Litchfield enquirer., 1869-08-26

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 land towns through which our fast train whirls without stopping. until about noon we cross over into 743'
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 We stop at lEaston, Allentown and Reading and asthfee o'clock come te' tn.
 little town of Lebanon where the. train stops twenty, minutes, and our brakeman tells us we can get good substantial din ner. It was just that and no more, cost
 seventy-five cents, and was worth it. Twen lty-fve miles mora brought us to ,srdag., jo3@ao9s i5d HARRISBURG. ta :esea-r . ] where. we. stood three quarters of an hour,
 baking in the depot, waiting for the Penn. sylvania Central train. remembered Harrisburg. 70 Had been there once before. Went through with my regiment and goi
 off there to get some coffee Didn't find
 any coffee and when came back didn't find the train..Y It was midnight, and ]
 started off to catch it. Walked about a
 mile on the wrong track, concluded the
 train lad too much start, and went back. F suppose I saw, yesterday the ea identical spot in the depot whe sat down and won
 dered if ''this cruel war ever would be over
 and howupon earth they'd ever finish it with me at Harrisburg The town don t seem to have changed much. It has always seemed to me to be 8 good place to go
 through without stopping. At Altoona,
 130 miles beyond, we took sleeping car, and as the mountain scenery is on beyond that point we lost it. | apprehend,l how ever, that we shall see enough mountain scenery before we get through, not to miss it much. Passing through Pittsburg at midnight we reached next morning, be- tween five and six. g place called sa;.is c;- ' ;e'5. ALLIANCE. -a ..ftsn T q havn't the remotest idea why it was so named, and don't suppose any one else has. We stopped there twenty minutes for breakfast. It was too long. It said
 t'Sourbeck" on the door of the refreshment room. And I don't know what that meant either. Perhaps it was the name of the lantern-faced divinity who poured the cof- fee. She was sour enough in all conscience and perhaps her name is Becky" Three times asked the gentle creature for some coffee. She looked away over me and clean through me and made no sign. At length said with, emphasis, s'WM you give me some coffee?" The dove ierked
 her head and twittered, ''It'll be fifty cents for two cups" Suppose 1t is," said I, s.I shan't pay for it till I get it." '.Well," said she. as she hung on to the coffee pot
 with the grip of an office holder, ''sonse folks sand she shipped out her words like peas out of a pop-gun-'t 'tsone folks,
 when they find out how much it is, won't pay for it after it's poured laid down the money, an the ivinegar-faced female finally poured out the coffee. It was such coffee as you might dip out of Connecticut River after shad had swum through it with coffee berry tied to his tail. But she called it coffee and sweetened it herself I suppose she didn't want ter trust me with the sugar bowl. Idonrt think wore an honest look to the damsel. The walters at this institution are all females, and wear their own hair. It is great satisfaction when you find hair in the butter to- know that it. IS genuine hair, and not the foreign stuff they make waterfalls of. When you come through Alliance, you'll do a very wise thing to bring your breakfast with you''a,s8 glis,n.... a. s.xs s... ag
 We stopped for dinner at Fort Wayne and found comfortable dining room with polite and accommodating walters and ar excellent dinner. Here you get the best meal and best service between New York and Chicago, and it is luxury travellers appreciate. Taking all things together, I am inclined to think this Pennsylvania Central route is the best one to take to Chicago. You can take a palace car at Jersey City at an extra charge of five do1z lars, and have your seat, plenty of room,
 good sleeping accommodations, and every
 thing as comfortable as in parlor clear
 through; and the road which is in good or der all the way and. well managed, runs through very delightful country with
 plenty of things worth. seeing as you go along. We arrived at -sa1s0 10 a1..sr
 Ea .e9Haai34Es" CHICAGO aq 5nt a5) s.1 about half past eight in the evening. Chi cago is not place to be 'tdone' in day
 by any means. There are so many things
 to be seen, so many strange and unusual things, things on an immense scale that
 the few hours we remain here will hardly
 suffice for beginning, All we car; do is
 to go up into the tower of the City Hall
 and skim the city with the eye. The last and only time I was ever here was nine
 years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was
 first nominated for the presidency. I went
 up into the tower then, and took: look at
 the growing "center of civiiization.' Ev- erything is changed now. Only on one
 side Lake Michigan spreads out the same wide unbroken reach of water to the far
 northern horizon. 34An else is different. Then you. could distinctly see the, line
 where the city rolled out to the prairie's edge, spattering up few houses over the limits, while beyond. the eye Sought the
 horizon over an immense field of green al- most as measureles as the broad expanse of
 blue water that on the other side nppled and flashed far away to where the sky bent
 down and kissed the lake. Now, through
 the smoke of thousands of furnaces and engines, and oyer the wilderness of roofs the eye failed to bring out the line where
 the great city ends and the prairie begins. It may not be that Chicago is destined to
 be the metropolis of, the continent, but her citizens seem to have religious belief in such 2 future for her, and, to be shaping things toward that event. We'll, if the city grows theInsxt twenty five years as rapidly
 and substantially, as Tn the last, what is
 there to. prevent it?. Their streets were too low for sewerage, and they raised them,
 whole blocks at . time-they wanted pure
 water from the lake, and they tunneIed under its bed q mile or two of shore and