The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-10-30
TO BUFFALO AND RETURN.
A Graphic Account of the Wonderful
Sights Up North.

Sights Up North.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
With your permission I will Civ
your readers succint review of N,
visit TO the Pan-American Exposition
and the great cities of Washington
Philadelphia and New York, includ
ing the worlds greatest natural won
der-the Niagara Falls.
Leaving Columbia early on the
morning of October 3rd, accompa.
MED by Mrs S urkie, sfsr f, urteer
hours continuous ride over the South
err, we arrived in the beautiful city
cf Washington, passing through
some pretty towns in N)rth Carolina,
especially Greensboro; also through
the hills of old Virginia, where were
visible many of the old log cabins of
ante bellum days with cracks dsubed
With clay. Lynchburg, Va, is a
pretty, picturesque city on the banks
of the James river. We found COM
Portable quarters at the Howard
House in Washington within a few
PAGES of our depot This queenly
city with broad avenues and tall
steeples, in which is situated the
grand capitol where tn. Jaws Of our
nation are made, the White House
and the departmental edifcsa, has
the reputation of being the loVeliest
city on this continent if not in the
worM. washington city is full Of
memories of the past, and bears the
imprint of present majesty and ap
preaching grandeur" Every Ameri-
can should visit the capital of his na-
tion. Such visit sets the heart on fire
with greater devotion to our country's
needs and kindles anew the patriotism
of the visitor. Afew of the many noted
spots that may be seen in this beau
tiful city are the following: Burial
place of the author of "Home, Sweet
Home" Henry Clsy's former home,
Church attended by Presidents
Adams, Jackson and Lincoln, stream
where Robert Fulton tested his
steamship, home of Daniel Webster,
also his old law Office, Talmage's old
church, place of Guiteau's execution
and many others too numerous to
mention. We expect to stop over
again on cur return home and see
more of this Eden city.
We continued our journey onward
over the Pennsylvania railroad to
New York. This run is pleasant
one indeed, through beautiful coun-
try AID passing through Baltimore
and Philadelphia. We arrived in the
greet Empire City on a lovely Octo-
Der afternoon at Cortland ferry, and
soon we found ourselves in one solid
mass of surging humanity, with
street cars and vehicles of all kinds
creeLing slowly through the "a 1t mul
ti5ude, while sky scrapers, sixteen to
twenty-five stories high, could be
seen everywhere: and elevated rail
way cars rushing overhead loaded
with passengers. people in New
York wishing to 60 very far in hurry
have to take an elevated steam car.
They carry four to five coaches about
the size and seating capacity of our
ordinary railway coaches, pass about
every five minutes and run all over
New York, across Brooklyn bridge
and all around the latter city. They
ba7e elevated stations about every
FIVE blocks-small squeres-and usu
ally carry more passengers than can
be seated) Wewere fortunate enough
to get seated in a street car soon, and
after about two hours creeping and
easing through the great crowd, with
other cars in front and in rear OF US
as far as we could see doing the
same thing, we reached the Broad
way Central Hotel, where We were
pleasaotly quartered. New York
CITY proper Is said to be 13I miles
long, north to south, and q to 3
miles wide. We visited South Ferry,
going on thereof + the Bowling Green
Office building, one Of the tallest in
the city, where We could get a good
view of New York harbor alive with
STEAMBOATS, of every variety, plying
in all directions; the statue of Liberty
on Bedloe's island, and a birds eye
view of Brooklyn on the east and
Jersey City on the west. The Bat
terry and Aquarium at Csstle Garden
were not omitted. The Aquarium
is specially interesting. Here we saw
q large sturgeon, seals, turtles, cells
and fishes of all kinds, including q
Mississippi catfish about the size OF
a we'll grown six year-old boy. The
most wonderful piece OF ingenuity
and skill visited was Brooklyn bridge,
riding across on an elevated railway
car, thence around Brooklyn CITY on
The Loop Elevated Railway cars, and
coming back to the bridge we walked
across back to New York in order to
get better view Of this wonderful
bridge. It contains two elevated
railway tracks, two electric car
tracks, two passages for vehicles and
in the midst wide passage for Pc