Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-02-12
Graphic Description Of
the Scenery
And the Varied Incidents Of the
Trip.

Mrs. W. I. Chamberlain, of Hud-
son, editor of the Ohio Farmer, has
just written the following interesting
description OF a mid-winter trip down
the Ohio and mississippi:
These notes will be "from"--that
is away from--our farm. When one
gets SO he cannot sleep well onights,
when men should sleep" and ICON.
sequently) is dull by day when men
should work." it is sign that he is
over worked, or nervous, or both. l
suppose it was overwork-officew
farm work. and the clerical work con-
uected with shipping in small lots to
buyers all over the land the various
crops and products of the farm.
Yes, 1 was tired, and previous exper-
ience has seemed to show that long
steamboat ride In the most restful
-northward by lake in summer, south
ward by river or sea in winter. And,
SO. after quiet nights rest in our
berths from home, and Il day in the
parks and the ZOO" and the art gal.
lerles, etc, of Cincinnati. we took a
river steamer for Memphis, Tennessee,
to visit friends near that city, in.
tending, later, to 80 further south. l
wonder that this boat travel on the
rivers conthward is not more popular,
especially for farmers in Ohio and ad.
jacent states in the zero belt. They
need rest and recreation and can take 1t
better in winter than any other time.
This kind of travel is quiet, comfor-
table, lazy, If you please, entertain
ing, amusing, instructive ,and exceed
ingly cheap-"cheaper than to stay
at home" for the fare, meals, berth,
parlor privileges and scenery you pay
about 81 per day--less than you pay
for board at frst-class hotel, less
than it costs to run a home estab-
llshment!
: In order the better to take OH local
freight and passengers, the boats "lie
by" much of the time at night, con.
suming five. days for the 800 miles
from Cincinnati to Memphis, and so
you float gently, by daylight chiefly.
down the Ohio and Mississippi, from
zero gradually into the sunny South
into the soft sunshine OF temperate
zone in winters
The scenery down the constantly
broadening Ohio river is, in it's quiet
way, very beautiful, the rounded. for.
est-clnd hills rising, in rapid succession
and varying contour. to height Of
from 800 TO 600 feet on either side,
as your steamer glides over the placid
waters, Here are quiet homes along
the valley and slightly ones upon the
SUBMITS with their outlook for miles
up and down the river aud the dis.
tant sight Of passing steamers and
barges TO keep them silent company.
Hour by hour as you glide on toward
the Gulf of Mexico you are more and
more impressed with the increasing
size-nay, vastness--of the lovely Ohio
river. At Pittsburg, Marietta, CIncln-
natl, even In winter | t does not i'm,
press you with its vastness, but simply
as a tine river; but as you move south.
ward and II swallows up IN succession
the waters of the Big Miami, the
Wabash, the Cumberland, the Tennes-
see and scores of smaller rivers and
streams that together drain parts Of
eight or ten great states, from the
Alleghanies to the divide of the Mis-
slssippi--the Ohio becomes mighty
river, a mile wide In many places un.
til at Cairo, where ID joins the Mis-.
sissippi, 1t is far broader and more
majestic than "the Father of Waters"
himself. When we passed the junction
of the two the Ohio evidently carried
a much larger volume Of water than