The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-09-24
Editorial EXCURSION.

Editorial Excursion.
Leaving the delightful spot, Watkins, at s
o'clock p. m. on the 9TH instant, we passed
along rapidly until about 81 o'clock, when wo
hauled up in front ofthe Canandaigua House at
Canandaigua, situated pleasantly on the lake
of the same name, which is about seven miles
long and two and a-half miles broad.
cANANnAIGUA.
| To supper, to bed, and up at 5 a. m. looking
at the pleasant town. Its population is about
| five thousand. Its public buildings neat, gem
teel and creditable. Its streets are wide, we'll
| shaded with horse-chesnut and other shade
| trees. Between the street and the pavements
is spaceIenclosed by two rows of trees, and
covered with grass, protecting the houses and
pavements from dust. At s.45 we are off for
Rochester. Our ride is through country beau
tiful and inviting in all its appointments.
Orchards, meadows, vineyards, clean, substan-
ialfences comfortable dwellings and outbuild-
ings, neat cattle, fine horses, apples, pears,
grapes and pumpkins in the greatest quanti-
ties and of the finest quality are characteristic
of the country from Canandaigua to the Falls.
| ROCHESTER,.
BY IL a. M we are in the beautiful City of
Rochester, containing between $4,000 and 3d.
900 inhabitants, a number of handsome public
buildings, excellent hotels, magnificent Ar
cade, a number Of valuable libraries, broad
pavements made of flags reaching from the
houses to the curb-stone, and Nicholson pave
| ments in the streets. Here the Genessee Falls
| is an object of geat interest. 1t is Fall of
the Genessee ri~ r. over perpendicular rock
Of. about ssysoss Ct high. II ian be viewed
Fach's Atlantic 6aru;l ant Urches ian HaII i
to the rear of the establishment, for which a
fee of five cents is charged. Here you have an |
excellent view of the beautiful waterfall. |
Frederick Fach's beer garden is furnished with |
an pedestrian Organ l2x16 feet, furnished |
with six cylinders and costing $4,000. 1t runs |
itself like clock, and makes delightful music. |
The Osborn House, for its clenly appearance, |
its obliging, attentive walters, the quality and /
character of its fare and its management in all |
its particulars, SURPRISES any it has been our |
pleasure to visit. Flour's Merchants Bank is /
building of singular magnifcence and pro-
portions, containing seven acres of floors and |
more than twenty miles of corridors, built |
without an inch of wood, seven stories and
basement, costing more than a million and
half dollars, occupied on the basement and |
first floor by stores, and above by banks, Off
ces and halls for societies and lectures, every
block of stone on the outside being beautifully
traced and carved, reminding one of the Egyp-
tian hieoro ely pixies. The Court house is one of
the finest we have ever seen. From its top |
you have all the tennessee Valley before you.
looking away to bright Ontario. Elwanger &
Barry's Nursery, on the suburbs of the city,
contains about six hundred and fifty acres,
one hundred and fifty of which are devoted to
the grape vine. Entering this "Garden of
Paradise" its courteous proprietors conducted
us through as much of it as we had time to see.
Beautiful hedges, from one to fifteen feet high,
blooming flower gardens, extensive hot houses,
neat, clean, pear groves bearing large, deli
cious fruit similar damson and plum groves,
pleasant evergreens in endless variety, Cali
fornia spruce, Norway ferns, and green sward
are arrayed in its apartments with taste and
beauty. We are treated to more pears than
we can carry. We enter the cars for the Os-
born House. They have no conductors. Dri-
vers not allowed to collect fare. Passengers
put it in box in the front end. We are un-
der many obligations to Charles s. Collins,
ESQ.,, Editor of the Rochester Daily Chronicle.
for his kind attentions to us, showing us around
the city and pointing out its points of interest.
AT THE FALLS.
We are off again! Four hours ride through
the greatest apple, grape and wine country
east of the Rocky Mountains, by Lockport,
where fifteen locks on the New York and Erie
Canal help this gig ditch" of De Wit Clinton
to climb the hill with its boats abundantly
freighted with the rich products of Western
New York, bring us to the greatest of the
worlds wonders, Niagara Falls. Out of the
cars, to the Cataract House, wash, a dinner,
a barouche and we are off sightseeing. Three
miles and we are at the Rapids below the Falls.
Wild and terrific the angry waters dash against
the rocks, seen and unseen, whirl in fury, leap
with "mad endeavor" and rush with mighty |
terror towards Ontario. The deep current in
its wringing, surging, dashing fury, fills one
with awe as he descends, to the scene of the
angry waves play, in an elevator, which de-
sends about two hundred feet and is operated
by the action of the river. Below this, after
half mile ride, we see the whirlpool" where
he velocity Of the water dashes it against the
bank of the river, caused by an abrupt turn in
its course and makes a myriad of whirlpools
varying in size from the dimensions of the
bend in the river to the smallest one possible.
They practically illustrate the motto "many in
one.'
SUSPENSION BRIDGE.