The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-07-02
FROM NEBRASKA.
Scenes and Occurrences IncideD-
tai to Travel In the West.

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Overland at $50 p. m. / could not
at once settle myself as l only in
tended to go as far as Spokane, and
as had only engaged a Pullman
berth for that distance l was OBJ
liged to change for the Spokane car
at Puyallup Il don t believe any of
your readers can pronounce that
correctly if it is the first time you
have seen the name). After leaving
Puyallup we soon began the ascent
of the Cascade range. Up, up, up
we went, following the course of the
most beautiful river l have seen in
my wanderings-a lovely, green,
rapidly flowing mountain stream
shingly beach now on one side of
the stream, now on the other. l
watched the stream as we rapidly
passed, first on one side, then on the
other. A popularity of mountain
railroading is thus following the
course of river. OF course,I could
see less grading is required; in some
of the places we we're Galmost in the
river bed. This lovely stream we
did not entirely lose sight of for
hours. At last the porter began to
close ventilators to keep out the
foul air. A traveller informed me
we were nearing the longest tunnel
on the line, two miles long. We
were some time in passing through,
for travel is rather slow on these
steep grades. We had two engines.
I don't believe I have described
my trip on the dangerous Shasta
route, where we had three engines
to pull US up, and the three were
kept on to hold back in going down,
for a little extra speed is liable to
send great masses of rock down on
the track, which is often on high
trestles. 1t was on the Shasta
route that I saw the beautiful
Bridal Veil Falls,a lovely, simmer
ing mass of water looking like fine
delicate lace.
To return to the tunnel, when we
emerged l was informed that we
had reached the summit, and that
the descent would now begin. Be-
ing very weary, l did not sit up to
watch the curves as we went down,
but retired "behind the arras" but
not to sleep. The downward grade
was so steep that l seemed to be
standing on my head. l really felt
too i'll to change about, so morning
found me very tired and car sick.
We reached Spokane about 8 o clock.
I got off, intending to stay over a
day and see the falls and 60 about q
little, but after sitting in the sta
tion short time, concluded to
come on as felt that nothing could
attract me sufficiently for my enjoy
ment. passed very uncomfort-
able day-the only one on all my
trip when ! could not enjoy the ever
changing scenes. Toward night
felt better and by the time we reach
ed Billings, Mont, l began to feel
like myself again. Changed from
the Northern Pacific to the Burling-
ton, at Billings, at 9:3O a. m, and
as would reach my destination be-
fore midnight l took chair car in
stead of Pullman, and very glad l
was, for | had an agreeable travel
ing companion who told me Of the
various objects of interest along. the
line. find. too, that you see more
of the local travel and more of the
local coloring of the places if not so
far back in the train. | found
this out in Arkansas, where i left
my section in the sleeper and sat for
hours in the day coach so | might
see the queer sights along the line.
On the Northern Pacific there was
little to see. Judging from the maps
/ supposed there were numbers OF
flourishing little villages, but this is
not so, for most of these places con
sist of one house and another one
and often the "other one" is not
there. Indeed, there are very few
places of any size at all. On the
Burlington it is just about the same
On, on, on we went until l wa:
moved to ask the conductor If some
way had been devised for utilizing
the exhaust steam, for we appeared
to go without any stops for water
He looked somewhat surprised bu
said they could go seventy or eight,
miles without stopping for water
In fourteen hours travel there wer
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