The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-01-04

T. 4. Davis Eajoying the Sights Of the
Largest Citieo-visited In Wash
ington, D. c.

Editor Herald: According to promise,
I will give through the columns of your
paper short sketch of my trip from
the Pacific coast eastward. l have had
indeed very pleasant trip thus far.
The first places of Importance which l
visited were st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Both are striving for the mastery and
without doubt show the push of the
middle or western towns. But l think
st. Paul has the better of it. l spent
three of four days in Chicago-in other
words the Babylon of America-Chicago
stands in the gateway of the east and
west, as Babylon to the nations around
it. It's merchants stand alone for gain;
wickedness is in a magnified form in this
place. l visited many places of interest
while there. Among them I shall men
ton the art building: l have always had
an ambition to study antiquity. Here
one can get a glimpse of the old world,
thousands of discoveries in the orient
have been reproduced, and without doubt
are just as they stand today in Egypt,
and other parts of the old continent.
saw several Egyptian mummies: one
in particular that had never been UNI
wound since the day that it was embalm-
ed thirty-five hundred years ago and an
Egyptian coffin that was made 1000
years ago or about the time of Abraham.
The wood is yet in a sound condition;
cloth that was found inside, notwith-
standing the lapse of forty centuries is
yet intact and shows the twill of the
goods. In the museum is seen the second
best preserved mummy in the world. He
was an Egyptian warrior; he stood near
the king, and there can be seen on his
forehead scar gotten in combat with
an elephant that was attacking the king.
After this the king built him mansion
near his own.
1 also saw the head of the wife of
Pharaoh and mother of Rameses I.
So much honor was shown her at her
death that her husband had her face
overlaid with gold, which still remains,
a custom that prevailed among the
Egyptians at one time for a period of
200 years.
My next place was Buffalo, but on
ly stayed for short time; then up the
Susquehanna river to Binghampton, N.
Y. 1t is indeed beautiful to pass through
New York and the New England states,
and see the farms as they scale up the
mountain side. All seem to be checked
off into rectangular sections from ten to
fourty acres in tract. But must not
fail to mention my carriage drive around
and among the great Niagara Falls. I
will not at this time attempt to give in
detail its grandeur and beauty. 1t will
suffice to say that without doubt it is
viewing the worlds greatest natural Won
der to stand and see the rainbow colors
as they change from shape to shape and
glisten in the sunlight. The great
whirlpool rapids are nearly a mile in
length and $50 feet deep where Captain
Webb lost his life trying to swim some
twenty years ago. While was in Yer
mont l experienced the coolest weather
that l had seen since / left the central
states. On the 18th it was twenty de-
grees below zero. They say last winter
it went as low as fifty-two below zero, l
visited both the capitals of New York
and Vermont. New York has the finest
capital in the United States. 1t was
built at cost of $27O,O0O0 600 There |
saw the original emancipation procla-
nation written by Abraham Lincoln in
his own handwriting.
l must say after being connected with
my business for more than twenty years
that it mas been great help to me to
visit the great marble and granite quar-
ries in Vermont. While there / was
treated as king, shown through their
quarries and given every courtesy that
could be shown to man.
need not try to express in language
the magnitude of the great city of
New York. But stop and think: that ont
of all the people that live in these Uni
ted States, one in every 25 lives in the
city of New York Tonight l am in
called on Congressman
Jones and Cushman and find them trying
to bring honor to the people who sent
them here. was in the top of the
monument today and visited
many places of interest. The library
of congress is said to be the finest build
ing in the world, and no doubt is. I
visited today the old theatre building
where Abraham Lincoln met his fate at
the hands of the villain Wilkes Booth,
and also the house where he was carried
and afterwards died ! also saw the
spot where the woman, Mrs. Suvalt and
four others were hung by the neck and