The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-09-09
ON THE WING.
CHICAGO - DIXON 90 MENDoIA
BUSHNELL - EARDSToN "
ST. L0UIS-FAREWE YELL.


ST.. LOUIS, September 6, 1873.
DEAR BULLETIN: On our return from
BELo1r
We spent DAY in
CHICAGO,
and do not wonber at the remark Of the
young Chicago lady who visited the
EMPIRE CITY
for the first time when she said New
York was more like Chicago than any city
she had seem There was great deal OF
| truth in the remark.
CHICAGO
is as eScilabc as ever. The streets are
crowded from morning TIL late al night
with surging throng. The hotels, stores,
saloons, and theatres, are all on the most
extensive and magnificent scale that can
be imagined everything on the high
pressure order a friend o. ours bought
q pen.knfe and said lie had no idea but
what the proprietor of the cutlery store
~ooNo ,mncoiatsNy put" " avn story mar.
bic block on the strength Of it.
CHICAGO To DIIoN.
From Chicago we took the cars ON the
| Gslena branch of the Northwestern rail-
road. This powerful corporation is stretch
ing out its fingers of iron and steel and
grasping an immense trsde in the west
north, aud northwest, aud is fast absorb
ing some OF the best talent of the Illinois
Central railroad. We refer more parlicu-
larry to tho present superintendent
Marvin Hughit,, general passenger agent
DR.. W H. Stonnott and General Ticket
Agent W. II Thrall, all Of whom are well
and favorably known throughout South
ern Illinois rs indciatigablc workers when
connected with the Illinois Central rail-
road, and what is more to their credit
are we'll spoken OF by all, which, in these
days of universal complaint, bespeaks
their worth.
isa fourishing city OF about 3, 600 inhabi-
tants, and like Beloit, has the beautiful
Rock river running through its limits on
its winding way to the Mississippi The
| city is delightfully."- located in the midst Of
billy and wooded country, something
unusual in Illinois. A few mile, out, YOU
find the prarie but the city proper nestlcs
among and under the hills. While here
we visited the
GRAsD DEroUR FLOW WORKS
and were shown through tho extensive
mandatory by one of the proprietors,
and witnessed the entire process of manu-
fscture from the time the lumber, iron and
steel is taken in at the rear of the building
until the pIows have received their finish
ing touch and stand ready for shipment at
the opposite end of the factory. About
seventy-fve men are employed, and from
seventy.hve to one hundred plows are
made daily.
In the afternoon We took the cars on
tho Illinois Central railroad for Mendoza.
On the way hither we started up any
quantity Of prairie chickens, who did not
seem to scare worth cent. In fact, a
flock of
QuAlLs
that had alighted on fence close by the
track did not ruf'e feather rs we glided
by not twenty-five fee. from them. We
felt like using an
"ABUsIvE EPITuEr'
but kindly spared them. At MENDOZA
we had the supreme felicity Of sitting in
the depot and counting our fingers from
sp.m. to am, waiting for the express
train on tho Z. b. d q. railroad. When
the whistle sounded we exclaimed "K emo"
and wers soon encased in berth in the
| pullman" At am, we reached
BUSHNELL
an Interesting city of $500 inhabitants,
whore We were doomed to stay for several
hours awaiting train on the Il. Il. |. X
| st. l.. railroad, for st. Louis Bushnell is
celebrated for nothing that we could dis.
Germ, except the passing through it Of six.
teen passenger trains day on tho three
different railroads that cross ut this point
Take and sandwich Bushnell in between
any Of the larger towns between Cair'
and Du Qnoin and you could not tel
t'other from which" Our ride from her,
to ST. Louis was dusty, no. and tedious
The only part of the route that
We FULLY APPRECIATED
was over about two miles Of ,restlc worI
rs you approach Beardstown, as we wer
then free from dust for few minutes. a
we crossed the long bridge over the Ill
nos river at this place no noticed nun
DER Of teams iording the stresm, tho rive