The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-15
FROM OUR FRIENDS THAT WENT
DOWN TO BOSTON.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
There were just even fifty people from
Wichita in our party which arrived here
last night Sunday at midnight by ocean
steamer fremont from Portland. The
run was made from Wichita to Chicago
via the Santa Fe in eighteen hours,
reaching the latter city exactly on time.
The party having six hours to while
away in the city of the lakes, separated
according to each ones individual desires
nearly all focusing their eyes on the
magnificent parade of the Patriarchs
Militant. By 6 o'clock every one was at
the station of the Grand Trunk expect
ing to enter their sleepers and
be at once whirled away towards Nj
agara, but the Kansas man proposes and
the Grand trunk disposes. Instead of
thirteen sleepers making up our train,
there were fifty-three. Just think of it..
Two thousand people to be sent out in
one hour. How was it to be done? Well
they divided Us up into eight sections.
and on each car they hung placard
and each eXCurter was notified as to the
number of his section and car. So that
vast multitude that overrun the Dear
born street depot gradually melted away
and in one hundred minutes the tail end
of the procession was leaving Chicago to
Tearward. Our stop over at Niagara
Falls was a brief one, and in
the main unsatisfac. DRY. The ride
through a great portion of Do
minion was by daylight. In its rural
aspect 1t differed in no manner from the
well cultivated fields of Michigan.
In the Winfield party was the Hon. w.
?. Hackney, widely known and somewhat
VIGOROUSLY, may say, by reason of an
out of doors speech made at the Chicago
convention in 1883 in which he threat
ened TO take Canada. Well, a deputa-
ton OF the Wichita contingent waited
upon him in his car. and informed him
that now "a they had seen Canada and
the half had not been told, they We're
ready to join him at any time: the sooner
the better in making an annex Of it. By
and by we all regretted this
action, after falling into the hands
of the .PhIlistines on the St Lawrence
river steamer. In the grey of the morn
ing. with winds of autumn temperature
whiStl.ng through the whiskers of the
man-and his name was Degion-with a
AuAlNAA t'NaoAES Dlt Ills arm a tSlE pitH-t-S
sion of men and women, wild eyed and
distract with travel, fled on board Of an
old tub of boat called the Bohemian
and for SIX mortal hours stood crowded
together like cattle IN a car. There were
twelve hundred of us. and If that navi-
CATION company had been doing business
IN the United States the indignation Of
the numerous victims would have found
vent IN curses not only loud. but deep.
Finally Mr. Ed Burnett, the efficient agent
of the Santa Fe. who IT tveled with Us to
Boston. prevailed on the captain 10 land
and transfer about FIVE hundred Of Is to
another and far better boat, but the de-
lay OF the morning was fatal 10 Us and
we only succeeded in getting within
fOTty-seven miles Of Montreal by water.
when night overlook Us. and in a smart
shower. with fierce lightning shooting
athwarT the heavens we landed at a
French Canadian town, with French
Canadian name and proceeded 20 walk
IN French Canadian manner 70 the
railway station that stood inland about