The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-17
EMPORIA TO CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8, 1869.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 1863.
The morning of the last day of au-
tumn, the day we left Emporia, was one
of the most beautiful of the season.
The comfortable Concord coach which,
for the day trip, has superseded those
rather stinted vehicles which came over
this route but few months ago, gave
us an improved opinion of staging in
Kansas. When about ten miles out, and
when passing over one of the elevations
upon the broad prairie which stretches
out toward BurIingame, we caught a
last view OF Emporia, its Normal school
and court house. From this point the
view will we'll repay the traveller for
appropriating sufficient time TO proper
ly scan it, for it is beautifully diversified
by the belts of timber which skirt the
Neosho and Cottonwood and their sew
eral tributaries, aud presents a marked
resemblance to wide-spreading tree
sending out its gradually diminishing
branches.
On arriving at the Buriingame rail-
way station, there were a number of
cars, which belonged to roads leading
out from Chicago, standing upon the
track and loaded with lumber which
had come from the forests of Michigan
and Wisconsin. The presence of these
cars not only indicates the present con-
venience which this long and connected
line of travel and transportation is now
furnishing, but it seems to point to the
additional convenience and utility that
will be realized when the merchants of
Chicago will seek the produce of the
fields of Kansas, and when the people
of Kansas will be ready to exchange
these for the lumber they will require
for the construction of their houses and
for the enclosure of their fields. In
other words, the cars may be profitably
loaded both ways. Another and the
more immediate value and utility of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road is
found in the supply of coal which it
contributes to furnish from the Carbon
dale mines, not only to those who re-
quire it along the line of the road, but
to more distant places.
AS we approached Topeka the black
ened walls of its recently burnt bnild-
ings seemed TO furnish a significant re-
minder of the propriety of the speedy
organization of an efficient fire depart
ment with its common appliances in
that city. This incident may also fur
nish useful hint from which the peo-
pie of Emporia may allow themselves
to derive some profit.
After spending one day in the capital
city, we left by the midday train, and
upon our arrival at the State line we
made the usual transfer to the Missouri
Pacific road and after passing the night
upon one of its splendid Pullman cars,
we found ourselves at the st. Louis de-
pot at z o'clock III the morning and in
one hour more were on our way upon
the Chicago, Alton s. st. Louis road.
This road has added that convenience
which is SO much appreciated by tray
elers, to-wit: palace dining car, upon
which meals are furnished at the proper
hours, and thus avoiding the inconve-
nience of leaving the car and partaking
of hasty meal at railway stations.
The small streams along the way were
frozen, and the windows are covered
by those beautifully arranged accumu-
lations of frost which are only seen DUR
ing the cold of a northern winter. c.