Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-30
TO BOSTON
BY EASY STAGES
OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLIGHTS,
OF THE giRDMEN AT
CHICAGO.
NIAGARA FALLS GREAT NATURAL Sight
Ths One Thousand ISLANDS Of IN.
St. Lawrence
s55s River.
When a boy AAaais Of Iowa

II buchanan
Sor:sr ed .e OF the Campton settle
Ment. There were no houses for
half a dozen miles Or more on tn
n gently rolling prairies to the sout
an. west Of orr parental home
@s There were biz sloushs and small
ponds in those prairies. where th
viii. foul. the ducks, the geese an
the sandhill cranes built their sum
mer nests Matched their broods an,
taught them how to fly. The youns
crlnes do not learn how to fly unit
they are nearly full grown and manl
# a tine have watched the two olt
cranes make a run with their liz
l3s 5s awkward young ones and fail in tn II
efforts to get them UP into the air
After considerable /, practice til.
young cranes. by taking a long run
Ling start, would be able to risc
from the ground. circle about fer !:
Y short time. frequently careenina
y from one side to the other, and fin,
ally allght with another long run Of
thefground.
IS ! watched the numerous ayiators
On the lake front in Chicago last
Wednesday, their movements fcrzi
lily reminded ne OF the flights o.
n the young cranes, especially. Whti
they neared the earth for the pur
\ pose OF lighting. The birdmen ar;
certainly learning to fly the same
as the big birds learn
Ever since the days of Earus
Green and probably long before chat
time, ambitious toys have been say
ing, the birds can fly and why
4 cant II" And now this question o
e the ages has been answered, and
answered in the affirmative. Mer5
certainly can fly and while the!
still start and finish their flights
4 as 4saWkWardly as the young cranes
they can, when fairly above, tn
changing air conditions near h
i earth's surface. rise to grsa.el.
heights and travel through the al
greater speed sthan amy sand hill
{: I. crane ever did. | saw half dozei
or more of these aviators fly, seem
ingly in any direction they W shed
through the changing winds and fal
Z ing rain Of a fierce thunder shower,
ss55 The navigation of the air is al
ready an accomplished fact. Some
of the battles of the next great war
may be fought above the earth as.
we'll as above the clouds. In any
event flying sauadrons of the air WI
!. keep the commanders of each army
duly advised of every movement OF
the enemy.
After watching the flights of the
birdmen a. Chicago until we were
fully satisfied that the navigation
ssof the air was an ACCOMPLISHED
4 fact. although not as yet a yer,
safe mode of travel, we continued our
proposed easy stage trip to Bcs
ton, making our second stop at Ma
CARA Falls. When l was .hera ono
before, the Pan-American ExEosi ion
was being held at Buffalo and al
that time attributed the number OF
/ visitors at the Falls to the rroxim
ity OF the exposition; but the volume
Of visitors like the flow of he wa
ter, seems never decreasing and
never ending. Thescars on the
Gorge Route still run every ten min
utes, still charge a dollar for tho
twelve mile trip and are still crowG,
u e. to their utmost capacity from
early morning until dark. A story is
told about an elderly lady, who seat
led herself where she had coed
view of the Falls and kept repeating,
where does all this water come
I FROM" The continued volume os
falling water is, without question. one
Sct the wonders of the world; but
the never ending stream of visitors
is a good companion piece for tbs
great natural phenomenon.
The Niagara gorge is about I
miles long and connects the Falls
with Lake Ontario. 1t has dur
ing the ages, been excavated through
solid rock by the flow of the water.
/ The car line on the Canadian sd
runs along close to the top Of the
gorge apd passengers are given stop
over privileges at picturesque and
/, historic places, one Of which is the
battlefield on Queenstown Heights.
A beautiful monument more than 100
feet in height, commentaries the
memory of General Brock, COM
mander of the English forces, who
was killed in the battle at this
place during the war of 1872. Ths
car line crosses to the American side
Z at Lewiston. and most of the way
back to the Falls the track is down
near the waters edge, which in
many places looks more like heav-
Ing. tumbling banks Of snow than it
does like water. Language when at
the pen point of one of its past mas
tiers. is still very imperfect vehicle
with which to convey description
4 OF the whirlpool, the rapids and the
Falls. and in this letter shall at
tempt no further description.
Our next stop after leaving Mia
CARA Falls was at Toronto, On
tario. 1t does not require much
travelling experience to readily d:s-
I cover that the metropolis of Ontario
is a more than ordinarily quiet place
after SHUTDOWN The best retail sec
tons Of the city are but dimly light