Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-26
Letter From the Tourists

Hampton Reach, New Hampshire,
After railroad journey of several
hundreds of miles taking ua across
the most prominent section of the
linted States, we finally located here
u. Hampton Beach, New Hampshire,
at the summer cottage owned by Mrs.
Tucker, who spent several weeks in
Missouri Valley with us last summer.
Mother has been after me to write q
letter for the paper, so this Is my first
effort at letter writing for publication.
We're to Jay our trip from Missouri
Valley to Chicago was without Incl
dent would he telling an untruth, iii
fact the trip was brim full of ''inci-
dents !" Leaving Missouri Valley
Thursday evening at six O'Clock we
reached Logan on time but there we
were delayed for about two hours.
i We spent the time very pleasantly
however, the Logan band being at the
depot to meet large delegation of
Royal Ilighlanders coming there to
celebrate. The band played quite 8
concert for the belated passengers
We were delayed another hour at Dun
lap on account of other wash outs:
the conductor told methe train passed
six wash outs during the night and
also passed two wrecks, one of the
wrecks, the fast mail Our train was
three hours late getting into Chicago.
We left Chicago at Four that after
noon, Friday. Our party was made up
of ten people and we had fine trip all
the way through.
When we reached Detroit, Mich late
Friday night the members of our party
saw great sight. Owing to the great
width of the Detroit river at this point
the Wabash rail road company has
been unable to construct q bridge &C.
cross the river, and instead all trains
are ferried across to the Canadian
shore in huge steam boat. The rail
road track runs right down to the
river, the Prov of the boat fits snug
into the slip. Upon the arrival of the
train there the engine and all ran onto
the boat and in very few minutes we
we're steaming off down the beautiful
river After running down the river
about four miles we landed at Wind
sor, Canada. During our trip down
the river all our party left the sleeper
and stood upon upper deck. At Wind
sor the Canadian Custom officers board.
ed the train but we we're not bothered
as we were all through passengers and
our baggage was "sealed IN transit.
| About z o'clock Saturday morning
we arrived at Niagara City. The men
had wired for hack large enough tc
carry all of our party and when We
reached the Falls, the hack was wait.
ing for us at the station. After we
had our breakfast we started out "to
do the Falls" Well-it was amusing
to see Mamma and Mrs. Chapman
when they first saw the falls First
we visited the American Falls, then to
the Horse Shoe Fall and finally to the
Canadian Falls. We had all kinds OF
arguments about which fall was the
prettiest, the Canadian or the Amer.
lean. After spending some time or
the American side we drove over into
Niagara City, Canada. The mist from
the Canadian Falls blew 80 that we
had to put up our umbrellas and then
we got soaked. We went across the
suspension bridge and it was mos,
remarkable sight just think of being
suspended in the air about 175 feet
above the churning and tumblinp
water, Just below the falls. There are
no undersupports of the bridge the
entire structure being built on nam.
moth cables strung from the opposite
shores. | wanted to go down under
the falls but some of the party object
ed. We visited Goat Island, just
) above the Falls, and the Three Sisters
Islands, reached by small suspension
bridge that spans the river above the
Fall. The women kept the poor driv
er and horses busy all forenoon, q.
they wanted to be sure.and get theil
moneys worth" We left Niagara
City Saturday evening for Albany, N
y. Imagine how disappointed W.
were when We arrived at Albany Sun
day morning to find the steamers die
not run down the Hudson Sunday
So instead of taking the daylight ride
down the Hudson as we had planned
we made the trip from Albany to New
York City by rail. The track skirt,
the Hudson for many miles so we 20,
an excellent view of the river anyway
On the way down we. passed through
the Catskill mountains and also visited
West Point
Just as soon as we got to New York
City we went direct to the Fall River
Dock, where we located our boat, Sc
cured our staterooms and then started
out to 'see the town." We took 8
street car and proceeded to see the
sights. Among other things we saw
Grants Tomb and it is certainly beau
, tiful. Going back to the boat we goi
on five wrong street cars but by perse.
vering we finally reached the boat
again. The boat on which we made
the trip to Fall River, Mass, was Gle