The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-07
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ME, EDrrOR:-Here l am ensconced
at the Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, ILL.,,
the windy city of the West. l left
Wilmington at S.32 a. M, August %,
and arrived here on the 10Th, about 8
| hours late. on account Of a broken rod,
near Newark, Del, and some journals
getting heated 10y running faster to
make up for lost time. My trip to the
Pacific coast, 50 far, has been pleasant,
| save the dirt and dust incident to rail.
way travel. which | can assure you Is
great. When ! arrived in Chicago /
looked as if | had Just come out of a
coal mine, but as Chicago lies Oh Lake
Michigan, plenty of water was handy.
After several baths lin a wash bowD |
was quite p~resentable.
From Wilmington until West Vir-
ginia was reached the crops were good
and all the farmers will have fair crops,
but as soon as you cross the line and
get into Ohio everything is burnt. One
gentleman from Shelby, Ohio, told me
there had been no rain in that section
for four months, so you may imagine
how things looked. Everywhere q
would look you could see nothing but
bare, dried, scorched ground. Large
streams of wafer, as large as Salem
creek, were as dry as powder. In fact,
at a place called Bridgeport just above
Wheeling, people were walking over
the Ohio River.
l saw fields of buck wheat which did
not.seem to mind tie drouth and some
corn which looked well. The fruit
trees also seemed to stand the long dry
spell but the grass and pasture land
looked like the month of December. 1
have been told that all the farmers have
been cutting green corn for some time
to feed their cattle. In fact, l saw
field after field of corn cut and stacked
and l wondered why so many fields of
corn were cut up so early, until l was
told of the great drouth.
Eastern Ohio is more mountainous
and has not suffered so much. Some
parts of the way our train had two en-
gines to draw MS up the heavy grades.
We passed through a great many tun.
nels and Unce went through the base of
a mountain, which was all tresseled
and lit up by torches. So far on my
trip | have seen wonders and yet the
people tell me l haven't seen anything
yet, as to what l will see going through
the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
This is The first city l was ever in,
and | have been in a great many, that
Sunday wa not recognized. Here every
thing goes, save doing business in
Wholesale houses. Saloons are all open,
also segar stores, barber shops, dime
museums, theaters, &c. Everything
seems to be on tbs whiz. One has to
keep his weather eye open all the time,
hut | tumbled to the peoples ways and
styles and jog along with the crowds.
The city is just 2G miles long and fif-
teen miles wide and has a lake frontage
Of y miles. The longest street is Hal
sted street, which is p miles long.
There are a great many fine buildings
here and some wonderfully high ones.
| counted one building % stories high
and on top of that building they hold
concerts and theatrical performances.
You are carried up and down by eleva-
tors. 1t makes your head swim to look
up at it, it is so high. 1t looks to me
as if they had to punch IA hole in the sky
to build it,. There are lots of buildings
from l2to Is stories high. Chicago
may boast of high buildings, but when
you come to architectural designs,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston
are away ahead. But sky scrapers
Chicago surely has.
To morrow | am going through the
stock yards, as this city contains the
largest in the world. On the day fol.
lowing expect to start for Denver and
will take that city in for a day or so.
Then will pull stakes for California,
from which point you will probably
hear again from. Yours, NC,
G. d. S.