FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 16, 18 June 1874, Page 3

FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK.

The following letter, dated San Francisco, April 2Gth, has been placed at our disposal for publication : In compliance with your request, as well as a desire on my own part that you should be in possession of information as regards the overland route from San Francisco to New York, I say first, “The Overland Mail Train ” leaves San Francisco daily at 7 a.m., and goes directly through to

N.Y. in seven days, either via Chicago or via St. Louis. Passengers holding first-class tickets have the privilege of slopping off (or breaking journey) at any point they choose, resuming their journey at pleasure. The first question generally asked by persons coming from your country is, cannot, we go via Niagara? I will answer, yes ; but if the object of the traveller in coming this way is to sec Niagara to the exclusion of everything else, he will take his passage by what is known as Suspension Bridge Route, which crosses Niagara River five miles below the falls, and unless it is a very clear day, they cannot emu see the outlines of Falls unless they stop at the bridge and ride up to the Falls, and remain over till the next train ; and they then pass through the most northern portion of America, and see little of the great agricultural and mineral portions of our country. In my opinion the best and most satisfactory way to make the journey is to go from Chicago to Pittsburgh (the Birmingham of America), passing through some of the most flourishing manufacturing cities, and a country of agricultural wealth. At Pittsburgh they arc in the oil, coal, and iron regions. Cross the Alleghany Mountains, and pass the most picturesque scenery on this continent ; and through Ilavrisbnrgh, the capital city of Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia, the second city of America, ihcnce to Now York—this is the shortest and quickest route, and carries the mail. Another and very pleasant route is to go via St. Louis, and thence to New York, directly through the very centre of the Northern States, passing cn route the capital cities of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and, if you choose, Baltimore and Washington City, and Philadelphia. There can be no better way of seeing America than this, but I readily understand that your people will say at once, “ But we must sec Niagara.” Granted ; after they have seen all the country as mentioned above, let them take a train in New York, and run up to the Falls, say on this schedule :—Leave New York in the evening, take a sleeping car, and in the morning they are at the Falls. Spend the day looking around, and take the night train from the Fa l Is, and reach Albany in the morning, and thou take the day boat down the Hudson River, arriving in New York the same evening. This trip can be accomplished for about lOdol.. or £2, and I submit it if this is not by odds the very best trip that can possibly be made. Parties have then done the whole thing at an additional cost of only lOdols, or £2, when if they go by Suspension-bridge they sec nothing but the outlines of the Falls (unless they go up from the bridge, which will cost them nearly as much extra as amount named above), and have missed everything else. Now, as to sleeping cars, the cost for sleeping accommodation for each person is Gdol currency San Francisco to Ogden, Bdol Ogden to Omaha, 3dol Omaha to Chicago or St Louis, and 5 dol from Chicago or St Louis to New York. I shall at all times be pleased to furnish you any other information you may desire, and will take much pleasure in giving any of your friends such attention as they may require when coming this way.