The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-25
LETTER FROM P1TTsBURa.
Hssty Notes OF TrHveI, Fishing, Etc.
lEvENING TELEGRAPH SPECIAL ooRREsPoN


Hssty Notes Of rrHveI, Fishing, Etc.
[EvENING TELEGRAPH SPECIAL ooRREsPoNDENCE
PITTsBURG, June 16.
A word more from Pittsburg, from whence
the first letter was sent you. The writer has no
puifs for any concern a. he pays his own bills,
but will say of Pittsburg, for the benefit of
travellers, that its Union Railway Hotel, in the
new depot buildings, Is as good place to stop
at as the most particular could wish. II is
complete In everything One of its pleasantest
features is that the cars run the weary, dusty
traveller right into it, or nearly so, and be has
only to walk up stars, and be at home. The
bill OF fare is ample and drst-rate. But did you
ever see a person eat everything on full bill
by course l believe we did here. He was
ruddy-faced Irish gentleman - evidently
priest - with genial, intellectual look not
a glutton, but gentlemen, likely, as before
said, and probably q scholar; but if any
body could be said to have heavenly relish
for good ''vittels," and godlike power OF diges-
ton, he must be the man. After going through
the abundant viands this was his cheerful order
for dessert:-"Waiter, bring me piece OF apple
pie, piece OF lemon pie, piece OF currant pie,
piece OF berry pic, some Strawberries and ice
cream, and some pound cake" The waiter
turned to go Tor them. "Hold on,n he added,
"brine me piece OF cheese, and-sOme ilberts."
His splendid teeth closed on the last hilbert with
an appetizing snap such as on may have seen in
a sheep eating beans.
Away we go ovtr the FCrt Wayne road.
Spring grains, grasses, corn vegetables, and
fruits, all promising, though backward. Abun-
dant rains recently all through the West. Some
good fields of winter grain, but many poor ones
This party reached the 'ladies car and have,
personally, no ground of complaint, but the in
stitution is Objectionable as generally managed,
and some change ought TO be insisted on by the
travelling public, 1t is well to have a nice car
or two where ladies can always find seats, aid
gentlemen, too, when there are any seats vacant:
but to lock it up and have the brakesman let i'll
none but snowy females and dandy squirts, with
now and then some ponderous gentleman with
gold-headed cane is not the correct thing. No road
can carry out the plan of devotiIg the car eX-
clusively 10 ladies and their gentlemen com
panons.
The employees will let in others, and the
brakeman in charge-possibly the conductor
is apt to admit those who wear the best clothes.
1t would, of course, be absurd to suppose they
would take any money, for the rich old farmers
aud other solid men in plain clothes are usually
found IN the common cars, sitting in pairs; while
the fops, whose wallets are stuffed with more
tailors' and laundresses' bills than greenbacks,
are in the ladies' car each stretched out on
seat by himself. l have even met one on this
trip who claimed two seats-one for each END of
him.
Coming near Chicago, our train ran into a
horTd stencil, created, it is said, by the otfal
from the city. 1t settles or rises like a cloud
along the read for nearly mile. As we were
warned of ii by passengers who had been there
before il can't be temporary nuisance. Chi.
cago can't afford to let il remain. however. If
she don't make different arrangements" and
that soon, the fate of Sodom may overtake her,
WILMoT Wis.-Here we are, under the pater-
nal roof. The chow dye does" at home are of
no account to the reader, and we skip them.
They deserve, however, TO see themselves in
PRINT, lust for their heartiness, aud for the good
cheer that ensues. The cider that has ripeLed
for our coming Is tapped" and the russell
and red-cheeked apples that have refused TO yield
"a spec" to summers heat till we have come
and SAID benediction over them, are brought
forward, and the story is again told of how our
pioneer iather planted the orchard with his own
hands twenty years ago, hoping to see this
day. when he and his children could enjoy the
fruit together.
But we must wind up No. 2. We threw that
salmon hy over the black bass at the mill-tai
at WilmOt, and brought fine one to the sur
face and to land the first time. A dozen Others
rose to us during the following day, at intervals
and many more might have tested to their sor
row our fine tackle and ringing reel, had not
troop of boys come bounding into the pond fo
their evening swim. just as the fish were com
menCinp TO rise But this is not our fishinl
ground and we Will not dwell on the subjec
till we reach the old haunts, where we can Dc
the subject more thorough justice. OBBl.