The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-09-04
A TRIP TO BUFFALO.
Mrs. Ada PROXY Writes Enter
tainingIy of the Pan-Amer-
lean Exposition.
SOME OF THE THINGS AND PEOPLE
SHE SAW DURING THE TRIP.

something of my trip North for publ
cation in your paper, was quite sur
prise, and in reply, | will write you
just as do my other friends, and if
there is anything in it you care to pub
lish, you may do so.
/ left Brookhaven on the night train
Saturday, August 3, and i joined a
party of relatives at Jackson cousin,
his wife and two sisters, and at Cincin-
natl, young lady friend; so it was
John" and five women! We had jolly
time, and the other passengers were
guessing, whether Mormon was
aboard, or how was the man of the
party related'to the others, he seemed
so entirely in their hands and at their
mercy, as it we're. The joke continued
throughout our trip, and / wonder if
John" could be persuaded to go again
with the same crowd. We travelled in
state, having the drawing room of the
sleeper as we'll as section out in the
car, and we made ourselves quite at
home until Monday morning at 10
o'clock, when we reached Buffalo, the
destination this summer of all tourists
North
1t was daylight when we reached
Memphis Sunday morning, and we
could see the great bridge across the
Mississippi. After stopping for five
minutes we were hurried on our way,
passing through a part of Tennessee
and Kentucky, reaching the beautiful
city of Louisville just at sunset. All
day we had travelled through coun-
try not unlike in appearance our own
Mississippi, excepting the houses had
stone foundations and stone chimneys,
and the hills began to be larger and
gradually grew into mountains in Ken
lucky, with great quantities of stone
everywhere, and the rivers and small
streams we crossed were picturesque
with their great stone banks and
beds. At Cincinnati our young
lady friend joined us, she having come
over from Lexington, Ky. We were
glad to see her, and when we found she
had box of delicious lunch containing
so many good things that the Kentucky
house wives know so we'll how to make,
we were simply delighted, and though
we had had our supper and it was ten
o'clock, we quickly demolished that
lunch, our appetites being excellent
and improving all the time.
Monday morning it was breakfast
time when we reached Cleveland, Ohio,
so we had beautiful daylight ride
along the shore of Lake Erie all the
way to Buffalo. The country was a
rolling, undulating .expanse of beau
tiful fields of wheat, corn and pastures,
with liberal interspersing great apple
orchards and vineyards, the apple and
grape crops being very large in this
part of the country. On the other
side of the track was the vast eXpanse
of blue water, with an occasional ship
or sail boat, and nearer the shore lot
of smaller craft, away in the distance
the sky and water seeming to meet and
blend in soft harmony of clearest
blue color
At ten o'clock Monday morning
Buffalo" was called out, and we were
put off,. After much difficulty oc-
casioned by "green" conductors we at
last reached Mrs. Dixon Beams, where
we felt repaid, as the house was de-
lightfully situated in the suburbs near
the fair grounds, and we had lovely
rooms and a charming hostess. Her
family is wealthy Chicago one, but
on account of the husbands illness
and invalidism, the wife has to attend
to business affairs and is in Buffalo
during the Fair and working to
meet the heavy taxes on large prop
erty, and the daughter is doing beauti-
full miniature painting. Mrs. Bean gave
us card to private club near her
where we took our meals, wrote our
letters and lounged about to rest and
there was dainty and elegant, and l
know no tourists visiting the Pan
American will be more pleasantly stu
ated than we were. "Otowega' was
the name of the club Indian-as are
nearly all the names in this part of the
country. There were pleasant people
IN the house, too-a Professor Graves
and wife, from one of the large colleges
out of Boston, and Miss Gould, an
artist who travels and gives art lee
lures. These people seemed greatly
interested in the South, and asked
many questions about conditions down
South, as regards progress, the negro
educational subjects, etc, and when
they learned that johns" wife was a
great neice of jefferson Davis, their
interest, became personal, and she was
more than just the bright, beautiful
woman she had seemed before.
Our approach to the Fair was
through an extensive and well-kept
park, and as we passed from the cool
refreshing greenuess of seemingly the
country through the great arched
massive gateway of the Fair grounds
vast vision of gorgeous loveliness
burst upon our view, and the magnifi
cent blending of many brilliant colors
into one harmonious whole was grand
realization of what the Buffalo Fair
was in reality and made one reflect
and wonder, could the great white
City" of the Chicago Worlds Fail
have seemed really as beautiful? We
were in the Rainbow City,, and We
advan ced on through its streets Of
beauty to the Court of Honor, with its
wonderful fountains, electrical tower
and nthaP tOWarS SurmOunted by