Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-07-05


Not endorsing the act, we did not inn
itate her.
Returning again to the outside
world, we give one more lingering
admiring look and withdraw, asking
the guide il it is always that windy.
He replies il is about his worst trip,
so we can assure you that you need
not expect to meet like experience at
all times, and even if you do all is
safe. The walk has railing next the
fall. and the trip is more terrible in
appearance than reality.
We visited yarions other portions
of the falls, only to have repeated and
rc-repeated the grandeur of one of
the grandest of all the worlds won
ders. In places the water is twenty
feet thick as II passes over the falls
and is of a very heavy green color.
One cannot believe the water is so
green in its appearance until they see
it for themselves. In a glass it is not
so. Where the water passed oyer the
falls, say three TO six feet deep, the
effect was that of q most beautiful
piece of lace or gauge hundreds Of feet
square. A bridge extends from one
huge boulder to another, far out into
the river Just above the great
falls on the Canada side, which are
1900 feet wide and l5S feet high, CIV
ing most excellent views. But there
is IN end 10 all things finite, and sor-
rowfully we IcapG this enchanted
ground for Albany, n. T., and The
Hudson River.
! We leave Albany on the Hudson in
the morning on one of Vandephilts
favorite half million dollar steamers.
that can make twenty miles per hour
Those who go to New York via, the
New Work Central Railroad can take
their choice when thoy get TO Albany
between the four track railway or the
steamer and THE Hudson River. |
chose the latter, The board is OH the
restaurant plan, ana YOU can aet a
dinner costing from so cents to $500
A nice porter house steak costs $500.
Some green ones who take what the
walters ask them III they will have
without looking at the bill Of fape. tt
see the price, look thunderstrucE
when the bill is presented. We arc
soon on the far-famed Hudson, wend
ing our way toward the great metro
polls. We pass Mount Merino, NOTED
for tho beautiful appearance gifts pas,
lures and fields: tho Catskill Mount
aims, that tower among tho cloud.
and furnish us the retreat of Rip Van
Wrinkle during his long sleep, Kings
ton, that has been "takcn by the
Dutch" for over 200 years; Newberg,
where Washington had his hcadluar.
ters in d hotise that is Still Standing
with its Fireplace, hand-irons and old
chairs, rs he used it. West Point, tho
place of the great Military Academy
and where Generals Scott and Ander.
son (of Sumptcr famc) arc buried
Gold Spring, where lives the author OF
eWoodman Spare l'hat rroe,' Sing
Sing, of prison fame; Tarrytown
where Andre was caught after his In,
tervicw with the traitor Arnold Xiv.
erdalc, where the most elegant resi-.
dences money can furnish are found
and where thero is not a single resi-.
dence on store that Is NOT palatials
and New York, the greatest city oil
America, where, as we steam down
the river, we SEQ hundreds of ships
men-of-war.huge ferry boats. baroues
briggs, schooners, yachts. steamers
skifIs, etc. flying the flags of all ma.
tons of the globe.
Tho banks of the Hudson are all
that nature and art can make them
The country recedes gradually from
; the river, the sloping hills being COW
cred with elegant country seats noble
old oak trees and millions ofpine and
arbor vitae trees natural 10 this local
. ity, Again we mass preeipitous. peaks
, hundreds of feet hiah on either sid.
of the river. The Highlands, the mos
picturesoue and Grand of noture'.
. rugged works we have eyer seen ex.
tend seventeen miles alone Tho river
Some of the peaks are l.SOO feet hioh
lof solid stone and almost nnrnendicn
lar from the waters edoe. pho III,
, in daylight on This river is not over
stated by writers on tho "hcautifn
! Hudson River" and some arc hi"h,,
touched M by vivid imoo;nat;ons.
Reaching New York we cross ove,
TO BROOKLYN. so we can co TO cburcl
sabbath mopnino Tho farr;a"n j;
, one cent. VII 'thare arc halea Tnza,
. huoe boats MAKING their millions eve,
nj This low rate. Sunday morninG w,
90 to hear Dr DnINitt TaImo~e
whose church is The lnraost Protest.
ant church in the world. and seat.
( 600 persons As wc 90 earlv 70 oo
seat that views the whole house ",
, can bnt wander 81 thn celehroted n;
vine will not have TO discourse TO 70,
many emnty seats Rnt soon a strea n
of human beinos beoin to nour in ani
the vast room is soon comfortabl,
filed. The singing is CONGREGATIONAL
being led by man standing on hiel
table with brass horn and an i'm.
mense organ. The sermon was on,
Of earnestness, and the power seemed
to lie in telling the truth in yer,
forciblc and emphatic manner. Cal
vanistic truths, without any of til,
sharp angles taken otl,were his weap
ons. his manner being in harmon,
with his subject.
In order to see New York ani
Brooklyn peoples Sabbath visited
Central Park and Greenwood Gene
terry in the afternoon. Both places
were crowded. / went to Contra
Park via. Of Fourth Avenue stree
cars some two miles passsing the mos
elegant churches of New York CITY
DR.. Halls 100000 church and man,
others finer, being among thom.
rode along with the car driver ant
got much valuable knowledge from
him. Pointing out one more cost,
and elegant than the others, says he
"Faith look there will We; there is {
dom fine church. I've bin mimbel
of that church for nineteen years, sur
that is st. Patrick's. sur,
Central Park is one of the most eel
ebrated Parks in the world. and is ,
place so beautiful At This t;me Of yna,
would scarcely have known whethe,
h was in spheres terrestrial or ccics
tial, but for the vehicles and absence
of wings. rode around This az
acres Of beautiful retreats Of. shads
and rocks and lakes covered wifi
swans and boats, and fountains cost.
ing MANY thousands and hrid oes cost.
their hundreds of thonsanis and
monuments and statnes and tho
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