The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-26
A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.

MT Hurle, of This City, Writes of His
 Trip as Far as Californla-Enjoys the Scenery of the Hudson, Niagara Falls
 and Among the Mountains,
 MT. Thomas Hurle, the Center street merchant tailor, who Is making trip
 around the world, writes the following letter to the Journal and Courier:
 Mount Lowe Springs, Cal, Sept. 16.- am this far on my journey, and do
 not expect to find any prettier continu- | ous scenery than the trip from New
 York to Albany up the Hudson affords, and I am sure I shall nobfind in Eu- 1 rope any river boats furnished as lux
 uriously as the day boats Albany and
 New York, We stopped at our old
 friend the Delavan, but it is not what
 it was when I stopped there about | twenty years ago with the Grays. It
 has been left behind by newer hotels,
 such as the Kenmore, but we found it very comfortable. After seeing my
 daughter and granddaughter on the
 boat to New York I boarded what is
 called the fastest train In the world for
 Niagara. The conductor assured me
 it averaged over sixty miles an hour,
 Arriving at the Falls put up at the Clifton on the Canada side. The view
 from the balcony is the finest, as it l faces Horseshoe falls and the Victoria Park. The ride on the electric road on | the edge of the river to Chippewa and 1 thence down to Queenston gives the finest view to be had. Then cross the ferry to Lewiston and take the electric road on the bank of the American side back to the Cataract House and you view the whole scene on the top of the bank on the Canada side and close to the water on the American side. took it all in, including a trip in the
 Maid of the Mist right under the falls. From the steamer you can see the tun
 nel that is made to carry the water for the Power company Leaving Niagara I sped right along to Chicago, where I bought a through ticket for San Diego. by the Northwestern and Union Pacific, and was very much pleased with the vestibuled sleeping cars The dining car was a great accommodation and
 
 House and quite reasonable. The scenery en route was grand beyond my expectation. After getting over the prairies the train began to wind around the sides of the mountains so that you had the mountains rising up like wall on one side of the track and on the oth- CT side you looked down on the tops of trees away below, making you shiver to look out then we went through for ty-eight miles of snow sheds. CThe company Is building eight miles more) We arrived here in Los Angeles on time, after a very comfortable trip. To-day I made the trip of my life to the top of Lowe Mountain, five thou sand feet. by the Mountain electric railway It was the grandest sight ever expected to see After taking din- ner at the hotel took a saddle horse
 and went one thousand feet higher,
 making six thousand feet elevation.
 From the top I could see into Mexico. and Altadena and Pasadena lay below like checker board. As we came
 down the mountain the orange and lemon groves with their beautiful green
 foliage eontrasted finely with the light
 green of the pepper trees, which line the edge of the avenues. I have sent you a book of views and description Of the mountain so you can see do not exaggerate. Tomorrow ] start for the Coronado Hotel, San Diego; so adieu for the present. Yours,
 T. HURLE.
 F. S.-Echo Mountain House, Echo | Mountain, Cal, Sept. 19.--I omitted to 1 tell you in closing the letter that be- fore leaving Niagara l crossed the lake to Toronto The boat was good sub- stantial one, but did not compare in I IIlXuriousness and comfort with the
 North river boats. She pitched and l rolled as much as the Teutonic did in
 crossing the Atlantic last summer.
 There were number of ladies sick and 1 quite a number of the sterner sex had 1 a great fancy for leaning over the side l of the vessel, their faces looking very | pale Toronto is a fine city, the streets | are very long, straight and wide, well lighted and paved with asphalt and
 kept very clean, much more so than
 Chicago's, and the dwelling houses also.
 The people have a decided English look
 about them. At the state fair I had | the pleasure Ol HlettiiS liC SAiAiic'S
 minister, u Hung Chang, but was not
 favored with an introduction. The crowd was the densest I was ever in.
 There were over 100000 people on the
 grounds that day. It was very fine | exhibition and well repaid visit The
 stores in Toronto are very fine and ex-
 ceed in size any we have in New Ha-
 ven They have some very fine parks.
 I do not think the. street car service
 equals New Haven's; in fact I have
 not found any that excel and very few
 to equal ours. The hackmen do not
 bleed their customer, as with us I hired
 carriage which took a party of four
 of us to the principal parts of the city,
 taking all the afternoon, and all paid,
 in fact all that was asked, was s2. I
 will write yod from the Coronado hotel,
 San Diego, next. Yours truly,
 | T. HURLE.