Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-08-08
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Chicago, ny ! 8, 1854.

life went III bed and s i. On Tire top
Shelf lisss mex ltlt,i'IlSi ig at s.
pt',cs itlst as tiae train.
reached ,Nsl'sison, he pitstl
5t:,,;,:siIi, from, the vicinity Of which
man IF oar raslan sal tiers ii, SlIorri-
son COTS. From Madison to
Chieaggo e very foot Of tile country app
pears TO be utilized. Crops looked
we'll, especially corn, which occupied
about otie-thivd of the i'm APPROVED land.
I noticed butfeW apple orchards, all
Of which had 4 sickly look, some trees
dead and others on their last years
lease of3time, with but a small amount
Of fruit in sight. Stock did not appear,
to be abundant, and it was confined III
well picked fields. It looks hard to see
the stock Of this region compelled to-
subsist on nearly bare ground, while
there is in Morrison county, MINI,
thousands of acres Of luxurient grass
untrodden by a single hoof of the no
vine race during the whole year. 2..
7 At 2 O'Clock the train reached Chlca-
60 on time. Although nothing extra
ordinary was going OH the streets APP.
peared to be nearly blockaded with
people andyehicles Of various sorts. I
wondered how 1t was possible to move
ct all ON the occasion Of the Two great
conventions recently held at this
place. I asked a cab man what his
charge would be i to take me. to 6l8
South Monroe street, and he said IS
cents. / then asked a ticlzetagent how
/ could best reach that point, and he
said by getting aboard the street cars
that were on Madison street, stop at
the same number, go south one block
and [ would be there. So. boarded
the street car, paid cents and SO
reached the residence Of Nv. D.. Bah
bitt, a distance of about three miles.
for small outlay. I found him at
home, and he said that twenty years
ago when he located there he was all
alone upon the prairie, but that he was
now in the heartof the city. From his
placed went to the office and house of
Edwin Rogers, No. l79 Madison, who
is the owner Of a large amount of
choice real estate in and about Little
Falls, and who keeps posted as to what
is going on in our village through the
Transcript, which he Regularly takes.
l was not intending to stop in Chicago
oyer Sunday, but my friend Rogers
would not listen to my proposition to
leave the city in such a hurry, and in
sisted on my 'tarrying with him all
night, stating that as he was q bachelor
he slept in his office and had an extra
bed to accommodate his friends. So
I was easily pursuaded to accept of his
hospitality, especially as the day was
far spent. During the evening be
showed me some ofthe principal build
ings in the vicinity of his placs inc|ua-
ling the Grand Pacific hotel and Pal
mer house, the new board of trade
building, post office and the court
house and city hall; which he said cost
to build it $1,000, 600, also some busi-
ness houses ten storeys high. As the
weather was sultry and fearing an at
tack ofcholera we stepped into $780,
600 saloon and sampled a little Of their
whisky sour before returning to the
Office. When the hour for retiring
came Mr.. r. rolled one of his writ
ing desks into the center Of the office
and opened it up. 1t contained nice
mattress, quilts, sheets and pillows, 80
the writing desk was also a bed, and
for aueht know might have been
several other things. rested we'll
and felt like q tighting-cock in
the morning, and after breakfast pro
posed to depart, but Mr. Rogers said
that must stay over Sunday and 60
out with him to Locoln park. We took
a street car and went up to the park.
tits on the shore of the lake in the
north part Of the city, and contains
about half section of land which has
been fitted up by the city at great ex-
pense. No admission fee is charged.
| 1t contains beautiful groves, artificial
ponds with swans, geese and ducks in
abundance, in one sea lions, in another
crockodiles.a turtles, etc. In different
yards are buffalo, elk, deer, several
kinds of bears, Wildcats: wolves, prai-
RE dogs, etc. There are few animals
| you will not see here, ranging from
buffalo to white mice; and great as
sortment Of birds, from the bald eagle
to the jay bird. The flower beds, for
extent and beauty, far surpassed any
| thing L had ever seen, and when we
contemplate that this. is butone of5nine
parks in aud about Chicago we can be-
| Sin to believe that something is ex.
pended to please the pleasure seekers
who continually throng these public
parks. l. .s :'1 ;, y #E s. ID B. !. !
[ + Blt / DON, THINK you 5couid guess
who I saw there to-day. I would not
tell you, if he had not tried 10 dodge
me. It was the Rev. O. @. Rundell. Il
was standing still on the route where
the people passed along ito see the diff
ferent animals, looking back while Mr..
Rogers was talking to a friend I saw
Mr.. Randell approaching about three
rods away locked arms with. q woman.
He came up within about twenty feel
gofme when his eye caught mine and he
stopped. "a bowed and waved my
hand and he suddenly struck Of al
right angles, and soon disapp eared.
fIsdid not know the Woman. She was
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