Putnam patriot., 1908-09-11
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ahead to the diner. just as We reach Thousand Islands Junction Meals were Ia carte and no better service could be asked indeed. this feature of the Grand Trunk : through trains vice k 4neNeel,d. Late in the afternoon We reach Toronto Il splendid American city located across the Canadian bor der. clean. np-to date. model mnnie
 tmiifY enjoying the advantage of Il superior location and every ueationa. hu.iness, religious and social faeility. AioHe the northern shore of Lake On tario and famed bY the cooling breeze=, We afe off Tor Hamilton. Ont. another thriving Canadian city, II miles from Niagara falls. From this point for an hour n mere. We ride through q more uneven country much like New England. and then again the tyPieai level land and the great fruit growing belt et Ontario Thousands of acres are given oyer te the production of tfmt H. eNcel= lent as grows on the American continent. Next il iS London. Ontario. uur ut the principal divisional points of the Grand
 Trunk system Eenf, sunday evening our train feli@ into the eaily decorated town. cnefa~.,.d m thc celebration ot lts eeutehnial and We get twenty mitl
 ute stop aaer. which Nc Use to good i advantage in exercising and mingling with the holiday throag~ at the station l Three hours mofe ef ri,lina brings us te one af the wonders of modern engineer l ing Salnla tstanel--iinler the St l Clair River.
 From Snfuia on the Canadian side
 to Port Huron on the American
 through this great hofc stretches the
 stcel bands of the Grand Trunk. unit 1 ing the uion and the Dominion. An
 electric locomotive pulls our train into 1 this great artificial cavity. Down an
 casy grade, but always down. Ne ga.
 Scor.~ of iuraniessent bulbs light the
 great vauted passage. it> arches sup
 poreer anal reinforced bY giant steel
 gifders. Ne watch with interest the | construction ot the giant tutse. nutil
 We enefgs on he American side. whore
 We afe reniiee,s,l chat t k au hour ! earlier than II was en the other side af
 The tlset, and hack gu the watches tef
 out daN has lcngtheHea. All msht long
 We mde through Michigan. anl earlA
 morning finds Us at Seand Bend, lua--
 and three hours from ehirago, where l WI arrive at : a. m. The cVer present
 and always obliging porter hands doWn
 our luggage and Nc are by transfer
 hts lrou the Dearborn street station 1 to the lnion station, and tortN five l minutes later We are heading sout Invest
 ward across Illinois on the famous
 {" praife state Express af the thl
 eara X Alton. to our destination ln
 Missouri
 To our party of Nutmeg staters the
 nearly three hundred miles separating 1 Chicago and st. Louis is an area where
 we gain true realization of the state nscnt that "cofn is king. \ few
 miles out et the greatest city ln the
 West NC enter the corn belt. comfort
 ahlv seated under the a~ning over the
 observation section on the rear of our
 gar. we are gwen panorama e1 corn
 fields al forty miles an hour, Two 1 hour. af this creates an impression that
 corn must he one of the big assets ot
 the state One hundred miles more ot 1 prairie one hundred miles nj eorn. East. i west. north. south, always corn with | the horizon the boundary line. We ge l back into the ear to read Chicago ] daily for halt an hour. The first ar l ticle te catch the eye is the carreat crop ! report. showing the condition es corn 1 in the state. We yet corn for dinner. 1 and tho Western diners at the next
 
 ] into the chair ear We go for little 1 past prand.al slumh~f. kitfnl sleep ls l panet uated with gimp>es af i.oao acre l cern fields Corn begins te gct an our l nerves. You mention t ta d fellow | traveller, and he smltingls assures Noa l that Ne sve anls sklrting the eSlre ei
 the corn country. and thfs hig state k
 only ane ef the group that contributes to this enormous erae. Between Rleom.
 ingtan and Springfield We run fcr ses { eral hours through the cat country. l. 1 tx the harvesting season. and the flelds are scenes af bu~tilng activity. Reap CTS ant binding machines, power driven. l are telling acFvs ei the yellow grain. Powerful thrcshsag machines hna1 away and streams of ehah shsAat into the air. contributing to monster heaps ef this material as big as barn. Springfield the state capital, cur tram makes in tho middle afternoon, and af