Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-05
A WEEK IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

tween DatdNld anu OI
sitting in a house and seeing so or 100
trains go by within fifty feet of your door
every "a hours. The rate with which the
freight trains go through on this road is
absolutely fearful. They are so long and
heavy, and go with such tremendous We
locity, that it seems as If they must smash
everything to pieces. The amount of bus
iness done on this road is enormous. The
passenger trains are all very long and
well filed. This is only one line; anoth-
er road runs through BrockpOrt and Nj
agara Falls, and still another through
Leroy, ten miles south. These, with the
Erie and its branches, certainly perform a
great carrying trade. The Erie canal, too,
is all the time at work. One may stand
on bridge and not five minutes will
elapse but that he will see canal boat
Rochester is 'the city," as they CALI it,
for this region. 1t has much more of an
enterprising and stirring air than Buffalo
has. One of the citizens of the latter city
acknowledged that it had more enter
prise, and stated that tpeople went through
Buffalo 10 Rochester to trade. The nurs-
cries are the Institutions of the place.
There are fifteen gardens and nurseries in
the city ndvicinity.
Madison University is situated at Roch-
ester. 1t is under the control of the Bap-
lists. One large free-stone building, beau
tifully situated, and another in process of
erection for library, constituted all that
we saw of the institution. The college is
not in session. A collection of specimens
in natural science, and very fair library,
however, spoke in mute language of the
educational forces in reserve. Henry
Ward lives near by, and his workshops
are here, where he makes those plaster
castles by which copies of all rare speci-
mems may be sent all over the world.
Think of an animals tusks reaching out
fifteen or eighteen feet-large enough TO
furnish cradle for good sized whale.
Mt. Hope is an interesting place for
stranger TO visit. 1t is the cemetery, but
bears beautiful and interesting name.
Powers Block is also great object of
curiosity. Visitors are always expected
to go up in the elevator, free of charge,
and take view from its tower. Roches
ter is beautiful city, and is surrounded
by beautiful country The difference
between this place and New York or
Philadelphia IS manifest. From Trinity
steeple or Liberty Hall Tower, one looks
off upon great sea of houses, every wave
roof, and the whole seems petrifed into
brick or stone. Here, the city is more
like an island in the midst OF beautiful
sea of living green.
We called on the distinguished Lewis
H. Morgan, who has written several works
on Indian and American History, and
found him very genial and affable gen.
tleman, living at his ease, but employing
his leisure in literary employments. At
his invitation. we spent the following af
ternoon at his house. We had intended
to go through the chair factories in this
city, for the sake of inducing our citizens
to start some such manufacturing interests,
but it is TOO much out of our line.
Leroy is a beautiful, peat, nicely built
village, southwest from Rochester.
There IS wonderful air of refinement
about the place. Even the stores as well
as the houses, show taste and culture.
The seminary begins its session this week.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin is fine, fatherly, good
hearted man, and his wife gentle, nice,
refined little body.
The one was student IN theology al
Andover at the same time that we were
becoming "rooted and grounded in the
faith p and the wife we remember as in
our boy eyes, the prettiest girl in the city
of Milwaukee.
The seminary has great and scatter
ing array of wooden buildings-some oil
them rather old fashioned and low be.
tween joints. but arrangements are made
by which 100000 will soon be laid out
in new, fine buildings. The advantages
for music, drawing, painting and the mod
ern languages are excellent here; at the
same time the religious influence is more
decided and better than that of Vassar
and the expense much less. The building
is not as good as that at Painesville, but
the advantages of three gentlemen profess
sors, and the best talent in Music aud
German, perhaps give the preference to
Leroy. A young lady cannot but i'm
prove under the training here.
Batavia is a nice old town, distinguish
ed for nothing but its age, and as a grow
ing railroad centre. The Blind Asylum
is situated here. DR.. Lord very kindly
showed US around the building. 1t is a
fine edifice, surrounding hollow square.
Its floors are all oiled, its wainscoting
without scratch, and everything in the
most scrupulous order and neatness.
About $50 pupils are taught here at the
expense of the State.
We spent the Sabbath here as the
Presbyterian minister was sick.
This old, staid congregation, wealthy
intelligent, but very unimpsssioned, was
a novelty to Western man, but "dlgnifi.
ed repOse" is sometimes very becoming
One thing we have marked in our iour.
ney everywhere, the largest churches are
Roman Catholic-Buffalo, Rochester, Ba.
tAYia, Leroy, Erie. The institutions, how
ever, are Protestant.
A Normal School at Lockport, is jus
now receiving students from Western
New York. Why may not Ashtabula
have one similar to itP Whatwe need is
more institutions and more manufactur.
ing.
The wealth of Batavia is locked up.
Dean Richmond lived and died there, and
his two millions are with his family. 9th
er men worth $500 900, but no manufac-
turing Hon. John Fisher, Member OF
Congress, lives at Batavia. Rev. DR.. Sun
derland, now OF Washington, also spent
many years here. Yours, SC,