The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

disturbance you have till you arrive
in the Chicago depot. By the kind.
ness of our old and esteemed friend
General A. q. Dawes, general pas.
senger agent of the X. C., st. 10. &
c. B. road, we were favored with
transportation over his road, which
carried US from Atchison to Hop
kins, Mo-, and from thence to this
city over the q. B. 81 Q. This is q
splendid route, and we can cheer
fully recommend it to all our read.
ers coming from Emporia to Chica-
go. The cars are roomy, clean and
in first-clsss order. Dining cars are
run on both roads, and the meals
are much better than those usually
furnished by the eating houses. The
officials, from the. pOrters up, are
obliging and affable. The traveller
has two or three hours in which to
choose his time to eat, instead OF
rushing into an eating house and
grabbing what he can get, and often
being bound to eat when he done
want to or go through long period
of fasting.
The country from Emporia to this
city looks we'll. There had recent
ly been heavy rains on most of the
route which cooled the atmosphere
and made travelling pleasant. II
there is any portion of the green
earth we do not like it is the dreary
looking Missouri bottoms. Across
the river from Atchison we came
Immediately into swamps and
"deadenings." Here and there are
scattered the log huts, with little
patches of corn, rank growth of
weeds, runty cattle and the elm
peeler breed of hogs. One is wildly
reminded of Senator Ingalls, story
of the catfish aristocracy." These
acres of water abound with green
"scum" and dead trees. intermixed
with islands of whitish looking
sand, which latter is awful when
the wind is high and the weather
dry. The mind naturally pictures
snakes, frogs, owls, etc. Occasion
ally the road hugs close to the
bank of the dirty, CLASSY, and cold
looking river. But the road bed is
solid, and the train speeds along
smoothly over such scenes, and by
a few sQualid and miserable looking
towns, and quickly sight of the
gigantic city of st. 10 relieves the
scene. From here to Hopkins,
which we reach about nine O'Clock,
the road runs through some of the
handsomest country to be found
anywhere. The farms lie in a coun-
try which slopes down toward the
river, and are mostly noted for their
thrifty looking white houses, and
their order and cleanliness. We
noticed many places as handsome
as picture. The rich, green corn
fields, tasseled with yellowish gray,
the orchards and forest trees, the
white houses, all interpreted with
the fields and streaks of golden
grain, made lovely picture, as the
sun declined toward the horizon.
After leaving Hopkins we soon
"turn in" for the night, vexed that
we cannot see Iowa, where so many
of our good readers and friends
hail from. We believe she is gen.
orally prosperous this year. Early
in the morning we pass the thriving
town of Mt. Pleasant. Here is 10.
Gated the Iowa Insane Asylum. II
is large building, handsomely and
substantially constructed. We
speed on to Burlington, where we
arrive at 6 40 a. m. The first thing
we think of here is to provide our
self with copy of the witty Hawk.
eye. Crossing the grand old Mis-.
sissippi we go to q splendid break
fast in the car ahead. Our train by
this time consists of eight cars, three
of which are sleepers. We open
our paper and one of the first items
we read is that Burdette, the wit Of
the Hawkeye, is in Ohio on a lectur.
ing tour. But the Hawkeye is 9
good paper with Burdette left out
and we thoroughly enjoyed it til
we arrived at Galesburg. Through
that portion of Iowa which we saw
and through most of Illinois the
corn does not average much more
than half as large as the Kansas
corn. There are some good pieces
along, but the average is as stated.
We arrived at Chicago at 3 AZ
p. m, being but little over day and
night on the road. VS. had mo-
been in this city to stop over q few
hours for eight or nine years. Ii
the multitude of hotels here, anG
not being well posted as to theil
merits, outside of two or three o.
the bon tons, the question of "whert
to hitch" was q vexed one. w,
knew we could get good accommo
dations and any amount of style i
we were willing to "come down" Il
the tune of 81 per day. Being com
PEELED to stay several days, that wa
an insurmountable objection, il
view of the condition of our finaA
ces. We finally selected the Com
mercial, and are not sorry we die
so. We have q splendid room on
the first up stairs floor, with good
bed and marble topped furniture Al
50 so per day. Judging from the
fact that there were 100 arrivals