The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-22
PROn BOsrOA TO THE MISsIssIPPI
Notes and Observations Of y Way.
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CORES pondenee OF the 1nteuig0nceT
MOUNT AYR, iowa.
A recent trip OF near two thousand
miles, and a short stay In the West, In.
duces me to pen you few lines.
Spending the winter In New York,
where one gets Greeley for breakfast,
Brick Pomeroy for supper, and Beecher
on Sunday, with the greater or less
thrown In 10 instruct and engage the
attention, prepares one 10 enjoy the pure
t-please itallcIZe-breeZe OF our western
EpEaIries, or long for the busy scenes OF
The metropolis, where hustle and busl-
ness, confusion and crime, drive the
speeding hours from morn's Iirst dawn,
until the excise law and midnight close
every abode, and leave the street with
here and there traveller to be looked
upon with suspicion by the dubbed
man in blue. Although not remaining
long enough 10 become New Yorker,
yet long enough 10 believe In New
York, as all New Workers do, that their
city is destined to become The melro-
poiItan centre Of the world, as Il IL
now Of this continent.
A stroll up Broadway Is q continual
study, be It repeated ever go often, and
the person who enjoys not a struggle
through It's suTging stream OF humans
ty, thinking, wondering and Learning,
more than walk by old ocean or q
view from the mountain top, has soul
that should be brought In sympathy
with Its kind, or sent back to that imam.
Innate nature which II loves 90 we'll,
The author OF Marco BoZarls 10 re-
puted TO have said, he enjoyed nothing
so we'll, nothing gave him 90 much OF
existence rs stroll leIsurely along
this thoroughfare. So also told MS
England's greatest writer. And yet
how little one sees or learns Of New
York, on Broadway.
On sleaving New York Committed
myself 10 thei care OF Providence, not
he Of Presbyterian mythology, but one
OF the steamers said 10 be the finest in
the world, and run from the foot Of
Murray street to Boston by Jas. Fisk,
Jr.. Of extraordinary reputation, assIs.
ted by Dodworth's band.
At Fall river we change and run into
Boston by the Old Colony railroad,
where we make stay long enough to
look through the Commons, at the
Frog pond and the old Elms which the
Bostonians seem to have more care for
than their religion. which takes Its own
tree course and direction, while the
elm Is gIrdled with iron bands 10 keep
II In bounds.
Climbing to the top OF Bunker Hill
Ia more tedious than interesting, yet
more than a moment IL necessary to
look at the spot marked as where
Warren fell.
Through the crooked streets find
my way TO the Coliseum by tho assIsA
tance OF the street cars. Boston Is 70 II,
1t Is Jubilee times. After looking
through the immense structure, the
decorations, big organ, etc., I take the
Bostouian's word for It, that the grea-
test OF all wonders has been seen, and
leave the city presumlng that nothing
else IL worth looking at, and wonder.
ing whether Boston is 10 be credited
with the Peace Jubilee, or whether the
Peace Jubilee brought Boston into
notice.
What was particularly noticeable In
passing through Massachusetts, was
the number OF large towns or cities
with no agricultural country to support
them. Here II Is Uice versa.
Albany meyer can get over her old
style appearance, until her streets are
graded down and cease TO be the Steep
est on the continent. In Troy | should
like 10 have stopped longer than three
hours. In riding up and down the
Hudson, l bad made the discovery that
this famous stream was but an arm OF
the sea; tide running to Troy. Ny
experience has been the same with 9th.
or Atlantic rtUerS; the James, Potomac,
as far as navigAble. So OF the Della.
ware, Schuylkill, Penobscot and Ken
beck, which Is "navigable for boats az
far as Watervllle." [See M'Gutfy, !
Yet strip them OF their name, they still
retain their lovely and picturesque
J scenery.
Across Central New York, the only
stop OF any length was at Rochester,
and there only long enough to note its
beauty and solidnesg, which seems to
DO characteristic OF most OF the towns
: passed by. The celebrated flower gar.
den OF Wick we did not get a sight of,
The first view OF Niagara from the
railroad bridge two miles below, was a
, disappointment; yet as one walks up
, toward the falls and the roar deepens,
feeling grows that completely fills
the being, and we gaze into the current
with the mind wondering and wonder.
Ing what SO absorbs2 Description
: wished for my Webster's Unabridged
to hurl against the surglng waters
and turn away with the feeling that
Niagara was as far ahead as the torrent
, was beyond the ripple produ ced by my
pretending octave.
Yet Its roar l thought not louder than
Broadway, as one stands on the steps
OF the City Hall. Think otherwise, We
who dote on inanimate naturel l ap-
preciate nature also.
} "a nights rest within sound OF the
cataract prepared me for o dreary ride
, through CAnada-not to speak dIspar.
ageingly OF the New Dominion, which
furnished protection to so many dark
sons OF the Old Dominion, changing
her protective status only to give the
, same to another class OF patriots from
the same old mother State.
B The custom officers and the undue
preponderencs OF 5elf.important En-.
kgllAh faces, with the coin now and then
one receives In change, with Wall street
discount alwAs of, reminds me that /
am on foreign soil.
AS for the face OF the country, Mi.
chigan and Canada might be sister
States' which It Is TO be hoped they
soon may. Inc season Is wet, and this
aSSoaAh" AOA u uEehEy Flues
Chicago Ia dlSsgreeable city In which
to land-mud and runners, She Is
proud OF the former and tolerates the
latter.
Not 30 much change as expected
since former visit. Chicago talks too
much through her papers, while her
rival iB progressing without need oil
this: Overgrown youngsters are apt
to blow. l never believed In Chicago
cannot see that she Is 10 have q irst
class destiny OF any kind, except specu.
Observations on The street, on
change, and view from her highest
cupola, gave me the impression that in
size and hustle New York contains Just
seven such towns,
How the metropolis OF continent Ia
. to be ouiIt over this literally lake oil
mud, but just rescued from the lake
proper, must provoke a smile from
, those who no not have Chicago on the
( brain. Yet the Gar Of the R1ssias d e.
fed the mud and frost, and built the
finest city OF Europe. A greater polen>
tate than he-GrAin,-mAy build up
one OF the mightiest inland cities OF ali
time.
A few hours ride brought me to the
mississippi, at Rock Island. North
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