Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-10-02
NIAGARA AND BUFFALO
AS DESCRIBED BY TIE EDITOR
Some Incidents of His Recent Visit to
Eastern Cities Briefly
Related.

OOmC iuCiueutS vi us NeCcuI VISII "
| Eastern Cities Briefly
/ Related.
i With the present means of rapid
transportation and the cheapness OF
travel, it is becoming customary for
residents of one section Of our great
country to take trip every year or so
into some part Of the nation where the
beauties of nature or the handiwork of
man are perhaps greater and grander,
or at least different in many respects
from their native state. Those of US
who live in the central part of the Unit
ed States are fortunate in being within
easy reach of the beautiful scenery of
the west, which excels in grandeur al
most any part of the world, or its op-
posite, the great works of man and the
quaint scenes that mark the early his
tory of the nation with which the east
abounds.
The editor returned last week from
an eastern trip, which was to him the
most enjoyable that he has ever taken.
While he was only permitted to spend
q few days where it would have taken
weeks to have thoroughly covered the
territory, yet in even passing glance
at the many sights of the large cities
where our forefathers SO ably laid the
foundations of our great government,
one sees many things that are Of inter-
est to the people at large, and conse-
quently we have decided to briefly re-
view the experiences of the journey
that were TO us most interesting.
| Leaving Decorah Tuesday evening,
Sept. 10th, night ride brought us to
Chicago in the morning, where we
spent few hours in greeting friends
and completing arrangements for the
trip east, and at three o'clock in the
afternoon we boarded limited train
over the Wabash route for Buffalo
An uneventful ride through northern
Illinois and Indiana aud southern
Michigan brought us to Detroit late in
the evening, where our train was run
upon an immense ferry boat aud trans
ferred across the river to the Canadian
side, our baggage being examined and
stamped by custom house officers.
Here we set our watches ahead an
hour, it being the place where the
change from central to eastern time is
made. From Detroit to Buffalo was a
night ride through southern Canada
which brought us in the morning to
Niagra Falls, where from the high sus-
pension bridge we gazed with awe for
a few moments upon this wonderful
scene, while before us in undescrib.
able majesty that vast volume of water
approached the falls at an enormous
rate of speed, and with a deafening
sound fell to the rocky bottom hund-
reds of feet below, sending up watery
spray several times the heighth Of the
falls which melting and fading in the
glistening rays of the morning sun dis
closed all the beautiful colors of the
rainbow, and below, roaring and
splashing and rushing in unspeakable
grandeur and confusion, the enormous
cataract, held in its course by the high
banks on either side, writhing, tossing
and boiling, wound its way to the
north until released into the calm and
peaceful waters of Lake Ontario. 1t is
sight such as one seldom sees. AL
though it was the third time the writ
er had viewed the falls under similar
circumstances, yet their grandeur and
beauty seem to grow with each succeed
ing visit.
An hour later we pulled into the en-
terprising city Of Buffalo, the key to
the west, now famous in all parts of
the continent for the great Pan Ameri-
can Exposition, which is attracting
immense crowds of people from all
parts of the country. After breakfast
we were conveyed to the exposition
grounds north Of the city and spent
twodays and evenings seeing the many
beautiful sights with which the
grounds abound. A lengthy descrip-
ton is unnecessary, from the fact that
every magazine and newspaper has for
several months contained descriptive
articles and photographs of this great
exposition. Suffice it to state that
with the possible exception of the
Worlds Fair at Chicago In 1893, moth
ing of the kind in this, and we believe
In any other country, has equalled it
In beauty of buildings, grounds, statu-
)ery, arrangement, color effects, etc.
The electric display at night Is the
most beautiful scene we have ever wit
messed, and no attempt that has ever,
been made at q similar display has
come near equalling it. At eight o'clock
each evening the grounds are dark ened