Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-10
COM MMUNICATl0NS,
Letter from California.

Thinking short account of a trip
to the Golden Gate might interest
your readers and at the same time
relieve the editorial brain this hot
weather by filling your columns, we
concluded to make a email cOntribu-
| tion.
Leaving Butler on the $50 train
we arrive in Allegheny city in due
time, and, after arranging for tickets,
get our baggage checked through to
San Francisco, and spend 'the time
till train starts in "doing, the town"
At LEO p. m, we leave on the p.
Ft. w. & G. r. Il. After a pleas
ant ride through country familiar
to your readers we arrive in the
busy, bustling city of Chicago at
1920 a. m, next day, for breakfast
AS our route is over the Chicago,
Rock Island endc> Pacific r r., we
are informed that no through train
leaves until 4:30 o. m., which would
not be very gratifying to person II
a hurry to arrive at his destination.
but as we are not limited in time"
we take the opportunity to visit some
of the more important points OF in
terest in the city. We took street
car and took run out to the park,
a very pleasant place to spend few
hours, and is visited by thousands
daily to get out of the heated, un-
healthy air OF the city. Then trip
to the stock yards we'll repays the
trouble of going out to see the facil-
/ tiles for handling the thousands of
head of stock that are received and
discharged daily in the greatest of
all cattle centres Returning to the
CITY we visited. the "Cyclorama Of
the Battle of Gettysburg, the finest
piece of art we have yet seen; there
we spend much time in study and
contemplation, being carried back TO
the sanguinary days Of 81 10 60,
when Just such scenes as were there
pictured were enacted in all their
horrible reality. But we will not en-
large At 4:30 p. m. we find our
selves comfortably seated in one OF
the elegant chaircars Of the Chica-
90, Rock Island and Pacific road, free
to all through passengers, and are On
our way toward the setting sun. AS
the country through which we pass
Illinois, Iowa and part OF Missouri
is comparatively level, there is
nothing of especial interest to write
about, except the fine farms and farm
buildings; miles upon miles OF
growing corn, then, July Stb, almost
as high as the horses that were
drawing the cultivators that were
being run through them for the last
time; fields of fine wheat recently
cut and in shock, and broad acres Of
the finest timothy meadows ready for
the moving machine AS it rained
all over the Mississippi valley last
night we have delightfully."- cool
ride and at $50 a. m., next day ar
rive at Leavenworth, the old and his
toric town of Kansas, 522 miles from
Chicago.
Here we tarry until $40 a. N. next
day, and in the meantime the places
of Importance are visited, the principal
of which are the old fort, or more
properly speaking, the barracks, and
the soldiers home. The fort is in
charge of the U. S. troops stationed
there about two miles north Of the
city, and presents Dothing especially
interesting, being made up Of mill
tary buildings for officers and men, a
few cannon, and equipments for the
soldiers stationed there. The Sol
diers' Home, located three miles
south Of tho city, is more interest
ing place. Here are quartered, cloth
ed aud fed disabled soldiers Of the
late war who have been admitted to
the Home on account OF inability
from wounds or disease to make a
living for themselves ia tie general
walks of life There are eleven build
ings, or wards, for the accommoda.
ton of the inmates.
Here follows description of the
Home which space compels us to
omit.-ED
AT $3.50 G. m. next day we leave
for Denver our next stopping point.
At Lawrence, the town sacked by the
notorious Q1antrell and his gang,
we meet the through train, and all
day long pass miles and miles Of
the finest corn and thousands of acres
of the finest wheat in shock, or stack
ed in the field This has been fine
year for Kansas aud the people are
happy gathering and garnering their
crops On we go through the West,
through Topeka, Junction City,
Abiiine, Ellsworth, Oakley aud many
other towns when night closes down
ber sable curtains, shuts out our
view and we retire for. the night.
Morning dawns and' we are up
early. We find ourselves within fifty
or sixty miles Of Denver, where the
prairie is bare and barren, except the
Buffalo grass, short, hardy aud
nutritious grass that grows on the
high dry land Of this section Of the
country. OFF to the southwest we
see Pixies Peak towering its snow
capped head far above the mountains
round, and feel the cool, fresh, bra
cling air az it comes from the snow
banks plainly to be seen in the
Rocky Mountains hundred miles to
the west. On we go. aud at s a. m.
we all landed at the Union Depot in
Denver, the Queen City of the
Plains, $50 miles from Leavenworth |
and llGl miles from Chicago, at an
elevation Of 5203 feet above the sea
level. At $3.50 we leave on tho Col. |
orada Central for trip through the
mountains for the day, where is to be
seen some Of the finest, most wild,
wierd and rugged scenery to be found |
any W here in the world. After n run
Of sixteen miles we reach Golden at
the mouth Of Clear Greek Canon; we
wend our way through the gorges,
the cliffs towering hundreds Of feet
on either side, while the water rush
es furously past in the stream be
low, loshing itself into foam against
the rocks that are in the way, max.
ing the ride interesting, indeed, to the
tourist who delights to look on Ma
ture's wonders az here TO be seen
On we 90, up the canyon toward
Georgetown, the scenery becoming