Her Roads Were
Merely Rude And Often Impassable Tracks Through Forest Or Prairie; Now She
Has In Operation And Course Of Construction Two Thousand And Seventy Miles
Of Those Iron Sinews Of Commercial Progress - Railroads, Running Like A
Network Over The State.
At seven o'clock, with a feeling of great relief, mingled with
thankfulness at having escaped untouched by the terrible pestilence which
had ravaged Chicago, I left the hotel, more appropriately termed a
"caravanserai" and my friends placed me in the "Lightning Express,"
warranted to go sixty-seven miles an hour.
Unless it may be St. Louis, I
fancy that Chicago is more worth a visit than any other of the western
cities. Even one day at it was worth a voyage across the Atlantic, and a
land-journey of eighteen hundred miles.
CHAPTER IX.
A vexatious incident - John Bull enraged - Woman's rights - Alligators become
hosses - A popular host - Military display - A mirth-provoking gun - Grave
reminiscences - Attractions of the fair - Past and present - A floating
palace - Black companions - A black baby - Externals of Buffalo - The flag of
England.
The night-cars are always crowded both in Canada and the States, because
people in business are anxious to save a day if they have any expedition
to make, and, as many of the cars are fitted up with seats of a most
comfortable kind for night-travelling, a person accustomed to them can
sleep in them as well as on a sofa. After leaving Chicago, they seemed
about to rush with a whoop into the moonlit waters of Lake Michigan, and
in reality it was not much better.
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