St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-16
EDITORS IN ROUTE.
Breezy Sketch of the Editorial
Association Jaunt.
Special to the Globe.


route. Asthls is the signal event OF the
ASSOCIATION since its organization in
1885, so has it already become the event
of the year. the occasion for the lavish
hospitality of the tOwnspeople along
the Santa Fe read. The trip to Cali
fornia has so far been Kaleidoscope
of merriment, of experience and ObSer-
walton. of feast and fayors, of pleasure
bic absorption of the features of people
and country by the way.
-Four hundred editors and editors
wives and daughters rendeZvoused at
the Auditorium hotel, Chicago. Monday,
May 9. -Four hundred more fell upon
ST. Louis on the same day. Both
parties, aboard special trains. RAINING
in three sections and two divisions, left
the respective cities on the same night
= Monday May 9. Tie Chicago con
tingent left in a pouring rain, which in
cessantIy battered OH the car windows
until Wednesday. Forty minutes out Of
Chicago the engine drawing the first
section OF the train ran off the track.
No damage was done save to time-the
delay being two hours.
In the shadows of the first wet even
ing, the editorial party. searching the
comfort usually anticipated i'll mod
ern palace sleeping cars, found
IFS first cause for general dis
satisfaction. Not only is the train
made up Of worm-eaten cars, whose
manufacture dates back to the time OF
Sir John Pullmau'S boyhood days. but
the service, the equipment. and every
minor or essential appointment was dis
covered in total absence or allegiance.
John Pullman and his black. dingy,
stuffY Old sleepers were condemned i'll
terms so vivid as TO freeze the sense OF
attending feminine ears. For all the
penury disclosed on the part of Pull
man, and for all the many lapses of the
road, the editors. their bohemianiSm
surrounding the breach, adapted them
selves for good. right royal junket. in
spite of all The condemnation pro-
eeedings being taeitly understood, all
lent measure to the song From Chi
eago west the entire Illinois country is
flooded. Farms are Inundated to the
depth of two and three feet, except i'll
the higher districts, where few inches
deposited in numerous aid contiguous
pools renders plowing anu seeding i'm
possible. The roadbed was soft and
sOggy and the train lost five hours upon
the schedules of day.
In Missouri the country is in no bet
ter condition. Farmers are idle and in
trouble. Flood and cold weather have
hindered cultivation and vegetation Of
all kinds, from the meadow grasses to
the orchard. garden and field, is far be-
hind the day and development.
We reached Kansas City seven hours
late. and no stops having been made for
sufficient luncheon, the party waded
into Kansas City pigs feet and pork.
Kansas City has on splendid front.
Life of the minutest type thriYes In the
fullest bulk and vigor. The cable tran
sit system of this city is effective, but
appalling. Cars are run at laundering
speed in the Yehiele-glutted streets.
The tracks are mOnstrousiy rough. and
the corners are no compromise upon the
acute angle. Negroes abound i'll Kan
saS City in greater numbers than in any
other Western municipality. The rea-
son for this coIored invasion is appar-
entity hidden i'll the mysteries Of the
lace movement.
The stay in Kansas City was short.
In fact, the MiSSourianS paid no atten-
ton to the excursion party, and the
party were as Justly indifferent to the
presence OF the Kansas City public.
The prohibition law of Kansas state
was happily evaded during the night,
the party breaking fast at Kingsley
pretty little country town owned by the
railroad and peopled with hoteikeeper
and his polite help.
From this bounteOuS feast of wild
pigeoa and antelope steak bold break
for the border was made. This squirt
landed us into Syracuse, where a water
tank and wateh-swapping incident fed
entertainment for twenty minutes. And
then, oh, Gould, into the sagebush
mesas of the Colorado plains. The i'll
slant one moves into the level monotOny
of the Colorado plains a sense of
deSertion, of .forlorn hope, seems to
possess itself of the soul of the traveller.
Grit rock and sand droneS, sage
bush and puny husk willows spread
their stinted casts upon the waste. De-
caSionaly herd of emaeiated cattle is
seen grazing with diseonte nted figeting
for the sparse alfalfa growth. More
frequently, dozen cows or steers are
seen rafting upon the level. Thirst and
starvation has been a serious and search
ing havoc to cattle hereabout. The few
ranch horses are pitiable specimens of
equine strength feature. The sun oe-
eassioually pressed through a dull,
leaden sky, and. embracing the scene,
only intensified the appealing needs
and wants of this district.
Leaving Kansas one observes no such
soaked and ooZing sail as that which
characterized the conditions in illinois
and Missouri. A higher altitude and a
sail OF greater graduation draws and
abSorbS the ram, which, in Colorado.
seldom descends too often. T0rrential
rains are unusual in the state of mag
nlfieent color and desertion, and what
unpromising farms are in process of
cultivation depend largely. almost en-
tirely, upon artificial means of irriga-
ton. Due at s in the morning the ex-
eurSioniSts arrived at Colorado Springs
at s clock last night-traveI-stain
and weary. F0rty-two miles east of the
Springs a short stop was made at Pueblo
the canning Pittsburg of . the world.
Here enngi was dispelled by the novel
scene of reception by cow
boy band. Cowboys so real and
handy, that they have the weapons of
past service with the lasso and the
Dr0nchO in such manner as to eollnte-
nance no doubt of their actual gradua-
ton from the roundup" The Pueb-
loans are the most hospitable people of
the state Of Colorado. They are alert.
active and aggressive. They are build
Ing one of the greatest cities of the
region. With inhabitants to the num-
Der. OF $4,000, the city residences are
all built of red brick or stone. Four
A'AaNo OioOQiils III tCiIfQlGs COIHGTS Oh a
sparsely settled suburb. you will see
the laborer's cot built strong of good
brick, monument to the thrift and
future of the sturdy iron and steel
workers of these parts. From the spa
cious verandaS of the Southern hotel.
ably conducted by A. E. Purdy, can be
seen the gliStening summit of Pixies
Peak, the monitorguard of the Color
ado mountains, piercing its 1900 feet
or composite formation, fir. pine, hem
lock and snow, into a sea of setting.
dipping, curling clouds. Nature has
been SO lavish at Colorado Springs that
one must appease his ardor with but
squInt at the vast and varied grandeur
OF this picturesque, magnificent spot.
Here, within radius of few miles.
the earth splits up the notwithstanding
mineral waters. Manit0u, Iron Springs.
the Garden of the Gods. Pixies Peak,
with its wondrously beautiful approach.
Yute Pass; Cheyenne Canon, the rustic
rocE-heaped grave of talented Helen
Hunt jackson, and dozen other points