. The Argonaut . The Pacific Mai! Steamship The Overland Limited. his Journal that the price had gone up inrecent years £ 20 — probably becausethat new thing in his world—the railway—was making the post-chaise unprofitable. To-day, if alive, the greatest man of his agecould go to London from Scotlands capitalfor a few shillings ; could go between break-fast and dinner, and write if he wished achapter of Ivanhoe or a dozen stanzas of The Lady of the Lake on the way. Sir Walter wrote to his friend, JoannaBaillie, in 1823, that the increasing powersof steam, while doing much for the comme
. The Argonaut . The Pacific Mai! Steamship The Overland Limited. his Journal that the price had gone up inrecent years £ 20 — probably becausethat new thing in his world—the railway—was making the post-chaise unprofitable. To-day, if alive, the greatest man of his agecould go to London from Scotlands capitalfor a few shillings ; could go between break-fast and dinner, and write if he wished achapter of Ivanhoe or a dozen stanzas of The Lady of the Lake on the way. Sir Walter wrote to his friend, JoannaBaillie, in 1823, that the increasing powersof steam, while doing much for the commer-cial world, promised something also for thesociable, and might even bring Hampsteadand Abbotsford within the distance of Willyou dine with us quietly to-morrow? Andthe anticipation has been fully realized. If honored with an invitation to dine withPresident Roosevelt, the governor of Cali-fornia could leave on Thursday morning, and,traveling by the Overland Limited to Chi-cago, and by its connections to Washington,could be there on Monday
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