The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-03-04

cost Of something like $3,ON},-
600. While Boston claims it
equal ia a Union Depoterected
recently, circulars assert that
this is the largest and creates
affair OF its kind in the world
mentioning one at Berlin,
Germany, as a close competitor.
Thirty-four different and dis
tinct railroads center in this
one depot and it is a miniature
world in itself. 1t is one solid
mass of stone and marble and
the carvings and designs in it's
interior are beautiful. Avariety
of businesses are carried on in
this building and a travellers
want that cannot be supplied
there has to be something ex-
traordinary.
Leaving St. Louis in the
evening on the Dixie Flyer
over the Louisville & Nashville
the night was spent travelling
through the cornfields OF south
ern Illinois land southern Hi
nois is almost a solid corntield)
across the state of Kentucky
and breakfast found us. at
Nashville the capital OF
Tennessee. with seven inches
of the beautiful something
that we hadn't seen i'll North
! Dakota all this winter) and still
showing at a brisk rate. AS the
different members of the party
looked out through the car
windows after a refreshing
nights sleep and saw the state
of affairs there was a general
exclamation of Obi and many
of us commenced to think we
were going in the wrong
direction. But the train sped
on it's southwark course and but
little change was noticed until
we reached Montgomery, Ala
barna, when the snow had
entirely disappeared-and we
congratulated ourselves on
having reached the "Sunny
South"
On account of travelling
through Kentucky at night We
did not have an opportunity to
see the beauties of this state.
But, inasmuch as [ have
previously passed through 1T
on two different occasions, L
have a general idea of it's re-
sources and alvantages---it is
famous tor its Bourbon, fast
horses and beautiful. women.
Being on the divide, so to speak,
here the climate is excellent.
the soil fertile and productive
and the people generally pros
porous. Kentucky is a half
way place and for those born
and reared in the north, who
have tired of a cold and severe
climate, and are DESTROYS OF
spending their declining years
in ease and comfort, will find
within it's borders a suitable
and desirable recluse-more so
than further south where the
summer heati is more oppressive
and one not accustomed to the
southern climate more subject
to disease.
Nashville, the capital of.
Tennessee, and which had the
Centennial Exposition in 1896, is
a beautiful and historic city, and
is OF e ofthe largest educational
centers in the United States.
The Fiske, Vanderbilt, Nash
Vile and other colleges and
universities are located here
the total capacity being be-
tween eight and nine thousand.
On our. route, along the
southern border of Tennessee,
the country commenced to have
a mountainous aspect and by
the time we had passed into
Alabama the Surroundings had
a decided hilly and rocky ap-
pearnce to us--inhabitants of the
prairies. AS you pass through
these immense hills there are
several bends in the road every
mile---the cars swaying to and
fro as does an ocean steamer on
a high. sea--.-and every few
minutes you pass aclear, spark
ling mountain stream. and the
sceneay is superb. Late de-
velopements prove that these
mountains are rich in minerals
principally iron aud COAL
and the prosecution of the
mining industry by northern
capital and northern energy
has made Birmingham the
most northern city of the south.