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Across the Plains (Hardcover)
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Across the Plains (Hardcover)
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - MONDAY. - It was, if I remember
rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at
the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at
New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our
own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is
no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from
these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to
travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children.
The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was
not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy
and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes. Open carts full
of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain. The officials loaded
each other with recriminations. A bearded, mildewed little man,
whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place,
his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering. It was
plain that the whole system, if system there was, had utterly
broken down under the strain of so many passengers.
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