Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-03
ROYAL ~RAILROADlHa.
Inaugural Excursion From the
Lakes to the Rockies.
Leading Journalists Of the Country
to Be Invited.
Something That Sounds Like
Col. Pat DOnan.

Fargo Sunday Argus, February ISL
The completion Ofthe great Chicago
burlington and Quincy through line t
Denver on the first Of next July wll
bea memorable event in American rail
way annals. 1t will break the lont
standing monopoly of Jay Gould, with
his Union Pacific and Kansas and Pa.
cifc roads, on the traffic and traveI
between the great lakes and the Rocky
Mountains. 1t will emancipate the
farmers and merchants of Colorado
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and a large
part of Northern Missouri and Illinois
from the thralldom which lack of an
Independent competing railway line
has SO long fastened upon them.
1t will be an occasion of almost
national interest and importance.
and the managers Of the Chicago, Bur.
lington and Quincy have determined
to celebrate it with the grandest In
augural excursion ever given in Amer.
lea or the world, The details of their
proposed gloriicatiOn trip which it af.
fords The Argus pleasure to lay before
its readers, sounds like tales Of fairy
land, or the gorgeous romances of the
Arabian Nights.
The excursion train, which will
leave Chicago on the morning of July
!, will be the most royalty elegant and
luxurious in all its appointments ever
made up on this or any other CONT.
nent. Six magnificent palace and
parlor sleeping cars will furnish quar-.
tiers to the fortunate guests. Two of
the finest dining cars ever built in the
United States, and a supply car
freighted with every delicacy, solid and
liquid, that epicurean taste can sug-
gest or money procure, all under
charge of one of the most noted rail
way caterers in the country, will serve
a perpetual banquet fit for the gods
that high upon Olympus dwell"
One superb drawing room car will
be fitted up with velvet carpets, richly
tape stried sofas and easy chairs, a
grand piano and organ, and all the late
music, magazines and illustrated Jour.
mails, as a reception room for the ladies
OF the party and for evening concerts
and reunions.
But perhaps the most unique feature
Of the whole train will be a a ar
ranged as a model printing Office, in
which a daily journal, edited by the
most distinguished literary men Of the
party, will be published every morning
printed upon white satin. A large
edition will be issued, and these white
satin dailies, stamped with the genius
Of men of national and worldwide
fame, will be charming souvenirs of a
tour which has had no parallel in
American railroad history.
The trip will embrace flying visits to
all places and. points Of interest in
Chicago, Burlington, Council Bluff,
Omaha-and Denver, winding up with
a run through many Of the grandest
Rocky Mountain scenes, a tour Of
some Of the celebrated gold and silver
mines of Colorado, and brief halts on
the return at Atchison, Leavenworth.
st. Joseph, Kansas City and St. Louis.
Runs of fifty or sixty miles an hour
will be madeacross the plains, and the
entire round will occupy but about six
days.
The invited guests will include
many OF the most eminent journalists
and literary men of the country.
among them being editorial represen-
tatives Of the leading papers OF Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Washington, Richmond, Raleigh,
Charleston. Savannah, New Orleans,
Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Gin
%cinnati, st Louis and Chicago. The
Mayors and Presidents of the Cham
bers of Commerce of several of the
principal cities and the Govern
ors of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado will
be invited to join the august caravan
The cards of invitation are to be
engraved by the American Bank Note
Company, of New York, in the highest
style of art, and every card will include
a gentleman and lady. Accompanying
the invitation will be an exquisitely
engraved card containing the entire
programme of the trip, and coupons
for passage and sleeping car berths to
and from Chicago, the starting point;
so that the favored recipients will be
at no expense from the time they leave
their homes until they return. All
these invitations in the various cities
from Boston to Now Orleans will be
delivered to the chosen guests person
ally by a special messenger for the
purpose.
Human ingenuity could scarcely
have planned an inaugural entertain
ment grander in its proportions or
more elaborate in all its details; and,
with such men as General Manager
Potter, and General Passenger Agent
Perceval Lowell, with his staff of
bright and enterprising young lieuten-
like Brydon, Lomax and Sheldon,
to push it, there is no room for q
doubt that it will be what they pro-
pose to make 1.-THE most notable and
delightful. excursion that ever took
place in this country; a pleasure trip
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