ROBERT C. WATERSTUN

Said we had started with high expecta-
tions, so high that he had feared a cruel
test awaited our train; but he was free
tosay that realization had even exceeded
expectation so exacting. Higher even
than the external beauties displayed to
the eye around us have been the solid
corresponding luxuries of taste and feel-
ing we have had. Pure air, ventilation
and perfect tidiness, while every wish
seems to have been anticipated. He had
travelled throughout Europe, but in the
Pullman palace train, he had seen great-
er Juxuries and convenience than in the
ears of any kingdom of the oid world.
By a peculiar chance, he once travelled
in Queen Victoria's state car, and did
not hesitate to say that Pullman has
provided for the people of America more
than was provided by the people of
Great Britain for their beloved queen.
We are rejoiced to know that thousands
and tens of thousands coming after us
will share the same privileges we now
enjoy. It has not only been a pleasure
to mingle in companionship with those
who planned and carried out all this;
but to find the most gentlemanly cour-
tesy, united with the ability to care for
our comfort. We have here found all
the enjoyments of domestic intercourse,
blending with the sanctities of domestic
life, making this train indeed a home.

We have experienced nothing of
fatigue or exhaustion, in fact have often
been more fatigued by a short trip in
rhose cars than in crossing a continent,
over the Rocky and Sierra Nevada moun-
tains. He closed by hoping Pullman
_ would go on pull-ing man-kind.

GEORGE WASHINGTON WARREN,

President of Bunker Hill Monument As-
sociation, added his testimony by a few
appropriate remarks, endorsing all that
had been said. An arrival was formerly
looked forward to with anxiety, as the
culminating pleasure of a journey, but
we have found that the longer the jour-
ney the more enjoyment it may inelnde,
and—“distance lends enchantment ’—
gains new meaning in our day.

Hon. ALVAH CROCKER said he was
happy to endorse the words of Bunker
Hill. Hon. STEPHEN SALISBURY and

_Hon. JoHN B. BRown confirmed the pre-
vious speakers, and deelared that our
entire trip through the west had been a
series of agreeable surprises. Ccrtrs
GUILD said that when he looked at the
Pacific Railroad and the Pullman Palace
ears and the magnificent region we had
passed through, he thanked God that he
was an American. He was forcibly re-
minded of how in times past he had suf-
fered in cars: hetween Boston and New
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fortable seats, and of the many other
discomforts of railroad travel which
were here so happily removed,—and
much as we had been accused of boast-
ing of our great country, its resources,
itsinventions and enterprise, he thought
that all could admit the half had not
been told. However, nothing was too
good for an American who is ever ready
to improve upon existing improve-
ments,

Col. Lucius B. MArsH said he could
not help adding his testimony by saying
that every department in our train has
been run by first class men, of marked
ability in their several branches, and he
desired they should receive the praise
which is their due.

Rev. E. G. PORTER then spoke, and
was followed by HAmrILTon A. HrILu,
Secretary of the National Board of Trade
of the United States, who said this trip
of our party would result in placing Pull-
man cars as a necessity on railroads be-
tween Boston and New York.

CHARLES WoLCcoTT BROOKS was then
called to speak on behalf of the West
Coast, Which he did, occupying half an
hour, giving an interesting account of
its resources, hopesand industries, which
was full of fresh information, enthusias-
tically received with hearty cheers.
Major GEORGE PARKMAN Denny, of the
Executive Committee, then said:

After such a wealth of eloquence, it
can hardly be expected that I can, ata
moment’s notice, fittingly respond for
Mr. Pullman to the resolutions and the
eloquent words with which they have
been endorsed, I feel that a few words
will best express the grateful feelings
which his own modesty prevents him
from uttering.

With all his experience in enterprises
of this nature, I am conversant with the
fact that this has been to him of greater
interest, and anxiety and expense
than any other. Consequently your
kind words of approbation are corres-
pondingly of the greater value, and
more than this, for the further reason
that he is fully aware of your high ex-
pectations, A few weeks since he was
informed that these cars could not be
finished before the middle of June, while
we had engaged them to leave Boston
May 28d; but with his indomitable per-
severence he directed that labor should
not cease for an hour, either by day or
night, that you might not be disappoint-
ed; and you did leave on the day and at
the hour as promised. I feel at liberty
to say that this mark of your approval
will be cherished by him as among his
most valued possessions.

The meeting then adjourned amid re-
peated cheers.

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The issue of this, the last, number of
the TRANS-CONTINENTAL, indicates that
the constant success attending us has
enabled us after our wonderful ride—so
long in distance, now seemingly so short
in time—to descend to-day to the waters
of the Pacific. And this daily record of
our progress can hardly end more ap-
propriately than with a retrospective
sketch of what we, as travelers, have
accomplished,—all that was promised,
or that could have been reasonably ex-
pected, and indeed far more. Almost as
if in one longand rapid vision, have
disappeared behind us the Capital of
the Old Bay State; the green hills of
Berkshire: the spires of Albany; the
broad fields of Canada; the rich farms
of Michigan; the marvellous trade and
lofty edifices of Chicago; the beautiful
prairies of Tllinois; the vast plains
along the Platte; the strange, disinte-
grating forms of an earlier world by the
Green River in Wyoming; the stupen-
dous walls of the Weber Canyon; the
mountain-walled valley of the latter-day
Saints, and the grandeur and richness
of the Humboldt region. We have
traversed the lands that witnessed the
labors and triumphs of the Puritan; the
perseverance of the Dutch; the adven-
tures of the French; and that now, filled
with the homes of representatives of
nearly every civilized race, are demon-
strating the energy and progress of the
great composite American people. We
can renewedly and assuredly feel that
the fact alone that we have found re-
corded onthe vast continental page,
renders our highest praise of Ameri-
ean skill and American resources,
not only not boastfulness, however
once seemingly such—but simple and
adequate expression of reality. And
while rapidly, safely, luxuriously, hap-
pily, we have crossed from sea to
sea, we can all, with devout gratitude,
regarding what we have seen and what
we have felt, exclaim with honest love
and pride—Thank God we are Ameri-
eans! and trust and resolve anew that
we each and all may,in our own appro-
priate time and manner, serve loyally
the vast land and the noble principles
it represents committed to our keeping
With these feelings we salute California