CHAPTER II. NEW YORK. Friends on shore -- The landing -- First impressions -- Brevoort House -- The interviewers -- Aspect of the streets -- 1861 and 1881 -- Cockades and armorial bearings -- The Union League Club -- The Fire Brigade 18 CHAPTER III. DEPARTURE FOR PHILADELPHIA. Our Special Train -- On the Rail -- Eye-sores -- The Quaker City -- The Pennsylvania Railroad -- Reminiscences -- Excursions -- The New Public Buildings -- Mr. Childs and "The Ledger" -- Mr. Simon Cameron -- Baltimore -- Arrival at Washington 51 CHAPTER IV. WASHINGTON. Heroes New and Old -- The Soldiers' Home -- The White House -- President Garfield -- His Visitors -- The Capitol -- Mount Vernon -- Mr. Blaine -- "On to Richmond!" -- Fitzhugh Lee -- The Capitol, Return -- The Corcoran Gallery -- Sight-seeing 70 CHAPTER V. HARRISBURG -- NEW YORK -- BOSTON -- CANADA. Departure from Washington -- Harper's Ferry -- The State Capital -- Rats on the Rampage -- Pennsylvania Farming 103 CHAPTER VI. CANADA. Sight-seeing -- The Traffic Strife -- Quebec -- The Ursulines -- The Electric Light -- The La Chine Rapids -- Sutherland Emigrants -- Toronto -- Niagara -- The Clifton House -- The Puff Demons -- "Imperial Cæsar Dead" 132 CHAPTER VII. TO THE WEST. Buffalo -- Cleveland -- Magnificent Muldoon -- Euclid Avenue -- Toledo -- Detroit -- Chicago -- Jefferson Davis -- A Terrible Moment -- Pullman -- Milwaukee 159 CHAPTER VIII. MINNESOTA. The Mississippi -- St. Paul -- Minneapolis -- Le Mars -- Sioux City -- Life on the Rail -- Muddy Missouri -- Kansas City -- Old and New Friends 191 CHAPTER IX. KANSAS -- COLORADO -- NEW MEXICO. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad -- Land Grants -- Farming Statistics -- Immigration and Settling -- Colorado -- New Mexico -- Santa Fé -- Colossal Hotels -- Archbishop Lamy -- The Rio Grande 211 HESPEROTHEN. CHAPTER I. VOYAGE TO NEW YORK. Mallow to Queenstown -- The steam tender -- The "_Gallia_" -- Our fellow-passengers -- The first night at sea -- Observations -- Marine inquiries -- A brilliant run -- A little stranger -- Approaches to New York -- Sandy Hook -- Friends on shore -- New York interviewers --First impressions.