The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-20
4 DIG ru1na 81 wHKE1s.
4 magnificent Dona4ion Made by ssde
w1ck County TO the Ohio Flood
SufYerera

VICE O00AHX 70 tn8 O0l0 4t0O0
Sufferers.
a pageant which viii long be rom M
beted IL tie history of Kansas arrived
in Emporia Mo..day hight from Wichita
via the s MA F. road II consisted of |
train of ihiity-oae car loads Of sheIltd |
corn. donated By tie cit;z rs of Sgdg- |
wick county to the flood sufferers of |
Ohio, the value Of which when delivered |
ate Cincinnati the destination of the |
train, will be between $1,000 and $1,000.
The train LETT Wichita at 1890 a M
Monday, arrived al this place ct $50
p. m, and pulled out for Kansas City at
O'Clock Tuesday. Il was in charge
of Jimmie Ingals, as conductor, and
VIM Frlsby presided at the throttle. It
was accompanied by W. S. White, editor
of the Wichita Beacon, W. 7. Jewetf, of
SedgwIck equity, ard Prof. II. Worrall,
Of ihs Santa Fe land depsrtmtn', all OF
whom will make the through trlpto Gin
cinnaii.
From Messrs. White and Jewett, both
of whom called at The NEWS fife. we
learned that the original intention IVES
10 send to the sufferers car Lad o
/ -four and two or three car loads of core,
and with THIS Ell d in view q meeting of
the board Of t.cde was held
to work up the underta king.
But the entcfrrise grew aud the result
was that each toxnshIp in the county
contributed a car. load of shelled corn
and tie city of WIchitl six, making 81
cars in ell. Besides this there was
about $500 in moaey raist d, making the
total value of the magnificent gift about
5000. The corn was all HANDED to the
elevator at Wichita, where it was shelled
and cleaned, and our informants tell US
that several additional carloads could
have been secured.
Each Car was embellished with two
suggestive cartoons, one upon each side
of the Car, measuring tWenty-eigLt feet
in length each. This WAS the work of
Prof. Worrall, and the designs were of
the most appropriate and effective char
acter. beng dis;inctiveiy KaDssn in their
conception The inevitable grasshopper
figure d in the decorations with pIctur-
esque effect, and served as a valuable
agent in setting forth the contrast be-
tween the penury Of Sedgwiek county
in 1874 and her plethora in 'S4. Pictures
of mammoth ears of corn mounted on
wheels and drawn by grasshoppers gro-
tesque presentments of abr ormal s!eers,
excessive hogs and luxuriant vegetation
were made to serve as companion pieces
to lean and hungry "reminiscences OF
the desolation of 1874, and the whole
was wrought out in manner to ref ct the
largest measure of credit upon the skill
of the artist and his thorough know1.
edge of the spirit of the Kansas people
The following are some of the mot
toes and devices which attracted specia
attention: "Sedgwick County Remem
{ bers Her Own Times OF Trial." "BreaC
:. Cast Upon the Waters" "Corn witt
!. Compliments of Sedgwick County and
: Wichita to the Ohio Valley" "Giver
3 1874, Returned with Interest 1884,
"Kansas, 1874, Clouded with Grasshop
hers; Kansas, 1884, Flooded with Corn.
The corn will be transported fres
of charge by the Santa Fe road tt
Kansas City; from there to ST. Louis b.
the Chicago s. Alton. and thence TO Gin
cinnati by the Ohio s. Mississippi
D This generosity on the part OF these cor
:, porations is commendable in the highes
:, degree, and Is in keeping with their en-
s terprise and public spirit. At Kansa
? City the train will be decorated by so
r additional flags, and it is proposed tina
= the whole journey be made by daylight
] 1t is expected that the train will Ieacl
? Cincinnati by Thursday night, and up
+ on its arrival at that place will b.
e turned over with appropriate formal
ties to the president of the board of trad
of that city.
}, The gift is truly princely one, ant
l.. the enthusiasm with which the srriva
n of the train here was greeted, will doubt
J. less be general all along the line of tn
I, route. Sedgwick county has truly cas-
Y bread upon the waters by the SUPER
d generosity which she has shown to tn
{, unfortunate peonle OF the. Ohio valley
/ for no advertisement of her splendid re
> sources and the noble spirit OF her pee
e pie could be made which would so pro
= claim these to the world as the offerIn
7, which is now making its triumphal wa
IT from Kansas to Ohio.