Elder E. H. Nye, who was in charge of the company of emigrating Saints that sailed from here in June, writes from Ogden, Utah, July 3, 1884, as follows:

"As I wrote you from New York, we arrived there at the Guion Dock at 8 a.m., and from that time till about 2 p.m. the dock presented a most busy scene. I was interviewed by several reporters at Castle Garden, one of whom gave a fair statement of facts in the World, with only a few slight misrepresentations. We left Castle Garden about 6 p.m. for Jersey City and found eleven cars ready for us, ten for the Saints and one coach for the elders, which proved to be ample room, as they were large cars. At Salamanca, the railroad men wanted us to change cars, but I refused to do so, and after some delay they permitted us to proceed to Chicago. Reached there at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, transferred to the Chicago and North Western Railroad, and at twelve o'clock (midnight) were again under way. At 11 p.m. We reached Council Bluffs, and found seventeen cars awaiting us, the increased number being necessary on account of the cats being smaller. At 3 a.m. we started in two sections, and made passenger train time from there to Ogden, arriving here at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, June 29th—making the run from Liverpool to Ogden in fourteen days and a few hours.

There was no sickness to speak of; a few felt indisposed, but through faith in the ordinance for the sick were immediately restored.

The railroad officials treated us with the greatest possible kindness all the way through, growing more and more solicitous after our welfare as we proceeded towards the west; in fact, clear from Liverpool we were treated with all the attention that could be hoped for, and I must say, that in every respect the run through was all I could have desired.

I found wife and friends all well, and received a warm welcome home." [p.492]

BIB: Nye, E. H. [Letter], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 46:31 (Aug. 4, 1884), p.492. (CHL).
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