The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-17
ACROSS TIE CONTINENT.
flow tho Tourists Appear 10 the Dcnizens
OF Cheyenne.

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from the Cheyenne (wyoming) Leaderl
They come in crowds Mt this season.
Sometimes they are members OF the
peaceful order Of the Young Mems HUI
mauity Union and their families; some
times members Of tho semi-milltary or
qanization, the Bayonct and Sword so
ciety. and their families; sometimes they
are Raymond excursionists, but by the
time they reach Cheyenne they have the
travel worn appearance common to tour
isl-. Local Western travellers get of
the train and trampit up town; CONNER
cial travellers take the bus with the
cattle men from Texas, and are driven
10 the hotels, but the tourists pour out
N the sleeping cars and make direct Tor
the rmroad diniuP-room, The men
wear black caps, pulled down on their
heads till the bands touch their shirt
collars, and busters so long rs to almost
sweep the ground, and which are creased
and limp rs il they had been used to
sweep the car floor. One man tourist
always looks like every other man tour
list. His costume is disguise, just ns
his manners, talk and way Of living on
/ tour give him an IDENTITY different
from that which brlougs TO him at homo.
But if the mon Hrc commonplace and
uuintcresting, it must be said Of women
tourists that they look dowdyish. They
wear on their heads shapccss "walkng'
hats of n style fashionable some years
ago, adorned with dull.hucd artificial
nowcs, which have been mashed fiat
while the wcarcrs have been lolIing
against the backs Of rarscats or on con-
ycuicnt shoulders. The woman tourist
who picks hor way in slippers from the
car Ia the dining hail, or who clnmps
along in her husbands rubbers, also
wears dustcr. II is unused" into a
Thousand Jumps and folds, and has
,lrraks Of dust and ciudcrs on it running
in every direction. There are two char
actoristics, aside from s!oyrulncss, which
mark the woman tourist The first is
that her face is utterly devoid Of com
pltxion, aud the second that instead Of
speaking she always squcaks.
When II mob OF tourists have assault
ed the dining-room they take possession
Of it, There is no one in the dining
room TO be considered, excepting those
Of their party And how well they all
know each other. Such familiarity GS
prevails among them, one would think
could only DE the result Of living for
years rs members Of the same house
hold. But they haze been acquainted,
in most cases, no longer than il takes an
expires, train 10 run 10 Cheyenne from
the w.lds oi Jersey or Egyptian lllino IL.
In the diuiug.room, they chatter thc
dishes, "hisst' at the waitress, rattle
knives and forks, gcrape chairs noisily
/ Oh the floor, talk from one table TO an
other q dozen "a, time, and make n bed
/ Ian II IT beautifully. The men! over
| they walk mp and down the station plat
form IN couples or lomB, or, selecting 4
"natiyc, u knot Of them viii set to worl
Ilnping him. Then their wit anC
knowledge crop ont They know they
are west Of the Missouri River and that
thry have pissed many shnnty town.
along the Union pacjlr. Therefore the,
alc on the frontier IN the western wild,
and they proceed to show that they
have left their civilization behind them
| II was too thin to wear this journey
Through. When they talk with one .
the lcuightcd here. whose cXpcricnc,
away from home has not crchancc bccl
limited to Il single trip, they Singer an,
| gpglc, and ask whether this town
nimois really Siam, or Shanghai, or Sh,
! Ann? aud whether there is really an,
town back Of the Phoenix Block, th
Inter Ocean Hotel, and the Opcrahousc
They have heard NIL about the cnttl
business. Where do the ranches begin
Where do the cow.hoye keep themselves
Where are all the Indians? Are thcr
bulljiocs near town? What State
Cheyenne in? Is there such Il Tcrrtol
as Wyoming? DO the people hero ev,
go Est? What is the population
Were there never any trees here? Is
dways as hot, or m cold, or as wet, c
~ dry as to-day? But the bell rings
here is scramble for the car steps, Tin
tourists disappear into the doorways {
the sleeping cars, note books are soon /
hand and many interesting data con
corning prairie dogs, antelope, owls, raj
tlcsunkcs, the profits OF stock raising
ind the "high altitude of the region
entered with the purpose Of instructin
and astonishing when the journey
over.