
          91.

day that it is again out of the hands of the receiver.
The government after getting the railroad in good
shape turns it over to the corporation, for them
again to ruin by mismanagement <s>and</s>.

We were, however, much surprised this morning,
when paying for tickets, to find that the fare 
had been reduced from 50¢ to 35¢.  Looking at 
our tickets we found that we were the first 
buying tickets for that station they being numbered 
Nos. 0 and 1.  Arriving at C. we took the
path leading directly to M. resuming along side
of the railroad a little distance then crossing
and going through the woods.  Near the spring
we found a number of German berry-pickers, it
is now rather a rarity to find Germans as pickers 
they having been displaced almost entirely by 
Bohemians.  In course of conversation, we were 
greatly surprised that a colored man
had been put over them to see that they did their
duty.  Farther up the road we passed the old
        