The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-10-19
THE GENERAL
JOURNAL RUSTLER
Describes a Trip On the Won
derful N. Y. Central.
Niagara Fails ana centrai New YORK. -sOhawl,
Valley. The Trip Flom Albany 10
New York.

HOTEL ST. DENNIS, NEw YoRR, Oct.
12. - Editorial Correspondence A
trip from Chicago 70 New York over the
Lake Shore and New York Central rail.
roads by Western people who have not
travelled in the East, would be almost as
great 4 revelation as was the first rail
rcad TO the early inhabitants. The con-
trast in road beds, equipasge and ser
vice is most distinct and striking. In
the first place there are four heavy
tracks, and you can't count the rails in
them by the regular iolts OF the cars.
The trains are made up Of the most ele-
CANT and substantial coaches, including
the richest Pullmans, diners, sleepers,
compartment and parlOr care. In these
the passengers are afforded every possi-
bic comfort, as they are provided with
all the conveniences OF medern hotel,
snch as luxurious apartments, barber
shop, free library, the services Of a stem.
ographer and typewriter, etc. Every
ordinary coach is provided with porter
and the passengers are treated as guests
of honor. When IL is remembered that
the New York Central operates 800 pas
senser trains daily in and out Of New
York City alone, some idea OF the
amount OF it's traffic can be gained. It's
limited trains are the finest in the world
for speed and service, and it's ordinary
trains are said to be superb. II would
almost be worth an OTegonian's trip
East TO simply have a ride on this ideal
road
1t should not be inferred from this
article, however, that everything else
east OF Chicago compares in like ra-
ito with the railroads. II lie OF course
the denser population Of the east that
makes these wonderful railroad de-
velopments a possibility and neces-
sity, but this latter fact imposes con.
ditions that make the great west cor.
respondingly more desirable as home,
While on the Pacific coast farms OF
ranches of thousand or ten Thousand
acres are not uncommon, the further
east one travels the smaller the hold
ings grow. In the great Mississippi Val.
ley an average farm is 100 acres. In the
states adjoining Il at region on the east
the average is probably not over half
that, and the further east we go the
smaller the checker-board OF subdivis-
ions grow, until instead OF the endless
fields OF wheat and corn the eye can at
one sweep take in sccore of different
homesteads at one glance.
From Buffalo we took a side trip 10
view Niagara Falls, for description
Of which JOURNAL readers are referred
TO their old school readers, no matter
how old. II it is cafe to say that a pic
ture of them a hundred years old is as
good as can be drawn today with pen
or camera. The banks OF the river on
both the American and Canadian sides
have been greatly improved with parks,
buildings, boulevards, etc, and many
manufacturing enterprises have sprung
up as result Of harnessing the falls
for electric power. But Of all the vast
improvements none have been able TO
keep pace with the advanced methods
Of the guiders, gougers and grafters,
who are said 10 get ten dollars out OF
tourists where they formerly extracted
one. This class is expecting great pros
perity from the Psn,Americsn expo.
sition at Buffalo next year.
After reaching Central New York
many Of the primitive institutions Of
our iorefathers are in evidence, such as
stone fences, stone bridges, stone houses.
out.buildings and barns, sweep-wells,
dash-ehurns, beam cider-presses, etc.
Tie farm houses seem to grow longer
and the barns smaller, the farther east
we go. Many little old hillside orchards
of aged trees lend qusintness to the
landscape.
The beautiful little Mohawk valley is
most attractive, but TO the passerby on
the train il presents no great evidences
OF prosperity, excepting possibly that
furnished by the factories in the towns
from Rome TO Troy. Between Albany
and the latter place, where the Mohawk
empties into the great and beautiful
Hudson, the river is literally lined with
large ice houses, presumably the
property of the noted New York ice
trust. From these il is towed to the
, large . les In mammoth barges.
The trip down the Hudson is not un.
like ride down the Mississippi or the
Columbia with slight variations offered
by Dame Nature aud great improve
ments made by the New York four
hundred in the way of palatial summer
residences. The historic stream is vel
improved and studded with numerous
"floatng palace" steamers. The Kaats-
kills at this season are enshrouded in a
delicate azure haze, while the bluffs aud
foot. hills are now beautifully cOlored in
Indian summer attire, The view OF the
valley is never finer than at this season
of the year, just before thu forests have
} shed their autumn foliage and while the
. stream is at a normal stage
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