The Red Cloud chief., 1881-08-11
TEE EXCURSION.

Inc largest NUMBER OF strangers
that ever visited Red Cloud ut one
time since the. old Sioux Chief, Red
Cloud, with his dusky followers
campei on this ground twelve years
ago, came up from Beatrice and other
towns east of here last Thursday. To
say that everybody, including the Il.
& NJ. officials, were surprised at the
immense turn out, would but family
express it. Nearly twelve hundred
hungry and thirsty people, Worn out
by a long days jaunt on the cars,
turned loose in Red Cloud, turned
this usually placid town into a bed
lam.
The excursion, so far as the excur-
sionets were concerned, we regret to
say, was n failure, not because there
was no interest taken in the matter
but because too much interest was
manifested. Nobody was prepared
for such a rush. The b. Il VI. officials
made arrangements TO bring four
hundred people, and our hotel keepers
and restaurant men made arrange
ments to accommodate that number,
but when the train pulled out from
Crete at I O'Clock in the morning it
Don became apparent that the rush
untt1I NO nrnnf.r than tyls NynaerrI
and the railroad officials attached
every coach that they could rake up
on the line of the road to the train, In
all thirteen cars, and still they had
not room to accommodate The multi
tudes who had assembled at every
station along the line, the greater part
of whom we're left behind, the train
in some instances running by the
towns at full speed TO prevent the
people from attempting to board the
already overloaded cars.
The time set for the arrival of the
train a. this point was | p. M, but
owing to causes already stated it did
not arrive until 6 p. M, and it was
of course impossible to hold a picnic
or to entertain the immense throng
in any decent manner as was origin
ally intended and as the people of
Red Cloud would gladly have done
had il been in their power.
Many of the people who came in
on that train had been without food
from early in the morning, not having
brought a lunch basket along and it
being impossible to procure anything
to eat on the way, and they were as a
consequence ravenously hungry and
it is not to- be wondered at that they
crowded into the dining rooms of the
hotels as fast as they arrived from the
depot, and helped themselves without
regard to appearances or the rules of
etiquette.
To sum the whole thing up in a few
words, the excursion was Immensely
orer-done, and what would have been
a pleasant excursion and picnic for
one third the number, proved to be a
disagreeable farce for the multitude
who Unexpectedly came, and We
don't see that any blame can be at
tached to the B. & NJ. Company or
the people of Red Cloud who alike
regret the unfortunate termination of
what was expected to have been a
pleasant and social affair.
Two hours after the arrival of the
train, it started on The return trip
bearing away most of the people who
came and who had only time to
secure something to eat and drink,
and VINO had not an opportunity to
take more than a hurried and unsatis-
factory glance at the town. The b. &
NJ, officials, however. kindly offered
TO held the train until 10 O'Clock the
following day if the crowd desired to
remain.
The Beatrice base ball club remain
ed over and engaged the Red Cloud
boys in a game of ball on Friday and
may properly be said - have been
the only members Of the excursion
wac derived any pleasure 81 sA;isfsc-
ten from the trip.
We hope tAat the nest time de
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