The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-06
tied walls and corridors.

lated walls and corrid ors. The
4 museum was scantily supplied.
| The apparatus and general parapher-
MALTA that go to equip a State institu-
tion did not compare with our st.
i Cloud school. A little more attention
to aesthetics would not, in our humble
opinion, be amiss, Notwithstanding the
4 assumed tellectuality of our eastern
/ friends.
i From Buffalo I went to the city Of
4 Niagara Falls and saw the great
cataract, whose magnificent awe-inspir-
| ing appearance has attracted SO many
thousands. The scene is grand and
sublime, thrilling and beautiful. This
broad expanse Of agitated and turbu-
lent water plunging down the deep
precipice furnishes a spectacle that
challenges description and presents
all the fanciful handiworks to which
nature is pleased to resort and placing
/ the last master stroke here, she rests
content with the magnifcence Of her
work The subjects of her Maiesty's
government find much pleasure IN not
ling the fact that many Of the scenes
that attract the tourist are located on
the Canadian side of the river.
In crossing the State,of New York,
we follow a course nearly parallel to
the Erie canal which joins Buffalo to
Troy and Albany on the Hudson. tits
due to the mind and genius Of Dewitt
Clinton that this work was conceived
and to his wealth and character it's
principal execution. He saw as the
poet expresses it:
That as widely spread the unchanneled plain,
| Where inland resources bloomed in vain,
Canals long winding DER Watery fight
And distant seas and lakes unite. y
'.From fair Albania lowered the falling sun,
Back through the midlane 1engthening chan
. nelS run,
Meet the far lakes and beauteous towns that
lave,
And Hudson Joined to broad Ohio's wave. =
| The canal is 1868 miles long, s feet
deep and from forty to fifty feet wide.
Was completed in 1925. Boats of Is
tons burden are drawn by horses. Dis
lance to be traversed requires about
ten days continuous travel, and the
assistance of four or five men with the
horses. By this means Of communica-
ton the farmer and manufacturer get
cheap transportation, the State derives
revenue and great impetus is. given
to commercial activity.
The city of Albany is situated on the
western bank of the Hudson river,
which in many respects is the most
important and picturesque river in the
world. Taking its source in romantic
streams that emanate from the Adiron-
dacks, it traverses distance of 325
miles to its union with the ocean at
Sandy Hook. It we'll deserves the APP
pelation of the 'Lordly Hudson, = be-
cause of its smooth, majestic and gem
tie current The tidal influence is
noticed upon the river at this place,
causing it to rise nearly two feet, and
\ it may, in truth, be called a long
estuary of the Atlantic ocean. A
steam boat ride the length of this
navigable course is certainly impress
sive enough to arrest the attention and
arouse the enthusiasm of a stole, as it
presents a continuously changing
panorama of surprising beauty.
The Hudson is the classical and
romantic river of our country and is
consecrated by the pages of Irving and
Cooper, and by the skillful brushes Of
renowned artists. I can easily imagine
how the would-be poets might be easily
moved to tender sentiments upon be-
holding the beauties of this majestic
stream, upon whose banks fourishing
cities and pleasant villages abound.
Here history points to the traitors
treason and to the zeal of patriots.
Geo. Mackay said, II found abundant
reason to agree with the most enthusi-
astic of Americans that no river Of
Europe, unless it be the Clyde, excels
the Hudson in natural beauty, and the
Rhine itself deprived Of its ruined
castles could not stand comparison
with this splendid stream.
The State capitol at Albany is said
to be the finest structure Of its kind in
the world. It is yet unfinished though
in the process OF construction for the
past % years, the cost is estimated at
$4,000, 900. The plants, flowers, birds
and animals Of the State of New York,
as well as its eminent statesmen are
represented in artistic and magnif-
cent carvings on the great pillars and
castings of this mammoth structure.
I visited the battle field of Lundy IS
Lane, so called by reason Of the name
4 of an owner of large property in that
VICINITY at the time of the 1872 war,
and viewed the scene where victory
& was won for the cause of liberty and
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