Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — Travel in 1860 and in 1004. [ARTICLE]

Travel in 1860 and in 1004.

Mr. Albert M. Bigelow, of New York, writes in regard to a trip from NewTork"to tbe Lake Superior mining region as follows: “I was absent from my office in New York Friday, Saturday and Monday.. I bad one day in Chicago, two days and a night at Lake Superior, and did not need to break the Sabbath by any business transaction. This was accomplished in this way: I took the Lake Shore Limited for Chicago on Thursday evening, leaving at 5:30. I arrived in Chicago at four o’clock on Friday. I stayed in Chicago four and one-half hours, meeting some people there and accomplishing some business. I took the train at 8:30 and, arrived at Lake Superior at 6:50 in tlie morning. I had all day Saturday and the evening there. I spent Saturday night there and Sunday. Sunday evening at 6:50 I left Lake Superior and arrived at Chicago on Monday morning at 6 o’clock. I had a half-day there and left at 12:30 p. m. on the Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore road for New York, arriving at 9:30 Tuesday morning, which enabled me to reach my office at the ordinary time. On each of the trains which I took I had a comfortable room for myself and was luxuriously supplied in (lining cars on each road. This more than verified the story in the Arabian Nights of the wonderful Persian carpet on which the Prince was transferred "some one hundred miles in a single night.” Mr. Bigelow adds that the above is in striking contrast to his first trip to the Lake Superior region in 1859, when it occupied seven or eight days of constant traveling in going one way.— From the Troy Times.