The Hartford herald., 1879-08-06

not on the Kentucky side of the narrow
river which divides the two great
States, Ohio and Kentucky. OfCleve-
land, we will say that il is certainly the
prettiest city i'm the United States, i'm
location il is fortunate; beautiful lake
Erie, beautiful Euclid avenue, beauti-
ful streets generally, all laid out i'm uni
form elegance and beautiful by the
landscape gardeners art, and then its
beautiful park in the public square,
with its fountain and flowers beautiful
IN the day but lovely at night under the
romantic and magnetic influence of the
electric light, which lends romantic
halo To the scene. Ii is a light entirely
different from the sun, moon and stars,
or any artificial light heretofore pro-
duced, and IA person under its influence
is bewIldered at its brilliant intensity.
But enough for Cleveland, we would
like to write several chapters i'm regard
To il but cannot do 50 now, as all we can
hope to do in this brief article will be to
give rough sketch of our Journey
Buffalo, y. v, was the next city.
Nice, clean city of about l5O,0O0 inhab-
itants, with fine harbOr on Lake Erie.
a bustling business place of great im-
portance owing to its situation on the
lake.
Niagara Falls next. We arrived at the
depOt-tind free Omnibuses there from all
the hotels. At least ten of the Niagara
Falls hotels run free buses. The COM
petition in the hotel line is very great
now, and rates have been greatly re-
duced within the last two years. Two
dollars to three dollars per day is the
ruling figures for the best hotels. 1t is
as cheap to live at Niagara Falls as to
stay at home Wonderful change i'm
1 the last two years. Rates used to be
81 high that none but favored few
could afford to remain there any great
length of time. Even the Niagara
Falls hack man is subdued-and like
Criah Heep, is very humble. The prin-
cipll hotels are the Park Place, Inter-
national, Cataract House and the Spen-
Ger House. The village itself is one of
the most charming on the continent.
Its beautiful broad streets, fountains,
shade trees, and the pure, invigorating
air from the falls all contrive to make
it simply charming. The citizens are
very polite, refined and intelligent.
They are principally engaged in the
hotel business or in the Indian curiosity
industry, and being always cOnversant
with persons of refinement and intelli-
gence no wonder they are 80, and that
Il visitor at once feels that he is existing
i'll an atmosphere of politeness, refine
ment and intelligence. | will not at
tempt Il description of the Falls of
Niagara in this article-it would be use
less. could not do this great wonder
of nature justice, and do not believe
, any writer ever can. Volumes and
volumes have been published in regard
to it, and it would be useless to give a
general description of it to your intelli-
gent readers. They have read of it
before. They have read all about the
typographical features of its surround
ings of Goat Island, Prospect Park, ETC.,
and also of the wonderful works of art.
What marvellous engineering skill is
displayed in the great Suspension
Bridges, Inclined Plane and Double
Elevator. They have doubtless read of
. the "AIaid of the Mist" and its wonder
ful voyage over the Whirlpool Rapids,
and of the frightful deaths, thrilling
adventures and marvellous eXcapes at
the falls, of which there have been 30
, many, that to enumerate them would
take up several columns i'm the HERALD.
The grand old cataract is still there,
: however, and its mighty volume OF
: water pOurs over that great precipice
Just us il has done for centuries, and as
it doubtless will for centuries to come,
and every once in while some poor
human being is hurled over il to eterni-
: ty. Only few weeks ago a French
lady, whom company with her husband
had travelled around the world was
instantly swept over the precipice into
eternity. The Falls are now Illuminated
at night by the electric light, which is
thrown on them by powerful reflectors
placed on the electric lamps in Prospect
Park. Several beautiful tints are given
Mt different elevations. This is done by
placing different colored glass in the
, lamps. A portion of the beautiful
transparent water can thus be made to
represent a matten mass of fire pouring
into an avalanche of snow, generated
by the everlasting clouds of snOw-white
. spray, a beautiful blending of colors-a
sight supremely grand, fascinating and
bewildering. Reluctantly we took our
departure from this truly enchanting
spectacle. L hope many of the readers
of the HERALD who have never visited
this great wonder of nature may find il
T. convenient to do so ut some period dur
! ing their sOjOurn here below, as it has to
! be seen in order to be fully appreciated.
Leaving Niagara Falls we returned to
, Buffalo, and left there on the steamer
Oneida for Chicago. The distance was
one thousand miles over the beautiful
lakes. The route of course was via Lake
Erie, Detroit river, Lake St. Clair, and
, Lake Huron. The straits of Mackinac
|, and Lake Michigan. A very delightful
journey. The evenings and mornings
. were cool enough to make an Overcoat
! comfortable. That pure, cool air was
: decidedly invigorating, and quite con-
> trast to the African Zephers peculiar to
! the sunny south during the reign of the
> DOG Star" The waters of the Straits
? of Mackinac are wonderfully clear-so
clear that the bottom of the lake can be
, plainly seen in the harbor, with great
! numbers of fish all sizes ut various
: depths. Mackinac, that lonely little
n town looking out into the straits, il
= nevertheless a popular summer resort.
+ 1t is about the coolest place i'm the
n United States, and its surroundings are
: picturesque and charming, and then SO
i peaceable and quiet just on the verge Oi
!, that great wilderness that stretches
toward the north pole. There is some
thing charming in its very quietude.
\ Then there is the Fort with its brave
!, soldier boys. They received us with
/ some excellent music and we were in
n vited to visit the Fort, of which kind
r invitation we gladly availed ourselves,
, and We were all greatly pleased with
, our visit. The Fort commands very
I important position in the straits. Space
and time will not permit us to give a
minute description of it. At the Mack
o inac post office your correspondent re-
ceived number of letters, also copy
of the Hartford HERALD which the
, boys in the store kindly mailed to me
> there, knowing that home news would
! be deeply appreciated i'm that northern