74 WESTERN INCIDENTS.

Company, Col. N. A. Gestner and Mr. E. Simmonds, from
the New York ofiice.

DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORE.

The party, consisting of about one hundred persons,
fully supplied with everything that could be improvised
or thought of for its comfort and enjoyment, left New
York on Monday evening, October 15th, by way of the
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Central Railroads, to
Pittsburgh ; and the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chi-
cago Railroad to Chicago, where they arrived in high
spirits on the following Wednesday evening.

Considerable accessions of invited guests were made
to the party on the way to, and at, Chicago. Messrs.
Springer Harbaugh, of Pittsburgh, and Jesse L. Wil-
liams, of Fort Wayne, Government Directors of the road,
accompanied the excursion to Chicago; but, as both
these gentlemen had just returned from a somewhat
extended inspection of the road, they were very reluc-
tantly excused from proceedizig farther with the party.

Several of the excursionists preferred to remain a day
or two at Chicago; and then proceed over the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, in company with the offi-
cers Of that Road, to Dennison; and from thence to
Omaha by stage. But by far the largest portion, accom-
panied by the Great Western Light Guard Band, started
from Chicago on Thursday morning, October 18th, by way
of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, and the Hanni-
bal and Saint Joseph Railroads, and arrived at St. Joseph
on the following Friday evening.

Here they were met by Mr. H. M. Hoxie, the General
Western Agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, to whose