The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-03-29
This Beautiful Land of Ours.

readers. The same, to a still greater
extent, can be said of the White Noun
tains, so popular with our New Eng
land friends; and of all those river and
lake sceneries. to which easy access can
be had 10y steamboats, or railroads.
Our grand National Park, the Y ell
lowstone, with its geysers, canyons,
waterfalls, torrents and mountainous
wonders and the Garden of the Gods
with Pixies Peak and all its other cele-
brated surroundings, are properly ex-
tolled in newspapers, pamphlets and
advertisements; but many fine scener-
les in Colorado and other Rocky Noun
tain states, not reached by railroads,
and not provided with suitable accom-
modation for pleasure and health seek
ers, are never spoken of.
If we group our natural beauties
according to states, the palm must be
given to New York, the fairest of all
our fair states and, in many respects,
the fairest in the world. Let us travel
through it, commencing on it's south
ern extremity.
There we have not only the grandest
and most important, but also the most
beautiful harbOr on earth. Coming
from the ocean and passing on our
steamer through the Narrows, we see
to our left the frowning, modern bat
Elements of Fort Wordsworth, and two
minutes later we get grand view of
the finest part of Staten Island. Close
to the water front are the villas of
Clifton immediately followed By the
little town of Stapleton, resting peace
fully against wooded mountain, in
terspersed here and there by fine
architectural country seats. To the
right we first see the structures of
COney Island, then Fort Hamilton,
stretching out into the water, and then
South Brooklyn, over-topped by the
fne trees and monuments of Green.
wood, that most beautiful of all Amer
ican cemeteries.
| Steaming up the bay, we pass
between Bedloe Island with its famous
Statue of Liberty, and Governor Island
with old Fort Williams and the Head
quarters of the Department. of the
East, leaving Ellis Island with it's ex
tensive Immigration Buildings little
farther off, to our left. Still farther
!, off, in the same direction, we see Jer
sey City, framed in by the celebrated
} Palisades. To the right is Brooklyn
, made beautiful at this point by th'
private residences on the Heights, ant
: because it has the appearance as i
= the masterpiece of Roebling's genius
f the Brooklyn Bridge, were spanning it
4 curved iron and steel arm, first from
Q tower to tower, and hence to the great
Q est city of our hemisphere. And il
s the midst, right before our eyes, is tn
f extreme point of the city itself, wit
2 its hundreds of skyscrapers, whic
e may not meet with the appreciation Q
It some people, but which certainly a.
}, ford from this point a spectacle s
r imposing, that it can never be forgo
d ten by the beholder. The beauty Of .
l. is, that it seems as if these might
10 structures of iron and stone were ri
q ing Immediately out of the water, fl
Is here at historical Castle Garden, tt
d grand Hudson, Called also Mort
% River at New York City, meets wit
10 the East River, the outlet of Lon
n Island Sound. The hundreds of pa
r ace-like ferryboats, the swift oces
W greyhounds, the many sailing vesse
is and river craft, all these combine
es make the scene animated and gran
D. In our journey up the state, we shs
Q, follow the course of the Hudson
I'd Albany. Much has been said al
IN sung of the beauties of the Rhine; al
it is in truth beautiful, superb riv'
ts The beauty consists principally in t
be romanticness and loveliness of t
rs, scenery, made still more attractive
I'D the many castles, ruins and short ben
ts of the stream, which afford an alme
ts, continuous change Of scene.
n this respect the German river b
Irt advantages over ours. Otherwise
,st Hudson is just as beautiful q