Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-15
RETURNED 1T LAST.

The Northern Pacific Exhibition Car After
Three Months Trip Returns to st.
Paul.
In the early fall when the abundant har-
vest in the Northwest assured the hus-
bandman that he was to be blessed with a
generous yield as reward for his labor,
while the sound of the harvester was heard
all over the vast prairies of the Northwest.
and the golden grain was being gathered
IN from the harvest fields, the Northern
Pacific road arranged for kind of travel
ing exhibition of the productions of the
soil gathered all along the line of that
road, through northern Minnesota and Da-
kota and across to the Pacific ocean. The
road accordingly had a car fitted up es
pecially for this purpose. 1t was a largo
sized box car made strong and stripped of
everything that unnecessarily occupied
room, so as to afford all the space possible
for the display of the produce of the earth.
Wheat, rye, oats, barley on the
stalk and in glass jars. Potatoes
OF all varieties, turnips, onions, pumpkins,
beets, and all varieties of vegetables, were
suitably arranged around the interior of
the car. On the outside of the car were
words describing what the car was design
ed for. 1t was theltraveling evangel carry
ing information of the new Northwest.
and at the same time producing conclu-
slve evidence of the trpthfulness of its
announcement. About the middle of Sep
TENDER this novel railroad agent and gen
eral dissemination of information, which had
been thrown open to the inspection of the
public, and which was visited by
many thousands of people here in st. Paul,
moved out from the union depot, at the
foot of Sibley street, and started for the
South and East. Yesterday she again
made her appearance in St.Paul and stood
ID precisely the same spot that she did
just before she left for her long three
months pilgrimage. During all the three
months she was away she was under the
direction of M. T. X. Stateler, the travel
ing agent OF the Northern Pacific.
Her trip has been a long
one and she has visited many cities
and entertained hundreds of thousands of
people. When she left st. Paul last Sep
TENDER, she went to Cedar Rapids, Daven-
port and many of the principal cities of
Iowa. On her way down shs also took in
Rock Island and other towns along
through Illinois, and then crossed over to
Hannibal, Mo-, including on the route
many intermediate cities. She then struck
across the country and stopped all along
the route at the principal towns
till she reached Green Bay.
She then dropped down to
Peoria, ILL.,, where she struck the Illinois
state fair. There she held a regular carni-
val for several days. During the continuance
of the fair, and all the time she lay there
she was visited by thousands of people
who could hardly be made to believe that
we had country up here where from 20 to
30 or 40 bushels of wheat can be grown to
the acre. Leaving Peoria the car moved
over to Indianapolis, Ind, where she as
tonished the Hoosiers. At this
place she found the Indiana
state fair in full bloom. She hauled up
right on the fair grounds and held forth,
preaching the gospel of the great North
west-big crops and no end to land, corn
and wheat and barley, and the best climate
in the world. The Hoosiers opened their
eyes and, like their Illinois neighbors. be-
gan to think they wanted some of that
land up there in the blooming Northwest
After having sufficiently enlightened
the boosters she shot over to Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and from there to Toledo,
Cincinnati, GAINESVILLE and Columbus.
Ohio. She then took shoot up to James
town, and Elmira, New York, and after
wards the car dropped down into Fennsyl-
vania, and stopped at Harrisburg, Phila-
delphia, Erie and other large cities in that
state. She then worked along up to Cleve-
land ard Chicago, and then up home to St.
Paul. The car has been gone three months,
during which time she has exhibited to
many hundred thousand people, and
everywhere she has met with an
enthusiastic reception. Mr.. Stateler
says that the only way he
can express himself is to say that when
people came into the car and saw with
their own eyes they ''threw up their hands,"
There was no end to the questions asked
by the thousands on thousands of people
that visited the car. Mr.. Stateler..says be
was glad to get back home to good old
Minnesota, and that next year thousands
in the East will pack and come to tbs
Northwest.