Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-02-27
From New Orleans.

arrived in the city yesterday, over the
Louisville & Nashville road. The route
aiken was via the Fargo & Southern, the
Short Line" and the Minneapolis &
st Louis; at st. Louis come sting with
the road first mentioned.
We have beheld Rex in all the glory Of
AIardi Gras, and Momus and his crew.
Some natives seem disappointed be-
cause the people from the North do not
shovel the gold out in the Sunny South
with scoop shovel. The king, it IS
stated, whose personal identity is known
only to the initiated, pays, annually,
about $4,000 for the privilege of being
king for day; and a dukedom, under
Rex, comes at from $500 to ST 900. Very
few in Dakota would run for Office un-
der such circumstances. 1t is too rich
for our warm southern blood, although
office sometimes comes high, even III
Dakota.
The city is alive with people, from ev
cry state and territory. Every house is
ahotel, and every hotel is sardine box,
with fish of great size. The general
plan of doing the exposition seems to be
in treating it as very serious matter,
and seeing the greatest amount in the
shortest period of time, if it kills the
patient. The extortion, of which a
great deal is said, as at the centennirl,
seems to he exaggerated. We have not
seen any of it, more than could be nat
urally expected with any people, in any
city, under like circumstances. DR..
Benton, of the Black Hills, most sar
castle old pirate, who has been with
Mr.. Evans and myself since we left
Minneapolis, amuses himself, when he
really strikes an extortionist, by insist
ing that the article priced is wonder
fully cheap;" ''never saw anything like
it," ''don't see how they can support
themselves on such narrow margin" :"
etc. Leaving St. Louis, his ticket be-
ing sold from East StLouis, the conduc-
tor demanded bridge fare" He didn't t
know anything about the bridge-didn't t
want to buy any pig in bag-show
him the bridge. and he would give the
conductor quarter for showing it; but
he wanted it distinctly understood that
he couldn't be imposed upon by being
made to pay any more fare-he would
go around the blamed river first. In a
day coach he kicked off his No. II boots
to rest himself. The conductor inform
ed him that if he wished to keep his
boots off he would have to take another
car. ''Going to put another car on fol
me, eh? Well, I'll be blamed"' was his
soc response, in no other way recog-
nizing that officials orders.
A great deal of travel seems to be by
the Albert Lea route from
Minneapolis. the trip by that road is
about twelve hours shorter, and is
through a fine country. The cars are
first class, and the officials obliging anl
attentive.
The L. & N. road runs through
Kentucky, Tennessee, the whole length
of Alabama, the southern part of Mis-
sissippi, and is as pleasant a route as ;
, northerner, ,desirous of seeing the South
can take. The company will soon have
have in operation their magnificent new
bridge over the Ohio, the only one dowl
the river from Louisville.
| The bridge will span the Ohio Rive
directly in front of Henderson, Ky.
The bridge proper will be 1885 fee
long, with trestle approach OIL the Indi
; ana side three miles long, which, to
! gether with the Kentucky approach
will make the length Of the whole struc
! ture over four miles. The nature of tn
: foundation necessitates the use of cais
sons for the commencemento of the piers
| the excavations being made by mel
, working inside of the caissons in com
, pressed air, as was the case with tn
, great bridges at St. Louis and Brooklyn
: The work was taken in hand by tn,
T railroad companies on April 18th of las
year, owing to the slow progress mad,
by the contractors prior thereto. Min
, hundred and twenty men were employ
{ ed during the month of July, abou
three hundred of these were at work il
, compressed air. The foundations fo
nine river piers are carried by pneumatic
process to depth of thirty feet below
the low water. In two instances eigh
feet of this distance is through sole
rock. The ca]ssons are all bedded in tn
rock of the river bed. The rock worl
has made the process of sinking slowe
than usual in pneumatic work. Abou
one hundred yards of stone is delivered