The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
NOTES AND IMPRESSIONS.

Rock to Coronado Beach-The Great,
 Windy and Waterless West-In the Desert
 The Noble Red Man and the IgnobIe Red Woman-Dust Unto Dust-Some Burning QueshOns-Desert Fashions Southern California, the Land of Fruits, Flowers and aims, the Modern Eden, and the Place Where the Privilege of Going to Heaven May Seem Like Duty The Sand Storms of Arizona and of New Haven.
 Many travel nowadays-for health, for fun, or to get away from people
 and then come home and unload upon
 the gentle reader Impressions" or
 Notes" Following will be found
 some Impressions and some Notes, and the gentle reader may, if he or she will,
 guess which are the Impressions and which are the Notes.
 FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO. From New York to Washington over the Royal Blue line, that splendid, swift
 and safe carrier of the rich, the noble, the political and the common, every day folks. Five deeply interesting hours between New York and Washing ton. Over the fertile fields of New Jer- sey through spacious and sleepy Phila-
 delphia, on through lordly Baltimore and sweet Maryland until the seat of the national government or of Grover IN Cleveland's government, is reached. Then from the Royal Blue line on to the Royal Green Cat this season of the year) | line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
 which runs from Washington to Chica- go, at first through places made histor- l ic by contending armies, and especially that place made historic by the chief tragedy in, John Browns tragic life. At Harper's Ferry, within sight of the John Brown relics, a canal boat was creeping along with the beautiful flag of the Union flying at it's prov. Typi- cal, if you please, of the fact that Un- ion patriotism has arrived, even if by a slow route. From Harper's Ferry on through a region of hills and noun tains, valleys and rivers, which make picturesque panorama such as no other line of travel between the East and
 
 and daring were the plans of those who
 laid out the line of the B. and o. over
 and through the mountains of West Virginia, and wonderfully and daringly were those plans carried out. Those who made them and carried them out did great things for business. They
 did even greater things for the millions
 who have looked from their coura geous t1oe,
 scenes of soft beauty or surpassing
 grandeur and have gathered cheer and
 strength therefrom.
 FROM CHICAGO TO SAN DIEGO.
 After the beauties and the glories of
 the mountains have been passed, on to Chicago over the broad plains of what was once the West, but is now called | the East by those who live in the real, l enough West. There transfer is | made to the great Atchison, Topeka | and Santa Fe railroad, whose system is the largest in the world and is fitly | ltypided by lion standing on the round | globe. The stop at. Chicago is only | long enough to smell the place, but that | is enough. Chicago has more well de- | Ifined and separate stinks than Cologne | lever had, and the river Rhone could at | lany time have been washed with much | more ease than Chicago's river. What will the future of the great city be, | with all it's physical, moral and politi- lcal impurity, its babel builders who have not yet been confounded, and it's mad race after money and what it calls growth" Fortunately the traveller is mot bound to try to answer that ques- Ition, so on he goes out of the Wondrous, the wicked and the Woful city of the | plain on to the fair fields of Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. whose fairness and whose fertility are queerly enough 1 made the servants of the foul city. As one goes on and on and on he begins to get an idea of what the greatest rail- road system in the world really is. He looks at his map and he finds that it has the distinction of being the only l. railroad line that has it's own tracks between Chicago and the Pacific ocean; that it runs through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizo- ma and California, branching hither and thither; and that all it's lines cover. a distance more than a thousand miles greater than the diameter of the earth. And while he gazes in wonder at the I length and the breadth of the stupen-I dous system his wonder grows that it can be managed It evidently is man. aged and well managed, too. While the financiering and the unfinanciering of it is going on in New York, London ( and other money eenters, those who look after the operation of the road are I attending carefully to business The great through trains from Chicago toj San Diego run their thousands of miles, 1 usually strictly on time. The passen- gers on them are made to feel that they z are well cared for. And very notable feature of the work is the uniform and . cordial courtesy of all concerned in the ; handling of the trains and dealing with I .he public. This amounts to much to T travellers over long distances in strange ands. The Atchison employees do not a 'orm an aristocracy and snub the com d non people who happen to travel with C hem They are considerate, patient II md helpful. And the brakemen pro- lounce the names of the stations so I hat they can be understood This U nay appear incredible to some gentle D 'eaders, but it is true. The New York, D ,Iau IJaUan and Harfford bralYarooo l |