The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04
NIAGARA FALLS AS SEEN
BY A UTAH WOMAN.
To the Editor of The Herald:


To the Editor of The Herald:
Niagara Falls. May 3l-Everybody
nearly that ever visited Niagara tries to
less fruitless account of the visit with
more or less dry description Of the
grandeur and beauty of this wonder OF
nature.
L am not everybody nor am I going to
attempt to give the faintest description
OF the American Falls or the Horseshoe
or the Rapids or indeed of any of those
well nigh indescrible things. In all the
more or less tiresome accounts 1 have
read however, no one has tried to tell
how the modern tourist gets there, what
1t costs him or what the surroundings OF
the place are like. 1t may be interesting
10 our Otah people, so many OF whom
come out here every year, to get little
bit OF practical information, with other
irrelevant matter thrown in free gratis.
we arrived at Buffalo on the Nickle
Plate railroad at o'clock this morning.
The last conductor We had on this train
was SO clever and kind, we wondered If
he had not Strayed out east from oar
own civil western states. He brought an
equally civil agent who told US all about
how to reach the Falls, and then furnish
ed us with a free pass to do so.
Once in Buffalo our traps were de-
posted in safety, and without extra
charge. and after a wait of an hour and
a nall, We were put on board the New
we rode for the Falls; there was "a large
party of us, some from California and
others from Indiana
The ride along the shore of Lake Erie
as 1t narrows into the river which finally
pours its great green waters into Lake
ontario. was charming. Trolley cars
made this trip. If one prefers that mode
of travel. Pretty homes, great stretches
OF green Velvety grass rolling away as
FAR as the eye can reach. broken with
clumps of BEAUTIFUL trees with the grey
hot xt-it hon
and sails dotted here and there on the
ripping surface. made a scene of beauty
winch well prepared us for richer lowell
ness to come.
On the way over another genial and
truthful agent came to us and explained
at such great length and with so much
carriage and going around the long road
which leads to all the sights that five
or our party succumbed to mis- DUrsua-
sions and each paid $50 to see the
whole thing" as our youth graphically
put it.
Some one had told us before we left
home that We could walk, but after "a
had taken the drive. we didn't know
who 1t could be unless il were a pro-
fessional pedestrian. We cheerfully re-
commend any one who is coming TO see
the most satisfactory way, unless, in
deed, one is rich and can stay a week or
so.
We rolled gaily out of the depot with
civil-spoken man for driver and were
soon bowling up the paved streets of
Niagara Falls.
Streets? why. yes. streets. trolley cars
stores by the mile. hotels galore with
the loveliest hanging baskets of flowers
all along the porches. and such. clean.
inhabitants. if you please, in the town of
Niagara Falls.
The most surprising thing to US all. was
drove
some reason l had imagined Goat island
TO be very dreary, rocky, desolate place.
Behold, it was a fairy bower. Guilt
waited just enough to preserve the groves
and trees and firms in all their wild
tural beauty. Steps everywhere to get
various views of the rolling. laundering
once seen will linger in the mind for al!
time.
We didn't go down to the cave of the
winds. Some one said We had winds
the reason, however; we walked over
the beautiful Three Sisters islands:
why. all these places would be worth a
weeks journey were there no Falls at
all. We walked up and down every stair
way; we passed through all the fascinat-
ing and tempting relic stores where In
out each it's insidious temptation. Down
to the whirl pools; ugh. and all me! But
1 spare you. for you had my promise.
Then we shot down the toboggan slide
clear to the waters edge and looked as
long as time would permit us at the
siren in grey-green with the cloud mists
about her forehead.
We obediently tipped the good old gen.
tleman whom we allowed to explain to
US in detail what tips were and why they
should be given.
Then We were driven over to the Can
adam side. Oh, dear. l wish I hadn't
promised for I would just like to say a
few verbal words" about this most
matchless view of this most matchless
wonder on all the wide earthi But I
didn't want to talk there, We all sat and
gaZed with a glory of vision and life and
power upon US too deep for words.
A day at the Falls A week, a month";
One wants to race around as we did to-
day, and get rid of the commercialism
and resort feeling about 1t all-then stav
in some quiet lodging for a week. and
steal out at all sorts of hours when
agents and tourists and bargain-drivers
are away at their own legitimate BUSH
ness. and then drink into the very depths
of the soul the beauty and glory of
Niagara FailSi
The practically of 1t all comes back
when we get on the cars again and arc
whirled back to Buffalo to wait for our
evening train to New York.
SUSA YOUNG GATES.
Cigarettes and Crime.