The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-23

III
= ed-as Will the general public-in
her experiences of travel in the East
ern part of the United States. The let
ter describing them appears in the
Auckland Weekly News. and Is quoted
herewith:
Many are the ways and long is the
journey from Buffalo to Niagara Falls
We found ourselves aboard a natty lit
tie lake steamer early one autumna
morning. Landing on the Canadian
side a speedy trolley whisked US across
green country, past bridges spanning
angry little eddies of water that In
their trivial way prepared us for the
greater force to come. The rush and
roar OF the rapids smote our ear. Sc
exciting was 1t that without inquirine
the point of destination we stepped OH
at the first landing. Turning ever sc
lightly to the left, our eyes were dazeo
by the most wonderful fall of water in
the world. I dropped my kodak and
stood transfixed. with my eyes riveted
on this 500 foot fall of tempestuous
water. 1 stood dumbly searching for
powerful adjectives to assist me in ex-
pressing what felt and what 1 saw.
small man in a very small voice say,
Say. Sue. amt that pretty?" With
this I caught my breath and said,
well, suppose whatever potent ad-
jective I might finally have found
would just as inadequately have ex-
pressed what /. felt and saw as the lit
tie mans amt 1t pretty, SueG" then
and there pledged myself hereafter to
forsake (no matter where travel might
lead me in time), the attempt to ex-
press the wonders of Gods or mans
handiwork that I might see. The fell
low who had seen and done everything
the top of the earth afforded was wise
when he boiled 1t down to one word,
"indescribable.''
We were on the Canadian side Of the
falls, and wanted a cup of tea. For
just one solid hour We inquired from
restaurant to hotel. from guide to con-
stable. and could not get It, The most
magnificent scenery in the world APP
peals to you in vain on an empty stom-
ach. Wanting that cup of tea, the
wonders of the falls appealed to me no
more than to that matter-of-fact Irish
man, who. quietly gazing on their stu
pendous fall, shrugged his shoulders.
saying, Whats to prevint?''
In summing up, it would seem that
my enthusiasm of scenic wonders is
lukewarm in comparison to my salts
faction OF the inner woman; but the
falls fall on, you know, just the same,
and all the world may see.
The twelve-hour railway ride from
Buffalo to New York City through the
continuously fertile State constantly in
terests the eye with sight of busy
towns, humming and smoking with
manifold manufactures all along the
line. Fertile, closely cultivated coun-
try SO well utilized and populated that
one expresses the hope that your lovely
perennially green tracts in New Zeal
and will some near day be as success
fully occupied and titled. Those yearn-
ing green paddocks seem dumbly to i'm
plore the hand and plough of thrifty,
land-improving immigrants; then will
New Zealand be as great country as
she is beautiful. With keenest interest
did we observe on every hand all sorts
and kinds of factories-from hook and
eye, button and boot, to chemicals and
arriages-sending their steam and
whirr into the air. One seemingly end
less chain of industries stretches from
end to end of the State of New York.
And withal, this progress. so patent to
the passing eye, does not denude the
of its picturesqueness; for ma
ture just now is painting in rich au-
tumnal tInts, glorious in crimson and
gold. russell and scarlet, browns and
yellows and leafy pinks, the almost un
touched virginia. forest. To me autumn
has all the beauty and charm of a gra-
cious middle age, merging from verdant
youth into the mellow tints Of matur-
ity. In your North Island of New
Zealand you miss this lovely color
transition of Natures garments; and
yet your changeless green is very love
Iy.
NEW YORK.