Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-28
OUR TRIP TO new YORK.

~"'@s shA hsSwvut VI
Journey 10 The Great METROPOLIS
IN Search Of I Good Tine.
We went on the n. Il o., technically the BAL
timore and Ohio Railway. A plunge late in
the afternoon Of q very cold day through the
edge OF Illinois and then Indiana and Ohio, and
through the night and the LONG long weary
day through West Virginia and Maryland to
Washington. Arriving at the capital at 6 p.
M, January I'd, we started to look up an old
friend, Colonel jerks. employed IN the Pension
Department. Willie. that's my partner. wished
particularly to dud jerks. This IL his real
name. plsin Jerks, not Jenkins, but jerks
not Captain Jtnks OF the Horse Marines. but
Colonel jerks. with . record Of honorable and
mefitortous service In the armyl Our stay n
Washington vac only over night until 10 the
next morning. which gave US barely time to
see IL by moonlight. Il 10 . rarely bsastifui
and clean city. so far as general appearance
goes. The buildings near the Capitol. ct the
foot Of Pennsylvania avenue, are cusicusly
old and rickety Affairs. and one lie struck with
amasement that thts is 80. The streets ere oil
paved graded and Clearly. % to make us
wish that Chicago might be paved and
clearly likewise. II must be Q veri.
table paradise In the spring and
summer time. Even now, in the middle Of
winter, the landscape IL ourpassiugiy besuti-
full that surrounds the city: the situation Of
the White House and Capitol grounds IL On.
perh Il IL indeed the Paris Of America. and II
the climate were more temperate. without the
fearful heat Of summer. IL would be paradise
Go live In. The hotels. most Of them, ere Gu.
riously old-fashioned AFFAIRS with primitive
heating apparatus in the rooms. the o0icss Of
which have no chairs for loungers 20 All, 20
that The decayed Majors, Colonies. Generals
and high privates, who would otherwise crowd
them. are conspicuous by their absence. This
seems like harsh measure to Q Chicagoan
when BE rchects upon the mob which holds
possession Of It's principal hotels. smoking
and Splitting and swearing and lounsins and
sleeping and making trips to the bas.room
from early In the morning till late Ct night. ii.
most 70 the exclusion Of the guests.
By way Of preliminary. II may be interest.
ing GO say something about Willie. Some one
has written about Willie the following lines.
bat II 10 premature to depict him thus:
He was old and grim. and srissled and gray,
With whlskefs that looked like Q forkful Of
hay:
And he lived Ia poor style for . man Of his
means.
While his costume ran mostly to nsnne, and
Jeans.
HE ueishbors made sort Of butt and joke
Of him
Called him lazy old Bal" whenever they spoke
q him:
And yet 70 bis wife-aud who darss call her
si,y3-
He wss aever aushs other than darling" OF
-wiilie."
In reality. Willie, my partner. was. 10. and
always will be. handsome and dashins. Never
any hayseed or insects viii adhere to him. and
frtendAsy the score will always attach 20 him.
He was tall and slim. but now there 10 ten
dency toward embonpoint q the French say.
Willie 10, In fact, model young man. In form
and moving e1prsss and admirable. In appre.
hension enc OF the nysss youns men In Chics.
70; but. % before remarked. while this 10 90.
there are no flies on him. In person neat.
tstn-the glass Of fashion and the mold Of
form; IN eye IKE Nars to threaten and com.
mand. . station like the herald Mercury new
lighted upea heaven. kissing hill-s combin.
alton and . form, indeed. whsrsou every god
did seem TO set his seal to sive the world ~.
sursnos Of . man!
This 10 Willie. Now look you nowhere else
for his like; each YOUNG men don't crow on
every bush. The fortunate young woman who
has csptussd him snd has life lien on his af.
feetioos can know the meaning Of the old say.
ing. "A bird In the hand 10 worth several In
the BASH And speaking Of bushes. II 10 true
the woods ere not full Of such. Referring now
TO tendency toward rounding out In nsure-
developiuR. 90 to speak-it 10 only just to say
that, while Willie 10 dllins ny In the cenetr
OF his makeup. Nature takes care
that the interior department OF his crsniai
growth keeps pace with the rest. and this with.
ont changing his hat block; for Willie has
those gentle intellectual and moral qualities
which will lever cause II to be said that he has
the bis.head. To somewhat explain this ex.
PLANTATION. Willie 10 developing toward an i'm.
posing personality not without natural causes.
He eats. he eats often and generously. He
lives Oh The fat Of the land. No spare ribs In
his diet! No vulgar potatoes either! No snide
free lunch truck can allure him. He treats his
stomach, like he treats his horse and his
friends, honestly. We say that he eats! Man
cannot live on bread alone! He irrigates He
trtgates frequently, whenever he feels like II
and to be social when he doesn't Just exactly
always feel like II. 90 that tho confluence OF
the solids and LIQUIDS forms . full aud hsrmo-
nious Intestinal canal which will not generate
any dyspeptical Nightmares or bilious snsss
TO obstruct II. Hence there II . constant now
OF animal spirits-s sort OF reflex from the
spirits inwaFdly assimilated o. above dc.
scribed- aNensrvescence legitimate and within
the bounds Of temperance and right living.
We met some charming companions on the
way In the smoking-ro0m Of our Pullman
car there was group Of gentlemen well worth
studying. One whom we win call Henry-Or
Harry, Is the dear girls would say-s siugu.
isrly handsome fellow. with bright brown
mustache, curly hair luxurlously cultivated
and trained In the latest fashion, Q young
man quite au fat In manners and dress. and Q
complexion a society belle would turn green
with envy over. Another, a tall, severe, schO!-
arly looking gent with BETTING eyeglasses, |
behind which. and only partially concealed, q |
pair OF laughing brown eyes. easily lighted by
humorous story or recital. Another, prim,
staid, proper. severely dignihed young man,
who would be taken for o schoolmaster, or one
whose disciplinary ideas would dominate II |
he had the authority. These three people soon
broke the Ice. They warmed up in no time.
and the hum OF conversation running into story
telling, dissertations on life and its meaning
hypnotism, mesmerism. and Darwinism. and
other less serious subjects kept up amid
the roar OF the rushing train, the swaying and
jerking coach, the innumerable and queer
buzzings OF the human freight train going
forty miles an hour either to safety or destruc.
ton, till we rescued Washington In the early