Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1868 — From Milwankee to New York. [ARTICLE]

From Milwankee to New York.

From The Evening Wiser.nsin, Milwaukee, Nov. 20. Fi‘ m Milwaukee toNew York. It used to be a gr< at trip. If wo had to make it, wo -luoktuldbuar j to the day of sotting out with no little dread, and memory is still ■ fresh of the aching limbs jammed up hour after hour in the narrow coniines of a car and of innumerable changes of care and of an intense i satisfaction whcu.NeW York was reached and i the journey was at an end. How things have ! changed. How the inarch of civilization has ' been onward, and how travel has been re- ■ duced from a labor to a pleasure. Man’s i mind is ever busy and big with improvements. andin rail wav comfort it is displayed-to great advantage. We are off fpr New York. Business or pleasure call ns tlfere, and en route we find ourselves at Chicago and at the Pittsburg ,t Ft. Wayne depot ready to leave. At 5:1.0 of un att rnoon the loeoinot ive whist les, and tho “all aboard” of the conductor is heard in stentorian tones. Besponsivo to the call ■ we step into a Palace car and are whizzing i and steamingon ourway. W tho i difference in traveling, for the car is nothing I lose than a superb parlor on wheels. It is i supplied with all tho comforts of a home, and ;we reel ourselves there. Paln.ee cars are a ■ sovereign balm in railway traveling, and the I I’. & Ft. W. seem to liavercachmYtpchighesl. I l»eiat of comfort affd'pleaHure in those cars. Ou we go, darting past Valparaiso, and i Plymouth and other towns until 11:10 at i night finds ns at Fort Wavne. Wo pass 'Crestline and Wooster and Massillon, and all the while he comfortably in our downy bed and dream of home and the little ones who are behind us.

At next morning wo arc at Alliance, take a warm morning meal, and at 11:10 find oureelves in Pittsburg, the city of coal dust, black smoke and industry, Wo dine st the magnificent Railway hotel, and then ga baek to bur palace car, which has become as i familiar as our own drawing room to us now, I and s.ving off upon the IVnnsylvmn rsil—f toad, and tiiink of the glorious meal that ! awaits us at Altoona. At 1:1.5 Altoona is ' reached. What an appetite traveling gives : one. and.we should be. disappointed did wo ' not find a warm meal here. We are not disappointed. From the lookout on the top of the Logan House our approach has been signaled, and busy hands are at work spreading the tables with steaming hot food. The train darts up to tho very side of the Logan. Ou alighting von see the unwonted convenience of near forty basins whereat to wash, and eloan towels’ to correspond. Water is brought in pipes from a notch iu tho mountains, called the “kettle,” several miles distant, and it soon removes all traces of travel, and you scat yourself at tables covered with all the luxuries of the market, and cooked to your taste. The “Logan House” has a front of 300 feet or more, with wings running baek. The.dining room is 150 feel tong, and furnished with short tables, 'at each Of which twelve people may be comfortably seated. The floor is always as clean as if it had just been handscrubbed. The table-cloths arc spotless. As the house dines, on an average, 1,000 persons daily, from thirty or more trains, you may infer that there is a deal of “social'science’' involved in the management. Yet there is no confusion, but perfect order and quietness, explained largely by the fact that the house has no bar. A supply of liquors is generally considered indispensable to make a hotel popular. Biit the Logon House is [ popular notwithstanding. Tho train slops sufficiently long for us to eat our meal deliberately, and when it is finished we step into our palace car which has been awaiting ns, with a satisfied air, as if we were on the best of terms with all mankind,

and when darkness settles about us we seek our couch, that by refreshing sleep wo may be ready for the nejt day's business in tho great city of New York. We should be glad if we could go through to the city of Brotherly Love, bnt tire palaeo car turns off at Harrisburg towards the greater attractions of New York, and passes over the short-cut, called tbs Allentown Route. To those in a hurry, this is a great gain of time and trouble-. At 5 oiclock the next morning we awake refreshed and bright. The train—our own palaeo car in Kfiich we left Chicago, at least —has reached the Empire City, and the welcome voice of the hackmau as he shouts “Astor House,” “Fifth Avenne,” “Metropolitan,” etc., is heard. Our journey’s end is reaehedi and we have had a delightful trip from Milwaukee to the great .seaboard citv, and we shall not forget wsat w* have learned by experience, nor selfishiv hlle our light from those who have to travel. '

Extbaordisaby Contingencies warrant extraordinary measures. When Queen Isabella discovered that fragile reputation was so’ seriously damaged as to require repairing, the difficult task was accomplished in this manner: All the professors of the Spanish ilfiivorsities were compelled, upon pain of instant difrmissar.'to signa document, prepared byThe queen’s advisers, setting forth the horror and indignation of the signers upon hearing the illustrious qneen-’s conduct and motives impugned. A few were independent enough to decline the honor of signing this extraordinary' paper,' paid the penalty, and stoutly maintained their opinion that the half not told of the queen’s misbehavior. These sticklers for truth are about to be restored to the chair they were compelled to vacate. , ", ■ '.r. -