There were several foreigners among 
my fellow passengers from New York to Chicago, and 
two in particular I remember—an Algiers merchant and 
his lady who were hieing to the Lake City in the hope of 
doing business in the Fair season, and, attired asthey were 
in their gay Moorish costume, the pair were in all verity 
the observed of all observers at stopping places. Madame 
it was said was a Parisian born, but in deference to her 
swarthy lord and master she wore Algerian dress, con- 
sisting of a dainty fez bedecked with jingling gold coins, 
a scarlet jacket a /a Zouave, richly embroidered with 
gold-lace, &c., &c. The only other passenger of whom 
I have any lingering recolle€tion was a Hibernian 
who struck up a conversation with me in the smoking 
car. He eschewed politics, he freely informed me, be- 
cause as the result of his pra¢tical experience, “ one party 
is as bad as the other; ivery man jack, from the com- 
monest po-lis’man to the President, has his price ; so, Sir, 
I take notruck o’ them atall!” There is no “ class” onan 
American train, that is so far as ordinary accommoda- 
tion is concerned. But on the through routes there are 
always WAGNER or PULLMAN “ drawing room” or 
** Palace” cars, for the use of which an extra charge is 
made, and it appears that these conveniences do not belong 
to the railroad companies, who merely hire them, as well 
as the sleeping cars, as required, from the manufa€turers. 
Presumably the system is a form of application of 
the great division-of-labour principle, and of course 
it tends to the maintenance of monopoly rates. There 
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