Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-06-17
GOING WEST.
a wheeling Traveller Relates His
Experiences From the
NAIL CENTRE TO THE GARDEN CIT
By the B. & O.-ohio Crop Prospects,
Arriving In chieago-The Sailors
Life on the lakes-A
Racy Letter
sp,eigl Corespondenee Of the Reguter.

81. fAULI, "iNN'f oohO 1890
ing to Chicago was our object and being
DESTROYS of leaving Wheeling atthe fast
est rate and by the shortest line, we went
by what's known ss the "daisy train" oil
the B. & o. railroad. When the space
between the two cities is measured in
miles, 1859 of them, it seems immense
say l.50 of the distance around the
woodland if the journey had to be
made in the horseback and saddlebag
fashion in which our grandfathers made
most of their journeys, 1t would indeed
be a formidable undertaking, and the
proceeding which was customary
among them of making a will before
starting out and calling up each child
to receive what might be a parents
last blessing, would seem natural and
proper enough. If, however, we reck-
on the said space as matter OF time,
and count the hours Of railroad travel
necessary to compass it, remembering
that We can, after a short days work,
leave Wheeling at 2:l5 o'clock in the
afternoon and be in Chicago at s O'Clock
the next morning ready for another
days work, it seems trifie. Suostltu.
ting in the same way one method OF
measurement for another, did 1t never
occur to YOU how much more OF life Is
given to us than our ancestors had In
the old slow days before steam had been
made slave? In a railway journey OF
sixteen hours we can see more than
they could in two weeks travel. In
one issue of your eight page REGISTER
we get more news than the busiest Cos
sip among them could gatherin a year.
Tie ease and rapidity with which we
can travel to and fro, the abundance
of books and newspapers to which we
have access and the other concomltants
of our high state ofcivilizatiOH all COM
bine to bring our minds into intimate
contact with each other and to speedily
make the valuable ideas Of every indi-
yidual the property of the race. A
man of thirty in our days has beard
more facts, seen more people, seen
more country, and, with the inner intel
lect and sensi5ilities which have been
evolved through generations of mind
disciplined ancestors, has suffered more
and enjoyed more than Methuselah or
Jared in all their nine hundred and
sixty odd years of animal existence.
Amongst all the material agencies
which have operated to enlarge our eX-
periences, increase the wealth of the
world and generally to ameliorate the
conditions of earthly existence, the
railroad seems to stand foremost. BY
the facilities which ii affords for
tIavel and traffic, knowledge has been
diffused, the gospel spread, much of the
resources Of the earth developed, its pro
ductions distributed, the nations brought
into closer community Of interest and
feeling, and
Milwaukee Beer
sold in St. Paul. Poets and painters
have celebrated as one of the most
beautiful and impressive sights in the
world the spectacle of ship under full
sail. In my opinion, u far grander and
more thrilling sight, and one which
seems to mean more as Triumph OF
the human intellect, is presented by a
lightning express train rushing along
at full speed. a famous Englishman,
who had suffered much with the govt,
once remarked that he did not see how
people could have endured living be-
fore the discovery Of colchicum and the
invention of springs for wagons and
carriages. The great railroad strikes OF
1877 made lis all wonder, in like man
ner, how people got along in the days
before they had railroads.
We met the western bound train on
time at Benwood, crossed the great
bridge, passed over Bellaire mot
through it, and sped west. Some mer-
riment was occasioned in our car
by the blakesman's pronunciation of
the names of some of the stations.
Bellaire was announced in a loud tone
as "Bel.lay-yah," and GAINESVILLE as
"Bahnsl." He was doubtless an East
ern shore man and was very nice ac-
commodating fellow, but we couldn't
help laughing q little at his very South
ern pronunciation. "Say, Miss Blank, 1"
said a
Fresh Young wheeling Man
to a Richmond belle, "do the darkies
teach you people to talk that way, or
do you teach them to do it?' The lit
tie episode about the brakeman puts me
in mind of an anecdote OfGeorge Parks
about two hundred and fifty pound
brakeman who was one day calling
stations on a car on the Pittsburgh
Southern railroad, wherein several OF
the directors and their friends were
seated. The brakeman had a very
shrill, squeaky voice, which seemed as
if it should rather have been the
property Of small boy than of such a
very large man, whom one would have
naturally expect ed to have the voice of
a stentor. An appreciation of the in
congruity existing between the mans
voice and his appearance seemed to
grow upon the passengers each time he
called a station, and sense of the
righteousness of the contrast also be-
came greater. until at last what had
been at first smile and then q litter
rose to loud laugh all through the oar
whenever the poor man squeaked out
his proclamation. Like most large
bodied men, he was good-natured, and
stood their fun for while very well,
but at last when he had swelled up his
chest in desperate effort and only pro-
duced cracked aud strained modifica-
ton of the same squeak and the passen-
gers became hilarious, his wrath broke
out anu sndhlIlS Ills llst az theih ue
screamed, "If this hyer company wants
its stations called in "barrytown'
voice, 1t can't get it done for no thirty
dollars q month"
Daylight left us at Newark" and our
observation of the Ohio crop prospects
was limited to the part of the State east
of there, There has been very little OF
fine.growing weather, and everything
is necessarily very backward. Some
of the wheat fields looked very thin.
Twas told that about ten per cent. OF
those in the northern part of the State
had been ploughed up and sowed in
oats, or planted in corn. The north
western part of the State suffered worse.
notice that the State Commissioner oil
Agricultural estimates the probable
Wheat Crop OF Ohio
at 100000 bushels for this year
against $4,000 900 bushels for last year.
The increased acreage planted in corn
is from ten to fifteen per cent.
The sleeper next to that which con-
tanned our party was occupied entirely
by a large delegation from the Philadel'
phia city council, who were travelling
ION city business" to inspect pave,
mont or something else at Chica 70