110 WESTERN INCIDENTS.

IX.

PUBLIC RECEPTION OF THE EXCURSIONISTS AT CHICAGO—-SPEECHES OF
MAYOR RICE, C. A. LAMBARD, AND UNITED STATES SENATOR B. F.
WADE—-GENERAL J, H. SIMPSON’S LETTER FROM NORTH PLATTE
STATION——DEATH OF GENERAL CURTIS—-CONCLUSION.

New Yorr, Feb. 1, 1867.

The following extract from the Chicago Tribune,
giving an account of the public reception given to the
excursionists on their return through that city, together
with the speech of Senator Wade and others, on the
occasion, affords most satisfactory evidence that the
anticipations of the railroad company, with reference
to the favorable effects of the excursion upon the
public mind, will be more than realized :—

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.
RETURN OF THE EXCURSIONISTS TO CHICAGO.

Formal Reception—Meeting at the Opera House—Address of Welcome
by Mayor Rice—Replies by Director Lambard and Senator
Wade.

The returned excursionists from the Far West, over the route
of the Union Pacific Railroad, were formally welcomed yesterday
back to our city. The Committee of Reception, whose names
were published in our issue of yesterday, met the excursionists at
the Tremont House at nine o’clock in the morning, and escorted
them around the city. A tug was chartered in which the party
visited the crib at the other end of the Jake tunnel, then sailed up
the river, inspecting those portions of the city which lie along its
variegated banks. Flint & Thompson’s elevator, and one or two