Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-23
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR.
SANTA FE. N, NJ, Sunday, May 2

SANTA fE, N. NJ, SUNDAY, May ~.
DEAR EAGLE-This old place. which
ante-dates Plymouth Rock and all else
the Yankee has to boast, strikingly re-
sembles, it is said, the towns of Palestine,
in low, fiat mud brick houses whose peo-
pie take to the roofs, etc. So the
prophecy went ON to say that ''two on
the house top, one should be taken and
the other left; two women at the grind
ing, one should be taken and the other
left" If that prophecy had been written
of this city it would have run ''two men
shall be found riding a jackass, one
shall be taken and the other left; a dozen
women shall be squatting on the door
step, eleven shall be taken and the other
left" The fellow who got left in this
country would be more entitled to SYM
pathy than the fellow who had scratched
out for glory or any other place.
The popular vehicle of this country is
the buro, and the reason that only two
uIen ride one at the same time
Why the women are all found squatting
on the door stills is, we presume, because
they are the undoubted descendants Of
the original squatters of this country.
Well, we pulled out of the brightest
city on this earth last Friday, on spec
ial train of two sleepers, smoker and
hotel car, bound for the land of the
Montezumas, with company of a
dozen western editors and bright writers
and their wives, who are the guests Of
the Mexican Central railway, all nnder
the care and conduct of Chas. Gleed,
ESQ.,, of the Santa Fe. All day west
ward over the limitless green swells of
Kansas we rolled, waking next morning
on the cactus plains of eastern
Colorado. AT sunrise our track swerved
to the left and southwark, leaving the
Nile of America. Eighty miles away
Pixies peak in the glory of the morning
sun stood amid the morning mists, a vast
pyramid of bronze, its apex cleaving the
heavens.
Into Trinidad by early breakfast and
we We're soon climbing the Ration noun
tains. Three o'clock found our party
disembarking at the famous Phoenix at
Las Vegas, one of the loveliest spots on
earth, whose beauties and delights grow
upon one hourly. Here in the fastness
of the mountains, close beside the
springs whose waters are famed for their
curative properties, is hotel which in
finish, in all its appointments and SER
vice is surpassed by no hotel probably
on the continent.
At 8 o'clock this morning we pulled
out, reaching Santa Fe at 2 o'clock,
where we were welcomed by Governor
Ross and the territorial officers. As |
write half of the city and
our entire party are in the
plaza enjoying the music being
discoursed by United States military
band composed or made up of about fifty
colored brothers whose patriotism leads
them to blow.
In another hour we are off for old
Mexico and its capital city, as far south
of us as Boston is east of Wichita and
farther, where, barring all accidents, we
will be by next Sabbath. This note is
scrubbed in the momentary expectation
of hearing the cry, ''all aboard" So we
will not call this letter, but only note
of hurried explanation of where we are
going and what we are doing. A pro-
gram has been mapped out taking UP
every hour until the fifth day of June,
but we will try and find time tosay some
more, providing we find some, more to
say. NJ. NJ. NJ.