eta to pL =< BULLMAN PACIFIC CAR " = ~ Ri HR RRRE : any Ea \ | tt Vol. 1. “TET KHVERY STEP BE AN ADVANCE.” Boston, Monday, July 4, 1870. Wo. 12. Che Grans-Continental, Published Daily on the Pullman Hotel Express, | Between Boston and San Hrancisco. W.R. STEELER, Editor. The Future of Our Train. Our celebrated Hotel Express Train used to convey the Boston Board of Trade party from Boston to San Fran- cisco, will hereafter be made useful in running between Omaha and Ogden once a week, leaving Omaha every Thursday, and arrive at Ogden every Saturday evening,—returning, will leave Ogden every Monday, and arrive in Omaha, Wednesday. This train will be run special, will ac- commodate and make comfortable 100 passengers, or more, with full meals and plenty of room for all, An observation car will be attached between Wahsatch and Ogden, afford- ing passengers an unobstructed view of the grand scenery in Echo and Weber Canons, through which the road passes —a distance of sixty miles, until it reaches the great Salt Lake Valley. By arrivingat Ogden, Saturday P. M. and leaving Monday morning, it will enable passengers to spend a Sabbath at Salt Lake City. Passengers holding ordinary through local tickets, will hereafter pay Twenty- Two Dollars extra, which will include mealsand one double berth, for each passenger, and all the privileges of the train. Applications for Drawing Rooms, Sec- tions or Berths, or charter of cars for excursions may be made by letter, tele- graph or in person, at the office of the Pullman Pacific Car Company, 102 Mich- igan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. BROOKS’ MIDWAY ISLAND. The official reports recently received | from this interesting spot, by the return of the United States steamship Saginaw at San Francisco, confirm the impres- sion that this harbor will prove a most excellent one and will be certainly used as a regular coaling station, by steam- ships plying between California, Japan and China. The island is on a direct rhumb-line between San Francisco and Yokohama, Japan, nearly equidistant, | being within 200 miles across. ference, and affords excellent facilities as a coaling station, other reports to the contrary notwithstanding. — 27» The “TRANS-CONTINENTAL,” with its record of the great excursion, could not properly be finished without an expres- sion of the thanksdue from our party, and from the good old town that they chiefly represent, to the President of the Board of Trade, of Boston, Hon. Alex- ander H. Rice, forthe admirable, approp- riate and eloquent manner in which he has, on sO many varied occasions, spoken for us, for the many whom we left behind, and for the great name of our Common Country. We feel that through him, and his public addresses, all he has spoken for, and the city, whose name is so prominently associ- ated with this excursion, have been ably represented; and, while returning to him the acknowledgment that is due to him on this account, we add our satis- faction, that both Boston and the Old Bay State, and our party personally, have through him found so charming a public expression of sentiments we have ourselves felt, and know are felt by the larger numbers whom we now rejoin. teen nd emma —On Saturday, July 2d, our train reached Albany at 10 A. M., and here several of our passengers left us for Saratoga Springs. of half-way It is about 19 miles in circum- | [From the San Francisco Bulletin.] Coming Down. Some of our improvident people have indulgied instale witticisms over the economising disposition evinced by the “BostonParty.’? And yet these Eastern | guests were representatives of a people | who give larger sums for educational and charitable purposes, in the ratio of pop- ulation, than is given in any other part of the country. Ifan endowment is sought for a poor college in the West, or on the Pacific coast, there is a break at once for New England. Eastern men cannot understand the questionable prosperity which arises from clinging to prices three or four times above the ruling rates in other parts ofthe country. Itis wonderful with what tenacity we cling to some of these pioneer traditions. One half of the shopkeepers at this late date ignore the existence of any such silver coin as five cents. We chanced, nota week ago, to hand out this coin with other pieces toa man, in order to pay him exactly what was due, and got inreturn a look indi- cating that in endeavoring to be just, we had done him an irreparable injury.— But this man probably had not a hun- dred dollars in the world, although he had been in the State 15 years and had ! practiced pioneereconomy all that time. | No doubt he had his quiet laugh at the | thrift of the “ Boston Party.” But then our Eastern friends laugh at us when they note this discrepancy be- tween flush pricesand hard times. They cannot understand why an article of merchandise, or some small service, should cost_100 per cent. more in San Francisco than it doesin Baston. It is hard for theaverage Californian to came down. But the crisis has come, and every squad of Eastern visitors but serves to remind us more forcibly of the fact. The market for labor and merch- andise here will be effected by the same considerations which control the mar- ket in other parts of the country. It will cost no more to live here, merchandise will not rule any higher, labor will command the same considera- tion and no more. Economy in detail will become respectable; no man will dare withhold twenty-five per cent. of the cost oj an article on the plea that he cannot make the change. In short, we are coming down only to lay the foun- datiens of a more enduring prosperity.