The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-06
TRAVEL.

TRAVEL.
Now am In Arden? more fool /,
was In better place when was al
homo, but travellers must be content
AS You Like 1t.
When Jacques made his weary tramp
to the Forest of Arden, the discomforts
OF the journey no doubt justified his
exclamation, more fool i, / was In a
better place when was at home;" and
many generations of travellers since
Jacques time have been melted To
wrath and bitterness of spirit by the
vexations attendant upon the means OF
travelling they were compelled to en-
ploy, whether upon business or pleas
ure bent. After all, however, II must
be said that most travellers are at heart
philosophers-as was Jacques, for when
his feelings had been relieved by the
inevitable explosion he sighed: but
travellers must be content"
Marvellous changes in methods of
transportation, by sea and by land,
have been wrought since the days of
ing the complexity of modern systems,
the ease and dispatch with which jour
neys are now accomplished is yet al
~
quently perform them. One hundred
years ago trip from Chicago to the
City of Mexico involved an expenditure
of time, money and physical suffering
mot to say danger-almost incredible
to the modern tourist. Now the excur-
sionist complacently packs his traps
and sets out with the comforting assur-
ance that little more than half u
xx,ill tolx 70 Il n md pf
Montezumas without the sacrifice of a
meal or the loss of an hours sleep.
Great is the steel road and the iron
hor: e!
Western railway lines have not only
kept pace with the prevailing spirit of
Improvement, but in many instances
have excelled the older roads in enter
prise and effort to please the traveller.
A dozen or more great systems operat-
ing lines of railway west of the Father
of Waters are easily Vulnerable which
in point of excellent time and service
equal the best railroads in the East,
True, the construction of some lines in
this territory was financial mistake,
but time will retrieve it for all.
Among the most efficient and pros
porous of these Western lines. it is a
& Texas railway system, owning and
operating nearly eighteen hundred
miles of road in the States of Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and in the Indian
Territory. Emerging from the advers-
ity of some years ago, it has. through
wise management, reached the front
rank of the transportation systems of
the country To accomplish this, much
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steel, for rock ballast. for engines of
the frst-class, for commodious build
ings. for splendid freight and passen-
ger equipment-but that such expendi-
ture was intelligent and judicious, the
results, which are known to the coun-
try. establish without argument. To-
day all passenger trains on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas, with the excep-
ton of those run on few short branch
lines, are equipped with parlor reclin-
construction, for the occupancy
nothing additional. It's sleeping
car service is unexcelled, elegant Pull
man buffet cars running through be-
tween principal Northern and Southern
termini, viz: between Chicago, st.
bouib, hdnShS Wy anu hohhic"i oh
the North, and Denison, Sherman,
Dallas, Waco, Houston, Galveston and
San Antonio in the South. Winter
tourist round-trip tickets are on sale
from M. X. e. T. points to Austin,
Corpus Christi, Ell Paso, Galveston,
Houston, Lampasas, Rockport and San
Antonio, Texas, and Deming, N. NJ,
at greatly reduced rates, with 30 days
transit limit in each direction and stop
over privilege at intermediate points
within transit limit of ticket Round
trip excursion tickets are also on sale,
at very low rates, to California and
Mexico points. These tickets are limited
to six months from date of sale, and
stop-overs are granted either going or
returning. Mexico tourist points are
City of Mexico, Monterey, Saltillo and
San Luis Potosi. Connection with
trains at principal functions are made,
and the courteous treatment by all
agents and employees of this line, its
fast time and good service in all re-
spccts, insure the continuance of
patronage on:e begun by traveller or
shipper.