Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-09-20
OUR TRIP TO BUFFALO AND
Pan-American Exposition, Niagara
Falls and Toronto, Can.
VIRGINIA HEFNERl

river Dy the Gorge Route you VIII
see the great whirlpool where the
falls once were, and the whirlpool
rapids, which many consider more
wonderful than the falls them.
selves. Here the water Is troub-
led and tossed many feet high and
it seems as if the mighty hand of
God stirred it from its rocky |
depths and tossed it in great bill.
lowy heaps like wbirling snow,
only to fall back again and mingle
with the seething, surging mass
below. And as the car rushes on,
it seems as if the raging torrent is
racing, and in its mad glee is ex-
ultant over our inability to out
strip it in it's wild race to the sea.
Further down, over on the Cana
dian side may be seen Queens.
ton Nights, browning which is
the tall monument erected to Gen.
Brock. On the American side
you pass Bloody Run, Devils
Hole and other points rife with
the'lore of pioneer times when the
white man tried his skill and intel
ligence against the cunning and
sagacity of the red man. This
road ends at Lewiston, and here
we embarked on the large lake
steamer, Corona, for ride down
the remaining seven miles of the
river to the mouth and on across
Lake Ontario..'to Toronto, Can.
We were about two hours cross.
ing,the.lake, and as we expected
TO return to Buffalo that night,
had onlyia short while to stay in
Toronto, but we walked out. from
the wharf to the Custom House
with it's great black walls tower.
ing above, then retraced our steps
back to the steamer which loosed
her mooring and steamed out on
the smooth waters of the lake just
as the sun, a great red ball of fire
sank into his watery bed for the
night. Arriving at Lewiston, we
again boarded the electric car
and asst was now night we had
: the satisfaction of seeing the. rap
ids lighted up by electricity ant
as the long bright stream from
the great search light in the dis
lance played upon the dashinl
: waves, it was, far more beautiful
than when seen by day.
We were told before we started
, for the Pan.Amerlcan that W,
. would find no Tennessee exhibi
there; but the Tennessean is mucl
in evidence, for the most exten
slve show on the Midway is il
a charge of a Tennessean, Friedrich
T. Cummins of Nashville. This i
. the Indian Congress in which fol
y ty.tw0 tribes are represented, tn
! company numbering seven hume
4 red souls, among them fifteen moi
;. cd chiefs and fifteen prisoners {
war. Tho men and women bot
4 were of powerful physique an
!. seemed to be jolly good-humol
II ed set. A most pleasing attra'
4 ton, for which another Tenness'
= an, Ed. M. Bayliss GAINESVILLE,
4 the concessionaire, is "The Ian
d of the Midnight Sum-" an electric
= al scenic production in which or
is taken on trip from Omaha
Dawson City, Alaska, through IL
4. Klondyke gold fields up the m
=. jestic Yukon, over Chilcoot Pas
. White Horse Rapids to the metr
polls Of our great Northern posse
sions. You see mellow moonligt
moving waters, a snow storm Il
~ white filmy fakes whirling al
piling high on the mountains, thu
r terrific lightning, wind and thu
IN der storm; then the aurora bore
~ lis in its prismatic, color reflectil
IN all the effulgence of this mystic
in Gus phenomena, as it is seen
a the Northern heavens by Arct
Id explorers and travellers. You 8
ne the destruction Of Dawson City
)r. fire just as it actually occurred
JAN, 1900. So natural are all t
ar. scenes that it gives the effect
an actual experience. ga trip
the Moon" is novel and entertai
ing, and one is carried throu
caves and grottoes and sees t
1 y: mushroom growth and the dim
", utive people who are supposed
ny inhabit that satellite. The little pr
A. a., pie are only midgets picked
~ from all parts of the world, DIRE
res cd in uniform and placed as guild
ne and interpreters at points in t
lI v aisles; and one chamber in part
n n!ar reminded me forcibly of
Mammoth Gave, and then with
thought that this is only artific
while the other is the work of ]
tie ture, came these lines:
DR.. "To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
;,,s One native CHARM than all the gloss Of art"
th The JOhnstown Flood is reprOt
"a . ced and the woefnl disaster
an. 1889, when the South Fork d
III broke aud utterly destroyed t
x little village nestled among
hills in Connemaugh Valley,
brought wildly before us again