The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-01-07

Rocky mountains and beyond. His last excursion party ill 1883 contained some eighty notable men and women, many of them bearing noble titles. There were English, French and Ger man counts, countesses, barons, baron esses, lords and ladies, members of par lament, scientists, financiers and jour nalists. Among the number were such gentlemen AS Sir William Hard man, of the London M0rniRg Post; John M. LeSage, of the London Tele- gr0ph, and Joel Cook, of the London Tfmes. These gentleme wrote long and elaborate sketches Of their tour and of the great western and north western regions through which they passed. Sir William Hardman's sev- bodied in charming book entitled "A Summer Trip to America" All this writing-up was invaluable adyer- Using of the resources and advantages of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota and the other states and territories visited toward the setting sun. The party travelled in superb special train, with a numerous -retinue- of servants, wine chests and every imaginable luxury on wheels; and "Uncle Rufus" paid all the bills, which 1 should estimate amounted to at least S50, ,000 or $60,- 900 for the entire summers round. Mr. Hatch was heavy loser by the sTash-up in the Northern Pacific stocks when Henry Willard and all his associates went broke; but Mr. Willard has already, in a great meas ure, recovered from the disaster, and there is little doubt that Mir. Hatch is rapidly moving in the same direction.
 He was married for the second time about ten years ago His wife is a daughter of Commodore Gray, of the United States navy, and is charming and accomplished lady, who in her girlhood travelled nearly all over South and Central America, making very long journeys through the An des and Cordilleras on mule. Her "reminiscences of experiences in these regions, so seldom visited by ladies from the outside world, are as full of interest as the widest fairy tales They have three bright children, the eldest, Roscoe Conkling Hatch, being about seven years old, and the young est little girl of fifteen months Their country place, on the Hudson, a few miles above tie heart of the city, is beautiful home, surrounded by | fruit and shade trees, flowers and grassy lawns, where hospitality wei comes every worthy conner with cor dial hands.
 spent few days up there recently, and if had been able to take down or remember all the interesting facts and novel ideas that "Uncle Rufus" gave me in tree-and easy conversation, l could have made fair sized volume.
 He talks rapidly and forcibly, and many ofhis suggestions are startlingly original. For instance, speaking of the railroads of the future, he said the most perfect road of the present is the
 Pennsy lvania, with the New York Central as a good second The rail-
 roads of the future will show as great a ratio of improvement in the next twenty five years as has been made in the last quarter of century. We will
 have perfect road beds, double tracked and stone ballssted from end to end, equipped with eighty-pound steel
 rails, iron or steel bridges, and loco
 motives of forty or fifty tons that
 will run up and down grades and
 round curves at fifty or sixty miles an
 hour, drawing from ten to fifteen pas
 senger coaches each. The passenger cars will be made wholly of steel rods
 or n;nac fxu, opI o hol ;o,ao ct ,.o T, oro,. l than iron, and more than hundred
 times stronger than wood, while weighing only about half as much as the present clumsy ones. They will
 be heated and lighted by electricity
 generated by the motion of the wheels, adding immeasurably to their com-
 fort, and doing away with much of , the danger of accidents. The freight cars will be constructed on somewhat
 similar principles, with air brakes and many now unheard-of conven-
 fences, and will carry twenty five
 tons and upwards. The maximum of
 luxury is nearly reached it will be } years before the minimum of cost is
 attained.
 l The dullness and low prices in the } stock market being mentioned, Mir. } Hatch said: Too much railroad, too } many bonds, too many stocks, too l much aqueous fluid. The paralleling } of the roads throughout the west is paralyzing the old lines, and means } receiverships for the new ones. The , West Shore and the Nickel Plate were l built to parallel Vanderbilt lines, and to sell to them. The job was effected, 7 but at cost of millions of dollars to l thousands of innocent people. Gar 5 rett forced his way into New York
 with an unnecessary road, and Wall street and the whole country still feel