Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-26
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

 The Homsward Run-A Bird's Eye
 View or Many striking Scenes ana
 Noted Places-A Slight ffeview-Fass
 Travelling In These Days.
 To tho Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The run from Prescots Junction, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, is mainly through a mountainous desert yet having many objects of interest to travellers. The altitude varies, reaching about 7,500 feet be. tween FIagstaff and Canon Dlabalo. This latter is 0 great gorge $40 feet in width and 222 in depth; cut in the level surface of the surrounding plains. Near Flagstaff with It's many sawmills Is Cosnino, and here are the ruins of the curious Cliff dwellings and caves of an extinct xAee. Near also are the San Francisco mountains, some of whose peaks are 13, 900 feet high, and from them can be seen the Grand Canon of the Colorado 60 miles away. At Navajo Springs as the train stops Is group of Navajo Indians whose reservation is near here. They have Raudy blankets and are picturesque and very dirty. One dude buck stalks up and down the platform with an important and self conscious air that is oonvulsinR, taken in con- nection with his costume. He wears cast of dirty white slouch hat from beneath which his long, straight black hair drops on his shoulders, which are covered with grey, weather stained flannel shirt which futters in the breeze. His neither limbs are supposed to be concealed by blue and white vertically striped calico trousers, reaching to within 8 few inches of his ankles. They are cut wide, but for further coolness are slit up on the outside above the knee, and with no shoes, he is a study for summer bathers to out rival.
 Soon we cross into New Mexico and at La- guna some twenty boys and girls of that tribe in rainbow colors swarm about the station with wicker baskets containing grapes, peach es, plums and melons and find ready sale for their fruits.
 At the A. & P. junction we transfer to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks, and in the run from Albuquerque through Las Vegas to Trinidad, Colorado, we cross the Rocky ferent looking country. Now we see prairie land, cattle and barb wire fences once more, and the mountains, desert and sage brush are left behind. Entering Kansas, farm lands and corn fields again greet us. At Dodge City we change to central time and feel we are an hour nearer New Haven by the change. The corn fields grow more frequent and larger, and, though the Kansas wind blows strongly all day, 1t is cool. The hot wind is the one which schorches and shrivels the corn, but the crop is already assured this year, part of 1t out and in shocks and the remainder out of danger We retire that night in good season and wake in the morning to find ourselves in Kansas City, Mo. Here we leave the train and at the Midland Hotel meet MT. O. E. Granniss of New Haven. This hotel is re- markable business success. It cost million, and the proprietors leased it for ten years at $50,00O per snnum. They sublet the billiard room, cigar stand, barber shop, Turkisa baths, news stand and other privileges for enough to make their rent nominal, and their receipts for the past year are said to have averaged from g., ,000 to $8, 900 weekly, and as they are considerably crowded with guests they propose to build an annex on adjoining ground to contain 300 moro rooms.
 Every time we visit Kansas City we find more and more business buildings and ele- gant residences being erected, and the enter- prise and growth of this place is wonder. In the evening Kansas City friends take us to their hotel, the Bonaventure, to dinner, out on Independence avenue. This is an ele- gant little family hotel, filled with bankers, business men and their wives and children. Here we greet old friends, make new ones and spend few pleasant hours. returning in time to take tho Chicago and Alton train to St. Louis. There, at tho Southern hotel, we find Ar. George O. Gordon, formerly with Wilcox & O., New Haven, Hon. Will liam B. Todd of Pittsburs, Kansas, joins us here together with Nr. H. 0. Lindsly, leading St. Louis architect. In the after noon Mr. Lindsly drives us about the city and through Reservoir and Forest parks, the latter containing 1,300 acres.
 We leave at night for New York city via Vandalia and Pennsylvania railroads. The trip across is Ineventful ayd too familiar to most of your readers for much description. In Ohio, in some vicinities, the grass and corn is partly stacked; in others ready for the reaper and mower. We saw farmers plough ing and preparing the ground for planting spring wheat. The forests and hillsides were lovely, the foliage dense, the apples have been gathered or else the yield is light for we saw but few. We cross the Alleghsnies in the night, coming through Johnstown about 10 o'clock, and although it was moonlight, not e great deal of the town can be well seen. We have been through there twice in the day light since the disaster and can see that much has been accomplished in removing and rebuilding We find ourselves in Jersey City next morning, cross Now York pity and soon are back again in New Haven and glad to be there once more.
 We have been away 20 days and traversed nearly 2, 500 miles. For the benefit of your younger readers we give the figures, viz:
 Miles, Sr.~- uaw e<N Ma xarE ftyy