Show EDITOR OTELL CAPWELL TELLS OF TRIP EAST some of our friends desired us to give a short ebon nc count ot of our recent trip to our old home bome what we saw and whom wo we met on the way it would ghe us much pleasure to comply with their requests but we fear all wo we might say 0 of the trip which was one of pleasure to the editor and his hie better two thirds might not be so interesting to tho the general 94 DeTal reader ss as something to else mevert nevertheless beleas we will try to avail ourselves ot of this opportunity port unity to gay bay a few words concerning nhat hat we saw and experienced while bile on oil the road one oce thing we noticed as much of ftp any other anil ua jat hat was the improvement ot of the railway service cervice generally throughout the country especially in the middle west illinois indiana and ohio the trolley lines seemed to P be liking anif pearly all the th local passenger traffic and thus relieving th steam roads and give them the chance chancel j to run their trains more rapidly antl and for longer loinger distances distance without stopping thus we W get over the country taster faster and enjoy the ride much better than when we stop at every station dpn i 1 1 TV 1 wa wilt spoilt ft day in ill omaha and R it was giai hut at so in the shade and wind elou enough h to fill your eyes I 1 withstand with sand A trolley line to the sub subi i arbs showed us fine homes where were only fields five years ago iio rapidly our western cities grow I 1 from born omaha to chicago we took the chicago great western the corn belt route A good road though I 1 aib WS and a ficq or of t fa cal I 1 tn 11 W hall the service ice vr was very satisfactory Latis factory in ili filist ie abs tbs specK but one thing disgusts na ot 61 It its patrons the ladies especially and that Is that thai is allowed in the dining thorn while meals are being even the superintendent tame into the car where there were a number of ladies of our own party ate his supper and thea lighted a high priced foul smelling cigar and V sat and smoked until a ot of the patrons disgusted left the car aber a time the colored gentleman in charge of the diner came back irto the pullman and e prot estel I vs porously orous ly but he said the gentleman was the division superintendent jor or something ot of that sort and not do to prohibit his smoking as it was not forbidden foi bidden by the rules odthe of 4 the road wo politely informed the colored man that we considered any one a boor who would mould smoke in a liner diner and ad perfume the atmosphere while others acie eating be he abrade a brakeman co conductor idi ictor or superintendent or even the president himself and that when ve e paid tor for a seat in a first class car we m e did not intend to allow any one to impose upon us by corn com bielling us to breathe tobacco fumes without a protest on the erie railway just east of susquehanna wo we noticed the great stone viaduct over the creek built some seventy years ago and over which we walked when a boy and wondered at the mighty structure erected by man this great bridge was considered so BO wonderful in its ame time that its picture adorned the pages of the old school geography in fact it was the largest stone bridge in the world wor id beng some ome ninety feet I 1 hibb and consisting of seventeen arches supporting the tracks of the I 1 erie railroad but see how things dillaye have changed on the lackawanna LAc Rawana kawana at the delaware water gap hoy hav built the largest concrete bridge in tbt world feet high and nearly 2000 feet long while at nicholson pa near our old home the same road is building another feet get high and 2 feet long they are falso straightening their road to the curves curved ond find grade crossings and make an easier grade tor this they will save about three miles distance and spend upwards of 1 in nia diakine kint the improvements at hartford pa we hii visited the graveyard where rests the body of pur our old friend lion hon galusha A grow father ather of the first free hOnl homestead estead bill and placed a few spring flowers on his grave to sir mr grow more than any other man are the of the west indebted for the privilege of obtaining farms by residing on them and cultivating them for five years moy may his ht memory hier nory ever bo be kept green lii ili washington ve 61 lid 5 aft tl bur bul congressman conk hani joseph hoheit find ivi were taj jajjo d to his home blad ly entertained by himmell him sell had and mrs airs howell and their dju daughters h in III reply to the gub question guestion stion whether he would be a 0 candidate tor for reelection mr howell said it all depends upon his constituents in utah ile he had tried while in office to do all lie he could for the boie benefits fits of 0 his state and the country coir at large ile he felt that he had succeeded very well and accomplished complis hed quite as much as could be expected of any one man with a as small a constituency there are over four hundred congressmen and some states have thirty or forty to lo pull together on any measure they desire enacted for their state and yet very few had secured as great recognition in proportion to their constituents as he had secured for utah and if i the people here felt that they wished hini him to continue as their representative in ir the congress he be should be pleased to do so and might be considered a candidate sir mr howell said he felt very grateful to the people of utah for the honors they had bestowed on oil him mid and that he should always try to merit their confidence and respect whether they chose to make him their candidate or not when we left its home to return to our hotel mr and sirs mrs howell kindly offered to go with us to dupoint circle where we were to take a car and we had the pleasure of introducing them to mrs ainey wife ife of congressman alney ainey of montrose Mon troBe pa ila who resided next door but with whom they had not yet b become acquainted we Vs trust they may become good friends mr alney ailcy was not at home that evening when we left washington we took the chesapeake ohio railroad down through the central put part ot of old virginia through manassas dor dondanville danville orange staunton and other places made historic by the great battles ought fought there during the civil war it is a most beautiful country and as we rolled swiftly along the foot ot of tle the blue ridge mounta mountainy moun taina insi and noted the beautiful landscapes from our car window we could not help thi albrig of those dark days of 1861 to 1865 when almost every mail brought us ua news ot of the great struggle then going on and we wondered on what hillside our troup might have been encamped at that time and what w would have been the condition of 0 that beautiful land vow now bad the southern forces once rich s soil oil of those val leys cys and hillsides hill sides now produces but small crops of cereals compared with what hat they might produce hid had they not been allowed to run out by their former owners who left the managements of their large plantations to overseers who knew very little of soil conservation and thought only of how bow he could get the most work out of the slaves who were consigned to his tender care while the master and mistress the F F Vs ot 0 the old Dow dominion spent their time in the summer at the white sulphur aprin sprin springs s or other cool resorts and the winters in richmond or lexington or washington ashington iV during the war many of the he old homesteads were burned by the armies and many of 0 the plantations were left devoid of houses barns and fences but occasionally on one e g sees ees on oil some som e rising ground round one of the old time big houses surrounded rounded bin by fine lawns and gardens ind and nt t no great distance distante dist anre the cubing cli bills once forice occupied li the alibi ii ill lotge days the owner lowner matter but whose descendants descendant en end dant ants int ay qt baom w hatt are much more lazy and theeb simply call the owner bow va noticed some fine cows and 0 few good horses borges but it is the land of sambo and de d mule and at every station they svere were 3 in ili pM denpe down the ohio river between between cat letts burg and cincinnati on the kentucky side we could see how that great river must look when it gets its back up we saw a number of stern wheel steamers pushing great tows of coal barges up the stream to be again loaded at pittsburg with the black diamonds for the southwestern markets and occasionally dually we saw where some of the barges had been wrecked by the high water at canon city colorado we stopped and espeut an afternoon and evening very pleasantly at the comfortable home of mr air and mrs george A diamond who resided near tre monton and on the middlesex ranc tor for a year or two mr diamond anil and I 1 his excellent wife ext extended ended every courtesy and tried to induce us to remain another day with them they have several acres mostly set out with fruit apples peaches berries etc all 0 which gave promise of a large yield the fruit had been a failure for seasons in canon city which made dull th times nes there mr diamond said that if he could dispose of his proper ty there he be would probably return to tremonton Tre monton as lie he thinks our land is far more productive than theirs at grand ju junction nation we spent an afternoon and evening with sir mr W L burgos burges and fa family nilly formerly of fork ston pa and had a very pleasant and interesting visit mr burges Is S connected with the drand grand junction seed co and is its general manager this company is doing a business of about i a year supplying western colorado and other parts ot of the intermountain country with ith garden and field seeds garden tools incubators brooders broaders bro oders and other poultry supplies they test all seeds sent out and guarantee a fair 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