The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02

higher the salt water mounts, until it
rises twelve feet above the crest'S nat
ural level, and for some hours the
fall is up stream! Continuing to adj
vance, overcoming a down current of
a noble river, here 500 feet wide, the
oceans tide pushes its way fully
twenty-five miles above the normal
margin of the bay. This twice daily!
No intelligent person who visits St.
John fails to see this spectacle of
great river turning back upon itself, a
phenomenon unknown in any other
quarter of the globe. In the tourist
season, it is the first sight to behold.
strangers may consent to miss the
days ride up the St. John, or to visit
Grand Pre- and Cape Blomidon over
in Nova Scotia, or to behold the None
ton Bore, or to look upon a score of
other scenes round about of great in
tereSt: but nobody misses he Revers-
ing Falls Daily, the newspapers tell
the hour, and the hotels write it in
red ink on the margin of their regis
tiers.
August Is. forenoon, the ebb was
out, and the flow turning at fifty-Sev-
en- minutes after 1 0 o'clock. However,
II o'clock. that day, was time enough
to witness the contest of the currents
for supremacy at the crest Of the
falls, and so there was no great hurry.
boat in the harbor, by street car, by
tourists blackboard, or by automobile;
for the distance is short, and the
scene may be witnessed from high
level on either side of the river, or
from the suspension bridge above the
falls, or from boats below. So there
is rooms for thousands, and it is not
necessary to reserve seats in advance.
Besides it occurs twice a day. The
cataract. impossible by boat at low
tide, or while the flood is advancing
or receding, becomes safe passage
for short period during "a pause be-
fore transformation of river into sea
and back into river again, and, the
surface placid as q lake, sailboats,
or other light craft float
over 1t easily. Beginning at 1857 in
the forenoon, and ending at 5:14 in
the afternoon, the contest, August IS,
lasted six hours and seventeen min
utes. So it is twice daily: with every
turn of the tide, this cataract, belong
ing no more to the river than to the
sea, turns; twice. daily a fall up the
river and a fall down.
From a wharf above this cataract,
steamboat ascends the st. John river
daily, carrying sightseers so far as
125 miles distant; passen-
gers returning by rail that night. or
at a hotel all night and talk
ing the boat down next morning The
river, below the falls 500 feet wide,
and pouring it's torrent into the sea
above the stream, maintains this
width as we'll for many miles up
stream, but flowing between fringes
of deep forest. Ali the way up, the
volume, spreads into even greater
widths above. although shallower. A
section of the stream is Grand Lake, |
out of which boats ride into the Sal |
81 IL, TO-,
Below Grand Lake, the St John comes |
from the northwest: its source in the |
state of Maine, ESQ miles from the Re |
yersible Falls. On this river, forty |
miles west of Grand Lake, sits Fred |
capital of the province of |
New Brunswick. This city is eighty
Jour miles from St. John by river.
The river, on either side, is bordered
~ the forest primeval, excepting
where it has been cut away for farms,
IT towns, and in it's depths big game
hound Close in, feathered game may
,e found. In season, the lakes and
ivers are alive with waterfowl. Like
wise, their waters are paradise Tor
ten miles from St. John, is
he city's source of water. If one has
ime only for a glimpse, he finds the
It. John river enough and to spare;
or he may not traverse even the one
tream within a summers vacation.
he late De Witt Talmage, a famous
ivine of his time, said that the ST.
ohm was 1.-The Rhine and the Hudson
omming1ed in one scene of beauty
nd grandeur.
However, the other streams of the
rovince are found out by many tour
sts For example, the Restigouche,
Which flows out of the province OF
quebec into New Brunswick, emptying
nto the Gulf of st. Lawrence, is said
o be the most famous trout stream
n the world. For Kansas travellers
his stream has the added attraction
f a Kansas man, who is the Ameri-
an consul at Campbellton. He is
Judge Theodosius Botkln, cousin OF
he secretary of state of Kansas, and
nee a Judge of judicial district of
Kansas, afterward
lember of the legislature. Twelve or
fifteen years ago, he was appointed to
ne consular service, ana gwen the
ort of Mauritius, a small but very
opu1ous island in the Indian ocean,
90 miles east of the coast of NADIA
ascar Eight years ago, he was
to Canada and given the :
onsulate at Campbellton; his Juris-
lotion including territory in Quebec
nd New Brunswick, along Chaleur
,ay, which is part of the Gulf of st.
lawrence Judge Botkin's health has
OF been the best recently, but now he
coming along well, and enjoying
9th his job and the social side which
oes with it
Campbellton is community of hos
table and cultured people, and the
ity is one of the most attractive in
lew Brunswick. A city of 1000
opulation, it is situated at the juno
on of the Restigouche river with the
"a, and all around is a region of !
port 1t is much sought by sports
len, and Judge Botlxin, who is some ]
hing of a fisherman. himself, always '