The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-30
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

From PIttsburg to Chicago - Import
ance OF this Line OF Road TO PhIIadeI.
phia-COnnscting Link for the Pacific
Railroad Commerce - -MRnufacturIng
Villages In OhiO-SIeeping e. -CNrs-VentI-
latIOn and Heating-A Railroad smash
Up, Etc.
CHICAGO, Nov. 81 left Pittsburg yesterday
afternoon, by the Plttsburg Fort Wayne, and
Chicago Railroad. This road, in connection
with the Pennsylvania Central, is a favorite
route from Chicago to the East. 1t is very
direct there are few changes, the roads are
well managed, and good time is made without
excessive rates of speed The East" line,
leaving Philadelphia at II O'Clock noon, makes
the run to Chicago in thirty-three hours, a dis
tance of S33 miles The route is also a desirable
one for shippers, goods being forwarded with
out delay and in good time was told In Pitts
burg, by one of her business men, that the
Pitisburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Road
under the efficient management of its
President, General Cass, is paying regularly a
dividend OF ten per cent. per annum its
stock. In these days Of the depression of rail-
road stocks, and of popular unbelef in their
value as an investment, this fact is worth men,
tioning This road is Que OF great Importance
to Philadelphia, as it is her only direct route to
Chicago, the great empo ium Of the West; and
this importance is much enhanced when we
look at the probable deyelopman mt OF the com
merce Of the fuiure, consequent upon the com
| pletion OF the Pacific Railroad. Trains arc now
! running regularly from Chicago by way of
| Omaha, 10 CheJ enne, at the foot of The Rocky
Mountains. The route is very direct, being in
| an almost due east and west line. At the same
time, Chicago, not content with this easy and
sure monopoly of the business of the main line
of the Pacific Road, is stretching out her arms
TO control, at least divide the business of the
Kansas Pacific Road By a road Just COM
pleted from Cameron, on the Hannibal and
st. Joseph Railroad, to Kansas City, the
eastern terminus of the Kansas Pacific
Road, Chicago is placed in direct
! connection with the latter road. Two immense
bridges are being built one over the Mssis-
sippi at Quincy, the other over the M issouri at
Kansas City, and when these shall have been
completed, loaded cars can run without break
or transshipmert from Chicago to the western
terminus of the Kansas branch OF the Pacific
Rair' ad. Chicago thus grasps the eastern
terminus of each of these great lines of road,
which are so rapidly pushing beyond the west
ern frontier. This fact cannot fail 10 give her
great influence over the commerce of these
roads, and to make her the virtual point of
distribution for it. In this view of the subject,
the PiLlsburg and Chicago line becomes one OF
great interest to Philadelphia, for it enables
her to com pete for business which otherwise
must pass unchalenged to New York and
Boston by the more northerly and easterly
lines
The run from Pittsburg through Western
Pennsy lvania and Ohio was a pleasant one.
| The air peculiarly soft and balmy, so that
! we sat with open windows, while the mellow
! haze of the Indian summer atmosphere gave
subdued and quiet aspect to the ever chang
ing landscape. This section of the country was
suffering greatly from drouLh; the fields look
| ing brown and bare, and the roads deeply en-.
numbered with dust, was gratined, however,
to observe that the iall wheat was looking
finely in most places, though the breadth sown
does not seem to be large.
Fine villages of from five to eight and ten
thousand inhabitants are growing up all along
this road, such as Alliance, Mansfield, Massillon,
! Fort Wayne, Crestline, etc. All of them have,
more or less, manufacturing basis The max
| ing of agricultural implements seems TO be
speciality. All through the West the use of new
and improved machinery in conducting farm
ing operations has increased wonderfully dur
ing the past few years, AS a consequence, an
immense demand has grown up for reapers,
mowers, threshers, separators horse ay-forks,
and the like, which has stimulated this branch
OF manufactures into activity in many even of
the smaller towns. Mccormick of this city
has made a millionares fortune out of his
reapers, and others have made great deal of
money in the business, The farming opera.
lions of the West could not be carried on at
ali, on their present scale, without the
aid Of improved machiuery. And yet
the demand has not been satisfied. The prarles
will never yield their full product until the
steam plough shall be brought to such periec-
tion as to insure its general use. This great
state of Illinois does not cultivate, as yet one
fifth OF the area of her arabic land-and yet the
aggregateofherag agricultural productions exceeds
those ofany other State in the republic
Wetook supper at Alliance, a smart, growing
village at the intersection of the Pittsburg and
Chicago and Cleveland and Plttsburg Rail-
roads The fare was good, the charge reasona.
able, and sufficient time was given for eating
the meal. observe of late years. in travelling,
a growing improvement in railroad eating
houses. The meals are better, more abundant
and better cooked than they used 10 be. Yet
they might be better. You get no good coffee
| The decoction sold under that name is a vile
imitation of the genuine article and is made
suppose, from some OF the "essences' or "pre
parations' which the high prices OF real coffee
curing the past few years have brought into
use, .
Our railroad sleeping cars are strange mix
'ule OF good and evil. AS select and comfort
N'e cars during the day they are admirable
anu % qulte worth the extra fare paid for them.
"O "s SteePtn0 cars must denounce them as
Simply apomlnable and that for one cause-the
'"c" V Vent1tdtton. aAs the most of them are
constructed there is not sufficient means of
Vehulalon, and the facilities that ora n afF,r,iaa
are almost universally at.ao.s. - ~ :