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Special Correspondence of Seed-Time and Harvest. 
A TRIP ACROSS THE CONTINENT. 
| Note. As the subject of emigration is one of the’ 
uppermost ones in the minds of thousands of people 
at the present time, the following notes from a repre- 
sentative of Seed-Time and Harvest who recently 
started on a trip across the continent as a common 
emigrant, will no doubt be of general interest, as he 
will tell just how he was treated, what he saw and 
what it cost him to see it. These notes will be con¬ 
tinued in several issues of Seed-Time and Harvest.. 
Eds.] 
Elmira, N. Y., Tuesday, Sept. 26, 10.30, 
r. M. —After bidding La Plume good-bye, 
we changed over at Nicholson to the 7 
o'clock train and after a very pretty run 
by moon-light, arrived at Elmira at 10.5, P. 
m. We were transferred over to the Erie 
road in a buss and after getting our through 
tickets which cost $76.00 apiece for San 
Francisco, we crossed over the street to the 
Delevan House and put up for the night. 
We expect to start out on the 5.35 train in 
the morning. We are tired with the ex¬ 
citement and worry of the getting off from 
home, but hope to be rested by the six 
hours sleep we will have. We have a very 
fine room and bed, but it may be the last 
bed we will get this side of San Francisco, 
so good night or we will not get the worth 
of what it costs. 
Elmira. Wed. Morn., Sept. 27, 5 o’clock. 
All right this morning and expect to be off 
again in half an hour. We had plenty of 
room in the car to this place from La 
Plume, two seats apiece if we wanted them 
in the best car except the palace car. They 
have given us first-class tickets to Council 
Bluffs only; have limited the time to Sept. 
29th, and no stop over allowed. Emma 
slept well and says she feels well this 
morning. I feel rested but did not sleep 
any although I had a good bed. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Wed., Sept. 27th, noon. 
Arrived here safe and well. The cars were 
crowded a short distance this side of Elmi¬ 
ra. The fields show the effects of drouth, 
and the roads are very dusty. We are in 
the Lake Shore cars and have secured seats, 
and are waiting for the cars to start. The 
train leaves atT.30, T. M. Wejiad our, first 
lunch from the basket this morning and 
shall take our dinner from it while we wait. 
Erik, Pa.. Wed., Sept, 27, 5 o'clock, p. m. 
Here we are back into Pennsylvania once 
more! Crops look better here. It rains a 
little to-day. We get glimpses of the lake 
occasionally. We are nearly 24 hours on 
the road now, have made 340 miles and are 
sti 1 in our own state, though we have seen 
the shores of Canada across the lake at 
Buffalo. We have not got into the smok¬ 
ing car yet, and this car is good for nearly 
500 miles more, or to Chicago. An agri¬ 
cultural fair is going off here, and they 
crowd the car but we keep our seats. 
LaSalle, Ill., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2.30, 
p. m. We are now 100 miles west of Chi¬ 
cago on the Rock Island and Pacific Rail¬ 
road. We got a seat apiece at Chicago in 
a second class car and are very comfort¬ 
ably situated. There are six besides our¬ 
selves in this car going to Seattle. A lady 
in the next seat used to live in Whatcom 
and knows most of the La Conner people. 
She is from Maine, and will be with us to 
San Francisco and Seattle. This is a lime¬ 
stone and coal region on the Illinois river. 
We shall soon leave this river and 80 miles 
more will bring us to the Mississippi. We 
are still well and are getting quite used to 
travelling. 
Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 28, 7 o’clock p. m. 
We crossed the Mississippi just in time to 
see it before dark. We are in a nice car 
but it is getting too crowded; hope it will 
thin out before we want to ]go to sleep. 
This ends our first 1000 miles in 48 hours 
from home. It rains hard and the night is 
dark. We are well but feel tired. There 
are lots of babies and little girls on the 
train. We wish the car was not quite so 
nice, and we had a little more room. 
Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 29,3 o’clock, a. m. 
We awoke this morning at the Capital City 
of Iowa. Had a very good night’s rest. 
We each had a seat after leaving Iowa City. 
We are now 358 miles west of Chicago, and 
142 miles east of Omaha. It is not yet day¬ 
light so we have not seen any of Iowa yet. 
We are well and all right so far. The rain 
is.over, but, it is still cloudy. Our next 
large city .,wlll be Omaha, . The weather is 
warm and we are comfortable without 
blankets. 
