The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-17
TWO WESTERNERS ON A TOUR
DIARY OF A TRIP EAST
(By c. A. Cain.)

a. OdlH.J III
for Lincoln park. My first ride on so
large a body of water. Gibbs reared
back on his steamer chair like an old
salt and mixed a lot of nautical ex-
feeling bad anyway, while Gibbs was
extensively cheerful. Lincoln park is
a great place. Flowers and trees and
terraces and Conservatives. 1t is es-
pecially family park. The zoo there
is very fine. The tigers and lions are
as big as the elephants that travel with
a circus. Walked back to town from
the park. Gibbs still feeling fine and
walking like Weston. Me all in. I
won the pool championship from
Boyles in the afternoon while Gibbs
went out with friends. Gibbs and
Boyles insulted me at supper time by
looking for me in the bar room of the
hotel They found me there, it is
true, but that is not the point. Met
Gibbs at the Michigan Central station
red rose that bothered Gibbs a good
deal. Took train for Detroit.
Enter the Baltimore Lunch House.
Friday, Sept. 9-Reached Detroit at
1870 a. m. Coli? up there. Sun had no
more warmth than a piece of cheese.
Beautiful city. Broad streets and no
BILE buildings. w; quar-: sIed ever the
on restaurant. By the way, we quar-
relied over the same matter at Chicago
and I forgot to mention 1t. Finally
went to a Baltimore lunch house, a
place where you act as your own wait
er and get a big, good meal for fifteen
or twenty cents. After breakfast we
went to Belle Isle park, the finest park
in the world. Walking across the De-
troit river on a bridge as long as a
Kansas branch railroad we came to
the park. 1t is a fairyland of flowers
and groves and lagoons, and plants and
strange animals and broad walks and
noble bridges and everything that the
princess saw in her dreams. Millions
of dollars have been spent on that
park, and we'll spent too. Across the
estuary to the north is the British city
of Windsor with the Union Jack fly
ing from the Flagstaff of the govern
ment building. There was a girl sit
ting on a bench under the trees at the
waters edge on the point from whence
we had the Windsor view, and 1 tried
but he was bashful and lost a golden
opportunity. We walked thirty-five
miles through that park and covered
half of its wonderful vistas by noon.
We spent an hour in the aquarium, as
fine, If not as large as any in this
country. We walked back across that
bridge at a heel-and-toe gait and
Gibbs admitted for the first time on
the trip that l could walk a little. 1
was feeling better than at Chicago.
Gibbs was feeling the same. He al
ways does. We spent two hours at
dinner and another hour in argum ent
over whether or not to take a Seeing
Detroit car for trip. T baked on
the rubber-neck wagon, while Gibbs
commended that it was the only inven-
ton since Eli Whitney turned out the
cotton gin that was worthy of mention.
M nnint rnanffnY1 This not
in spirit of boasting, but simply be-
cause 1 seldom won a point on the trip.
We climbed aboard our first big
steamer together, and it was as big as
city block. The City of Cleveland,
it was called, and it was a very fine
boat. Gibbs and 1 climbed up on the
hurricane deck and were proud and
glad. We got real chummy up there.
When the steamer cleared the Detroit
river and entered Lake Erie at sunset
we were still on the hurricane deck
drinking in the new experience. But
after awhile it got cold up there and
we went in to lunch. Late at night 1
went out on that deck again. 1t was
cold and stormy and the wind blew a
gale. 1t looked bad out there and 1
ducked. 1 went to our stateroom and
tried to alarm Gibbs by telling him
how far we were from land and at the
mercy of the elements, but he has no
imagination at all. He advised me to
go to bed and to sleep. did
Saturday, Sept. 10-The boat
reached Buffalo at o'clock a. m and
we hiked ashore in a hurry and went
up town to find time table on trains
to and from Canada and Vermont that
would connect US at Albany Sunday
night. Gibbs tore the cover off sew
eral dumb waiter time tables in his
hurry, but could find nothing satisfac-
tory. We finally took a solemn oath
to meet at Albany at midnight Sunday
night, and Gibbs boarded a 1910 train
for Canada. The parting was awe
some Left alone in Buffalo 1 went to
the postoffice and did not get any mail.
Had been in Buffalo before, so did not
'gawk" around any, or even think of
going out to the Niagara falls. Took
the 1 o'clock train for Albany.
Reached the New York capital at 6
o'clock, 800 miles in five hours via
the Empire State Express, N. Y. Cen
trail route. great train. After a
shave and some supper I caught a
D. & H. train for Rutland, VT, where
train and every mile it travelled north
| it got colder. I nearly froze to death.
In Heart of Green Mountains.
Sunday. Sept. III spent the day in
one of the most beautiful little cities in
| this country Rutland il in the heart
| of the Green mountains and there is
no more delightful place in the early
fall. Took the trolley car up the valley
to CaStleton. Had dinner with Cousin
Margaret and her mother and in the
afternoon drove out to Lake Bomba-
zine. The silver birch and the brown
leaves of the naples made a fret-wcrk
finish for the green of the woodland.
The day was perfect. Old Dobbin drew
| the shay along at snairs pace and I