San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-01-19
A LITTLE GIRLS JOURNEY.

The Story of Her Trip from Chicago to
Concord to Spend Christmas with Her
Grandfather.
correspondence of the Boston Journal
CoNcoRD, N, H., Thursday, Deoem-
Der ~, 1S77.-One Of the pleasantest
incidents associated with the recent
Christmas anniversary that has come
under our observation was a journey
that little Chicago girl, only 10 years
old, took alone from that city to Con-
cord, this State, q distance Of over ] 100
miles. 1t was such remarkable jour-
ney for one SO young to venture upon,
that we are sure the many young read
ers Of the Journal, and probably ,every)
one of the older ones, will want to read
about it. The little girls grandfather
lives in this city, and she wanted to
spend Christmas with him very much.
She thought it would be so nice to make
such visit that one morning at Break
fast, she said to her father that she
wanted to 60 to New Hampshire to
spendg Christmas, and That il DIE would
be so good rs to buy her a ticket and
take her to the cars, she would not be,
afraid to go all the way alone. Her far
ther could hardly believe her to be in
earnest in making such a request, and
told her the journey would be more
than 1000 miles, and that she would be
two or three days and nights on the
cars before reaching Concord. The
matter was talked over in the family,
but the little girl persisted so strongly
in her desire to make the trip that at
last her parents consented, and allthe
necessary preparations were made for
the journey! } p Il q L
twas Monday evening when gen.
tleman in the Chicago Railway station
approached the conductor of the Pull;
man sleeping-car train, and asked him
if he would take charge of small girl
who was going alone to New Hamp-
shire to spend Christmas with her
grandfather. The kind-hearted con-
ductor looked down at the little girl
with establishment, and at first could
not believe that the gentleman really
meant what he said. The little girl was
so very small that the conductor said he
was afraid he should lose her. He
looked at her carefully and noticed that
she had black hair and eyes and rosy
cheeks. She wore a slack dress, a
dainty travelling hat and dark sacque
trimmed with very rich fur, and she
carried a heavy shawl in strap, and a
nice bag on which was inscribed her
name and residence. The conductor
took her ON to the train, assigned her a
nice section of a car, where she could
sit in the daytime and have a bed made
for her to sleep on at night, and at just
9p. m. there was rafting and a rum
bling, and she had just time to say good,
by to her father when the train rolled
out of the depot into the darkness, and
started on it's way to Canada and the
States. ... .....a ..r.a,. .,l,r,,.na
We have not the room to give all the
particulars of the little adventurer's
journey, but would say that on the next
morning she woke up to find the train
on huge steamer at Detroit that was
carrying it across the river to the other
shore, where it would be placed on the
rails again. She took breakfast an the
steamer, and when the conductor was
assisting her back to the car nics-look-
ing man kindly asked her name, and
how far she was going. 7 will give her
exact reply, because the boys and girls
who read this letter will become inter
ested in her, and will wish to hear from
her again. She answered the gentle
man: .-i.D g..f7uD . .,s ..g,
"My name is, Emma Rand. l live in
Cliborne Place, Chicago, and my ia,
theirs name il Douglas Rand, and he is
manufacturer, am going to New
Hampshire IS SPEND Christmas with my
Grandfather Rand. My mother says nc
lives in 4 white f{onsen near the City Hall
don't expect to have any trouble find
ing him when 1 get there, for my Aunt
Nellie has written me that she will d
close to the ears when they stop at Con
cord, and will not miss me when stel
out" .-. .. s.s,
Her artlessness and simplicity 81
pleased the gentleman, who was a Meth
odist clergyman from Kansas, that n
at once told her that he was-strayelint