The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-05
A TRIP ON THE PACIFIC
COAST AND IN CANADA.
The National Editorial ASSOcia-
tion Enjoys Delightful Trip
Across the Continent.
The Start From Description
of the Train-Something About the
Great Northwestern Railway.
Pat Donan Extends
Greetings.

| i" DOIAttu AyAlelllS
Greetings.
The writer returned on Friday, July
2sth, from four weeks trip through
the great Northwest, on the Pacific
coast, and Canada, improved in health
and greatly impressed by the wonder
full resources OF that section. The
wonders we have seen would take all
the space of the SENTINEL for q year
to describe, but we shall attempt in a
series of letters to lay before our read
ers the main impressions Of this never
to-be-forgotten trip.
On Thursday afternoon, June 29th,
we left Grenada for Chicago, the
rendezvous of the party. On the train
were several Mississippi editors, some
Of them having with them their wives,
sisters or other relatives. The COM
panionship of these during the entire
trip was extremely pleasant and the
friendships thus formed will exist for
all time to come. At Chicago we met
many with whom we had become fam
iliar on former trips, and old acquaint-
ances were renewed with mutual pleas
ure and profit.
The excursion train OF the National
Editorial Association left Chicago
June 30th, at 6. so p. M, over the CHS
cago and Northwestern Railway. The
train comprised ten Wagner palace
sleeping coaches and one baggage car,
drawn by locomotive No. 1873, with
Thomas Jefferson Rogers at the throt>
tie. This engine is the most powerful
owned by the company and was used
when the Northwestern made the race
from Chicago to Denver several
months ago in competition With the G.
B: a. @. Before starting on our long
trip to the Pacific coast few words
relative TO this model railroad will not
be out of place.
Passing out of the big Wells street
station, the first thing to attract the
attention of the tourist is the elevation
of the tracks OF this line in the city OF
Chicago, now receiving the finishing
touches by the hands of a thousand
busy workmen. In writing about the
advancement in railroad methods of
the present day, one is overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the operations
that are changing the traffic condi-,
tions of the country. NoNher are
greater strides being made to bring
about perfect results in the operation
Of railway than Is seen along the
great Northwestern Line. The work
of elevating the tracks of the North
western line in the city of Chicago has
proceeded so Systematically and quiet
ly that very few are aware that this
Herculean undertaking is almost COM
plete. Fully twenty miles Of roadway,
from two to eight tracks in width, is
receiving the final dressing Of gravel
ballast. These tracks have gone up,
day by day, to the required grade,
with all switches, spurs and signal ap-
paratus, together with the setting in
place of hundreds OF tons of viaduct
work, without the serious delay of a
single train or Inconvenience to pas
sengers or traffic.
But this great work is only charac'
teristic Of this great corporation. From
the day that the first ten miles of rails
we're laid to the Des PLANES river,
away back in the middle of the century,
which was the humble beginning OF
the Northwestern Line,-until this
year Of grace, A. D. 1899, the motto Of
the company has been and is: "Prog'
ress, Liberality and Honesty and the
best Of everything" Nothing is toe
good for the American people, and
nothing is too good for this company
to buy and place at the disposal Of it:
patrons.
The North Western Line reaches
the great timber, copper and iron dis
|tricts of Northern Wisconsin, Mich
|igan and Minnesota. It has great op'
portunities to offer the manufacturer
merchant land farmer. Ito land de
partment has thousands Of acres O
cheap lands for sale on the NEST favor
able terms.
The first two days out from Chi
capo were devoid Of special interest al
no important stops were aaas, ever!
effort being put forth y nnihilat'
time and distance In anl1lajPstion o
j, the pleasures awaiting us beyond th'
Rockies. At 1890 Saturday morning
va reached Council Bluffs, ISws. Th'
excursion train left Counsll Bluffs a