Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
4 VOYAGE IN THE AIR.
RTRD'S ETs VIEW OF THE NORTH
VEST Il HUNDRED YEARS. HENCE
y Herald Reporter Takes a Morning Ride
from Chicago to the Rocky Mountains,
and Thence Up Into British America, De-
scribinS the Scenes Along the Way.

Il complete newspaper purporting to have
been issued on the 25th of November 1882
From it we extract the following:
A reporter for the Herald was delegated
10 take run through the Northwest yes
terday morning and write up the country
between Chicago, the Rocky Mountains
and Winnipeg. Like Satan-of whom
Lord Byron said, that
Upto the earth sprung he,
And, making jump from Moscow to France
Ne stepped across the sea
the Herald man attempted to do the thing
up sin short ORDER but the truth is it can
not be done in less than three hours, since
She pneumatic transportation companies
have become so crowded with fall travel
that they have had to reduce their time
This is very serious interruption to bust
ness, and it looks no more than fair that
If the devil could get over the ground so
lively 200 years ago, modern invention
ought TO send decent men around town on
their business a little more swiftly than Jour
compressed air companies seem disposed
to.
The Yellowstone Valley Atmospheric
evening by Chicago gentlemen in their
private r-perambulators, is ever beauti-
full, and the world having accomplished
most every thing, ought to be beginning to
learn to be satisfied with what it has. The
charming suburban villas along the base
of the Rockies. though nothing novel, are
like q galaxy OF paintings-they may be
ever viewed and studied with delight.
There Is probably rot another so pictur-
esque scene surrounding Chicago, unless
it be the ancient Shell Road" at New
Orleans, o. the pastoral homes of Arcadia
on the sea coast, ust east Of the city. 1t
is perhaps even prettier than the Hudson
River Terrace, though there Will always be
a divergence of opinion on this score
between residents of the West
side and other parts of the
city. It does seem as if men
ought to be cosmopolitan enough by this
time not 10 let section ! differences affect
them, but there is 20 denying it, the resi-
dents of the Rocky mountain districts and
citizens east of the Alleghenies, though
they meet every day in their offices Or on
the pneumatic and upper air turnpikes,
will persist in standing out' against one
another OF The relative beauty of the parks
they live IN.
But-to begin at the beginning-the
HeT0ld reporter, putting one of Mr.. Ar
gando's improved portable hody-warmers
into his vest pocket and lighting an electro
cigarette timed for twelve second
smokel stepped into one of the flying
machines kept for the members of the
local staff. and, after tedious
ride of ten seconds, lit in the
palace compartment of the Chicago &
pany, whence, in about thirty minutes,
with numerous cigarette solaces to his i'm
patience, ne was blown from Chicago 10
Helena. Montana, by way of the old, now
almost disused Northern Pacific glass tube
route. The old route consists of an ele-
rated transparent tube, and was erected
about fifty years ago-just after the intro
ducfion OF atmospheric rapid transit-to
enable tourists to get a view of the Mon
tana bad Lands,' but it is considered too
slow these days, and travellers can get just
as fine view, without loss of time, by
stopping on the summit of the Rocky
mountain range and glancing through the
stereoptico-telescopic observator, with
which the scientific gentlemen at that
point are inspecting the north pole.
Prof essor Astronomers, the superin-
tendent, informed the Herald reporter
that since the invention of his ingenious
refraction lens he had been enabled to see
around the world when the atmosphere
was clear, and not infrequeutly observed
the emperor of Russia on his way to the
imperial palace. Professor Astronomers
is very pleasant gentleman and quite
well informed, and has just returned from
a trip to the center of the earth. He says
the signal service there located is daily re-
ducing the temperature to livable de-
gree, and it is really very amusing to- him,
when he considers their efforts, to observe
the ice increasing in the Arctic
regions, in the face of the Green
land Anti-Cold society's efforts to elevate
the temperature at the pole. So sci
ence, 1t seems, has met an obstacle; it
appears to be quite trick to get the
center of the earth cool and habitable and at
the same time get the poles aodrm and
habitable. Professor Astronomers laughed
quite heartily when he said that he
could see Professor Frigidor blowing his
fingers as he talked with him through the
telephone attached to the north pole, and
he knew very we'll that Professor Torridus,
at the lower end of the centri-terral tunnel,
was wearing gloves to keep his fingers
from getting burned. However, he thinks
the difficulty will soon be overcome, and
in the meantime he is busy himself survey
ing a route for telephone connection with
the planet Jupiter.
One of the most interesting things west
of st. Paul-that pretty suburb of half a
million. on the upper Mississippi-is the
rain Of the old bridge across the Missouri
at Bismarck. 1t is a relic of the railroad
days of hundred years ago, and it is said
to have been built by a company known as
the IN. p. r. R.'-a title supposed to have
meant Northern Pacific Railroad" and
from which, presumably, the present
Northern Pacific Pneumatic Transfer COM
pany took its name, as did also its pre-
deces5or, the old glass-tube company above
mentioned.
Al ,ha museum in Miles City, Montana
is the skeleton of an animal known as the
buffalo II once roved in vast herds over
this continent, and is said to have been
very large, but docile, and was used by the
Aztecs, or Indians-much the same thing
as domesticated beast of burden. The
specimen seen by the reporter was about
seven feet high, but general report saith
that the average buffalo was somewhat
bigger.
Having finished the fine views in the