The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-09
Chicaso-.RaiI Roads. &c.

ChfcagO-.kaiI Roads, &c.
In a brief trip of pleasure and business
combined a few days ago as far west as
Chicago, we dropped off at indianapolis
long enough to partake of a splendid
dinner at the Grand Hotel, where Judge
Sweeney, the most genial and popular
hotel man in the country presides, after
which we boarded the great 1. B. & w.
and sped away towards Danville, eighty
five miles west of Indianapolis, passing
through a rich, fertile and beautiful
country. We arrived at Danville about
4:30, and took a car for Chicago OF the
Chicago and East Illinois Railroad
This is the short route to Chicago, via
the 1. B. & W., and is an elegant road.
From Danville to Chicago is about 100
miles, and the run about five hours, ar
irving in Chicago at 9:15. The country
through which the road run is rich in
fertility, but nearly destitute of timber,
and for miles you a see over an area
of country almost as level as a room floor,
burning and blazing in the scorching
rays OF a July sun, with hardly a twig to
relieve the monotony, while lei were
gathering hay, cutting oats or blowing
corn. the bright agricultural implements
flashed in the sun, and cattle quietly
grazing in the pastures, suggested rare
steaks prepared by solar heat. 1t was
almost painful to the eyes to look across
miles of prairie, dotted here and there
with farm houses, unprotected from the
rays of the blazing sun, by even fruit
trees, the long expanse of prairie I'M
broken by SO much as a hedge fence
The corr crop of Illinois is more back
ward than last year, and a great deal of
it will be late, if it is matured at all.
Chicago is a wonderful town-every-
thing there seems to be on A style.
Houses ten stories high, as if the inhab-
itants in this life desired to live as near
heaven as possible, because it is said in
the geography of the celestial regions,
Chicago is not down, no person from that
city of frauds ever having been admitted
by st. Peter, who guards the gate to
heaven. Chicago is wonderful in bust
ness, buildings and inhabitants-the lat
ter are genial to a fault, but amid their
suavity, hospitality and apparent gene
rosity, they keep one eye wide open for
the almighty dollar! Why, some of them
would really make you feel delightful
while they extracted the last nickel from
your brooches pocket!
On our return from Chicago we step,
ped aboard one of the elegant passenger
cars of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad, and were soon flying through
the prettiest part of Illinois, passing
beautiful groves, handsome residences,
elegantly improved farms, pretty towns,
presenting to the eye an ever changing
scene of beauty and grandeur. The G.
B. & Q. road is elegant in all its equip
ments, passes through a region OF u
try, perhaps unsurpassed for richness
and beauty OF the globe, and the officials
and employees in every department are
assidious in their efforts to please trav-
elers. They furnish desired information
with a grace which makes asking ques-
tions rather pleasant. The general pas
senger agent, Perceval Lowell, Esq, is
a gentleman who as one of natures no.
blemen would adorn any position in life,
and in no station would in the least de-
gree transcend the amenities due the
humblest man. He efficiently performs
the duties of his position, and the grand
road over whose financial interests he
and Ticket Agent, is fortunate in having
an officer so ~considerate OF the interests
of the road. If you intend going West,
for beauty of scenery and everything that
makes a trip delightful, take in the G.
B. & @. which combines in an eminent
degree, speed, comfort, safety, economy
and beauty of scenery. The conductors
on this route to Peoria, are S. V. Estee
and Frank O'Neil, and two more clever
and gentlemanly fellows never yelled
"all aboard"
| Az eOTld we again StluCh Iue l.. ID. "
w. for Indianapolis, a distance of 212
miles. The 1. B. & w. is among the best
roads in the country, grand in all its
equipments, superior in all its connec,
tons, extending as a through line from
Columbus or Springfield, Ohio, to far be-
yond where the sun sinks down behind
the western hills, and bathes his radiant
face in the bubbling springs Of Colorado
and Montana! The general officers are
at Indianapolis, and all information viii
be given on application to H. NJ. Bron
son, General Ticket Agent. The Assist
ant Ticket Agent, Mr.. Prouty, is al
pleasant a gentleman as you will NEE
anywhere, and is fully posted in railroad
affairs. The conductor on the I. B. {
W. from Indianapolis to Danville is D
c. Brown, who a few years ago worked
in Preble county for Mr.. Haywood, Oh
his farm near Wheatville, and is quite
clever and social gentleman.