The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-07-30
Letter from Prof. A. S. Dale.
CHAurAuoUA, N. Y, Box 1856. |
July Is, 1896.

writing them all q letter, through
the columns of your valuable paper.
And, if any Of them feel disposed to
answer, let them send letters to
above address. We would feel very
much gratitiod. We hopo you will
give this place
After closing the school we spent
three weeks at Shreveport while
there attending the last two weeks
OF the Peabody Summer Normal, and
meeting many old friends, especially
the boys.
We stopped over o day at St.
Louis on our way to buffalo, seeing
the sights. Saw and examined close
ly the gigantic Eads bridge connect
ing st. Louis with East St. Louis,
which cost $10,OO0,OOO. Tho union
depot is one of the finest in the
world. There are about thirty pas
senger trains that leave this depot
l moan thirty railways. There are
trains leaving and coming in at oil
hours of the day. These trains act
ually run into the depot SO that you
might board u train while it was
raining hard and not know it was
raining. They run about half way
through the depot, and each one of
the thirty is fenced of. At the end
of each is clock dial with hands
pointing to the time when the train
leaves. From ten to thirty minutes
before time of leaving, Oh officer IN
locks the gate and you may go to
your train after you have shown
your ticket It is almost impossible
to get on the wrong train, unless you
want to. Chicago, indianapolis and
Buffalo have depots arranged in tho
same manner, in fact, most of the
depots in the large cities are ar
ranged this way. Then they have a
"lost and found" Office where the
attendants of the depot-and honest
people-bring articles they find in
the depot or on the trains, and whore
people so to find lost articles. You
would be surprised to see what a
quantity OF various things this Office
contains. Very often, too, people
find there their missing property,
but you must describe it before see
ing it.
Buffalo is the most beautiful of
cities, with its paved sidewalks and
streets, beautiful parks and cemetcr-
les, fine system of street railways,
and magnificent site on Lake Erie.
Our trip to Niagara Falls was both
instructive and entertaining. You
may sec pictures of Niagara, read
vivid descriptions, and hear people
tell of them, but they all fade into
insigniicance when you SEQ and
hear and feel them-the most won.
derful falls on earth. They cannot
be described
| After standing on q stone curbing
of the American Falls and viewing
the rainbow there, we descended the
steps t25l) by the side of the inclined
railway and boarded the "Maid Of
the Mist" This is a steamer tina,
makes regular trips about every hall
hour by the American Falls, past
Goat Island, and right up to the
Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian
side. You must wear rubber suits
else you will certainly get wet from
the spray. We took two trips OIL
this little steamer-she is not sc
small either. Had our photographs
taken on the Canadian side with the
Falls for background.
After taking dinner in Canada, We
went to Chippewa, viewed the upper
rapids, then returning descended by
a hydraulic elevator to the Whirlpool
Rapids. Here all the water from
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