Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-10
Above the Hay Fever Line.
Fern Cliff Cottage, Thorn Mt. Parl

JdChSOu, IN. H., oepl. 4, lSOl
Dear Courier: Here we are in the
White Mountains, well above the hay
fever line, enjoying, each waking hour,
one of the grandest views in Ameri-
ca. A half mile straight down the
mountain side in the valley at our
feet, lies the village of Jackson with
it's half dozen big summer hotels. To
the north, almost twenty miles away,
MT. Washington rears it's head in ma
jestic grandeur, with the lights in the
hotel on it's summit plainly visible at
night. The Presidential range of the
White Mountains stretches away to
the south, and more beautiful piano.
rama of nature have never gazed up
on. The Rockies are bigger, grander,
and in some respects more impressive
but nothing in nature or art could be
more beautiful.
Since leaving home, we have travel
ed many miles by land and water be-
fore reaching this haven of rest in the
heart Of the White Mountains. With
a fuller and broader comprehension of
the greatness of America than ever
before possessed, l will endeavor to
present to Courier readers a descrip-
ton of some of the sights which we
have seen and the experiences which
we have enjoyed. Though all our
dourneying has been in America much
of it has been on foreign soil; for days
we scarcely heard a word of English
spoken and found it difficult to realize
that We were not in France itself TAX
ing the Grand Trunk railway at Chi
cago at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon, we
crossed the line into Canada at Port
Huron, Michigan, and at z o'clock in
the morning were at Toronto, the cap
ital and principal city in the Province
of Ontario. Here the train makes
stop of four hours, apparently for no
purpose except to give the through
traveller an opportunity to see the cap
ital city. The drive to the Parlia-
ment building and the several impor-
tant colleges that are located in To-
ronto is we'll worth the time and ex-
pense Toronto is so near the border
ed States than any other Canadian
city.
AZ Montreal.
Down along the shore of the St.Law-
renee river speeds our train past the
famed Thousand Islands, and at Z
o'clock in the evening we pull into
Montreal city of 100000 inhabitants
and the emtropolis of Canada One
day of sight seeing here is all too
short, giving time for little more than
trip to the top of Mount Royal, which
was first seen by civilized man in
1885, when the intrepid explorer.
Jacques Cartier landed as th.s spot
and gave the name Mount Royal
(MontreaD to this bold promintory
which for countless ages has stood as
land mark on the shores of the ST.
+ Lawrence river. The city of Montre-
al is built on the plane that stretches
from the foot of the mountain to the
river. From the summit of the noun
tain, which is now preserved and beau
titled as a municipal park, is present
ed one of the noblest prospects in all
America. 1t was with feeling akin
to reverential awe that we gazed from
this lofty height down upon the very
spot, where, over ESQ years ago. lit
tie band of pious priests, sanity nuns
and brave soldiers landed to plant the
little grain of Christian civilization
which has borne such wonderful frui.
tition in this western hemisphere.
Then, in the spot now teemirg with