Smyrna times., 1905-08-23
SMYRNA MANS 1000 MILE
TRIP IN THE MIDDLE WEST
INTERESTING VACATION RAMBLE" TO THE
MIDDLE WEST AND THE GREAT LAKES.

Plnsburg; Detroit; Spring Lake; MackInac
Island; SauIt Ste Marie and Many Other
Places of Interest Visited.
Leaving Harrisburg crossing the |
beautiful Susquehsnna we approach |
the ascent of the Allegheny Mountains,
where now and then a glimpse of
beauty fits by, but perhaps the only
scene of note is the Horse Shoe Curve,
for in climbing the Mountains, OBJ
structions to view are thick. The i'm
mense number of passing trains keep
up such din as to force your notice.
In six hours ride at least one hundred
trains laden with coal, merchandise,
grain, etc., were passed. Grouped to-
gether they would extend twenty-five
miles, and yet this is but part of the
tonnage rolling over this road every
hour, day and night the same thing is
going on. 1t will not be long before
six tracks will be required to handle
the traffic of the Pennsylvania Road
between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
Johnstown the scene of the awful
catastrophe few years agois reached,
but no wail-mark now stands calling
to mind that agonizing distress which
so suddenly came upon the unfortun-
ate City, and which stirred the hearts
of the Continent in deepest sympathy.
Altoona the home of the great Car and
Locomotive Works of the Pennsylvania
Road, perhaps the largest of the kind
in the world, is soon passed and the
train soon runs into the fiaring glare
of the Great Coke Ovens, which an
nounces we are soon to see the great
Steel City whose fame has reached all
lands.
Pittsburg.
Who shall describe it? 1t would
take a Carlyle to word picture it
The stream of fiery tongues shooting
upward from the torrents of swapping
molten metal are ascending from 6
thousand blasts which never go out
The dense pail of smutty smoke mixed
with lurid light rolling like storm
clouds, make Vesuvian like picture
of horror and grandeur. The very all
seems surcharged with electric energy
as if produced by the mighty torrents
of seething metal which is fashioned
into every form of iron and steel, with
out which, the world would be as crude
as in the time of Abraham. No CITY
on this Continent is more widely
known, not only for its Magnates will
millions, but for what is of far greater
- Importance, the reaching of it's pro
ducts to every hamlet and villag
throughout the Globe. A night on
Michigan Central Sleeper and W
reach
Detroit.
Founded by the French in 1870, o
Detroit River clear as crystal, seve
miles from Lake st. Clair, eightee
miles from Lake Erie it is a mos
charming city. Thirty five years az
its population was eighty thousand
now nearly three hundred Thousand
Some of its streets are two hundre
feet wide adorned with handsome con
mercial buildings, beautiful resiC
ences, monuments and Parks, wit
wide side walks and noble shade tree
Here are great Stove Works, Au
Car and Medicine Works, ship yar'
aud all kinds OF manufactures. II
finest of city electric car systems AT
inter-urbsn roads, running mai
miles in every direction. The riv
docks are not a mess of nastiness sue
as is usual in Eastern Cities, but a
kept clean, fresh and inviting. T.
beautiful river is thing of Joy. II
great feet of steamers, yacht
launches constantly flying on its Gle
waters is a scene to fill the mind wi
delight. Within a mile is Canada, a
for six cents one may take a "tl
abroad" and enter foreign countl
have luggage examined, return, ha
il re-examined by American CustC
Officers and all, within one hour. Z
City Traction Co. provide spec
tourist cars, with guide to explain, a
a twenty-five mile trip through [
principal thoroughfares may be ms
in few hours for a quarter. AS Il
is one of the most effective ways
showing the points of a city in
short time; it is amazing that our E
tern Cities do not adopt 1t. 1t il
capital advertisement and must C
tainly rebound to the advantage
Detroit, for even the dullest cam
fail to be impressed and go av
sounding its praises. Judging fir
the number of fine church edifces
Presbyterians are strong in Detr
the Episccpalians have one or two
churches, but the Catholics have
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