Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad.
By James White
We are indebted to P. A. Hall, Asst. Gen’l Supt., Chicago, for time tables, and other information relative to the C. R. I. & P. R. R. Chicago to San Francisco. This road is thoroughly equipped with elegant new day coaches and palace sleeping cars, with all the modern luxuries combined, expressly for fast through express trains between Chicago and Omaha, making sure connections with the Union Pacific Railroad. It has the transportation of the Great Pacific mails. Two fast express trains leave Chicago 10.00 A. M., Sundays excepted, and 10.00 P. M., Saturdays excepted. Morning express has parlor day and sleeping car attached, for Peoria, Pekin, Jacksonville, Des Moines, Muscatine, Davenport, Washington, Fairfield, Iowa City, Rock Island, Grinnell, Newton, Winterset, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake, Helena, Sacramento, and San Francisco. Two fast express trains leave Missouri river 6.05 A. M., Sundays excepted, 4.45 P. M., Saturdays excepted. The evening express has parlor day and sleeping car attached, running through to Chicago without change, connecting with fast express trains on all eastern railways, running through palace cars to New York City without change. Palace day and sleeping cars are run through to Chicago without change from New York, Albany, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, Detroit, and all principal eastern cities, making close connection with express trains via Rock Island route for Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, and points in the Territories and California, via Union and Central Pacific railways. Free transfer tickets given for passengers and baggage, to those holding through tickets via this route. Mrs. W. and ourself had the pleasure of passing over this splendid Railway as far as Fairfield, Iowa, in June. It is in every respect a first class Road, conducted with reference to the comfort and safety of passengers, who are treated with courtesy by its intelligent employes. Friends visiting our city, and patients coming to our Health Institute, are recommended to take this road, if they can do so, without decided inconvenience. JAMES WHITE.