Chapter 7—The First to Start
The next day the great railway station at Chicago was a scene of intense excitement. What was the reason of this excitement? Evidently the presence of a traveller in a tourist suit, with an artist’s kit on his back, followed by a young n***o carrying a light portmanteau and with a bag slung across his shoulder, who had come to catch the 8.10 train.
There is no scarcity of railroads in the federal republic. They run through the country in all directions.
The capital of the railroads of the United States exceeds fifty-five milliards of francs and seven hundred thousand men are engaged in working them. At Chicago alone, there are three hundred thousand passengers a day, besides the ten thousand tons of newspapers and letters that are carried every year.
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