The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-08
OVER NIAGARA FALLS!
An Unfortunate Lady Engulfed
In the Mad Current.
Our Correspondents Observations
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York.

in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York.
The Crowd nt Niagara on the
Opening Day.
The Sights Seen by n Tourist
from NIorgantown.
ORRvILLE, ONO, July 29.-Not
loeg since left our quiet little vii
lage for short visit to Orrville, Ohio.
Soon after my arrival here l was in.
formed of an excursion that was
contemplated from this part of Ohio,
to Niagara Falls and Lake Chantau-
qua. 1t promised to be cheap trip,
and l concluded to avail myself of
the opportunity of seeing the great
cataract and one Of Americas fash
ionable and most popular summer
resorts. The journey was under
taken, and ] now propose to give you
some Of the points of interest that
impressed me on my way, thinking
that perhaps it may prove of interest
to some of your readers. Starting
from Orrville the first town of any
Importance we passed through was
Akron, the county seat of Summit
county, situate about 80 miles south
of Cleveland, on a canal leading
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river.
1t has the advantage of three rail
way lines. At Akron the party had
few hours to spend in any way
they saw proper. took in the town.
Akron furnishes every evidence of
thrift and industry. Its greatness
is no doubt due to some extent to
the facilities offered by its canal and
the railways.
Akron is the home of Schumacher,
the celebrated miller and oat meal
packer of Ohio This man started
here about 20 years ago, a poor man,
and he is now worth over one half
million dollars. His money has been
made chiefly out of his oat meal,
which has won its way into public
use in nearly every county in the
country. He owns a whole block of
buildings here in which he carries
on his immense business. The de-
partment where the oat meal is pre-.
pared is an imposing structure of
eight stories.
Barker, the man who has become
famous as the manufacturer of the
"Barker Matches" lives here, and
has his establishment here where he
manufactures his matches. He is
said to have made out Of this bust
ness over million dollars in the
last few years. He is one of the few
men who pooled his interest some
years ago after Congress had legisla
ted upon the revenue subject, and
thus shut out all the small match
factories in the country, and since
that time until recently they who
thus pooled their interests had a
bonanza of the business.
This town is also the site of two
very large establishments in the
manufacture of agricultural imple-
ments. One of these is the Ameri-
can Agricultural Implement Compa
ny, and the other the Aultman IL
Taylor Company. Aultman was a
resident of Canton, Ohio, where he
was interested in similar estab-
lishment. He made the first i'm
proved "threshers" that were made
in this part of the country. He
died recently, leaving an estate
worth over one million dollars.
This is the home of Paige, who was
the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in this district the last cam
paign, and was defeated by William
Mckinley; of Canton, the Republi-
can candidate. Paige and McKin-
ley were both strong men and ak
perienced politicians, and both had
been in Congress before and tasted
of the sweets of Congressional life.
The tariff question was the vital
issue, and it was on that issue that
these two men made one of the most
memorable Congressional contests
that ever took place in the State of
Ohio.
There is fine college here that is
we'll attended, as is also the Com
mercial college.
This little town surpasses any
town have seen of an equal popu-
lation. You must conclude that it
is a busy place when 1 remind you
of it's rapid growth. In 1880 it had
population of less than 10000; the
city census, which has just been
completed, show a population of
$4,000. There are many other
points of interest here, but the train
is approaching that is to carry us
from this place to jamestown, N. Y,
and 1 must now bid an unwilling
adieu to Akron for the present.
Now 1 am aboard the train on the
N. P. & O., and it is the fast line,
and is said to make she fastest time
of any train in the country.
By the way I must tell you some
thing Of the crops in this section Of
the country. The corn and oats are
so far as seen unsurpassed, but the
wheat crop in the vicinity of Can
ton, Orrville and all along the line Of
the P. Fl. w. & C. R. R. is not as
good as the wheat is in Monongalia
county. The wheat in northern
Ohio and all that part that is in
close proximity to Lake Erie was
protected by the snow last winter, a
protection of course that did not
extend far south, is of an excellent
quality. A good crop of wheat can
be found along near the lake from
Akron to Buffalo, N. Y.
The country is cut into small
farms, but is by no means so desira-
BILE for homes or for agricultural
pursuits as central Ohio or the in.
terror of Pennsylvania or the Genesee
region of the State Of New York.
But the farmers are certainly thrifty
and ingenious. A new kind of fence
can be found in this section, or il
not new only found in a few local..