The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-22

"Oh. how the strife and trouble N daily life
receded from my view and lessened In the dis
tance, during the ten memorable DAYS we passed
on that enchanted ground. What voices spoke
from out the laundering water What faces Tad.
ed from the earth, looked out upon me from
its cleaning depths; what heavenly promise
glistened in those angels tears, the drops Of
many hucs that showered around, and twincd
themselves about the gorgeous arches which the
changing rainhows made. To have Ne
agara before me lighted by the sun and by the
moon. red in the days decline and gray as
evening slowly fell upon H. to look upon it
every day and wake up in the night and hear
its ceaselcss voice; this wns enough.
81 think In every quiet season now, still do
those waters roll and leap, and war and tumble,
all day long still over the rainbows spanning
them hundred feet below. still when the sun
ia on them do they glow like molten gold.
still when the day is gloomy 10 they fall like
snow or seem to crimble away like the front
OF a great chalk cliff But always docs
the mighty stream appear to die as 10 comes
down, and always from It's untathomable grave
arises that tremendous ghost Of spray and mist
which il never laid. which has mounted TINS
place with the same dread solcmnity since dark.
ness broodcd on the deep. and that first food
before the deuge-lgh'--c rushing on crea'
tion at the word Of God"
The Gorge Route Is really the most wonderful
succession Of pictures which the imagination can
encompass No words sufnce to describe 1t, no
painter could present such a cooring, no poet
could sing in tones exalted enough TO reach
the summit ~ its splendor.
You take the car al the bridge spanning the
river just below the Falls. Tickets for the round
trip Of twenty miles are sl.oo. The Canadian
side is preferable for the beglhaing OF tine Jour.
ney, since II you have come by boat, the trolley
lands you at that point. The first ten miles
r1c thq
perpendicular and far above the river, foamlng,
turbulent and perilous in its swift current. II
you like a shudder you will certainly get 1t here,
for sometimes the open car seems to speed at
the very edge of the precpce, and Took below
shows the Jagged rocks, the sloping tree.trunks
and the swift food sdown which one would
shrink from Slipping. Across the farther side,
on little track, seem TO be gliding miniature
electric cars, far away are they, so far be-
meath on the brink Of the water.
Soon you great curve over which the
car must ride, and then you certainly have a
thrill. for that curving line above the tall
est forest hernocks, and is built on trestlng--
airy and fragile enough in the distance. Some
tmd ladies clamor at this point 20 stop the
ship" as they w1nt TO get off and walk, but
as the reaches the point apparently so dan
gerous, it is scarcely realized that such a dizzy
height is spanned.
A queenstown Is the Famous broCk nohu
ment rising many feet soove the crowning
height. II il superb shaft and marks the
spot where General Brock fel Just victory
was over the Americans long and long ago
villain named Let's destroyed the first Inonu
ment. and this is one reconstructed on the same
site nearly half century since.
Your car ticket permits you 10 alight at any
point Of interest and take another car when
YOU choose. confidential word OF advice may
impulse to Chamber off when YOU come to the
Whirlpool Rapids on the Canadian side, and per
suasive voices urge you 20 descend to the rapids
via an elevator conveniently located in the ,iciu
iy 1t looks like "chute.the.chutes' thing
and it will convey you downward safely. enough,
and all for nothing. But il will cost YOU
whole lot to get back One man had to disgorge