Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
TRAVELLING ON THE LAKES.

Miss Bohrer who has been on trip
on the great lakes and down the St.
Lawrence river, has written friend
in this city and the Pilot has been
given the privilege of publishing the
descriptive part of the latter, viz:
81 am certainly seeing the sights
The thousand islands, or rather the
five thousand, surpassed my magma
tive picture of them. OF all shapes,
sizes and situations and covered
with summer cottages of all designs
and values. Certainly some of them
must have cost many millions and
the least of them-a few thousand,
anyway. We had regular Eastern
boat crowd aboard, selfish, great
travellers, but mighty small in many
ways. They must be served first !;
must get on the boat first; see the
purser first and be first on deck.
Many of them were from the states.
My roommate, young widow from
Clayton, (the port for Rochester, New
York. got located about IL p. m. |
knew should have to have some one,
but went to sleep in peace at $50 p.
M. and was so tired / didn't care
whether she was Patrician or Plebeian.
Got up early to see all
of the 1901 islands, so had q
long day of it by the time
we reached Montreal at 100 p. m.
There were acres and acres of public
cabs, called Victorias, waiting to
transport the people from the boat to
the various places. We had just one
long, beautiful day, but since that it
has rained- yesterday good deal,
and today quite a little, SO it has cut
of my sightseeing some, still have
seen good deal. My but the ca
thedrals are immense in this city.
One would think they'd have quite
enough to make them all good. l Wis
tied the ST. James which is pat
termed exactly after ST. Peters in
Rome. 1t is the largest in Montreal
and contains fine views of the Jesuit
Fathers and Sheir early sacrifices
in Canada. Then Christ church, a
high church, Episcopal, is fine ex-
ample of the Gothic. 1t is city of
banks, banks, banks, and then some
more banks, but they say the
depositors never lose because banks in
Canada are so combined that they do
not break. That may all be true, but
certainly the depositors build those
very elaborate and even fantastic
structures. Some of them have great
statues on the facades like the
churches. Certainly the Canadians
are lovers of beautiful architecture,
at least in their public buildings.
The old homes are exceedingly
Frenchy- Iron stairways leading to the
floor above the basement and those
always on the outside, red or green,
outside shutters, oriels and dormor
windows, mansard roofs and cupolaS
VII IluHOlCo OtlOuodiuo VI AlOucCo
of all degrees Of characterization. The
most beautiful thing in the whole
city is Mount Royal, and the homes
at the foot and on the sides of that
mountain are certainly beautiful
They remind me of residences in
Portland, Ore. They monopolize
every hill and hollow in an artistic
fashion, instead of leyeling it down,
and the result is beauty indese ribable,
but the chief beauty is duts to the
God-made mountain.
Really, in way, | feel far more
alone than | did when over three
thousand miles from home in Alaska,
and it is all due to the people. 1t
would be the same were it in the
Eastern q S. The East is not the
West by a long ways. They someway
need a Regeneration.
Miss Bohrer will return to Wausau
on Sept. 1st, as the Training school,
of which she is supervisor, will open
on the Sd of September.