Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-07-19

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/ to form another channel. 1t will take
millions of dollars. Two great ridges
of exeavated limestone rocks line the
channel now, which is being walled uu
to make the work permanent. gBob. 10
! park is green, delightful place for an
outing. Two thousand were on our boat.
Ii was small crowd compared with
some boat-loads which left the city for
the water, the green trees and grass.
the picnic dinner, the bathing, boating,
swings, merry-go-rounds, and so forth
of the pleasure resorts near Detroit.
Indeed, the people of Detroit are for
tunate IN having beautiful city, a fine
river and most picturesque surround
lngs. Finding | could reach Buffalo by
boat, cutting the train fare about half
and avoiding the dust of travel, | de-
MED myself the pleasure of seeing the
last days exhibition of the great avia-
ton meet and left Detroit at 5 o'clock.
Oh, for space to describe in detail
the many little things, incidents, con-
versations, characters, scenes, which
go to make travelling interesting to me.
There was the dago on the boat with
hat drawn down over his eyes, who
moved around sneakishly, eying every
thing left unprotected or apparently so
for few moments; the sport, full of
the real heady stuff, anxious to bet six
ty dollars to ten dollar bill that Moran
would whip Wolgast, who sat down on
my chair when leftit few moments,
and, head in hands, seemed at the bot
tom of misery. shook him to stir him
up. Without lifting his head, he said,
''Well, well, well, WE'LL What do you
want " You've got my chair, +" said.
he mumbled incoherently and sat on. 1
moved my belongings, ''You are TAX
ing 1t very goodnaturedly, remarked
young man who sat nearby. "Well
what's the use of taking it any other
way" | said. THE only thing is, /
don't like to give my chair up to booz-
err" He overheard me and said, I'm
not boozer; I'm only sick of the ship"
The remark was a falsehood. He got
up, monkeyed around little, suddenly
discovered his tie-pin was missing and
straightway fell to loudly accusing a
poor fellow, crippled in both hands and
feet, using two crutches and unable to
lift one hand to his mouth without aid
ing it with the other. "Put that pin
right back here, where you got it from, -
he said vehemently. After some alter
cation, a special officer was brought. II
took your money and pin; I'll give them
back to you in the morning." he said.
Then | remembered having seen the of
ficer an hour or so before, holding a
great roll of bills, telling the purser ne
wanted to see him minute. The tipsy
sport was soon pacified and lapsed into
another dreamy misery. How enjoy
able this boatride was, even though |
could not procure state-room, can
not tell.
Buffalo, where we arrived at 1880 a.
m. next morning, was not entirely new
TO me. ! saw, however, much that was
new from sightseeing car, fare fifty
cents. We s4w, in quick succession,
many buildings, parks, residences and
avenues of interest Fort Porter, the
place whese Mckinley was shot, the
house wbsre he died, and his monument
were am ong the number. my brother
came in the evening / had not seen
him fo twenty months. Together. we
did TIE American side Of Niagara Fails
on tIe following day. This included a
rid on the Maid Of the Mist and a visit
20 the home of shredded wheat. As for
I me glories of Niagara, | will not at
tempt to describe them So far ADLER pens
have done il before had seen the
Canadian side on previous trip.
We came on TO Lewiston, thence by
boat to Niagara on the Lake and across
Lake Ontario to Toronto Give me the
water every time Cor summer travel, ii
you please. 1--WE did not get our suit
cases passed by the customs officer
right away end had some delay when
we went TO the wharf fot them. think
| the time has come when all enlightened
4 nations should abolish all custom duties
and all such hum-bugging parapher-
MALTA.
Toronto is the queen" city. A hust-
! ling, wide-awake population of $50, 900
makes it go. II has 3s banks, 22S
churches, and about / $40 acres given
ug to 40 public parks, which add much
to the city's attractiveress. The resi-.
dence and business districts are well
defined. | have been especially well
pleased with the former. In the Rose
dale neighborhood, very charming
section no shop, factory, business place
| or even saloon is allowed There is on
~ orc frame building in this whole see
ton. 1t used to be farmhouse. Ev-
cry house now built within the city linn
its must be of concrete, brick or stone.
/ Brick predominates as a building ma
terial. 7 | notice many peculiartles. A
man said in a store this evening. well,
think | will go home and have some
TEA" / had not heard that name for
the evening meal for many years. Nous
| taches and boards are more in evidence
/ than in large American cities. In some
respects, prices are higher, in others
lower than in the United States. Meals
seem to average higher and scrupulous
/ cleanliness is not always apparent.
have experienced trouble in getting
suited in an eating place. Thine fails
me TO add many more interesting de-
tails regarding the dignified parliament
house, the beautiful city hall, the many
handsome churches, the three stock ex-
changes, etc. Yours sincerely,
PERcfvAL D. MCCALLUM.