54. WESTERN INCIDENTS.

VIl.

TWO WEEKS AT OMAHA—-WILD GEESE AND DUCK SHOOTING—ADVENT
OF CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD AGENTS ON THEIR
WAY TO DENVER—-PARTING SPEECH OF MR. TAPPEN—ANTICI-
PATED ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILROAD EXCURSION—
ITS ANTECEDENTS AND OBJECTS——-DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK—
ARRIVAL AT CHICAGO—ST. JOSEPH, AND OMAHA-—RECEPTION AND
BALL AT OMAHA.

Omana, NeprasKa, Oct. 23, 1866.

The difficulties at the Hernden House, heretofore
alluded to, were amicably arranged on the Monday fol--
lowing our arrival from the Rocky Mountains; and Mrs.
Brownson, the new lessee, was fully installed in quiet
possession.

A favored few of the guests were allowed to retain our
rooms in the gloomy, half-deserted house; and vegetate,
as best we could, among the restaurants, until the hotel
could be renovated and refurnished.

Mrs. Brownson will not only prove herself to be a public
benefactor, but do much towards establishing the doctrine
of the social and business equality, and vested rights, of
women, if she succeeds in the hazardous undertaking of
keeping a good hotel. She certainly has the best wishes
of her numerous friends in the town, as well as of the
railroad people and travelling public generally.

' But the city of Omaha should boast of several first-
class hotels. The town is growing, and will continue to
grow rapidly. It has the eastern terminus of the Union
Pacific Railroad; and is the half-way point between
Chicago and the Rocky Mountains. No finer site was