. Book of the Royal blue . Every passengerbuys a dozen or more, and eats them in ashort time, throwing the skins about thefloor. Boys pass by with tea in tiny earthenpots, a cup placed over the top, and thismay be purchased for three sen (threecents and a half), and the teapot is left inthe car. Besides leaning out of the carwindows to buy these the passengers havelittle wooden boxes filled with lunch. Inthe upper part is closely packed rice, in thelower are all sorts of little pickles and bitsof cake. Attached are two wooden chop-sticks. The Japanese throw all sorts of refuseabout, and from t
. Book of the Royal blue . Every passengerbuys a dozen or more, and eats them in ashort time, throwing the skins about thefloor. Boys pass by with tea in tiny earthenpots, a cup placed over the top, and thismay be purchased for three sen (threecents and a half), and the teapot is left inthe car. Besides leaning out of the carwindows to buy these the passengers havelittle wooden boxes filled with lunch. Inthe upper part is closely packed rice, in thelower are all sorts of little pickles and bitsof cake. Attached are two wooden chop-sticks. The Japanese throw all sorts of refuseabout, and from the appearance of a carafter the passengers have been in it a littlewhile one would imagine that the peopleare very untidy in their way of enter at some of the stations andbrush up whole pans of refuse, and on somelines of the road a small boy in a spruceuniform comes to the car door at each stopwith a clothes brush in his hand, makes adeep bow to the occupants and inquires ifthere is anything that they LONGEST SINGLE-SPAN BASCULE BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. TO the many things in Chicago which canbe spoken of as the highest, longestand grandest has been added thelongest movable single-span bridge in theworld. The structure has recently beencompleted, and trains of the Chicago Ter-minal Transfer Railroad Company, theBaltimore & Ohio and the Chicago GreatWestern roads, which enter the GrandCentral Station at Harrison Street andFifth Avenue, will cross the Chicago Riversouth of Taylor Street on the new structure. Construction of the drainage canal madeit necessary to remove the pier of the oldbridge south of Taylor Street. The neces-sity for a bridge without a pier presenteda condition of affairs new to engineers, andmuch discussion resulted as to the best planto follow. After plans for the structurewere made it was some time before aconstruction company was found ready toundertake the work and guarantee itssuccessful operation. Its success is nowassured, and Chicago
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