The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-18
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Toronto Klngston-Lake 0ntarlo-The Thous
and Islands The Long Sault-A Ludi-
dicrous Scene at Dinner.
MONTREAL, CANADA,
OTTAWA HOTEL,

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such not to read the following;
AT TORONTO
our party was Joined by Louis \. Ochs. OF
! Davenport, who is visiting this country tc
inform himself concerning the market on
wet groceries. Toronto is not much of a
city for sight seers We visited several OF
the Cathedrals, but the thing specially in
teresting is the University, magnificent
building, filled with the products of art,
science, literature and mechanical genius.
There are hundreds of paintings here, and
some are grand productions, mostly par
taking of religious character. The stat
uary is unlimited, representing all the
titled heroes of military and marine fame
None should fail of visiting this place it
is full of. study for the student, the philos-
opher, and the man of the world eyenmay
find himself treadng among the events of
history.
Having billed our party to take the stea
mer
| Al hlNtSlDN;
| of course we were bound to fill the bill
The cars land you only two miles from the
city AMI steamboat landing, and rightinto the
midst of pack Of hungry hackmen. These
hackman understand their business to per-
lection. The Niagara Falls hackman
sometimes visit them for the purpose OF
taking lessons. They know you are green
and too proud to walk, and taking advan.
| tage of this, can get more in the way and
climb over you faster, get your baggage
out Of your hands quicker, walk Oft with
your wife more gracefully, and before you
can miss her she is seated in one Of their
! hacks tnstanter Our party Of five were
soon all seated in one hack and it started
for town at 8 A. NJ. at breakneck pace
| but don't be afraid, it won't hurt the hack
if you do turn over. You pay hackney fit
ty cents each. He won't take none of your
American money. No, not even Ameri-
can silver, they are all brokers and will
give you good money, as they call it, for
your American specie, az the rate Of two
for one. After sleeping around on trucks,
barrels and woodpiles for two hours your
boat arrives and after waiting an hour lon
ger you are off on one Of the Royal Mail
Line Of steamers on Lake Ontario. Your
boat only stops at Canadian ports, but still
your fellow voyagers are mostly from the
States" There is little else thought of,
but
THE THOUSAND ISLANDS,
which are situated about six miles below
Kingston. These first became famous
during the last Canadian instruction for
the refuge their myriad labyrinth like
channels afforded the insurgents and their
Americas sympathisers called patriots. =
There are many romances concerning
these times which one will learn from the
old residents There are about ! 500 Of
: these green shady spots scattered like en-
4 cra gems for miles along the river, vary
ing from a yard square to miles in length,
where the pleasure seeker may rest for
days or around whose beaches the sports
man may delight himself with fish or fowl
: There are many noted fishing places on
the river from Kingston down which claim
their good hotels. At the foot of the
Thousand Islands is Brockyille, named in
t honor of Gen Brock, who fell on Queens
=, town Heights in 1912. Passing Prescott
and Ogdensburgh you come to the first
rapids Of the st. Lawrence, called the Gal
lop Rapids But these do not amount to
much. Your large boat rides smoothly
I ever them without preceptitle shake.
The next is
TIE Long sAULT,
, pronounced Long Sou" You are at
dinner, Just about to order your second
course, when the steward tells you this is
the most exciting rapids on the river and
you can get dinner every day but not the
''Sou' Two hundred passengers rush
to the forward part of the boat, there to
see the whole volume o.! the river, larger
than the Mississippi at Rock Island, tumb
ling, surging, boiling aud tossed into white
foam, 60 rushing down over the rocks.
!! 1t is wild looking scene aud you inyOlun,
tarily look up to the pilot hJnse for some
assurance of safety. There stands the
icaptain with four men at the wheel, all
with eyes fixed steadily on the boiling
waters ahead. The boat enters the rush
I. ing roaring current and goes head
long down hill at the rate
of twenty miles an hour. Great merry e
is required to keep the vessel headed with
the current. 1t it DIVORCES in the least it
Is sure to strike, as did the boat the day
before us, with over Two hundred persons
on board, but, fortunately, reached shoal
water without injury, and when our boat
passed another steamer was alongside try
ing to pull her out of the shoals
After passing the Sou the passengers
went back to dinner ana were comfortably
seated when the boat entered other rapids
She seemed to strike some obstruction and
to settle on one side, at the same lime the
stern swung around. Casters tipped over,
plates slid off into ladies' laDs. Some
smiled some looked curi1u>ly around t.
their next neighhprs to see if anybody was
scared. With mouths full and eyes wide
open that party presented curious spec
tacle. OHe lady tainted. Richardson, OF
our party, grasped
4 PIE IN ONE HAND md MS WIFE IN THE
/ OTHER.
/ Louie hal his mouth full, but succeeded in
stuifing in several mouths full more, say
inG, If we are going down Ill have full
/ dinner anyway The boat finally righted
and went rushing along Each one tried
to make the other believe they were not
/ bit scared, but none seemed to be hungry,
and all went out to see the rapids, of which
there are several between this point and
! Montreal, We will leave our ARGUS
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