The leader., 1901-09-11
Mrs. Ada PROXY Writes Enter
tainingly of the Pan-Amcr-
lean Exposition.
SOME OF THE THINGS AND PEOPLE
SHE SAW DURING THE TRIP.
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ing and overreachlng the street, which
is splendidly paved, affords delightful
shade and throws into such soft, bright
relief the we'll kept lawns and beds
of many colored flowers, the scarlet
geranium seeming to be the favorite
bedding plant.
One day during our stay in Buffalo
our party made run over to Niagara
falls, that most wonderful work of
nature in all this country, and certain
" none more so in the world. Every
man, woman and child has read and
heard descriptions of these Falls, but
not the faintest conception can truly
be formed until one sees and feels
just the vastness, power and mystery
of this ever-restless, rushing, mad.
dening, roaring torrent OF concen.
trated power expressed in the clearest
whitest. bluest, greenest, foamy, feath
cry, airy, misty water. 1t is all and
everything beautiful in one long, deep
comprehensive glance that pictures
forever this eternal beauty on mem.
ory's impression paper. We were so glad
of this day in our trip. And there
was fun, too, and nearly tragedy con
nected with the days outing. We
were so hungry at dinner time that we
said we would go to the "Interna
tional" and have square meal.
Well, you would have thought SO, had
you seen us eating / verify believe
the walters we're alarmed, though they
good naturally brought us everything
on the bill of fare and we skipped
nothing. The "woodcOck" we eX.
pected to be dainty bird, but to our
amazement it was connection of
cheese aud other stuff, and only a
cousin or so to Welsh rarebt OF
Belgian hare!
When we went down i'll a perpendicu-
lar Car to the whirl. pool rapids, the
car got out of fix and we were very
nearly precipitated to the bottom of
the sea" and we were truly thankful
when we got back on top and into
Canada We sat upon our few small
purchases as we crossed the bridge and
had to run the gauntlet of the custom
officer, but our Indian dolls, bead
bags, moccasins, British flags and other
souvenirs passed muster all right and
we still have them to bring to our
friends.
Still another day out from Buffalo
was really to the most artistic place
we had been and reached in the most
inartistic way-to East Aurora where
Ebert Hubbards beautiful Roycroft
books are made, in the quaintest
shops, of his own designing and
partly of his own building. We pass
ed great fields of red clover that were
beautiful, then an apple orchard, a
field of wheat, and around these were
stone fences lending their rugged
beauty to that of the fields; and then
we came to the queerest fence we had
ever seen, made entirely of uprOOted
stumps of immense trees. These
were laid on their sides in continu-
Gus line around the field and present
ed the weirdest sight with their many
roots reaching into the air as though
they were so many arms protecting
the treasures of the soil enclosed
This surely must have been Mr.. Hub
bards own field, for who else could
have had anything so unique? We
got off at the station and we're driven
to the Mecca of all travellers, to East
Aurora, the Roycroft Shops. They
are built of native stone gathered
from the farmers fields of the sur
rounding country and blasted and put
into place by the RoycrofteIs them
selves, with help of workmen from the
village. The buildings are artistic
and very substantial aud the coloring
of the roughly hewn stones is varied
and all the prettier for being rough
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talk and ceased to wonder why Roy
croft books, furniture, surroundings
should all be unlike anything we had
ever seen. He wears his hair long
not because he thinks it is poetic or a
badge of genius to do so, but because
most folks wear THEN hair short.
Il. Il
ted the tone of the whole place and it
is dainty, pretty little town. Most
of the families having members who
work in the Shops in some capaci-
ty, they naturally gravitate there and
are given every opportunity to devel-
OPP their energies. Mr.. Hubbard's the
DRY is that Art is the expression OF
mans joy in his work." 50 all the sur
roundings are quiet, artistic, beautiful.
Work is interspersed with recreation;
and besides the wages earned by the
workers the profits of the venture are
divided among them. We shall ever
be glad we went to East Aurora and
shall watch with interest the develop
ment of Mr.. Hubbard's plans for flu,
ture work. Much of the Roycrofters
movements can be CLEANED through
their little magazine, The Philistine
Twas Saturday we took this trip, so
we put in all of Sunday resting and
Monday at noon we left on the won
derfully fast Empire State Express
for New York City and reached there
at nine that night, after truly flying
trip through some of the most beauti-
full country imaginable and through
the Mohawk Valley with the river of
that name all along by the railway
and the hills-nearer mountains-
rolling away from each side or rising
abruptly from the banks of the stream.
We reached Albany just at dusk, so
saw nothing of the Hudson that NIGHT