Nebraska advertiser., 1881-11-24

/ wind. Sometimes tocks of wild birds
rose; sometimes, also. prairie wolves in
large bands, gaunt, famishcd. urged by
u ferocious demand of nature, We'd
with the sledge in swiftncss Then
/ PaSsc partout, with revolver in hand,
held himself ready to fire upon those
that came nearest. If any accident had
then stopped the sledge, the travellers,
attacked 10y these ferot tious carnivorous
| beasts. would have run the greatest
risks But the slcdge kept on its course;
/ IL was not long in getting ahead and
soon the whole howlng band was lett
| behind.
At noon, Nudge recognized, by Ger.
tain landmarks, that he was crossing
the frozen course of the Platte River.
He said nothing, but he was sure that
in twenty miles more he would reach
! Omaha.
| And indeed, one hour aftcrward this
skilliul guide, abandoning the helm,
hastened to the halyards of the sails
and furled them, whilst the sledge. car
ried on by its irresist BILE force, accom-
| plished another half mile under bare
poles. Finally it stopped, and Nudge
pointing out Il mass of roofs white with
snow. said:
1--WE have arrived"
Arrived! Arrived, indeed, at the sta
ton which, by numerous trains. is in
daily commun cation with the eastern
part of the United Statcsl
Passepartout and Fix jumped to the
ground and shook their s'ilIened limbs.
They helped Mr.. Fogg and the young
woman to descent from the sledge.
Phileas Fogg settled generously with
Nudge, whose hand Passepartout shook
like Il friend $, and all hurried toward
the depot in Omaha.
The Pacific Railroad, properly so
called, has its terminus ut this impOr-
tant city in Nebraska, placing the Mis-
slsSippi basin in connection with the
great ocean. TO go from Omaha to
Chicago, the Chicago, Rock Island a.
Pacific Road is taken, running directly
to the east and passing fifty stations.
a through train was ready To start.
Phileas Fogg and his companions only
had time To hurry into car. They
had seen nothing OF Omaha; but PaSse-
partout acknowledged to himself that it
was not TO be regretted, as they were
not on Il sight seeing tour.
The train passed with very great
speed into the State of Iowa, through
Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Iowa
City. During the night it crossed the
Mississippi at Davenport and entered
Illinois at Rock Island. The next day,
the 10th, ut four q clock in the alter
noon, they arrived at Chicago, already
risen from its ruins, and sitting more
proudly than ever on the shores of the
beautiful Lake Michigan.
Nine hundred miles separate Chicago
from New York Trains are not want
ing ut Chicago. Mr.. Fogg passed inn
mcdiately from one to the other The
nimble locomotive of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne a. Chicago Railway
started mt full speed, as il it understood
that the honorable gentlemen chad no
time to lose" 1t traversed Indiana
and Ohio, passing by populous cities
and over wide eXpanSes OF agricultural
land, with but few pauses; and sixteen
hours after reaching Chicago the Ohio
was reached.
At thirty-five minutes after nine, on
the evening of the llth, the train en-
tered the great depot at Jersey City,
the walls OF which are washed bv the
Hudson River From this station. the
eastern terminus of railroad system of
great magnitude, iifty-one passenger
and eighty.One freight trains depart
every twcnty-four hours, and an equal
number arrive Steamers and sailing
vessels lined the miles of docks extend
ing on both sides OF the station, and the
mighty river was filled with craft of all
kinds engaged in the commerce of New
York, when rose in front of IT, travel !
ers rs they emerged upon the broad,
covered way running in front of the de- !
pot, where the gigantic terry-boats of
the railroad company receive and land |
their myriads OF travellers, pausing not F.
in their work day or night.
AT thirty-hve minutes after nine, ut !
night the train stopped in the depot,
near the very pier OF the Cunard line of |
steamers. otherwise called the British !
and North American Royal Mail Steam |
Packet Company.
The China, bound for Liverpool, left !
thirty-hve minutes before!
CHAPTER XXXIL
IN WHICH PHILEAs rOGG ENGAGES ~ Ui- |
RECT STRrGGLE WITH Ill LuCk.
The China, in leaving, seemed TO have
carried away with her phileas FOgg's !
last hope.
In fact, none of the other steamers in
the direct service between America and
Europe, neither the French Transatlan-
tic steamers, nor the ships of the White
Star Line, nor those OF the Inman Com
pany, nor those of the Hamburg Line,
nor any others, could serve the gentle
mans projects.
The Percre, of the French Atlantic
Company, would not start until the nth
OF December. And besides, like those
of the Hamburg Company, she would
not go directly to Liverpool or London,
but to Havre, and this additional trip
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