The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-10
TALKS OF THE EXPOSITION
DR.. Seymour Tells of His Recent Visit
10 Buffalo, and New York City.
MANY WONDERFUL IMPROVEMENTS
Tells of New Scientific instruments Per
tanning to His Line
of Work.

remember on my last visit to Houston
telling the readers Of The Post something
about cur Omaha Exposition. which had
then just closed
During the past summer have had the
pleasure of spending nearly two months IN
Buffalo and New York City. combining
business with pleasure, and / assure you
that while am essentially Western man
| Chicago having been my home before GO
Ing to Nebraska l must confess that it
does one good to visit the greatest city
in the world. where we find a concentra-
ton of all that is interesting and scientific
to one following n special line of study.
speak, Of course, Of New York City. but
| before mentioning this part of my trip.
\ must tell you of some Of the features OF the
/ Exposition which impressed me the most.
| Buffalo Is certainly an ideal spot for mid.
/ summer tourist, as hot weather Is scarcely
known there.
| We left Nebraska about the middle of
| June going to Minneapolis. one Of the most
beautiful cities in this country, and from
! there north to Duluth, where we took one
/ Of the largest boats now plying between
! there and Buffalo and spent the next four
! days on tue water, A more delightful trip
/ could rot well be Imagined, us the weather
! vas delightfully."- cool and the services on
the boat equal to the finest ocean steamers.
| We passed through the 500 st. Marie
/ anal. through which am told more ton.
mage passes each year In eight months than
enters the Port Of London. Our next stop
| was at the historic Island of Macinac.
/ whore we were granted a half days ram
/ bic over the most beautiful island ! have
| ever had the pleasure of visiting. Here
/ puulppr n IN CT
homes, Mr.. Cu1ahay (of the kidnapping
fame being among the number. The island
was formerly used as a military headquar.
/ tiers ana teens with historic events, being
/ taken first by the French, then the Eng.
lish and afterward by the United States,
/ The balance OF our trip took us through
/ Detroit and Cleveland, where We were
| given a short time 10 visit each city. We
arrived in Buffalo in the early morning of
/ the fourth day as fresh as If We mad
| stepped from our own home and ready to
/ would be difficult to surpOss the electric
/ teathres oi our Omaha Exposition, but
/ with the natural advantages combined
/ with experience, and the fact that many Of
the exposition officials were Omaha men,
! y is not surprising that the Pan-American
/ Exposition eAcelleq anything that has ever
/ been undertaken In tue way OF electrical
/ displays. ! know that you have all heard
/ this remarked SO often that il must be an
/ old story, and as you have all doubtless
! visited some exposition In your life | will
moi tire YOU with detalls of the Que just
| closed. 1t is sufficient to say thatEt was
next In order to the Worlds Fair held in
Chicago and In many ways surpassed It,
Niagara Falls being the all-supreme
| power which at twenty niles distance sup
Piled the entire amount Of force necessary
10 move the machinery on the ground and
supplied all lights. To one who has never
made the trip II is certainly marvellous to
note the great strides that have been made
along scientific liueS and the wonderful i'm
provemcuts In many branches which are so
new that we out here have hardly heard
of tuem for example. ! had the pleasure
of inspecting an Instrument recently com.
pleted which would allow "even a novice"
TO examine carefully, a magnited image of
the interior of the human eve, and, in
fact so vivid are the details brought out by
this wonderful instrument that with the
aid of camera a perfect photograph of
the interior of the human eve can be made
giving the patient visible Illustration Of
their own ailment which heretofore has
tcCu a sealed book so all except the most
sh led specialist | am glad to say that /
valuable Instruments, which | will have In
my office and will give my patients the dd-
ton. But, to continue my trip. What ar
forded me one of the greatest pleasures
was the ride down the beautiful Hudson
River. We proceeded leisurely from Buf,
falo TO Albany, stopping at Rochester and
other points OF interest and took what is
called the day boat from Albany to New
finest trips In the East. The river is dot
ted with prosperous towns and In the dis
lance can be seen the beautiful Catsklll
Mountains whore so many New England
people spend their summer months. Farther
down we passed "Old Historic" West Point,
and in the early evening arrived at Twenty
third street in New York City, and are
soon comfortably settled In one OF the de-
lightful hotels facing Madison Square. AS
many Houston people have visited New
York and are familiar with the water trip,
| will not do more than mention a single
Instance which to me seemed quite n trag-
edy. After spending some hours In the lee
ture room (where | was taking special
course In eye work., II was very refreshing
to go to the Battery and board one OF the
numerous excursion boats which takes one
cut TO sea. 1t was about the last Of August
when we were on one Of these excursions to
Long Branch that passed large ship
which was just leaving New York en- the
long journey 10 Japan and was heavily
laden with oil and other merchandise. Evil
IDENTIFY some accident must have occurred
while she was within dozen miles Of
Sandy Hook, as we noticed a small wrea tn
of smoke rising above her mast, but did not
think seriously Of the matter and she was
soon left behind However, our return
TO the city In the evening we found this
magnificent boat, which had seemed almost
q thing of life, beached on Sandy Hook and
nearly submerged In water, the masts being
burned to the deck and the cargo almost a
total loss 1t seemed that after the accl-
dent the boat was soon In flames and the
crew barely escaped with their lives after
| getting the boat Into shallow water.