Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-16
Our Trip To Buffalo.

some took the Lake shore road while
our party consisting of j. A. Coombs
and wife, H. P. Irish and wife, H. 5.
Sprague and wife and myself and wife
took the Chicago and Erie road On
Sunday when we were going through
Ohio we stopped for a few minutes 81
a place called Kent on the Chiahoga
river. a mau got on the train and
took seat beside me. He showed me
the place where Brady made that
wonderful leap of "a feet across the
river when there we're 500 Indians af-
ter him. About one-fourth of a mile
to the north we could see what is now
called Brady's lake, where Brady
dove under some drift wood and hid
from the Indians, badly wounded.
We arrived in Buffalo Sunday even
ing; found nice boarding place on
Main street. Monday morning we all
started for the falls and bought our
tickets for the electric cars. We tried
to get on but found that every car
was loaded before they got back into
the city. We tried to find car we
could get on until II o'clock, but we
saw it was no use, so we went back
and demanded our money for our
tickets. They told US they were not
to blame for US not getting. on. Joe
Coombs told them we we're not as
good looking as we were once, but we
knew a great deal more and if they
didn't spoon over we would paint
their shanty red. They spooned. We
then went and got on the steam cars
and got there at noon. We hired a
guide and two teams for the rest OF
the day. We first went across to Cam
ada, went to nice large tavern and
called for dinner. 1t was the first
meal l ever ate in foreign land. Every
thing on the table was sour but the
pickles and ! knew the butter must
/
| have been made before Queen Victoria
began her reign. After dinner we
went to look at the falls but now |
must stop. No pen can describe
them, no picture can show what they
are; they must be seen to be realized.
/ have been from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from the gulf to Canads, !
have been over and under the noun
tains, and of all the things ever saw
I never saw anything so powerful and
yet so beautiful as the Niagara Falls.
They are Is miles below the lake; Nj
agara river runs 10 miles, an hour I'M
| til it comes within about mile OF
| the falls, when it runs with the speed
of the wind, mad, foamingand boiling
until it makes its great leap of l61
feet below. The Maid of the Mist, q
small boat, was running below the
falls; it would run within short dis
lance of where the water was falling
over. We could scarcely see the boat
for the mist. There we're three men
who went over the falls the day. we
got there. They were fishing above
the falls and got too low down when
the current took them. We were told
that any one going over the falls when
| no NJ hi n "
on, not even their shoes. Throw a
boat in the river about a mile below
the falls where the rapids and whirl-
pools are and it will be smashed into
kidding wood.
Monday night at Buffalo the Fra
ternities of the city had their parade.
1t was grand.
Tuesday we went to headquarters
and registered In the afternoon we
went to Camp Jewett; went down on
the river bank, took glass and looked
across the river and we could see the
walls of old fort Erie used in 1912 by
the British army. l tell you Buffalo
had on her dress parade suit. There
was scarcely a house or business place
in the city but what was covered with
flags and bunting. The streets were
clean and nice but rather narrow.
Then they had large arches across the
streets in many places, many of them
very beautiful One that attracted
my attention most was one that the
Negroes erected. It had the portraits
OF Grant, Mckinley and Lincoln on it
with the motto, They fought for the
Liberty we now enjoy The most
beautiful thing OF all was the Living
Shield Wednesday, the day of the
parade, it vas erected across the
street on our line Of march 50 we could
see it hall a mile away. It was COM