The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-09
THE RAILRrAD EXCURSION.

"Sharl1Etoil, was |celeDratei DN al
excursion over the road, participated
in by a large number of people from
Carson. Virginia. Gold Hill. Washoe,
Reno and the valleys. There was
riding, hand shaking, laughing, sing
ing, eating, drinking, Grating, and q
general surrender to reVslry. There
were present from this city twenty or
twenty-five ladies and gentlemen, and
the eXuberance and elasticity of spirit
exhibited by the Carson ladies caused
the whole expedition to e~aervesce and
sparkle like champagne. until the lat
first little ripples Of merriment swelled
into huge pillows of good humor that
engulphed every new passenger picked
up by the wayside.
Arriving at Steamboat Springs at
11:i5, we found everything in readi-
ness for the start-except Uncle Phil.
Lynch of the Gold Hill News, Johnny
Skae and Colonel Avery, who had not
We arrived. and who did lot arrive
until some time af,er the excursion
train had left. II. NJ. Ierington, Gen
eral Superintendent of the road, and
Mr.. Holmes, Track Superintendent,
were both present to see that every
thing vas IL order and that ample
provision was made for the
dation of all. \ long table had been
put up in the large Cepot building and
Charley Lerate. the well known res
tauranter of Virginia, vas engaged in
testing its strength and capacity by
piling thereon every substantial and
delicate Wand. There WAS boiled ham
by the hog>head. corned beef by the
drove, roast turky 10y the ton, bread
by the hu>heI. cake 10y the ca>k. fruit
by the field, champagne by ear loads,
and everything the appetite could
crave.
At noon the train moved off for
Reno. Ii consisted of the locomotive
Storey, II baggage car freighted with
humanity. and one of the elegant pas
senger coaches Of the Central Pacific
Railroad. Arriving at Reno III thirty
minutes. We found the tOwu>people
out in their sunday clothes. and there
was general hand shaking and eX-
change Of gratulations. The Reno
people turned out i'll such force that
another passenger coach and two
empty EtFlAill ftI> we're dtltitt 10 tue
train. Returning to Steamboat. the
train picked up several ladies and gen
tlemen at Hutlaker's.
"IUsr MY LUCK"
The following dispatch, received
while the eNcDr>iOnI train was at Reno,
explains Itself:
STEAMBOAT, Nov. :. 1871.
To I~errIrst0u. Rice. Glnn and others:
-.- 49,. f- 81 q. D . 49, .--t
hind AT Steamboat Ju>tmy ID luck!
! am always behiud- somewhere Avery,
Skae and others are here, in the same nN.
Bully for Steamboat. PHIL. LYNCH.
So the editor OF the Gold Hill News
had a chance to indulge a-''sober"
second thought while Wandering over
the steanling plains of Steamboat
awaiting the return of TIE ram.
LP.S.-There is not adrop of spirituouS
or malt liquor on sale at Steamboat
REP
II INDOO EXERCISES
At the Springs. after the return from
Reno at , o'clock p. M, consisted
chiefly of eating, drinking and max
ing merry. The office room of the .
depot and a large pile OF freight on the I;
north platform afforded convenient
hiding places for such Good Templars
"a, tANt hf'N N-' - X " "a d tt |
by drinking in public: but ignorance
of the existence of an open window I
that occasionally brought the brethren
face to face while in the act, caused a |
good deal OF Uerriment among lOo,-- :
ers-on. When all appetites had been
appeased and h wine began its work,
CONSERVATION was created in the a
crowd by cries of Lynch! Lvnch!" II
Of a mob were soon
diSpelled, however. when uncle Phil.
of the Gold Hill News mounted
bacon hogshead in the middle of the
room, placed his hat over the seat of
his pants, all the while twitching it
nervously with the fingers Of both
hands, and commenced
THE GRAFTON, THUS: =
and gentlemen: 1t is aothing
than (ahem) our duty requires 7
demonstrate that the gentlemen 4
who have constructed this road Ttre-
nendons applause and a Hip
1op of the hatl. 1 remember q wears
,go being a pioneer across the plains
little boy at the other end of table: 7
Boo hoo! Johnney's took my cake."1 =
years from that date l feel
to be present here and see the =
faces of American women. u
Applause and laughter.] Twenty-one
,ears ago Steamboat [the hat again
4ectrified] was no place tor families
o locate. "a voice, "Taint yet," and 70.