Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-06-30
TO THE OTH ER SEA.
a Wtimingtonian's Trip To the Paci
Gc-CuriOsifies on the Road The
Noble Red Men.


A newspaper man who has had the
honor on several occasions to represent
the local department OF TnE STAR re-
marked, in the course of a conversation
about Western scenes, that he knew
something about them from personal
experience.
"Write em up,n remarked Tue STAR.
GAN right" was the reply, and the
following are some of the experiences re-
fnrred TO:
short time ago the writer had occa-
sion to pay a visit to San Francisco, aud
the differences of travelling by Pullman
ear and emigrant line were fully illus
trated, as he went out on the former and
returned by way of the latter. The trip
10y Pullman train occupied just seven
days the other Just u.
On the swift trip there was little time
for anything in the way of episode, except
a cinder in the eye or Il sly drink out of
the private bottle of the porter of the car.
1t was interesting, however, when awaB-
,ned at midnight by the latter individual,
for the purpose Of seeing the gorgeous
scenery OF the Sierras by moonlight, to
find it shut out by the snow-sheds which
are useless in September but very useful
from December until May.
They are simply sheds constructed over
the line of the road through the noun
tains for the purpose of keeping off the
immense drifts ofsnow which occur during
the winter months. The sheds are not
| continuous, and in the intervals what is
pronounced by world wide travellers to be
the finest scenery in the world is dis
closed. Speaking of these drifts it may
lie thought an eXaggeratlon to say that
| when the hrst tram comes through the
NeVadas III the spring, after hard
winter, they reach sometimes higher from
| the ground than the top OF our layton
House Is, but that they do is fact, and
1t the snow-plows could speak they would
swear to it undoubtedly.
The train ON which the writer made his
westward "TRIP was delayed for II few
hours at Laramie City. Being a news
| paper man ne sought IL newspaper Office
as naturally as a duck seeks the water.
lie found one occupying little room
ABOUT l2Nlz' single youthful lndlvi-
dual was present, and he was engaged i'll
rtSurrettlng type from mass OF tobacco
juice III one corner OF the room.
81 presume you are the devil said
the writer.
Correct what can II" Tor y"n y was
inc gthlal response
~, Ivy nat time VIII the pressinan be III ~
IN hllh'
"ph, excuse me, when do your COM
posters arrive
here am.
ANY reporters around
Ill the repsrtorlal iorce oil tins con
Germ.
"h, beg parton can see the editor
young man, mat me, and am just
gong out to serve the papers, so what
ever you want, say 1t quick. revol
yer was significantly laid on the table in
conjunction with tins remark.
Come take something : " asked the
visitor.
u wlll,' larohleally remarked the
newspaper establishment, as 1t pocketed
the pistol and shook hands.
rms was one queer incident on the
ROAD out, but Il brakeman on the train
told story That made the hair Of tilt
writer stand Oh end IKE "quills upon tile
iretiul poreupinr. The train stopped
at a station Ill the American desert, and
the only llve object to be seen was sag
bush-nothing else but sand. The station
was called JuleSonrg. IN" writer re-
moved ms cigar to ask the brakeman
what III hades Che anticipated the new
yersl"nD they stopped there for.
"out of respect to the memory Of TIN
departed, was the response. $685..
PLEASE explain
: Certainly. Two years ago villag
was started here, which quickly grew
into thriving city of over 1000 in
/ |
came and before spring there was bu
one man left in the settlement, aud tn
worst OF 1t was that they commenced 81
the weaker ones first.
Commenced commenced what -
Eat 'em "
; Jerusalem what did the last ma
do"
'Nothimg left for him to eat but sand
. so he died, and that sage buslI is hi
monument"
Strange as it may appear, this tale, Il
related by the brakeman, was AN actua
fact, and occurred where the Union Pa
cihc strikes, for a few miles, the nortl
n | eastern corner of Colorado.
0 fact which shows that the noble re
- man has still some privileges in Americ
II was shown ON the same trip. Will
# passing Though the Territories the writ
er frequently observed Indians, who woul
e beg for even a chew of tobacco, getting o
/. the train and riding for distances of
e hundred miles or more the stations ar
!. not so close together out there as they al
e in this section of the country |.
If The traveller asked the conductor hO
it was the Indians could afford to max
such extensive trips.
"Why, you're fool, - was the bluI
response, edo you suppose they al
charged anything when they could wrec
train at any moment" The question
er fpltrelirved.
San Francisco is the funniest city in Il
Union. 1t is made up of people OF ever
kind and nationality. and som. of
hills are so steep that they actually lea
inwards like the tower of Pisa. II
writer, having occasion to talk with Il
inmate of house situated on one
These hills, had to walk out conside
able distance from the base of the hill
order to get on direct perpendicular lii
rs with the party who was being intervie
a ed.
r The ways of doing business in "Fri
70 60, as every one calls it out there, a