Show RAMBLES OX THE lUlL Salt Laic City to be luTe East Sera Through Western Spectacles SALT Lticn Cm Nov IS 1SS9 Correspondence of the UcsKJtKT pirns Thcroare many people of all agrs who have a great desire to travel The thought being able to seelpiaces and objects other than these with which they a familiar offer the highest possible source of enjoyment To a certain extent I Is true that observing travelers arc much benefited by seeing jicoplcs I and nations other than their own and nothing can take the conceit out of them better than learning this one truth that all the good folks and the finest scenery are not found In one place The habit of noticlng > eculiariUes in people differences in methods of dolnc business tmcrovements in thin coBstructlou of buildings and modef of manuacture < ofrer5a limitless limit-less sphere of entertainment Many bury themselves in poper bound literature become oblivious to all attractionsand are scatcely aroused to an interest in passing oljects unless un-less shaken up by an accident 1 such travelers may as w ell stay at home if they intend to tell us ou their return what they have ten Everybody knows the bny out of our valley now I jemetnber > the time when common report made it Impossible to get away from Salt b Lake City without having your throat cut but railroads have changed all this The United States have deposited this cauanl In the chestnut rack where many others outside will go flint obtain credence on the I went out over the old reliable Union 1aclflc to Denver iiy thin way this city is growing greater and becoming an immense railroad centre I have the impression that it is gamilmr tin Immrf n nr I Inmnr Omaha as a great central t point Railroad combinations are making the cIty hy the Missouri a way sin Lion We txlll to rk of Sari trancs to Denver Denver to Chicago There n three cr our roads that reach Chicago fnm Denver Imlg OnLIL out in the cold coldAt At Denver you ray KooJl > ye to mountains canyons and the sights familiar to a Utonlnn A billowy Plain Is the only diversity seen It matter not what road you take Years aco this rounlrv of the nlilns iras the favorite haunt of the Iiulla lo hut today nearly every foot of land in proximity to the railroads is taken tip Great bradths of farms stretch east north and south Th chief product I corn which at the time traveled over the road in the western part was worth j 14 rent per I bushel For a change I took the C f I i p railway anti it was on this that I gleaned the fact also that nearly every farm was mortgaged Ilcpreseutatives of trusts are ready to loan money at certain rates of Interest on improved farm proi > erty The interest I Is collected every Jail For tllr years on account of elI matic oMecfons and crashniu > in > and consequent failure of crops the Interest has not been pal This year the corn crop is immense but lut there Is no sale for it at iiai In prices From this fact although plenty abounds poverty and the money lender knock at the door of every granger cursed with n mortgage CI have observed notices posted upin our own valley such as Money to Iran on improved farms I hope but few of our farmers hare put their eonfiJenceinorganized I trustwhich will never rest Until the improvements improve-ments are Wrested 1 from them and they are eternally in debt If I had tlie power to whisper in every farmers farm-ers ear the sentiment to avoid the professional money lender as lie would the small pox I would Uo so px 1 her that the ranie calamity af filets the farmers In Dakota Better do without luxuries than pny a double price for them by borrowiuff hionej I learn that the rain belt reaches about fifteen miles westward every year as the country is I opened up and cultivated thus dumnmtritln that cultivation helps temnnMln as f well as iris planting As we nn proach thb > fl3SourI II Jlivif the size of the trees Increases and the towns are more frequent The boomer has gotten in his work In Kansas very I effectually and what etIectunly tho country I Licks In real attractions cuntf readily furnlshld by the facile jieu of the real estate agent The speed of railroad trains f growIng greater every year The trip of oVet 1000 miles lenin Denver t Chicago is made in about 83 hours only about li hours of day light the blanc is night traveling The train service on the Rock Is land Is Imply perfect Titers Is no chance to get In a growl atoll If any of the readers of this article would like to know how fast they travel they have onl tw only to count the number of clicks uclce made br the wheels In twenty seconds IJ Unit will gIve the number of miles Ir hour Chicago the grenl by Ihe Inland seals ah ImiueMMMiieof struggling humanity full of vim push And en terprise Ilahlroad anti Like riacIgo Jon Iiai given It Vie Iroud positIon of being thiesecontl Iarestchty in tIn JL tI States tlll for this great alrif 159 I IS the cltf ot seventeen story buildings I takes the water of Lake Michigan to drink and empties jb sewage bark again into the same lake I Is the heal quarters of the It has anarchists the reputation of tnUug a rout stalL hn I f ° jai immorality it grows faster and I has incite rtllrojds titan any oilier piace ceitlcrli iu tilts Union iu It Old The Mexico bus ness for men trade reach out Into and in fact all over the world althourfi ln tc is a thousand miles from he ocean Thiti II 1 opinion is the oct only drw hac to the Worlds Fair being located there for the ron that everything from foreIgn countries tvihi hae to be far ye hauled r by rail Otherwise it i the lot central lot that could be sclectedi Getting out of ChiKgO ly I Mil is Mi I someUIg hike a fly trying to free Itself from a spiders wcl > only one does Je out but the number of iron roadways mokes the escape tedious lien by the Erie lp Boston which carries the passenger through A succession nf mnnrnln towns where coal iron and natural gas seem everywhere abundant b2 one tIme the tme CUll was covered by orts of ok but these are being cleared oU The vast drain upon Uie resources of the rur country from all parts will some day tell upon the possibility of meeting the demand There appears to be no provision made to keep up the supply lrolslol wood Umber hut who cares In tills rushing ng what I wanted In U1 uext century Isupporc if suppose timber X I cannot be obtained I planks of straw can b made Who knows nows After living so long In the west the green hills dn well watered ot plains Umber covetcti In spot with plenty Umbr arc sights exceedingly eight gratifyIng to the eye In the mouth October when the oaks oCOcor chestnut and maple nipped by thin frost tnu1 put on a glorious wraiths of oolor from high yellow to maroon from gold to crimson the effect I cliarmlnj A dazzlIng glow su9 the woods Ing with natures unapproachablepalnt IngThe The road to Boston via thin Erie takes one through Ute famous Hoes fmous HO ac tunnel I think this is the longest tunnel In the United States being four and fourfifths miles in length I Is lighted all the mie way Uirough by 1223 Incandescent Incandent Limps The approaches at both RP ends combine all the elements of pictorial beauty Eastward the Icerfield River I la I followed for n long distance Rolling hills llng hll grassy glades factories gy glc fctrC Pretty homes and I thriving towns tell tlie beholder he huts hi reached the State of Massachusetts To myself tills longerseltled part of the tl Irt positively attractive I I is thin and ry Although many UI v < places cultivation has made beautiful y ful what otherwise would bus sterile country Boston is a city 1 of liUtoi leal I i Interest Thin older part has an Ecglish appearance The streets run every way and all on a curve the newer portions are laid cut at right angle There I scarcely a dwelling to be e en in the business part It fleet started as a settlement about 1600 When n many as fifteen hundred people came oVcrand ecttled here it gradually took upon itself the dignity digni-ty of a city It I I today one of the most interesting among the older cities of tho Unlonfuhiof historical histori-cal points in connection with the establtshmentof grandest republic repub-lic on the face of the earth Boston common the old south church Bunker Bun-ker hill and the ancient graveyards n r worthy shrines for the visitor who would look upon the sacred relics Dingy old portrait and souvenirs sou-venirs of the battles fought In TS and 71 Go to the old south church and stand where Washington har angucd his officers anti announced the progress of tho British in their efforts to vanquish the heroes of freedom Try and think of the noble impulses that nerved the brave men of cary da v to face the armies of a nation then masters of the seat I would be Impossible in a rambling ram-bling article to detail all that I of interest In Boston Tome It presents pre-sents features peculiar to alone I Is the most American city In the Union There are fewer Jews anti foreigners there than In tlie western cities I I more conservative Culchaw I studied the ladles dress with extreme nentntM and simplicity sim-plicity but LImo dresses arc good with no vestige of slioddylsm about i them Trade runs in grooves It IIJ I would bo n very hard I city In which for a young man to start In business Tunic I an English flavor among LImo wealthy folk The poor there as everywhere are In pr back streets and alleys I did not notice any Italian orlhlneso quarters during dur-ing my stay In Boston and no miserable miser-able looking people on the streets With the limitless wraith centering in tills section of the country I presume the joor are well looked after Then ater emigrants from the I old world do not land her In large numliers Boston Is the easiest city to do business In J for tile reason that the business jart is all concentrated near the steamers which come from nil parts of the world I tliere are any j iple keener In mercantile matter than can bo found in the Yankee StaLer I have never seen them but their word is good you can nfunrs i take It from n manufacturer From tin fact that business Is concentrated the scions of business mel liave to look wttL for a clmnce to make start So much has thIs becoffle the fashion that in twentylive years LIme genuine old Yankee type of humanity hu-manity so much admired will he han to find Jfcw Hampshire I gating Idepopubtnl farming proi erly In many section is uiunlrable A movement is i lion on foot to colonize colo-nize the State with Swedes SlId Norwegians The west is more productive the chances are greater and life is not s stagnant as in the settled Eastern States For this reason as soou as the old man dies the ron being away ofj the tlml goes t to scastir t and decay and moss covers the old llomesttMtl Through the kindness of a friend I mile over the rood traveled by the IlritMi In theneighborhood of Lex legion The cosy lanes and narrow roads covered on each side with a thick growth of oaks and chestnuts arc very Inviting to a resident of the arid West l I lied Lexington the spot designated on the tlag poleas the blrthphcoof the American Ameri-can Republic Read the inscriptions on the monument dedicated to the first men who shed their wel tlclr lifes Moot lol for the hem which so many enjoy and so tV appreciate Cloebyij a trGctiuitilHl Pf nnt nr i n and now standing to his memcry > ear tlie open space I in old home with a knocker the door brought over from England and on the side is I an inscription which reads r fol lows Hou o Jonathan Harring ton who wounded on the common April 19th KTo dragged himself the door and died nt his suItes feet Thin ramo eld tOT noir hangs on Its hinges that was tliere bn tlirtt occn slon The same windows I am told which admitted light in thox nl stirring times arc liens et Why did I linger about these spots Z Why did all the blood stained souvenirs interest mlZ For the rrafon Hint the grandetirof that movement Is worthy ot oUr highest appreciation knowing as I do the condition of millions now under the Iron heel of autocratlcand monarch ical tyranny In the oM world who would give half a lifetime to feel thc IlLotons oC life in n freeman such as the millions of American citizens enjoy today When I think that under tho broad folds of tliat tag which means true freedom wherever It Is Unfurled there are men who would lavclheir fellow I think niell tlllk time time may come when patience will cense t lien I Ire t even a the nnfitr nf f f > ar against their oppressors Ty ninny of every kindwhether political politi-cal or religious mutt b crushed be fur nil mankind will belmlv free The limit of m > rambles must in curtailed hut before leaving this classlc Jiwl I fount another house with the following ni inscrlptloni Iliillt Ifto9j enlarged 1731 flesh denco of lint John Hancock Aj years and of his successor lInt James Clark SO years Ilirv Samuel Adams and John Hancock were tlceplng when aroused by nrUtl Inul Revere April 17th 1775 YVhenrrr any of my Utah friends visit fetid I would advise them 10t to fall to visit this Irfitlihym I will repay them rep > Xw 1 ork City i 1 vastly different differ-ent one from lloton cl mil distant hued to fvo and more dilli cult to write but Five luimrol Uiousand ixople I ride over the I h ndi Of lllclr fallen creatures enrj day on the elevated railronds Every tcrJ holy 1 hshn I n lmrr > > Moci5siroMill tan to tllrelnfl tu the con All nation are repruersmted J New York hw the LJg rlatrr he biggest steamers hlJtt = crs the biggest l bridge the tcDel br UI lonccst 1 streets and the most Inhabitant of Inhnhianls any city In the Union Ole sight was more Interesting lltrUng to than l the rest namely inn the electric railroad moved by storage totterles In successful ThU ears noting sucCful along lmpehhd operation I I by an invisible forec stored up In n box scented t open up the I t b what wn may look for before many years when ail tho unused forces of natur will b utIHzHl tn r7J this storej up energy for n domestic b I use when the winds and the waves willueuseato set In motion the dynamic generators The writer predicted five years ago that the day would come when the storage boxes for x a weeks sup mis ply would be left at our doors and the came boxes attached 1 to the In candescent burners for home light log Such I today nn accomplished met In Dtlj and where will the end 17 I read of n battery Im polling a small screw steamer sixty miles already low long may we expect to wait fur n Inttpnnr r fljcnt force to move a train 1000 miles 1 Such will be tIme case doubt wJ b cas no The Fair of the American mali Amercu Inl tute was opened IiiXew York while OPD Yor I wag there and I patronized wllo know I shall b called egotistical when I that etstc say tl1t the Utah Fair was Wl superior to it everything consid ered Many of the cltlts cnid wer very poor none of them displayed the great strides in inventive gen ius that I expected The most noticeable exhibit wos L onc showing v uiu u jirouucoJ Irani cot lrUClrom ct ton seed a product which s pruct was once onc thrown away Gas engines of GI ct per feet construction and availability aalfily were also on view tIer They were indeed nu economical meansof e llomlcl menot obtaining power where cheap could exhibit be obtained The rest g exhlLts were of the kind found in all usually ond such places many of them hu dodges to sell some nostrum or new invention sl Among the many changes on In the eastern cities the closing gdlng of the tle coing large retail la stores rlnl at six oclock Is the most gratifying 10r I was pleased t find tliat thin prInt prnc jnl establishments ceased business ot at that hour The lower prl as Broadway M tight oco w quiet as f gkavuyOrt j Jarte ss the men starts te DIej cancerned1 01 estee that said Let 115 1lfO of hot 11d o Chic I own iUt thin toilers InSmtorw t tolel1lln t ton ° en able city may bye and bye l JLe1 home Joy timehreveoingaatbome a movement ought to l polUtar enter Concentration oe bsiolneO ConcntmUn o blnt over I prises is I a markcJ feature all I the Union whether In Ior or In running railttaK i J concentrations become rfant asonohr olles Win trusts 5nd comblnJ tlons alUbewcallh Int the band tom put AIUbewrUI Mores of a few Against the giant tn flue small retailerscan blrl fight J 1 to ml retl lCl which apfti There are man t signswhldl Ippr ominous to an onlooker afTfCtlng the future weal mnnklnd Having furnished I at these few nuts for the renders of the Eto crack I 1 ro I will conclude by expressing my thankfulm UvjU am safely back In my mountalrthlomeStvumlc I C x SAVAOE I |