Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-21
VIEWS IN The FAR EAST
Dai&Ota's Travelling Missionary Gives
Further Accounts Ofhis Experiences
on the Atiantic slope.

TO the Press and Dakotaian.
Taking our leave of the garden spot
of New York we were soon in Rochester.
AS we had to wait quite a time at the
depot 1t was one of the most natural of
things to contrast in our mind the way
the several depots we had visited met
the wants of the travelling public and
what depot IN our Judgment, best served
the moving population. ~Spacionsness
equally characterized aif. But we saw
no depot managed more orderly, more
helpful than that of the Northwestern,
of Chicago. 1t was exceptional good.
Some of the things practiced in that
depot were in use by many others, but
there was one thing which struck us as
exceedingly appropriate which we saw
in no other depot. A man was employed
by the company to circulate among the
newly arrived and give the Corners and
goers whatever information OF the arrival
and departure of trains and such other
information as the travellers might be
ignorant of, saving him from the
clutches of land sharks into whose hands
the traveller so often falls. The admirs-
BILE system adopted by our Northwestern
commends itself to all other roads.
From Rochester our route lay by the
West Shore road.
We had supposed when we bought
our ticket that the West Shore road en-
tered Albany, but found to our annoy
ance that it runs from six to nine miles
south of the CITY, that passengers were
transferred to another road and run into
Albany on that road. We arrived in
the midst of the grand celebration of
the. bi-centennial of the settlement of
Albany. Never before had we witnessed
such q display of bunting and of bril-
liant colors. Upon every house or public
building, on every street, these strea nj.
ers were seen floating IN the breezes.
This week of celebration brought the
crowds to the city. This crowd Of
strangers had increased until Thursday
July 22d, when 1t seemed to have reach
ed its maximum. Every train q
crowded with Corners. Steamboats,
landed passengers by the hundreds and
thousands. Every variety of vehicle
and private conveyance contributed to
the increase of strangers in the city.
Some careful men who had a knowledge
of these hourly arrivals placed the esti-
mate as moderate as 100000, Others $4,000
OF strangers in the city. There was a
jam on every street. The native inhabl-
tants used the crowd to add to their
financial ability and pay the expense of
the great celebration. Even the boot
blacks caught the contagion OF making
profitable the celebration day. The lux
ury ofa shine could not be INDUCED in
for less than twenty-five cents fer the in
dividual.
Albany, like New York City, has been
famous in days past for material ;obbery.
Boss Tweeds by the gross inhabit this
ancient burg. The building of the capt.
tol has already cost the state the round
sum of seventeen million of dollars and
| was told that an equal sum would be
required for its completion. 1t was q
we'll put up job and bids fair to be a no
uncomfortable factor for more than one
presidential term. Your correspondent
was seriously told that the 400 workmen
employed give close attention to busl-
ness for n hour per day on the build
ing and draw pay for a good days work.
1t was stated that this force on the CAPT
toll was the reserve force of democracy
that by means Of these subsisting on gov
eminent "pap' that Governor Cleveland
became an occupant of the white house.
However this may be, taxpayers in the
state of New York may clearly see
where the peoples money goes,
Albany shows as much signs OF pro-
gress as some of our western towns. 1t
has become o great railroad center. The
road from Albany to Schenectady, six,
teen miles in length, was the first effort
at railroading for passenger traffic in the
United States. There was q railroad in
the coal mines of Pennsylvania to
run out coal from the mines which
claims n or two years more of age
Soon after this sixteen miles OF TRACK
was completed the writer was a pas.
senger over this route. At that day
fifty years ago. there was o stationary
engine to draw the cars up to the top o.
the high bends back of Schenectady. II
was regarded as of the impracticablt
things to out the earth to suficien,
depth to dispense with the stationary
engine, but the stationary power has
long since given place to the regula,
grade to the Mohawk fats. There is an
immense lumber deal in Albany and all
kinds of trade seem o success. Bull
like ancient Rome. on the hills, it has
become 6 picturesque city and one de.
sirable for private residences. The
famous Albany peniteptiary made 80 by
its long years of successful management
under the famous Warden P;lsbury is
still running but with far less econem