The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-06-30
5 rRIP 20 cHICAGO.
Via the Kanawha g Michigan
RaiIway.

Via the E1anasFha & Michigan
Railway.
a few years ago such Journey
would have been contemplated
with the same feelings as starting
I to Europe Now it is a trip thai
can be accomplished In few
hours, at small expense and en-.
joyable ease / saw picture Of
the Chicago of 1885 small ham
let in the marshes by the lake. I
Hooked out upon the Chicago Of
1897, magnificent city filed with
a million people struggling for ex-
istence.
The Kanawha and Michigan
Railway is the natural outlet for
the people Of the Kanawha Valley
Ito the lakes. Nature has made Il
such, apparently. and mani g gem
ius and energy have utilized the
advantage.
The K. & NJ. R,y. needs more
than passing notice. It lis broad
|er in its sweep of usefulness than
many are aware. 1t is great in
itself, but greater in its contacts.
After crossing the Ohio River at
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, an
historic place, it comes in touch
with the great trunk railway lines
passing through the State of Ohio.
from the golden East to the silver
West. There are dozen such
lines. Hence into Ohio, and
thence in every direction the
Kanawha and Michigan service
can send the traveller. There are
many reasons why the mountains
are not to be compared to the
lakes for the pleasure seeker, the
sight observer and the health
searcher. Along the latter live a
people whose achievements are the
most wondrous of any in this most
wonderful country. Time will
only swell and strengthen their
power and glory. 1t is not
possible for any southern cline
with its enervating influences to
produce anything to compare with
it. Some day Canada will be part
of our Union-an acquisition of
territory more to be desired than a
thousand Cubas and Hawaiis.
Millions will then dwell around the
great inland seas. The fierce strug-
giles that will come to perputuate
the blessings of free government,
will there find its most ardent and
stubborn defenders. To hear peo-
pie talk one would not think that
struggle "afar off" Let us hope
that they are mistaken. The ine-
qualities of conditions are marked
and hard and are growing more SO
daily, but like the recession of the
waves on oceans shore, when it
seems like all is sucked away.
another wave leaps forward, so the
ebb and flow of life is continued.
But the processes of decay surely
and steadily go on. There are i'm
mense break-waters that protect
Chicago from the furious waves of
Lake Michigan. By whom and
how are such projections being
thrown around the artificial struc-
ture of human society, to save it
from itself? This question opens
OF rather starts the endless chain"
not the '.endIess chain by
which the gold can be drawn out
of the Treasury, for to discuss or
allude to that might disturb the
present Harmony. that prevails
all along the line, but a far more
serious and deep one is thereby
suggested, though somewhat cog
nate with the endless chain. .
May we not believe that a great
many important questions now en-
crossing the attention and consid-
Grafton of mankind, may find a cor
rect solution .1n the steamships,
in the Railways, in the thoughts
that shake mankind" !"
Fidelity Encampment, No. 81.
I. o. F.. at its last meeting cleo
ted the following officers for the