Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-27
A DAKOTA TOURIST.
Father Nichols Extends his Travels
I'm the Rnckeye state.
TO The Press and pakotaian

the rich treat of living thought admin
istered in such heroic doses. The day
after the close the railroad station wit
messed q scene of confusion confounded
piles OF trunks sadly mixed. regardless
of the train 90 go on, hackmen and
draymen and porters running to and
fro to untangle the snarl, the baggage
man running here and there, s7erTr oSs
wanted him first. To add to the per-
plexity the cars were coming in. What
was to be done must be done soon, don't
know who was left, the writer knows
that he had his checks in his pocket to
keep company with his ticket to Cleve-
land and the cars soon steamed out
facing first towards the lake, The shrill
whistle of the iron horse soon told of
station. Eleria, the county seat of
Lorain, had been reached. 1t showed
little signs of having grown from the
small village known to the writer when
the stage one morning in May, just
fifty years ago last May, set him down
with the tenth part of dollar in his
pocket to make his journey on foot oyer
the corduroy railroad constructed to
keep heavily loaded teams above
ground. The Eleria of to-day is
stirring place. Soon under way pointing
towards the Forest City, where an hour
later We found ourselves but too ill for
observation, weak IN body and the sub.
lect of intense pain, yet we must bundle
our traps and go over to the depot in
the other part of the city, nor could we
linger or nurse our suffering, for
railroads are built outside
human sympathy. Nor is this remark
to pass without noble exceptions. All
honor to the baggage master who as he
checked our baggage to Solon on one
branch of the Plttsburg road gave us
kind words of sympathy and encourage
mens. Only thirty. eight mlnutesshe said
will be taken by the cars to land you in
Solon and there you will find car in
waiting to take You to Chagrin Falls
where you are going, 1t is short ronte
and you will soon be there. I feel
sorry that you are SO great sufferer. !"
Ii the writer is ever fortunate enough to
see him again he will buy lock of his
hair and store it as an heir loom for the
family and dying bequeath it to his
children that history may know and that
modern railroads and coming railroad
men may know that there lived in Cleve-
land q baggage master with soul of
humanity within. We were better when
we changed cars at Solon and entered
| the train for the last six miles. This
short route we understood is looking
towards lengthing at both ends. Chagrin
Falls where the cars now stop is cozy
| town built on the hill rising up from
Chagrin river, q crooked stream giving
| crooks enough to make pioturesquee
| building sites. The name is suggestive
| OF the history of some surveyors who
were running some lines to establish
some pet theory but were doomed by the
course of the river to disappointment
thus chagrined they abandoned their
undertaking and called the river
Chagrin river to perpetuate their dis.
appointment, and SO village sprung up
and that took the name of the river
Chagrin Falls is q charming place fol
residences, ample yards surround
the houses. A beautiful parI
is in the midst of the principal streets
The river affords by its falls ample
power TO run an unlimited amount ol
machinery. The water power has beer
utilized for the manufacture of -four
paper bags. planning mills and mil
for the manufacture of butter prints and
other kinds of wooden ware. Mr.
Buliord at whose home was entertained
in my last day of stay in the village
kindly took me over his manufactor,
and showed me how the work was don,
and the parts performed by each, for i
was division of labor in this mill
Afterwards IN New York state whel
staying with friend in Genesee county
who had passion for fancy breeds Q
chickens, bringing home one nigh
from Buffalo dozens of eggs fo
which he had paid $500 dozen
the writer Informed him of thi
manufacturing company ut Chagrii
i Falls where eggs would be furnished TO
almost the same number of dollars b,
the barrel. There is q place on the Cha
grin river, two miles or SO below. tn
y town, where visitors are taken to see tn
Indian, the serpent and various other Gu
riops things carved in the rock. Itloake,
almost as if we had reached the shades
we are told of IN classic lore. The Ga
of leaving this romantic spe. ct las
came and the wife of our host brough
us on our way to the station on tn
main line which we had left at Solor
> The town of Aurora, nine miles distant
is reached by road abounding in good
ly sites, now fringed by wheat and oths
a Rrain fields, now skirted by trees whic
!. remain to tell the history of the Who'll
Z country before the woodsman's a
: had leyeled the giant tree
D to make way for farm culsur
|. 1t was inspiring the sight to see th
! majestic elms, the round top branhcin
beech and the state by naples. Th
wheat crop of Ohio is fine this year. Th
n scarcity of rain has retarded the growt
r of the corn and potatoe crops. Apple