Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-08-11
ng the hot days of q Chicago summer.

tended to visit the stockyards and pack
ing houses, but on the morning after our
arrival the butchers went ont on strike
and business came to standstil. 1t is
TO be hoped, for the sake Of the Western
c ttlemen that the differences will soon
be adjusted and work resumed.
At3p M Thursday we boarded the
Grand Trunk express for New York, and
after nights ride through the southern
point of Canada, reached Niagara Falls
At 7 o'clock. Here we spent three hours
visiting every point. of interest at this
world famed resort. Truly it is grand
sight, description Of which yon will
find in your school books Descriptions
are written and read, but to realize it's
lmmpnsity one must see 1t.
At 10 80 we took the Black Diamond
Express over the Lehigh Valley road
passing through Taughannock Falls,
where our former ellow-townsman, W.
VI. Douglas, now resides The country
around Ithica Lake is one of the pYet
tiest and most picturesque we have
passed through and our friend Lindsay
has already chosen it for home when
he makes his stake in Oregon. How
quickly a cold Eastern winter would
drive him back to Rhea Creek Crops
are very light in this section of the state,
due, it is said, to cold, backward
spring. In fact we have seen nothing
on our journey that would compare with
the fine fields of wheat on the reserva
on near Pendleton. Oregon against
the world
We reached New York at 10 Is p. M,
and as we had to report at the Cunard
wharf at O'Clock the next morning, we
saw nothing of the city. On our return
we will likely spend few days there,
What busy scene presented itself at
the steamer dock next morning as we
alighted from the street car. The Cam
pania, one of the swiftest of the Atlantic
greyhounds, lay quietly at the wharf,
while people on foot and in every kind
of vehicle on earth, filed into the large
warehouse. All the baggage the trans
fer companies had delivered during the
early hours of the morning, stood in
rows waiting for the owners to appear
with their checks. AS soon as identified
three labels were placed on each pack
age, one stating destination-Liverpool
or Queenstown-one stating whether
wanted on voyage, and the other the
large initial letter of owners name.
(This last label is to facilitate the hand
ling at Liverpool, as the baggage is
taken out and arranged on the wharf
during the night, the steamer arriving
about midnight. la the morning one
knows in what section to find his bag
gage when the customs inspector comes
around When labeled the baggage is
hurried aboard, for in one hour the
twelve hundred passengers and their
baggage ust be aboard. Dlzens of
express wagons come al ng at this late
lour with their loads of trunks and one
would hardly think it possible that out
If The apparent disorder everything
could be got aboard in so short time.
Excited women rush along looking for
trunk that hasn't vet been delivered
~ the traffic company, men swear be-
ause the artist with brush and label
ant attend to everyone at the same
ime, while the sailors rush their trucks
ver the toes OF anyone standing in their
,ay. Gradually the pile grows less and
y the time the gong sounds all are on
oard and the visitors rush ashore The
ist gangplank drops on the wharf just
inc minutes after the scheduled time
)r leaving-a feat one would have con-
dered impossible half an hour before.
(To be Continued
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