The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-30
PLOTTING PILGRIMS
Who Are Bound for the Mormon
Mecca, Salt Lake.
The Party Passed Through Cheyenne
Last Night.
What Resulted From a Reporters
Contact With Them.

the Cheyenne depot a heavily loaded
emigrant train. The train consisted of
seven coaches and two baggage cars. A
dim, uncertain light tlickered in each
car and here and there a head was pro-
truded from a window, while its own
er gazed stupidity around. A few men
were also to be seen on the platform,
generally leaning against the door
jamb, sucking in consolation from
short, disreputable clay pipes.
1t needed but these few indications
to develop tho fact that this was the
expected train load of emigrants bound
for the flourishing land of Mormondom.
Most of the expectant Mormons were
locked in peaceful slumbers. The cars
were Of the same general plan of archi-
lecture as the Pullman, only much
more primitive in construction. Be-
sides the hunks upon the regular seats
of the car, two tiers we're arranged
above them, one on either side. The
upper hunks bore a striking resem-
blance to the sawed off portion of a dry
goods box.
The men standing upon the platform
we're not over communicative-in fact
they maintained a distant reserve that
chilled all advances and knowing they
had met with an adventure with conf
dence operators, a man having only an
average amount of nerve felt some diff
fdence about entering the cars except
upon invitation.
Fortunately in this dilemma Conduc,
tor Shingle, who took the train from
here to Laramie, happened to pass
along and he c%heerfully consented to
act as pilot.
The passion of emigrants for heat
has become proverbial among railroad
ers. In each i%mpromptu Pullman car
two roaring fires were kept going, run
ming the temperature up to neariy 1000
in the shade. To such a temperate re
add the exhalation from the occupants
OF q crowded car, with not a mite of
ventilation to modify it, and the result
is an atmosphere warranted to kill at
forty feet.
The cars presented one of the most
peculiar conglomerations imaginable
, Here is one man moving in the NEST
forlorn way in the narrow space about
the stove. Long travel has made him
~listless and he seems to have lost most
OF his interest in life. Yonder is a
youth Of 10 apparently, with an air Of
complete abandonment taking his
sotium cum dig. His feet are elevated
at an angle of 40 degrees and lay like
two twin valises ON the top Of the
stove. An abbreviated pipe, now bad
ly furnished with much use, is grasped
tightly between his teeth. His arms
are folded across his breast and he is
lost in a dream of his old home, per
haps.
Here a mother bends lovingly wei a
sick child, a tea cup in her hand, as she
fondly endeavors to pour some water
down the infantile throat. The other
I children, none of them over fourteen,
I are scattered about the bunk in all the
i negligent attitudes of youth, fast
asleep. The mothers thoughts are
conferred on the child and she seems to
notice nothing that is passing.
In yonder corner the prudent old
mother and her equally prudent grown,
up daughters are going through the tur.
} moils of wash day. They have stretched
b little strings across between the upper
: tier of berths and from them depend
d the ~rejuvenated family lInen-handker,
j chiefs and socks and other things that
seldom come within the ken Of mar,
AS the party approaches, one Of the
young ladies modestly covers herselt
with a blanket and huddles into u cor
ner.
Here is an old fellow who was evi
IDENTIFY woke up by the train stopping HI
occupies an upper berth and sits at the
edge of it with his feet hanging down
The circumstance seems unnoticed b,
= the other passengers, but the conductO
and his companions pass rapidly by tn,
spot.
At the end of the car, the last sea
in fact, sits a comely looking nader
who is Just entering that period whel
/; pirlhood blossoms into budding woman
hood. Her dress is of plain calico, de
void of ornaments, but fits her compac
but light form to perfection. A youni
man of twenty-five, with sturdy forr
and bronzed cheek, seems to have a
eye for the beautiful also and is by he
side. Who wouldn't be an emigran
y under the circumstances? One littl
brown hand he holds in his, but as tn
! party approaches she deIterously man
ages to cover it with her apron. 1t
u evidently a case of love on both sides
for there is a tender light In the girl
eye as she glances sideways at her love
~ and they are apparently as happy as /
NJ in some sylvan scene in ''Merrle Eng
land" Nearly all the party showed
disposition to linger about there an
watch the thing.
To judge from appearances that youn
fellow in the middle Of the car neve
> felt '~'spooney." He is dosing ava,
le quietly, with a nasal infection tina