As is already well known by the patrons of the Northern Pacific railway, the dining car department rarely allows a holiday of any kind to pass without making a special effort to create in the dining cars something of the atmosphere of the homes as each occasion would be celebrated by the travelers, most of whom are absent of necessity.
Superintendent H. Upon being asked as to his Easter plans, Mr. Titus has made the following announcement:. These will be placed in a little chicken house built for the occasion, the house being set on the rear buffet in the dinning car and surrounded by a little wire fence so as to give the little birds room to walk about on the buffet.
The above article appeared in The Daily Missoulian on April 1, You may think this article reports on something almost too fantastic to be believed, but it was likely true.
The Northern Pacific dining experience was no doubt something to behold. The link below, for example, points out the extreme efforts to which the NP, and Superintendent H. Sunday is a great day for fishermen of Missoula. Sunday morning the tired newspaper man, done with helping at the birth of another edition, sees the men of rod and reel in the restaurants, getting a snack for the present and a lunch for after while, sees them starting out for the woods and streams.
For many miles some of the fishermen travel, by automobile, on horseback, on bicycles and on foot. All day long they ride and tramp, whipping the streams of western Montana to a froth, filling their baskets with fish, their boots with water or their shoes with sand.
