The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-08-11
The Way.

Tn0 way.
Az the season approaches when our
business men and birds Of passage
prepare to make their annual eastern
hegiras, let us say a word to them
about the route. - y 80
First, Of course, you must take tho
ITO evening train on the Burlington
/ Missouri River Railroad, where At
the depot You will be sure to flnd
here, there, and everywhere, the in-
comparable agent Of that road, June
A. Vents, who will give you all dc.
sired information, with his usual in
telligence and suavity. Once aboard,
you will find an obliging conductor
who will quietly relieve you Of a two
dollar bill, for which he will assign
you to clean. airy and capacious
couch, and consign you to the arms
Of Morpheus, if you amt got any
prettier arms along, and the next NOR
aing at nine o'clock without the
slightest suspicion of accident, no
will land you at the fremont House
at Chicago, where Sam Turner, iDs
imitable host, will see that You get q
square gilt.edged cocktail, and "a
breakfast good enough for a prince.
After breakfast, you will dress up
in clean paper collar, take another
nip, and then transact your business
in the city, SO Is to take one Of Pail
mans palatial through sleeping cars
which run without change to Phila-
delphia and New York. However.
before dong this, you will 60 around
to the Office of the Pittsburg and Ft.
Wayne Railroad, opposite the Sher-
man House, on Clark Street, and see
Capt. w. G. Cloland, tho General
Western Passenger Agent Of that
|gssat thoroughfare, who will sell you
q ticket over his route lower than
any rival, and guarantee to put you
through to your destination with
case and diopatch all right. side up
with care.
And now we have you safely aboard
the Pittsburg, Fl. Wayne and Chi
cago Railroad, which is the best one
in the United States, saving and ex-
'cepting the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and tho Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, and Burlington and Missouri
River Railroads.
At9 o'clock you will reach Ply
mouth station, just across the border
in Indiana, where you will be mag.
nifcently entertained in the compa-
ny's hotel on spring chickens and
pretty tidy waiter. girls, all in white
aprons. The next morning finds you
Ut Alliance, Ohio, where the supper
il Duplicated only more 80, and at l
|p, m. same day you run into the com
psny's Union Depot hotel, and get .
dinner Of surprising excellence,
which is persuaded down your viii
ling gullet by bottle Of Pittsburg
pale ale.
After an hours rest and . frantic
effort to punch . hole with . stick
up through the dense smoke, TO get
sight at tho sun, you step aboard
the splendid cars of 5. Edgar Thomp.
sons Pennsylvania Railroad, and are
in the hands of the most careful men,
and are bowling alongon the smooth.
est, safest, and richest railroad on
this continent.
At midnight you are at Harrisburg,
where you take the Northern Gen.
trail Railroad, If you are destined to
Baltimore or Washington, but if for
Philadelphia or New York, you re-
main in the same coach you left Chi
cago in, arriving ct the former city
about 5 q. M, and at New York shout
s ., M, or just in time TO perform
your additions and biblutions before
On elegant breakfast at the st. Mich
olas.
There is one glorious good fellow
on this route whom we have not in
troducod you to, and that is NJ ajor l.
Carper, the resident Burlington Su-
perintendent of the Chicago Burling-
ton aud Quincy Railroad, but as you
go through Burlington at midnight,
and he has q young wife, we shall
forego the pleasure Of an introducticn
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at that unreasonable hour. You can
not resist the conclusion however,
that the order and system which pre-
vail there is the work of master
hand, which wield's railroad baton
o. skillfully as it did the pen and
sword, IS Adjutant-General Of Corse's
immortal Division.
And now, gentle reader, this is no
ten cent per line puff. 1t is the un.
sought testimony Of q man who has
travelled over this route as well as
others, to and from the eastern cities,
many times during the last fifteen
years, and whose means of observa.
ton and comparison have been good,
and who unhesitatiDgly tells You that
fyou want to travel over q route