Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-19
A Trip from Chicago to Liver
pool, England.

pool, England.
EDITOR HERALD:-I send you an
outline of my trip from Chicago, H.,
to Liverpool. England, with ten cars
of fat sheep. with an average Of 200
to the car.
/ left Chicago March 10Th, from the
e. S. Yards via B. & o. Ry. We were
run out of the yards at three o'clock
p. m. and reached South Chicago at 6
p. m, thence transferred on the b. &
o. Ry, on what is called a through
stock train. Made good run until
we reached Chicago Junction, dist
ance of 280 miles, and then passing
through the oil regions of Ohio with
its numerous oil wells and mammoth
oil refineries.
We reached Pittsburg, Penn, at
1:20 a. M, and rehayed the cars. On
arriving at Pittsburg your first
thought would be that the entire city
was on fire, the flames were shooting
out from so many great factories. You
would not think it was hard times for
the factories are running to such an
extent as to illuminate the whole city
at night. They are in full blast day
and night.
Leaving Pittsburg we assembled the
mountains, winding up river.
must not omit the little city Cumber-
land. with its glass, brick thing, crock
cry of all kinds, and many other
manufactures. Electric cars and cleo
trio lights with 1913 saloons and Ii
cense of $4,000 each.
At the summit of the mountains we
found a small station called tSam
Patch, then passing through tun-
mel of 1 miles we soon reached the
headwaters of the Potomac river,
winding through its valleys and RUM
ing many miles side by side of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
We next come to the City of Wash
ington with its fine buildings and fine
residences and immense wealth. A
stock train does not stop long enough
for sightseeing
We soon reached the pleasant city
of Baltimore. uuloaded all the stock
and fed and watered it. The stock
was then reloaded on the cars, and
run into an immense warehouse,
where we placed some portable sheets
at the car door and ran the sheep
through the shutes, up into the fine
and well equipped English ship, Sedge-
more, of the johnson Line, that runs
from Baltimore to Liverpool. On the
22d at $40 the whistle blew and the
ship was soon far out in the harbor.
/ had very pleasant little room. lit
by electric light The officers were
fine men. All went well with me for
"a hours and then there was some
thing wrong. | could not tell what
it was, such feeling. Nothing like
it ever struck me before. The stew
ard saw me and brought me glass of
medicine called block draught which
looked like coal tar and molasses, but
it put me on my feet all right.
March came in like lamb and went
out like lion. On March 30th and
31st we had very bad storm. The
waves broke over the cattle sheds,
dumped them down through the hatch
ways onto the lower floor, breaking
their horns and legs. My sheep did
not all eat, and "a of them went over
board. But they were insured at so
each
must not omit mentioning the ice
bergs which all the sailors watched
with eager eyes until we were entirely
out Of danger. The wind that blew
from them was very cold, and in the
afternoon it showed very hard
We landed our stock April 5th at
Birkenhead, just across the river from
Liverpool, at ten O'Clock a. m. The
man that they were shipped to came
on board and received them. was
very glad to deliver them to him.
will say here that do not think
that Old England is in it with the
United States. A. l.. SNYDER.