The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-06
SuRLIME NIAGARA.

tario; we hasten to that most
famous of all Americas natural
wonders Niagara Falls. We
shall never forget.our first view
of the falls. The train stops on
the Canadian side and the pass
engers walk down to the edge
of a cliff overlooking the vast,
prodigious cadence of water. No
pen picture can portray the gran
deur of the scene. Anthony
Trollope, the great English nov
elist spoke wisely and well when
he said: "Of all the sights of this
earth of ours which tourists
travel 10 see-at least of all
"those which, I have seen-I am
.incllped to give the palm to the
"Falls of Niagara. / know no
"other one thing so beautiful, so
GLORIOUS and so powerful. . In
order to get proper conception
of Niagara one must cross the
bridge that spans the rapids and
spend a few hours on the pretty
islands where the trees and wild
flowers wave their last adieus to
the infatuated pillows that are
fighting their way to the awful
precipice a few yards beyond.
He must enter the Cave of the
Winds and passing behind the
avalanche of water, suffer himself
to be tossed and .buffeted by the
gusts and deluged by the mad
dened spray. He must stand be-
low in the white mist and woo.
ing the spirit of the waters look
upward at the never,ending del
uge that seems to pour from
the vault of Heaven AYE, from
the very hand of God. He must
go to the brink of the precipice
lin the moonlight when all is 81
llent save Niagara's voice, which
Eugene Thyer. the famous or
ganist, declared was mot a roar,
but the divinest music on earth. "
The water at Niagara flows over
a stone ledge, falling perpendic-
-ularly 100 feet. The action of
the water is gradually wearing
the stone away and the falls are
now supposed to be q miles from
their original position. The in
vention of man has at last har-
messed a part Of the power OF
Niagara and from tremendous
4 dynamos the mysterious electrical
power is sent out over the wires
to various manufacturing plants.
There is quite a city at the Falls
and many hotels of these the In
terpational is the largest and best
and is so located that the Falls
may be seen from its rooms and
broad piazzas. Some of the most
prominent people of the world
have been guests of this hotel
and while here we had the honor
and pleasure of dining with pan
American delegates who were
making a tour of the United
States and were guests at the In.
ternational.
After a day and a half at Mag
ara we reluctantly say "good-by''
and hurry on to Buffalo on lake
Erie, where several hours are
spent viewing the parks, public
buildings. and newspaper offices
| of this interprislng American
city. We find the citizens making
extensive preparations to vel
come the G.. A. r.. which is soon
to meet there. We leave Buffalo
for a trip over the New York
Central - Chauncey Depew's
greatest of American railways
Every mile of Northern and Cen
trail New York has an interest
ing history; we cannot stop to
TO tell about Rochester. Syracuse,
I. Utica, and other splendid towns.
We stop two hours. at Albany
and then move on toward Boston
comfortably seated in one of the
Boston and Albany R. R. Co.'S
handsomely furnished coaches
1t is but a few hours until the
train whistles for Pittsfeld,
Mass. at which point we cross
the Housatonic river. We are in
the region Of the noted Berk;
shire Hills, so dear to the old
o;+;yans. ofl this mart eff Massachu.