Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-10-08
Rev. ]. r. Walker Writes of His
Journey From Edsefield to
Toronto, Canada.

Toronto, Canada.
Dear Mr.. Editor and Readers I
believe my last letter from abroad
was to The Chronicle. will now
write my first letter after reaching
home to The Advertiser. | will be.
gin at the beginning and probably
give series of connected articles
alternating between our two Edge
field papers.
At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon,
June 6, 1913, Mrs. Walker and /
took the train at Edgefeld for
Trenton. 2:25-4:25 p. m. at Trenton.
Elegant dinner at the home of Mr..
". NJ. Leopard. (Many a day on
our trip we would have liked to sit
down to one half as good.)
We arrived at Washington Sat-
urday morning at 9 o'clock. We
had spent a week in Washington in
May, 1910. This time we reviewed
the capitol and congressional libra.
ry being very kindly shown around
by MIR. Wyche, assistant clerk to
naval committee. Mr.. and Mrs. J.
B. Knight were very kind to US dur
ing our few hours in Washington.
In the afternoon we went to Smith
sonian Institute, national museum,
and the new national museum.
In the national museum we saw
the famous portrait of the Empress
Dowager of China, TIE Hsi, by
Katherine A. Karl, painted in the
palace in 1908. This portrait was
presented to the United States by
the government of China
From our visit three years ago to
Washington, as well as from our
few hours on this tour, I should ad-
wise my readers who have not done
so to visit our capital city. From
an educational standpoint it is
worth while.
Saturday afternoon we bade good
bye to Mr.. and Mrs. Knight and
Mr.. Smith in the naval committee
room, ! wondered where and when
.wesshould again. look on fanif5ar
face. We reached Philadelphia Sat
urday night.
On Sunday we enjoyed two Chill
dren's Day services second Sunday
in June being children's day in the
northern branch of the Methodist
church. The afternoon service was
an open air service in one of the
big parks. One of the speakers stat
ed that when he was a boy Phila-
delphia had only 100000 popula-
ton, now it has 100000 Perhaps
I shall tell you in another letter
about some interesting things we
saw On our return through Philadel-
phia.
At Washington we had bought
tickets-each nearly two yards
long-taking US after leaving Phila-
delphia one way to Montreal, Cana.
da, and bringing US back another
way With stop over privileges at a
dozen or more places-hence the
length of ticket.
Leaving Philadelphia at $50
o'clock Monday morning, we travel
ed on Pennsylvania and Reading
railroad to Bethlehem, Sc miles
from Philadelphia.
l give you this from my note
book: Road from Phila. to Beth.
thro' beautiful country, good farms.
big barns, good houses, hills, mead
oWs, daisies, many towns-3S sta
tions in sc mi. Rock houses, wheat
Barns like churches" which is beL-
ter than churches like barns. Beth.
lehem $4,000 or $4,000.
From Bethlehem to Niagara
Falls we went on the Lehigh valley
railroad miles. The track fol-
lows the Lehigh river from Bethle-
hem to Sayre-l83 miles. One mile
beyond Sayre we entered the state
of New York. The scenery along
the Lehigh river is beautiful, the
river, and the hills, the green growth
and golden wheat.
Approaching Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
we had fine view of this city of
81, 900 nesting among the noun
tains.
A little west of central New
York is the beautiful Lake Seneca.
We followed this 35 miles from
Burdett to Geneva. Very beauti-
fnl, with gently rising fields beyond.
" nopor6a and neach orchar rds ha-