Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-07-26
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
Pen Picture of Trip from Kansas
City to the Pacific.
written for THE AMERICAN by Miss e. A.
Slower, of BluehilIl

Kansas City is the great commercial
gateway OF the Missouri. From this
place large company OF teachers set
forth, for the National educational asso-
citation, to be held in Los Angeles, Cali
tornia. was a stranger, in a crowd, but
very soon after entering the car, was in
vited to join the Kansas party, under the
direct guidance of Supt. Russ, of Pitts
burg, Kansas. These hasty notes on the
way may be OF interest to some of my
dear friends in Hancock county.
The vast plains through which we trav-
buffalo roamed supreme, are now counted
as the second most important agricultural
district in the Union. Vigorous young
cities are seen at frequent intervals.
Topeka, with it's broad avenues and in
Vulnerable shade trees, is one OF the
prettiest capitals in the West. The
neig borhood of Newton is the home of
Mennonites, Russian sect, that fled to
America from the domain of the car to
find relief from oppression.
AT Hutchinson we enter western Kan
sas, and from this point for long dis
AN" ,ne ioao io'io"s the winnings OF
.ho a. Nan'"' river Dooge elty, OF cow
boy fame, and Garden City, are the chief
WINS leg 'o'' AT Douse OHy we
all change our watches to "Mountain
Time"
In western Kansas we pass through
i'hii'enoe sra%Ihg aistrlets' Where the
.'eiui ouhch grass Oh the west anords
oo"' oo'n gum iiiei anu "ih'er' ior hhh-
VIC" ing pi"hio III
"e' "'u "'ies anu aeies Vi corh anu
"ii"iia' a' iar as 'he eye couio reacn' we
"e.. '"' p i'eu ~ eee eA'eh7iVe quarries
u ie''ho anu near Tue Track Kill,
aiiAe 'no'e III "aile' put huch iiAe
'noao III ii'i"ois'
we oiu no' reach the western limit oi
WIS ''a'e uii'ii ai'er d. H. Aues-
10Y. eSoho Nooiluse'"e eh'er ooiorauo'
nv l." "''a' % LILIES ifoih hahsas wy
VIC eee ior tue hrst tlhe fikes feaR. Inc
ioau iuhS Souen"esl ACROSS the southeast
W nei Vi 'oi"uo' irlhioao' Ine ihous-
VI '"' "h" 'oAii'ie' oi"i e''h.ie VI soul meas.
Soioiaao' Is 'hri'ihs CITY OF apout o,ooo,
III nieh 'ne enarae'ef is.lcs Vi ola MEXICO
"nu So"hs neiioa are lheAlrlcaoly
iiiiAeu.
AZ -ioiiey we oeeih W ascehu the hatoh
iiou 9'eep slaue anu me VIEWS, es-
peelalis Vi 'ne spanish peaks. al the top
VI i'a'oii ass we go through long tuh-
hei aiiu DUG uayi NJ again III Ne" Mex
iso.
ha'o'' ass 10 ''o-o ieet aoo'e sea lever.
i"o powerful mountain engines are re-
quifeu 10 overcome ms eteVation, ana theh
ne ttaiii moves niue MISTER thah walk
nc io"u " mus III curves So sharp that we
oteeh SET ne engines as we slt III the car.
A'ter 'eaN4he the tunnel the train
r"sheS GOWN steep lhclihe' as II TO re-
gam 'Ae 10" ieVei from "hich the Jour
hes was oeeuh' out We" MEXICO Is ter
fitofs III the SKY It's broad upiand plains
are nj all attitude That III the eastern
stHtes must DE sought among the clouds.
AZ ITO time are we peio" All eleVatIoh OF
o'ooo iee'' we are borne over mountains,
sooEe iores's oi pine ana HI silhpses OF
Instant p'alfle' through eahohs' "hefe
herce f"cS waits behu HoWh"ara from
'he SKY along the banks OF the rivers
past picturesque desert tracts, spotted
with sage brush past hlesss' outtes' dead
Noleahoe7 ana lava peo7' we see not only
mountain eraters' out lohs pasaitic
Slopes Nsst rivers Oh rocks cracked piiea
a"u scattered ana III places oVergfowh
WIN e"'psrrai' All 50 luti Oh interest,"
even 10 lhe accustomed eye out espec-
iaiiS 80 10 one VINO Is taxing 'he trip ior
int hfS' time.
our route Is almost Iueh'lcal with that
ioi'oN ca ny oorohsuo' remembered as he
0"iit" re l ran d route once traVerSeo
by pack mules ana prairie schooHefs,