Passaic City record., 1893-10-07

of Canada with the Chicago &
Grand Trunk Railway. 1t has just
been completed at cost of 81, 7oo,-
900. The tunnel proper is a con.
tinuous iron tube, nineteen feet
and ten inches in diameter, and
6oa5 feet, or more than mile long.
The length of the approaches, in
addition to the tunnel proper, is
56os feet, making all told a little
over two miles.
Trains on the Grand Trunk and
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railways
are hauled through this tunnel by
engines specially constructed for
that purpose. They are said to be
the largest engines in the world.
The entire weight of the engine
and tender rests on ten drive
wheels. The weight of one of
these monster engines in actual
service is found to be one hundred
tons.
From Port Huron the road runs
through a long stretch of farm
lands, through the cities of Lapeer,
Flint, Durand, Lansing, and Battle
Greek, Michigan, and South Bend
and Valparaiso, Indiana.
A couple of hours after leaving
the latter city the Worlds Fair
buildings loom up in the distance.
The train rolls into the Dearborn
Station and the passengers scatter
in all directions, and one of the
most delightful trips to the white
City" is completed.
During a brief stop at Battle
Creek | had the pleasure of meet
ing two ladies cousins of mine
whose faces I had never before
looked upon, but having seen their
photograph, | had no difficulty in
picking them out from among
couple Of hundred people. There
is a peculiar charm about such
meeting. It is like finding pre-
cious gem, the possession of which
you know none will dispute.
Besides meeting numerous
friends and former schoolmates,
the pleasures of this trip were still
further enhanced by the constant
companionship of my only sister,
whose womanly instinct and un-
selfish and sisterly devotion antici-
pated every want or whim.
Those making the journey to
Chicago, to visit the Worlds Fair,
who, at the same time, wish to
see as much as possible Of interest
on the way, can travel via the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad at least
in one direction. A very attractive
combination of routes is that via
the B. & O. through Washington
and over the Allegheny Mountains,
returning over the Grand Trunk
and Lchigh Valley Railways via
Niagara Falls or vice versa. The
price of tickets via this combina-
ton of routes is the same as of
tickets which carry the passengers
over the same road in both direc-
tions.
Every American who has ever
thought that he should travel at
all, must have determined that
some time he would visit the
Worlds Fair 1t is duty he owes
himself; it will be pleasure ever
to be remembered with satisfac-
ton and delight
By taking this combination of
routes he will see river hallowed
in America beyond all others by
historic recollections-the river on
whose bank sleeps the Father of
his Countrywide river for whose
possession more lives have been
sacrificed than were lost to guard
the German Rhine.
This river, the memory haunted
Potomac, is closely followed for
more than one hundred miles of
its most delightful scenery by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a
ride in itself dream of scenic low
illness and beauty.
On my suggestion party of
twenty-five friends went out
month ago by this combination, and
I have received several letters
thanking me for the suggestion
Information and tickets can be
had at a35. a9I, and AIS Broadway,
New York. "JAY.'