Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-06

about l % miles from the falls. We
got posted, took a trolley to Niagara
Falls, where we got on an automobile
which issues COUPON tickets for the
trip around the falls. AS they have
a large mum Der of motors this method
is very popular, for you can get oft at
any interesting point, take all the
time you want for the view and get |
on the next motor that comes alcng |
when you are ready. This gives one
a splendid opportunity to see every
thing with comfort and speed, end |
the fare is only 25c for the round |
trip, you can hire a carriage from 81
up, its generally up we are told.
After seeing all we wanted at the falls
we had dinner and then took the
trolley trip down the gorge of the
Niagara river. Being advised to go
down the Canadian side we took that
route. This is also coupon trip, so
you can stop off at the numerous
stopping places of special views and
get on the next trolley you wish to
take, all for 81 for the round trip of
% miles.
You start on the American side.
cross the bridge just below the falls,
which they cross very slowly so you
get fine view of the falls from the
middle of the river, then you 60 up
on the Canadian side about d mile
till you are opposite the Horseshoe
falls, here another stop is made for a
good view, then the Car goes around
loop and down the gorge along the
rapids on the high cliffs of Niagara
river. The cliffs are IN some places
about 300 or more feet above the
rapids, and the road often runs with
in few feet of the edge, thus giving
splendid opportunity to get the
magnificent scenery en- route. We
went down on the Canadian side un-
til we got to Suspension bridge,
where we crossed to the American
side, then up close to and in some
places only few feet from the water,
having IN the meantime descended
the grade of 800 or more feet, going
up this we face the rapids which is
quite an advantage, which is better
understood if you know that this line
Is paralleled 10y another trolley which
goes down on the American side; but
whose track is further from the water IS
edge than the one we took, and there
fore really requires a rubber neck.
Its no use trying to describe the
tremendous falls and rapids, pictures
can not even convey any idea of
their force and greatness.
| Going over to Canada and coming
back, custom house officers of both
countries board the trolley and take
look for smugglers. The same thing
was done at Detroit. from there our
route was through Canada to the
town of Suspension Bridge. Our
hand baggage was tabled but not ex-
amined nor we're we otherwise ques-
TONED or molested.
Well we saw all we wanted of Mia
CARA Falls in day and resumed our
| trip down the east shore of the Bud-
son from Albany to New York, where
we arrived at about a. M, crossing
from WeehaWken on the ferry. We
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ed at the New Criterion just opened
two or three weeks ago, and had a
room occupied fur the first time,
everything first class, hot and cold
water, and an electric fan and tele-
phone In every room, bath, etc, a
strictly modern house, quiet and not
near enough to the elevated trains to
hear them. Its down on 40 st. W.,
near Broadway, close to all the
theaters and two blocks from the
Times building.
AS we only had four days before
sailing, we had to hustle to see as
much as possible, which we did
by trolley mostly, using the subway,
surface and elevated. They call the
elevated LIS, but they ought to call
the subways HIS, for they are hot
with bad air, but they get over the
distance. Here is where you learn
to get move on, but as we learned
the business going and coming from
the Cliff House, we did not have to
be initiated. The LIS and subways
sometimes do not stop ten seconds for
passengers to get off and Oh, we
timed them a numbe of times the
longest was twenty seconds. Gee but
how the people skip along. No old
people travel that way if they can
help it. We took a ride to Kings
bridge, Bronx Park. across Brooklyn
bridge to Brooklyn, Central Park,
Museum of Fine Arts, the east side
and the Ghetto or New JerusaIum on
foot going along the Bowery for ten
or twelve blocks; also attended a !
recital of the Tellharmunim, which |
produces all kinds of musical tunes
by means of over 120 dynamos which |
give alternative currents of different |
speeds OF frequency of vibration. 1t
has a key board and stops like an
organ. but no reeds. strings OF other
means of producing sounds such as
We see in other instruments. can
not go into details as they are too