The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-31
WHEELING TO DENVER
A QUICK TRIP TO THE FAR WEST.
AFAst Run to Chicago. aEniacsnt Appoint.
msntS ofIhe Rock I.Iapd Railroad-Ths
Santa FO Line westfrom Kansas City.
The KAusNs aud Colorado Country.

1
The writer Of these lines left Wheeling
on the evening Of the l4th OF October fol
short and hurried visit to the West, go.
ing first to Chicago via the Baltimore &
Ohio, next to Kansas City via the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, and thence to Dem
yer, Colorado, via the Atcbison, Topeka &
Santa Fe line, reaching the last named
place on the evening Of the 18th, dis
lance Of about leo miles, consuming
nearly three days time and making about
% miles per hour, including all stops.
The run to Chicago over the Baltimore
4 Ohio was the fastest part OF the trip,
viz 400 miles in thirteen hours, about
thirty.six miles per hour. They call 1t
the "Daisy Train, the one on which you
leave Wheeling at 1850 in the evening, and
1t is well named, for il is daisy train sure
enough, in all respects, speed aud comfort
included, and it lands you in Chicago the
next morning at S:i5, alter good nights
rest and breakfast on the train, as fresh as
daisy. "BleBs rae this is pleasant" !"
riding and sleeping and breakfasting on
the rail at nearly thirty-six miles per hour.
Formerly the schedule from Wheeling
to Chicago was about twenty-four hours,
but steel rails, solid road bed and the
best quality of rolling Gtock and machinery
have wrought q change by which you save
twelve hours and gain business day in
Chicago.
GOING FURTHER WEST.
However, the writer had no business
TO transact in Chicago, and hence after de-
voting about three hours TO sightseeing
in the great metropolis OF modern times,
and to wondering at and RdmiriEg is
growth and progress iG every direction,
he brought up at last at the magnificent
depot Ofthe Chicago, Rock Island 4 Paciuc
railroad, and took pasSsgN at l2:lO noon
for Kansns City, 52l miles further west.
The Rock Island is another daisy"
road and stands pre.eminent even among
several excellent roads that run westward
nom Chicago, Guch 90 the Chicago 4
Alton and Burlington aud Quincy. 1t was
the pioneer rod to reach the Mississippi
river about thirty years ago, and besides
building up apd developing one Of the
richest sections in the United States, in
Ilu0OF, luWA huu n4Isbpb'iI HAH O0Sh q
grand Investment for its st ckhoItefs. No
professional wreckers or Tus:arawas
crowd ever succeeded in stealing 1t from
its atorShoidea. but having had honR.l
and efficient management right along 1t
has been a success from the very start,
We had had good square breakfast on
the b. L 0. before reaching Chicago, but
our walking arcuad in Chicago had sharp.
ened our apostles for the sEcellant bill Of
fare presented in tho elegant dining csr
OF the Rock Island. How comes It that
train and car asrYice ara so much better 10
the west than liz tho aast7 No such
trains run out OF New York ~ run west
from Chicago. They do not compare Is
their appointments. The passenger gets
more Tor his money in the west. He gets
better meal on the trains for Is cents
than he gets east for dollar, Then, too,
these reclining chslrs-iree gratis, lmsg-
inc Vanderbilt giving passenger reclln-
ing chair Ia one OF his cars.
Hero WAS our dinner bill oI fare:
| s0uP.
| fuE6a OF psQto,
YIAlI,
EAcallopeh White Fish,
BOILED.
Tongue. Tomato Sauce
| Roast.
Wild Duck with Jelly. sitoIn OF Beef.
| Rib Ends OF Beef, Drowned Potatoes.
| ESTHREs,
Baked Pork sni B"ns p,n da,,Sa EGa GGiSffa sLe
Curry ri Veal with Rice
TeudetlOin 0i Beef, stuffed With Oysters.
Cab Apple Jelly. CompOt ot Apples.
| yropy,b,rs
Sugar Corn. French r.HS. baked Sweet Potatoes.
Mashed and Boiled POtAtnes. stewed TonAtss.
s,s,m F,o,, Pudding SSt". tiSTi s,uce. Apple Pie.
Pumpkin Pie. EiHm hce.C. Assorted Cake.
| Vanilla I'p CscAu1 Fruit.
Peach CY<.4'd IN Crirt.
Tea Milk. Coffee.
Boats crackers.
For an extraCharge plenty oi all kinds OF
wine, beer, and cigars could be- obtained:
This is the way passengers are served, J
am told ,onall the roads that lead west from
Chicago but ran only spsak personally
and authoritatively, Of the Rock leland.
The service, loo, is as untxceptioHaele as
the meals. Everything clean ndevery body
accommodating All this for seventy-tive
cents and lots q time for 1t. OF course all
the passengers were pleased, especially
when they learned that this was every day
fare on this line.
Our supper and breakfast were Of the
same general excellence, and so we're the
sleeping arrangements. All up 10 first.
class hotel standard This is the way things
are done in the progressive west.
KANSAS cry.
At 9:20 OF our second morning out from
Wheeling wc pulled up at the great Union
depot at Kansas CITY. As we had only
forty minutes until the Atchis0n, Topeka
4 Santa Fe would leave Tor the indefinite
West--ior all parts OF tho continent | was
about to Say--we had no time to 90 UP the
hill, on top OF the bluI, and take in the
town--the Chicago number two-tllat ia
said to have doubled its population since
the census OF 1880, and that now claims
l4O,OU0 people. For that matter there
were hoGses enough to sec down on the
"hst," and people eno"Rs 10 the various
waiting rooma Of the Union depot, 1t re-
minda one OF Castle Garden. such con.
Someration oil people Of all kinds and all
nationalties have not seen together very
often; all going some place aud waiLing
on their respective trains. And here were
the trains IL. or coming in, from dt2en
different roads, and all maTShaled on their
respective tracks-all TO scatter 70 every
part Of the onpass 10 the next half hour
drB, and distribute all these people to
every part oil the country. 1twas scene
10 study and put In my time at It.
Hnr time for leaving cana st last, and
40 boarding the Santa Pe" we turned our
backs on this aurgIng crowd OF humanity
and set our faces to the land of sunset
the promised land Of the illimitable west.
The "santa Fe" 10 sort ol Pennsylvania
road-a king road-a road that has
branches and connections everywhere
clear through to California, and even
down to thv Capital OF Old Mexico. 1t
takes map yard square to SHOW its
ramitications of TO advantage. It does
the largest passenger and freight business
Of any road running west oil Kansas City.
Some ofits live stock trainsate a sight tosee.
THE KANSAS COUNTRY.
The Kansas country hes lately been