Wichita eagle., 1888-09-20
& WICnTAN ON HIS TRAVELS.
Sept. Is, 1888.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Rounding out the "Y' from Union
depot and steaming up Frisco Heights,
we babe adieu to the valley of the
American Nile for trip to the Cincin-
natl and Ohio valley centennial and to
central Kentucky. The Frisco crew,
from conductor to brakeman, sustained
their reputation for gentlemanly bearing
and quiet manipulation OF the train.
The day was fine, the country beautiful,
car elegant, company agreeable. These
environments prevented time from hang
ing heavily as we whirled along, prison
ers of the rail. Dame Nature looked
generous in the fields; in the line of hay,
oats and wheat was this especially SO,
and in the order Of their naming as to
quantity. Corn grew in quantity
as we advanced to the
eastern part of the state. We ran through
the greater part of Missouri in the night
and can consequently make no state
ment comparatively or otherwise as to
crops. The travelling crowd at the st.
Louis union depot was not SO surging as
we have seen it. From there we took
the O. & NJ. for Cincinnati. Our crowd
had increased somewhat until by the
time we reached well into hoosierdom
the full complement of the car was tax
en-. Many were bound for Columbus.
1t was a Jolly crowd. Each contributed
his part to make the time pass pleasant
ly. Passing two presidential poles l
arose and proposed to take the poll of
the car. When completed it stood q
for Harrison. % for Cleveland, 1 for Fisk.
/ had called for a Republican and a
Democratic volunteer to count the votes
respectively, while | called them out.
The fun was running so high that they
insisted | should poll the next car, which
besides much fun resulted in a vote of IA
for Cleveland and % for Harrison. This
so elated the Harrison men that they in
sisted on my taking the next car. This
car turned the fun into a summerSauit
and came out 10 for Harrison, II for
Cleveland and for Streeter. The Har-
rison admirers, thinking to turn the
tables on us. pressed US TO take the next
and last but one, which came out Is for
Cleveland and for Harrison. We
enioyed the joke against our Republi-
can friends in the case of the car wherein
they insisted that the ladies should vote.
as they were in the majority, which
gave majority of five votes for Cleve-
land. Colonel Murdoch will enjoy the
point in that joke. Il was a good ma
tured skirnish and after the battle OF
votes we felt dearer to each other. as
brother inheritors of one grand COM
mon country.
We arrived at the grand union depot
at Cincinnati Wednesday, $50 p. M.
The crowd was almost beyond control
there: Columbus and centennial trav-
ellers seemed to ali come in at once.
BY .:40 your correspondent and
wife We're pleasantly located
at IS East Third street, Coving-
ton. The next day we attended the ex-
position with a number of Covington
and Cincinnati friends, it being ken
lucky day" The management did then
! best. and the jewellers on the dark and
bloody ground responded in large num-
bers. To the right and near the main
! entry was a bed of flowers by whose
combination was wrought out the name
/ Kentucky. The governor and staff
were driven during the morning through
the principal parts of the city and sub
urbs. In the afternoon they visited the
exposition. At p. ~. in Music Hall al
address of welcome by the mayor o.
! Cincinnati and responded to by Governor
! Buckner. Kentucky day was {
! success. But no feature of the
days entertainment gave more fur
than the drill of some two hundred chill
prem by city teacher in Music Hall be
| fore the Governor and some three thou
saudi others in calisthenics.
/, As TO the matter of the Exposition,
will write a few things. California wa!
awarded the most prominent place 10
DISPLAY. No one can enter the Exposi
ton grounds without seeing 1t. 1t /
right in front, near the doors. She ha
sustained her reputation in the line o
fruits and wines. Such oranges. sucl
raisins.
San Diego, like Wichita, seems to b
the chief representative of her State, bu
California could not transport, for dis
plav, her chief advertising factor, he
climate. The fountain. cascade, an
plant display, with Its parterre. Is re
freshing as well as beautiful.
Machinery hall is a wilderness o
mechanism. Lane, Bodley & Co. lead OF
uDon YOUR right as you enter with chic
place and O magnificent engine. In tn
matter of milling machinery Z. T. Vary
ing in the Judgment OF your correspond
ent stood abreast with any. But TIM
would fail me to write of the scroll ms
chimes. The Heine safety boiler arreste
NV attention. Two engines with TN
. boiler of 200 II. P. each were runnln
: all the machinery in that hall aion
, canal building. Those boilers az
, claimed 10 be non-explosive- OF seve
, wears use in this country and German
no explosion has ever occurred IL