The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-02
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EDITOR
ROADS MOSTLY GOOD.
Vermonters Make Good Progress in Auto
Trip to Pacific Coast.

Vermonters Make Good Progress In Autt
: Trip to Pacific Coast.
Editor, Times: In Ohio, near the In
diana border, about 40 miles south oil
Toledo, we are camped for the night or
the grounds of an old abandoned church
!, This is Monday morning, a week this
afternoon from the time we started from
Vermont. Dix and Barton practiced on
their music in the old church until about
0 o'clock last evening. Sounded fine.
! We have encountered no bad weather
since we were in middle New York, but
we made about l40 miles on good roads
that day in the rain. No rain where we
| have been since. but we passed through
territory yesterday where they had had
heavy rain and the roads were bad, off
| the pavement. We got off the mali road
| yesterday and had to go through mud
and use chains for about five miles to get
back on the main road. We find the
weather cold here and vegetation not so
far advanced at any point of our travel
as in our valley in Vermont before we
started
West of middle New York, the part of
Pennsylvania we passed through and all
the rest of our way in Ohio, the main
field crops have been grapes Grapes
continuous for thousands of acres. We
also find acres and acres of alfalfa, but
further than that the grass crops look
poor. OF course there are thousands of
acres of fruit trees, apples mostly, but
plenty of cherries. currants, etc. Farm
houses are fairly good, but most seem to
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hay out of doors and let their cattle feed
from the stack-wasteful.
Most all railroad crossings since we
left Vermont have been at grade and gem
orally half a dozen tracks TO cross at
once, but here in the central west the
land is level and nothing to obstruct the
view of trains.
Traction engines for doing farm work
have been quite common west OF middle
New York They use four horses abreast
good deal here. The old-fashioned rail-
fence is much in evidence.
We arrived at Buffalo Thursday and
camped between there and the falls.
Went 10 the falls the next day and rode |
on "The Maid OF the Mist" under the |
falls 10 Canada side and spent about four /
hours viewing Canada by trolley car. etc. /
They were training quite body Of /
troops and the power plant on the Cam
ada side was guarded by troops. We
came back TO Buffalo and camped a few
miles west Of there Friday night. We
have Travelled over all kinds of roads
some 200 miles and we find the cement
roads best, next the brick and lastly the
macadam. The old macadsm roads are
poorer than the dirt roads and they are
fast being replaced BY cement ones.
We camped Saturday night al Unions
Vile. o. where Dix has for the past 10 II
wears sold thousands Of dollars worth Of Il
boiled cider We are all and have been
since We started IN excellent health. Eat
wen aud sleep the best we have since We
were babies guess.
W camped one night on the shore Of
Lake Erie. and the bows went fishing, eN- /
Dccting - catch nothing smaller than
10 FOUNDER They certainly did not
atch any bigger. Yesterday the wave.
ran high on the lake. We ate dinner
Yesterday in q public park just west Of /
legeland. One Of the most beautiful
Darks We ever saa. Every night there
has been 4 continuous roar ~ trains Z
,utos snd electries. but Il docs not keep I
he awake
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