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Show • • • (PO NY EXPRESS AND STAGE COACH CONTI NTTE D} - 5 - I was then living in Pleasant Val ley and k eeping the s t _p. t i o .p . T 11: ~ r e w ere three s1 e e p i ng q. t a ~ i o ns e.r1 ro u t e . 0 n e was ours , one Rub;; , and t he other Cars on . \l1ADE THE GI EA:r EDI TOR. TALK . ''The sta L~~ e made good time and ' g ot to our place long before night . Greeley ~ook fro~ the little g rip sack with which 1.'1e .had replaced his lost l uggag e , a Bulwer nov e l and r ead until dark . Then I built up a good f ire and hid all the dip candle s we bad, f or I wa s determined that s o noted a man as he should tal k to u s . He d id a nd rel a ted his go in~ to t he ~ r ea t city of New York with hi s cloth ing done up in a ha nd ke rc hief , how he got along and what he tho ught of · t .he o the r , t hen great edit or . 'He spoke of Bennet, a man vvith wonderful enterprise. He was greatly enthused over Bonner whom he called t he "poor author ' s friend. " Danna ne was do·..rvn on, t h e Har per Bros. he a~mired and Frank Leslie c ame in for his sha re of praise . "The chair tha t he sat on was made ou.t of a brock of wood hewn smooth with an ax , four holes bored therefo r the 1 e g s to f i t i n to , an ox o ow f or t he b ac k and a o a d. £"', e r sk i n f or a cushio n . There was no reclinir:.g on t h B.t c h a i r , he sa t u p as stra i .. ht a s an En~ lis hmar:. , out he sta yAd up until a l a te hour . The bedste ad he s le p t on was mad e ou t of ~ ree~ , p eeled. qu aki ng a s .\' p o 1 e s , and h o l e s b ore d in the p o s t s w i th th e s am e t wo- i r:. c h au _ju r . Ev e r;yt h in ~ e lse was dor.e wit h the ax . A raw h ide cut i.n s t r i p s mad. e t l e s p r i n,~ s , o r be d c o v e r ,jus t a s y o u 1 i lz. e d . "The roof ot the house WCJ.S poles and e a rtl:l , t h e flo or was eart h , with an old wag on ,cover spread over it . A flour sac k stretc i ed ov e r a hole whe r e a log was cut out answered f or a wind o~ And t1is was where he was ente rtai ned and where he sle pt. "In the mornin8 I aske d n .im how he res ted , he said as we ll as if · i:le had s l ep t on a mah ogany bed ste ad in a palace . Greeley was a great man . GRE· LEY' S FAMOUS RIDE At Ca rson he a s~ed the d river , E:anX. Monk , if they would g et t o P l ac e rv i ll e on t im e f or him t o rna ke a p o l i t i cal s pe e c h t ha t eve n i ng . no h , y es ,n answe r ed Hank . Thi s is wha t Gree l ey wrote t o hi s p ape r : Over t he ;:lierr a l ev ada-- There is not sue h another road in the wor ld . Our 1·oute lay among roc:rr.s, u p - hill , and down hill , around the mountain Low and t hen so near a precip ice tha t you could look down , not to t he bottom · bu.t i n to da rkn ess . On t he other side the mo unt a ins |
