The Forrest City times., 1895-09-20
My Trip to Niagara Falls, Toronto
 and Chautaucua

ant time in tho forenoon while we were on
 the train. We thought a friend of ours. who lives in Dunfee, Indiana. would be down to I the depot 10 see us. so every time the train | stopped we would look out the window to see | iflit were Dunfee. We passed through the | place after quite awhile but did not know it.
 as the train did not stop, it was such a small l place. We were, of course. somewhat disap-
 pointed because we did not see our friend. but
 at any rate we had & delightful time living in , the hopes of seeing Dunfee. While on our ! way to Niagara we passed through portion
 of Indiana, all of the northern portion Of
 Ohio and part of Pennsylvania and New
 York. We reached Niagara Falls Tuesday
 morning at 7:30. Wewent straight to the Im- perial hotel and registered. then went to breakfast. It is useless to say that we did
 Justice to the meal. because travelling such &
 long distance caused us to feel as though we
 could enjoy good meal. at least that is
 the way it affected most Of our party. After
 we finished eating breakfast we then went
 to our rooms and left our baggage. then we
 came down stairs and took a car which took
 us near the Whirlpool Rapids. We were let
 down to the Whirlpool Rapids by means of n
 elevator which was erected in 1889 for the
 comfort and convenience of visitors. It eost twenty thousand dollars to erect this eleva- tov. The Whirlpool Rapids are about two
 mites from the Falls. Just as far as the eye
 can reach, the water thunders down in a great
 mass of foam. The water is dashed oyer great rocks. Sometimes the water looks green | It is certainly a beautiful sight and at times | it is deafening in its roar. We can here have | an idea of the terrific force of Niagara for ! we are told that. at this point. tho united waters of the Great Lakes thunder along at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour. Il | think anyone could stand here for hours view | ing the Whirlpool Rapids and never tire be- l cause there is something new to be seen every
 moment. After spending sometime here we
 then went to Prospect Park. This is indeed
 another lovely place. It contains about ten
 acres and from here we had splendid views of
 the American and Horseshoe Falls We could
 also see from this point Niagara stretching | from the Canadian to the American side and think that alone was sight worth coming great distance to see. From Prospect Park we were carried down an inclined railway to | the edge of the river below the Falls. For | the convenience of visitors who do not wish | to ride down the inclined railway. there is d | stairway built right by the side of it. the num- Der of steps being 2Y0. From here can be had a fne view of the American Falls. We took ! ride on little steamer named the Maid of ! the Mist" IL is socalled because it passes so | near to the Falls where the water paurs down | in such torrents that 1t causes mist and we all had to put on water-proofs and caps to prevent our clothes from getting wet. We were on this steamer about twenty minutes. | some of our crowd were unlucky enough to | become sea-sick, but it did not last very long
 After we returned from our ride. we collected several specimens. and then returned to Pros pect oark, We spent only q few moments in | the Park and then crossed the street and went over to the Tower hotel. We took an elevator
 s.,s here a, and went @ upi the tower. This t'wer is ! Wheel. Anyone can imagine what spiend i'd view can be had of the surrounding country
 from this tower. It is five hundred feet above
 the river. After spending sometime up there
 we came down and then went into q bazaar which is in the hotel We stayed there awhile. | After little looked around and low and be- hold everyone had gone. except one other girl and myself. So we started to look for the hotel alone. We lost our way. hut after some little walking we succeeded in finding our | way back to the Imperial hotel. We then all ate dinner. After dinner we went again to
 Prospect Park. There we took a carriage and drove part way arouCd Goat island We then walked to the best points to view the
 Falls. Then we crossed the bridges leading
 to the three sister islands. We spent awhile | there. The next thing we did was to cross | the Suspension bridge and go over into Cana
 da After walking around for awhile. some
 ot us took q seat il rustic summer house.
 From there we had fine view Of the Ameri. can Falls and the 'Cave of the Winds" We 1 spent about half an hour here very pleasantly and then crossed the bridge into America. | We then returned to the hotel and ate supper.
 After we ate supper some of our party went | to Davis museum. While in there saw the | skeleton Of a whale which was fifty feet long.
 Jaw bones twelve feet long. Eighteen per
 sons could sit in it's mouth. It's weight was
 about s, seyenty;tiye tons It was captured by | also saw a Redwood tree. which was cut on | Eel river. Humbot county, California. Feb. 14 | 1895. circumference seventy seven feet height
 4l' feet. saw an animal which impressed | me very much il was Ant Eater. It mad
 an exceedingly long head. Its ears and eyes distance from the ears. II had long Dill, and | its body was covered with lovely hair. saw
 great many Egyptian mummies. One was | mummy ofa woman. over 2000 years old | brought from Thebes, Egypt. also saw a mummy of an EgyDtion warrior of great an-
 t,,quity. date unknown. IL is pronounced by all who have seen il. to he the best ever brought from Egypt. | saw still another
 mummy of an Egyptian priest of the time of Egypt. While in the museum saw the hat worn by Capt. Webb just before he took the
 fatal plunge. Itisa light gray derby. will not take the time to wriie anything else | saw in the museum We spent all the even- ing there and returned to the hotel at l0:30
 Wednesday morning we went down to the depot to take a train which wont 10 Lew ston. \. Y. Unfortunately the train left few
 minutes before we reached the depot. We
 then had to wait quite awhile for another
 train. At last. much to the delight of all of
 us, the train came. There were only two coaches and a baggage car. IL was an Obser- | vation train, had no windows in it and only two rows of cseats. which ran lengthwise along the car. The scenery was beautiful all along the way to Lewiston The river was on
 one side and a high stone bank on the other l We reached Lewiston and there had to take
 small boat and row across the river to a large
 boat named Chippewa. The water was too
 shallow for the large one to land. We then
 started for Toronto. It was not long until we
 were on lake Ontario. The distance across the lake to Toronto is twenty-eight miles It
 took us about two and one half hours to cross
 the lake. We ate dinner on the boat and
 nau avery nice meal. indeed We reached
 Toronto at go. Then carriages and ally-ho