EXCURSION
TO THE PACIFIC!

Here we go to the Pacific!
To the "Hub" a while, adieu!
Fare-you-well, ye troubles civic,
Scenes of grandeur we shall view!
Pullman's train shall give us pleasure,
Naught like it was known before,
All its comforts we shall treasure,
Ere we reach the golden shore!

We'll pass cooling streams and fountains,
Rivers, forests, lakes and vales,
Prairies broad and tow'ring mountains!
And we'll cheer the iron rails!
Cheer for me did start earth wondr'ing,
And push'd forward in the van,
Till the iron horse went thundr'ing
Off to see John Chinaman!

In the land for gold so famous,
Many charming scenes we'll view,
And Bostonians cannot blame us,
If we stay three weeks or two,
For, whoever we're accosting,
In whatever part we'll roam,
We will not forget old Boston,
She's our Eastern pride and home.

Coming back we'll see the Mormon,
But no wives of his we'll take,
Not for us they need be forming.
We will leave 'em at Salt Lake!
Should one greet us, naught we'll ask her,
Mormons don't with Gentiles jets,
But we'll start off for Nebraska,
And at Omaha we'll rest!

Chicago shall be soon forsaken,
Did we stay there long, of course,
All the wives that we have taken,
Might be thinking of divorce,
We'd lose all our joy and laughter,
All our hearts would be dismay'd,
There'd be weeping ever after
In the Boston Board of Trade.

We'll gaze on Nia'gra river,
And its mighty Falls and grand,
And we'll think about the Giver
Of the joys of sea and land,
And soon a reporter's version
Will be read by man and maid,
Telling of the Grand Excursion
Of the Boston Board of Trade!

Byron DeWolfe

I am indebited to the Boston Journal, of May 21, 1870, for the following information:
The party as now made up consists of members of the Board of Trade with their families.

Mr. Pullman had more than fulfilled all the promises made by him for their accommoda-
tion, and the new train will take its departure on Monday morning at a quarter past nine
o'clock, from the St. James Park. This train, it is safe to say, is the finest ever built. it
comprises eight cars, as follows: a baggage car, a smoking car, two commissary cars, the
St. Charles and the St. Cloud, two hotel and drawing-room cars, the Revere and the Ar-
lington, and two saloon cars, the Palmyra, and the Marquetta, each of these containing a
fine Burdett organ.

The party will be due at San Francisco, California, on Saturday evening. The party will
spend two or three weeks in California, visiting the Yo Semite, &c., and, on the return,
will stop at Salt Lake, Omaha, Chicago, and Niagara.

The following is a list of the persons comprising the party: - Hamilton A Hill, Curtis
Guild, Fred. Allen, Hon. John B. Brown, George D. Baldwin, Hon. Alvah Crocker, Cyrus
Dupee, R. D. Forbes, C. F. McClure, F. H. Peabody, J. W. Roberts, S. B. Rindge, Jno. B.
Reynolds, M.S. Stetson, John H. Eastburn, N. W. Farwell, C. L. Harding, W. S. Hough-
ton, D. C. Holder, A. L. Haskell, J. M. Haskell, H. O. Houghton, George Myrick, L. B.
Marsh, Lawson Valentine, Rev. R. C. Waterston, Dr. H. W. Williams, N. D. Whitney,
George A. Wadley, and James Longley, and their wives. Hon. J. M. S. Williams, wife,
son, two daughters, and Miss Prentiss. Edward W. Kingsley, and wife, two daughters
and Miss Billings. J. W. Bliss and daughter. E. W. Burr and son. Master F. E. Peabody
and maid. D. R. Sawtelle, wife and son.

Hon. A. H. Rice, John Rice, H. S. Barry, John L. Bremer, C. W. Brooks, Japanese
Consul at San Francisco, M.S. Bolles, Thomas Dana, Thomas Daua 3d, Miss Dana, Jos.
McIntyre. Sterene Morse. Miss Fanny Peabody, Miss Lilian Peabody, Rev. E. G. Porter,
Miss Prentiss, Wm. Roberts, Josiah Reed, Master F. H. Rindge, Miss Harrington, J. S.
Hogg, Mrs. Pool, Miss Mary H. Farnsworth, Miss Sarah M. Farnsworth, R. O. Fuller, J.
Warren Faxon, Misses Farwell, Mr. Harding, Miss Harding, J. F. Hunnewell, J. F. Hunnewell, J. F. Hues-
tis, J. F. Hunnewell. Miss Healey. John Humphrey, B. James, C. F. Kittredge, C. S. Ken-
dall, John Lewis, Miss Lovejoy, F. H. Shapleigh, T. Albert Taylor, E. B. Towne, Miss
Valentine, A. Williams, G. Washington Warren, and Thomas T. Woods.