The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-05-14

at present, while the domestic traffic be-
ween the Atlantic and Pacific seaooard will
be developed to an extent as yet hardly im
agined. In this way Doth the steamship..line
and the railway may do a profitable carry>
ing trade jlst as Is witnessed between New
York and Albany, although the opening Of
the Hudson River railway vas, at the time,
looked upon as fatal to the steamers.
As our readers will no doubt be interest
ed in everything appertaining to this stu
pendous work, we copy the following com.
ments from the Chicago Times
Despite the fact that the road, which, at
noon to-day, will be completed from CHR
coagO to the Pacific ocean is undoubtedly
one OF the greatest swindles, it is also one
of the greatest benefits of the age. 1t is a
great thing In whatever way it may be con-
templated. If we look at the dimensions
OF the undertaking, we are astounded for,
In truto, as In many another case, the de-
termination to build the road, the getting
together Of the means, the completion of
the plan, were more heroic than the mere
mechanical execution. 1t requires vastly
more heoriSm for a man to induce himself
TO go into battle than to stay there when
once in. The same sort of estimate is APP
plicable to allvast undertakings.
The conception of the road was astound-
ing, and so was the energy of the men who
undertook it. Of the same gigantic charac
Ter we've the capital Involved; the extent
vi TIC land grant the amount of the ma
terial which was procured and the stimu>
lus which was given TO speculation and
Improvement, from the Missouri river TO
the Pacific, over the belt OF country which
Is tlaversed by the road The credit mo
Oiutef which sprang into existence was CO.
lossal, and so was the deception which has
been developed III the building of the road
Enormous are the stock speculatiuns which
II has made, lncalculable are the interests
which 1t has developed.
Not ouiy is the building of the road
characterized by massivness in every fea
ture, whether good or bad, but it likewise
develops, to a remarkable degree, the
most opposite qualities 1t is the grand
est and the poorest line in existence. 1t is
Vast economical construction, and dear
IN the extreme, In respect to its present
cost and Its necessary expenses In the fu~
ture. 1t will confer Wealth upon the
country and yet has robbed the people of
unknown millions and it is at one an ev-
erlastlng homo. to the genius of the peo-
pie WHO have built 1t aud disgrace to the
Larty that controlled it. Simultaneously
with the driving Of the last spike, whose
Insertion will mark The completion of the
line, the work of rebuilding the Pacific
will have to be commenced. The signal
which Announces that one of the greatest
works of modern ttue is finished, will be
the signal that one of the grandest labors
of the age is about to be begun.
In nearly all of its inexpressible tumble
of good and bad, grandeur and litteness,
the Pacific railway is type of the nation
that tulit 1t. Enormous ia extent
wretched in construction costly in its
character manipulated by thieves, and
radical politicians reaching from ocean to
ocean (; finished, and yet not fairly begun
subject to costly process of reconstruction,
1.-THE country or the ralway-so exactly
resembles the other, that description of
one Will answer III the most elaborate of
details for both.
Nevertheless, with all lis faults, its at
tending stealings, It's peculation, and
wholesale robbery of the country, it is
work whose conipletl. should be source
If pride TO every resident of the country.
While Chicago has particular reasons for
qualification, every city In the country, ev-
cry man in the nation, has cause for con-
templatlng the work with profound salts
faction. The celebration over It's compile
llon should be national There is no rea-
son why it should be local. The work is
one that belongs to the whole northern
half of the continent. To some extent all
civilization should rejoice over its compile
ton. 1t is in the interest of commerce, the
great civilizer. 1t shor,ens, vastly, the
distance between remote areas. 1t brings
Europe and Asia nearer to each other aud
to ATcii lea. In fine, while those places
which lie along the Pacific railway have
reason for special rejoicing, to day should
be afforded observance as one OF thanks
giving by every nation in Christendom.
The following table show approximately
the distance between tho principal points
ou the al-raii line between the oceans and
the time required in making the journey
Less than seven days from New York te
San Francisco, and less than FIVE days and
half from Chicrgo to the same point, will
henceforth be consumed in the great trip
Miles, Hours
! New York to Chicago. Oil SO l.:
Chicago to Omaha, Neb, 49l "a l.:
Omaha to Bryan S58 43
Bryan tho Ogden, Utah, 333 10 l.:
| Ogden to Elko, New, Uia Central
Pacific Railroad, 278 IL l.
| Elko to Sacramento, Cal, via
Central Pacific Railroad, 465 81
| Sacramento to San Francisco
via Western Pscifc Railroad, 1l8 81
Total 1898 16l l..
From San Francisco the mails requlr
only nineteen days to reach Japan, MAXIM
in all about twenty FIVE days from Ne'
York, or thirty-ive from Great Britain
which is from three to four weeks quicke
than the British mails reach th
same poin via Suez by the Peuinsular an
Oriental steamers from Yokahama, Japar
China is reached in FIVE or six days.
s65- A fight occurred on Monday 6
Hayes City, Kansas. between lot
colored soldiers of the thirty eight ln.an
ry and the citizens, in which FIVE citizens
among them limited Stafps Marshal WI,