Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-07-07
VERMONT TO NEBRASKA.


100 miles away from home. One al
most forgets the distance and the sights
by the way, in intense longing to get |
back where he knows where he is. A
Vermonter going West, spends days and
even weeks in carefully deciding by
what route he will travel nicely calcu-
lating this railroad and its attractions of
ease and comfort. with that other with
its cheap fare and rapid locomotion, and
again he unites the two, and looks for
all these in single. route. And thus
it often happens he can't tell for sure,
what way he IS going till after he starts.
This calculation is made for the young
American. Many Vermonters of the
true Yankee type have wended their
way to this garden of the West, this
land of magnificent distances. Nebraska.
According to promise, | propose to give
your readers a somewhat minute ac-
count of a journey from the Barton home
to this Queen city of northern Nebraska,
Fremont, the best and largest grain
market in the state. The line followed
was via. Pass, Vt. Central, Rensselaer,
& Saratoga. N. Y. Central, Great West
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Chicago; and from thence via. Chicago,
Rock Island, and Pacific, and Union
Pacific railroads to Fremont. Delayed
somewhat at the start, the trip was not
as leisurely made as was at first pro-
posed, and the sights seen or the obser-
yations made were not as many as they
otherwise would have been. f
i As the first part of the trip is doubt
less pretty well known to your readers,
/ pass on to the morning Of the second
day, which found me in Troy N. Y,
that city which with sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal" is speaking all
over the world nearly. A little too
much switching at Rutland let the train
run off, and in consequence, we arrived
in Troy just in season to be too late to
connect with the New York Central, and
thus enjoyed even in the rain a five
hours ramble about town. The city
proper is about three miles long, on both
banks of the Hudson river, and nearly
one mile wide east and west. 1t contains
not far from 10000 inhabitants, slowed
away in little dirty novels, and some Of
the finest residences in the state. On
the east the city terminates by an alb.
rupt eminence named Mount Ida. From
its summit there is fine view of the
city, river, and neighboring towns
With the exception Of the business street
which follows the course of the river
and is named River street. the streets
all cross each other at right angles and
are 60 feet wide. In the vicinity Of
Washington and Seminary Parks, are
some of the finest private palaces in the
country. Green Island, which was un
able to visit, is an island above Yves
Troy, and is said to contain the larges
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York. Just north of the city itself, is {
huge mass of rock 200 or 800 feet high
called Mount Olympus. Troy is at the
head of steamboat navigation on TIT
Hudson, and is six miles from the stat,
capital, Albany. From Troy at ont
o'clock, Lstarted on the way dropping
off at Syracuse, the city of salt that ha
not .'lost its savor.'' The town is neat
ly laid out on a nearly level site. and it
streets are wide and straight. Beside
the salt works, there are other extensiv
manufactures, the most valuable 0
which are for machinery, steam engines
agricultural implements &c. From here
| ran down to Homer, and saw the oil
; pastor and family. remained her
three days, and heard him preach
Saw the new home-was introduce
to. the new friends - became at
quainted with the new work, and lef
like Pilgrim from the Palace Beautiful
saying, "Well, good porter, the Lord b
: with thee, and add to all thy blessing
much increase for the kindness thou has
shown me-" Back to Syracuse and o
! for Suspension bridge; on the way pass
ing over the finest country one can in
i agine, along the wide, deep canals s
: strange to a New England man, an
u through the quaint looking towns wit
9 their ancient and classic names, Amste
J dam, Ilion, Rome, Manlius, Marcellu
n Waterloo, Geneva, Memphis, Jordo
Z Lyons, Macedon, Chill and Byron. Al
$ at last at Suspension Bridge, with a
y the glory of Niagara Falls and its fame
g scenery bursting upon cne's view.
l. hardly think one can behold the sig
D. for the first time and say truthfully,
y is just what he expected from the a
rs counts he has seen and heard. The me
&c accurate description of the Falls and t
u scenery about them is immeasurably |
= low the reality. No Photographic il
O. preston or pen-picture can ever ma
NC one to kaaoa0 about Niagara Falls. Fro
" both the Canadian and sthe Americ
Is shore the view is grand, sublime, awf
IS Of the thousand and one lesser points
interest I cannot write you much.
'e- gave hurried inspection to the Rapi