Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-04-05

more show of cornstalks and hay than
anything else. Villages were quite fire.
quent, none of them large. We reached
and crossed the Missouri river, now a
shallow stream, flowing through broad
bottom. The banks reminded Inc of Lake
Champlain. Kansas City claims 100000
people. 1t is noted for its street cars
running around loose in all dire ctions.
The San Francisco cars behave in this
way to a certain extent, but here they all
do it. Cable roads are the cause, and fun
ny enough it looks at first to me the cars
moving rapidly around with apparently
nothing to move them. At Kansas City
struck the best inn thus far met on my
tour. | use the word inn because it prop
erly belongs to this particular hotel. 1t
is called Midland, is quite new, and built
am told. by northern, Boston in part,
capital at a cost of near 81 ,000,000. 1t is
low between joints, and solid, no waste
room. Dining room and kitchen are on
the upper floor, something new to see, but
am told there are other hotels in the
country this way. 1t makes very
pleasant dining-room-lght and fine
distant views. 1t also removes all
odors of the kitchen from lower part of
house. There are three elevators. hence
but little trouble IN getting to dining
room. The Palais Hotel at San Francisco
is an immense affair and cost, as Mr.. Sha-
ron's son-in-law told me. 5000, 900. 1t
belongs to the Sharon estate. 1t has OF
bed rooms; is built in the Sancho Panza
castle style, with court in the middle, and
the rooms. though good and we'll furnish
ed are many of them not pleasantly stu
ated and the table is eXecrable. Its res
taurant table seems all right but eXpen-
sive. At the Midland the table is of the
very best, average price same as at the
Palais Hotel, $3.50 per day. The hotel
am now at is much larger than the Mid
land. They are both called fire proof.
Dining rooms of the Southern are on the
equally good with the Midland but the
lower part not so neatly kept shows a lit
tie the southern style in that respect. This
Southern Hotel is one of the great hotels
of America, and one of the leading ones.
1t occupies whole block.
As we came across Missouri once more
we entered the region where woods grew
naturally and diversity the landscape. |
have no use for any other kind of coun-
try to live in.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA,
March IL, 1889.
The sweet sun is out today coquetting
with the earth. 1t has been hid for the
last two days with a heavy rain. st.
Louis quit suddenly for Atlanta, pass
ing by night to Evansville in Illinois, and
across the Ohio river through Kentucky,
into Tennessee. When the morning rose
bright and beautiful we were approaching
= Nashville. Tennessee is very charming
: woods, valleys and hills everywhere. If
would be about perfect. | was sorry not
to be able to stop at Nashville, which
shall hope to do at another time. Pene-
trating still farther into Tennessee we en-
ter the Cumberland mountains. These
are something similar in their extent and
size to the Green mountains, but they are
not so richly wooded. BY tunnel and
: otherwise we 90 through these and
meet aud cross the Tennessee river, and
wind into Chattanooga, the thriving city
that stands at this mouth of travel be-
: tween Georgia and the North. An after
Moons ride takes Us To Atlanta. In stop
ping once more at the klmball House
;, see that overestimated its Importance in
8 my last stop. 1t il goOd-sized and we'll
i, kept hotel except its table. which is poor
but will not compare with the Arlington
;, at Washington. | would suggest anoth-
; er error in figures of letters published.
| am made to speak of mountains in Mex
;, leo as 800 and 400 feet high, etc. 1t is
safe to say that heights spoken of in Mex
leo or among the Rocky mountains will
>, always be thousands of feet instead OF
- hundreds. These should read 1000, H..
600 feet etc. For POO 900 oranges on Bald
win ranch, read 2,000,000. And thus
=, find myself back at my starting point
> for the great West. In 20 days | have
;, travelled near 5000 miles, at an expense
- of about 500, or SO a day. 1t seems
:, wonderful that we can travel so far. viii
= so much comfort, so quickly, and so safe
=, ". j. b.