The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-06-20

A party OF about one hundred, young
and old, took advantage of a compli.
mentary excursion to the city of END of
the Track" on the 15ht 1t was a day of
rest and recreation after the labors of the
week. The new coaches of the narrow
gauge road had arrived on the 18th, and
they made their first trip on this occa-
sion The cars are beauties. Every
thing about them is complete and first
class. Each car will accommodate about
fifty persons. The seats are double and
finely upholstered. Each particular is
counterpart of a standard gauge zach.
The seats are not quite as wide, and the
aisle is little narrower.
The Echo" engine was at the head of
the train, and behind it the cars glided
at the rate of twenty miles per hour over
the smooth and even track. At Madi-
son the train stopped few minutes and
took on some additional passengers.
Here on switch was another locomo-
tive. 1t is about a mile from one end of
Madison to the other, now. This is be-
cause the town is on the move, and not
on account of its size, as part OF the
town is at the new site, about half a
mile south, and the other part is where
1t used to be. The railroad company is
here erecting a large water tank, to be
supplied by water from the river, car
ried in pipes. The bridge across the
Verdigris is a substantial Howe truss,
and the abutments are we'll built of huge
rock. The bridges and culverts on the
road are of the best kind.
Homer creek, nine miles this side of
Eureka, is the present terminus. Near
the end of the track are several long
side tracks, and here we passed the con-
struction train, at the head of which was
an engine with four drive-wheels on each
side, and the boarding cars, and Whitley
u Henson's branch store The location
OF this is not as fixed as the main store.
1t Is a here and there store; to-day its
here, tomorrow it may be here, but more
likely there. About half mile further
the train found no track ahead of it and
stopped to allow the excursionists to
proceed to the grove near at hand, to
which the luncheons, baskets and bottles
of -, and so forth, and lemonade were
taken. Dinner was spread, and the af-
ternoon passed away in pleasant man
ner. Here among the trees the maidens
supplied the young men with hat bands
of green leaves of the oak-oak because
of the 'stalwartness" of the manhood
which clustered about, and about which
there were clusters of leaves and ladies
green because of the, the-well, green
is very appropriate color any way. To
ward sunset the train began the return
trip. Before going far it was discovered
that two young ladies were left, and the
fellow who left his girl behind him came
putting up to where the train had hap
pened to stop and gave the intelligence.
The accommodating managers backed
up the cars and took them on board, and
the return began in earnest. We were
going so fast that one fellow lost his hat,
and before it became known and the train
stopped and backed up again it was
about three-quarters of a mile back to
that hat, which was duly recovered At
z 30 the train reached Emporia, just two
hours after leaving the other terminus,
the embryo city of Homer, forty miles
away. All felt grateful to the kindness
of the managers for the ride, rest and re-
creation above described.