The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-10
A HONEYMOON Car.


IT is stated that after the completion Of the
Pacific Railroad a honeymoon car will be
placed upon the line for the special accommo.
dation of blushng brides and bridegrooms.
This scheme should have tendency to divert
the current of pleasure and holiday travel
from foreign lands to the beautiful and varied
routes which abound in our own country. In
the Northern States, east of the Mississippi,
there has always been great deal Of travel,
and the ears of well-mansged railways carry
an immense number of passengers. The
Southern railways, and especially those near
the Atlantic coast, being generally imperfectly
constructed, have attracted comparatively
little pleasure travel to points south of Wash
ipgton. In the Western States the public are
more familiar with northern and southern
trips, partly from the habit of navigating the
Mississippi, and partly from the convenient
routes between the lakes and the Calf OF
Mexico which are furnished by the Illinois
Central Railway and its Southern connections.
One Of the greatest charms of travel is fur
nished by the change of latitude; and the time
may come when it will be scarcely les, COM
mon for luxurious citizens of the North
to travel or sojourn in the South
during the winter months, than it was
formerly for Southern planters to spend their
summers in the North. Heretofore American
travel has been much too closely confined to
the section lying east of the Mississippi and
north of Mason and Dixon's line-a region
which, vast as it is, forms, collectively, only
the northeast corner of the Republic. After
the South is properly reconstructed, politically
and industrially, and after free speech can be
enjoyed throughout her entire limits, her
many natural charms of scenery, and, at some
seasons, of climate, will no longer be ignored
by tourists and travellers. The great West,
lying far beyond the Missouri, is now almost
completely penetrated by the national high
way across the continent. The proposed
Honeymoon car will give ample opportunities
70 its inmates to improve their leisure moments
by contemplation Of the vastness OF the Re-
public, as they are whirled over the land of
the buffalo and the fierce nOmadic tribes,
across the crest Of the Rocky Mountains,
through the plateau dominated by Brigham
Young, and up and down the slopes Of the Sierra
Nevada inte the sunny plains of California.
In week the journey from the Atlantic to
the Pacific can be completed between points
which interpose three thousand miles of land
between the greatest waters of the GLOBE all
under the dominion of the youngest of the
great nations, and all tributary to the civiliza-
tion which less than a century ago was closely
confined to the Atlantic coast. In such Jour
ney the prairies Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Iowa, tesming with fertility, dotted all
over with hourishing towns, intersected in
every direction with railway tracks, and poll
ing millions of votes, afford marvellous illus
tration of American progress, when it is recol-
lected that the first white child born in Ohio
is still living.
Nor is the progress west of the Missouri less
remarkable. The foundation of American
empire on the Pacific was laid since the young
est of American voters was born, for Califor-
mia was only acquired score Of
years ago, and the joint occupancy of
Oregon was only terminated during the Ad
ministration Of President Polk. A quarter of
century since it required heroism of no ordi-
nary stamp to confront the perils of the region
bare. Only wary and dauntless hunters and
fur-traders, military expeditions armed cap-a-
pie, or adventurous explorers dared to traverse
what is about to become honeymoon route.
The many natural beauties which distinguish
the crest of the continent, the novel scenes to
be witnessed along the line of the Union
Pacific Railroad, and the dry, bracing, peculiar,
ioaY riy ali afa rubi lie
the Plains and in the mountain regions, will
naturally attract an immense amount of plea
sure travel. The seekers after novelty, in ask
ing themselves "Where shall we go?" will
find the list of available American attractions
greatly extended by the new facilities to pene
trate the bowels of the land, and to invade the
old homes of the grizzly bear and Eye gentle
savage"
Four or FIVE centuries ago the only exports