Category: Travel Writing
Mallow to Queenstown -- The steam tender -- The "_Gallia_" -- Our fellow-passengers -- The first night at sea -- Observations -- Marine inquiries -- A brilliant run -- A little stranger -- Approaches to New York -- Sandy Hook -- Friends on Shore -- New York interviewers -- Fir...
Mallow to Queenstown -- The steam tender -- The "_Gallia_" -- Our fellow-passengers -- The first night at sea -- Observations -- Marine inquiries -- A brilliant run -- A little...
2. CHAPTER II.Friends on shore -- The landing -- First impressions -- Brevoort House -- The interviewers -- Aspect of the streets -- 1861 and 1881 -- Cockades and armorial bearings -- The Uni...
3. CHAPTER III.Our Special Train -- On the Rail -- Eye-sores -- The Quaker City -- The Pennsylvania Railroad -- Reminiscences -- Excursions -- The New Public Buildings -- Mr. Childs and "The L...
4. CHAPTER IV.Heroes New and Old -- The Soldiers' Home -- The White House -- President Garfield -- His Visitors -- The Capitol -- Mount Vernon -- Mr. Blaine -- "On to Richmond!" -- Fitzhugh L...
5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER I.Mallow to Queenstown -- The steam tender -- The "_Gallia_" -- Our fellow-passengers -- The first night at sea -- Observations -- Marine inquiries -- A brilliant run -- A little...
11. CHAPTER II.As the "_Gallia_" neared the Cunard wharf a mass of upturned faces was visible on shore with eyes fixed on the steamer to detect friends. "There is Jack!" "I see Lucy." "There i...
12. CHAPTER III.Our Special Train -- On the Rail -- Eye-sores -- The Quaker City -- The Pennsylvania Railroad -- Reminiscences -- Excursions -- The New Public Buildings -- Mr. Childs and "The L...
13. CHAPTER IV.Heroes New and Old -- The Soldiers' Home -- The White House -- President Garfield -- His Visitors -- The Capitol -- Mount Vernon -- Mr. Blaine -- "On to Richmond!" -- Fitzhugh L...
14. CHAPTER V.Next day (May 5th), at 10 o'clock, we left by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sorry we had not more time to enjoy the hospitalities of our friends, and to see more of the inter...
15. CHAPTER VI.Although the hotels we had visited had prepared us for a good deal of magnificence in upholstery, the rooms of the Windsor at Montreal fairly astonished us. There is nothing in...
16. CHAPTER VII.Although there is now only one attendant with the party--the omniscient Edward--the baggage-master does his work so well, the conductor of the train is so active, and the servic...
17. CHAPTER VIII._May 24th._--At 6 A.M. we were aroused from our slumbers by the rattling of the train over the Mississippi bridge near La Crosse, 195 miles from Milwaukee, which is on the east...
18. CHAPTER IX.We have now taken a new point of departure. In a few minutes we are in the State of Kansas (in which Kansas City is _not_, it is in Missouri) and the western world lies before u...