Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-27
THE GEoRGIANs ARE COMING
A Large Excursion Party From
the State of Georgia, Will
Visit. Omaha and Ne
braska, Leaving At
lanta, June 18th.

lanta, June l9th.
Responding to a desire by a large
number of citizens of Atlanta and
surrounding country, to visit the
State of Nebraska the coming sum-
mer, l have secured on the several
railways, low excursion tickets, the
excursion party to leave this city on
the evening of the 18th of June.
The route will be an interesting
one. From Atlanta via the West
ern and Atlantic road to ChattanoO-
ga thence by the Nashville, Chat
tanOoga and st. Louis Railway to
st. Louis, crossing the Mississippi
river at Columbus, Ky. From st.
Louis we go by the st. Louis,
Kansas City and Northern road,
crossing the great Missouri river
bridge at st. Charles, and travers-
ing a fine grain growing and graz
ing section of Missouri. AT Kansas
City, the Western terminus of this
road, we take the Kansas City and
Council Bluffs road, passing through
st. Joseph, Missouri. and up the
Missouri River valley in Iowa. The
terminus of this road, Council Bluffs,
is j ust opposite the Missouri river
from Omaha, which latter place we
reach by crossing n of the grand
est railroad bridges on the CONT
nent.
At Omaha Ipropose for the party
to rest for a day. Excellent hotel
accommodations here will make u
stay pleasant, while we visit the
smelling works, where gold and
silver may be seen pouring in moi
ten streams direct from the cruel
bles, and the immense machine
and a shops of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, besides other
places of interest,
From Omaha we will visit, by
special train, the most interesting
object of the excursion, the beauti-
full prairie lands of the Platte VAL
ley. To one who has never seen
a Western prairie country, the land
scape along our ride now will be
novel and grand. -,
The country is the most beautiful
that 1 ever looked upoI. AS far as
the eye can reach on either side, an
Ocean-iike eXpanse Of billOwy green
is interspersed with island OF gold
en- harvests and dark, glitterlng
corn /; while herds of sleek cattle
browze upon the boundless pastures.
The lands everywhere are dark col
ored, and rich beyond description.
The admiring tourist here apprecl-
ates a couplet of Pahodie;
"Rich prairie, decked With flowers OF gold,
Like sunlight oceans roll atar."
A VISIT TO THE RED MAN.
The e~XcursiOnists may stop at any
place on the road they desire, Al
Columbus, a beautiful little city in
the heart of the valley, ninety-tWG
miles from Omaha, cOnveyances
will be furnished by the citizens to
take the party out 10 the Pawnee
Indian Reservation, where We will
see native Indian villages, and visit
the government schools for in.
structing the Indian children,
which are taught by several South.
ern young ladies. The Pawnees are
a small tribe, perfectly peaceable,
and supported by the Government
This ride of twenty-five miles across
the country is through a magnii.
cent farming section.
The excursion tickets take us to
Grand Island, a city one hundred
and fifty-fOur miles from Omaha
from which place the party car
return at pleasure. The re,
turn tickets will be good on any
train for thirty days. A day in st
Louis will be one of the pleasant
incidents of the return.
The entire distance travelled, go.
ing and returning, will be nearly
three thousand miles. The time
from Atlanta to Omaha is about
~fifty-seven hours. Pullman palace
sleeping cars wall rup Through with.
out change, from Atlanta to st
Louis, and from st. Louis to Oma.
ha. Excellent eating houses are
along the entire route, but the con
venient "lunch basket" affords less
expensive board on the route. With
this provision the incidental ex'
penses of the trip will be light.
The cost of a ticket for the round
trip from Atlanta to Grand Island,
Nebraska, and return will be sixty
dollars, and good for thirty days.
Sleeping a fare will be extra.
The cost of a berth to Omaha will
be about six dollars. Two occupy
ing a berth will reduce this expense
about Ons-half to each.
Quite a large number of citizens
of Atlanta, and merchants, farmers,
and professional men in other sec
tons of the State are booked for the
excursion.
SALT LAKE CITY.
Several of the party contemplate
extending their trip to Salt Lake
City-9l4 miles further. ] will fur
nish excursion tickets from Grand
Island and return-ls2S miles-for
one hundred dollars, to those who
may wish to visit Salt Lake. The
time from Grand Island to Salt Lake
Is As hours.
COST OF THE EXCURSION.
The trip from Atlanta to Grand
Island, Neb, and return, including
tickets, sleeping car and hotel fare,
can be made for inside of one hun.
dred dollars.
Parties desiring to join the excur-
sion, who have not already CORE
spOnded with me, are requested to
do 81 at once, and those making ap-
plication should state whether they
wish to take a sleeping car would
like to he notified before the 10th of
June by all wishing tickets. / will
endeavor to procure excursion tick
cts to Atlanta, to connect with
tickets from here, for parties that
may be made up i'm other cities. At
this date, May Goth, over eighty an
plications have been made for tick
cts. Prominent members of the
legal and medical professions, and
merchants of Atlanta and several
other cities are of the Marty