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them. Every little county is having
its own fair, this naturally accounts
for lesser number of animals at the
big show.
We next visited the race track where
they have a hundred or more harness
horses in training, and some looked
| like real race horses. There was a
one-half mile track within the regular
| mile course, with judges and timers
stands, for both tracks, but only the
one grandstand. Horses were being
trained on both tracks, and the racing
commenced on the following Monday,
SO we we're four days ahead OF time.
Prize Winners ~a... :.
We next visited the fruit building
apples, plums, grapes and pears-and
| they certainly looked prize winners.
The automobile building was filled
with machines of all makes, and es'
pecially the machines that are manu-
featured in Detroit. The Ford people
ing, repair shop right in the build
ing, and will repair any Ford machine
that is brought to them. They also
have moving picture room right by
the side of their repair shop.
On the second story of the automo.
bile building is the rabbit and poultry
exhibit, almost all varieties of poultry
and rabbits could be seen there, and
some of the rabbits were as large as
a good sized dog. +. ..~.-
| First class hotel accommodations in
Detroit are cheaper than in some OF
the country towns Rooms with bath
$500 to $3.50 per day. ."..
Put Us Off At Buffalo ..
We left Detroit for Buffalo on the
steamer Cleveland III" a four deck
boat from the water line, and you get
fine view of the Canadian side OF
the Detroit river, and one can see the
moving trains and street cars on the
other side. RI .E..-..
The Ford and Stearns assembling
plants can be plainly seen; in passing
down the Detroit river into Lake Erie
we saw and passed several freight and
passenger steamers. We saw the
LStudebaker manufacturing plant, and
several others, but it was getting
dark, so we could not make out the
signs. .-... ......
There was one little schooner on the
Canadian side that had seen better
days as she was practically submerged
and turned over on her side, and not a
very old looking boat either.
The smoke from the manufacturing
plants on both sides of the river is
blown all over the city, and the build
ings certainly show the effects of the
smoke.
One can imagine the work that is
done by the railroads in hauling the
raw material to Detroit and taking
away the finished material. !. ss.
Salt is one of the great products OF
Detroit. There are great salt works
right alongside of the river.
The state is dredging some large
channels at the mouth of the Detroit
river to enable the freight steamers to
take a short cut out into the lake, and
one channel has been finished only a
short while, and we saw a large
| freighter start through the channel
giving more room in the main river fol-
navigation.
Hilo Shower
We have just passed another island
park by the name of Bots Blanc pro
nounced Bob Lo Park, and it looks to
be about one hundred acres in area
Lake Erie was very smooth during the
night, and we arrived at the light
house at Buffalo at $40, and we dock
ed about one hour and a half later
and a real "Hilo shower" welcomed
iT1ef hoI
hour and then everything frightened
up. We were directed to one of the
! best hotels in Buffalo, but we could
not get accommodations there; every
thing was filled up, and the second
| one was also filled, but we were flnany
accommodated at the Iroquois hotel
After having refreshments We started
| for the Niagara Falls, about ITO D. m.
and every one around the hotel and on
the street was very much interested
in Mr.. Lewis machine and asked him
a thousand and one questions about
the trip. The Honolulu to New York
seemed to attract their attention very
much. .....-.
Niagara Falls
The drive to the falls is about TWEEN
ty miles and the first six or seven
miles is on Buffalo's main street, anC
then you take the brick paved street
nearby to the falls, and to the Inter
national bridge between United States
and Canada, and of course, we could
not go So near to Canadian soil and
not go across, so we got our permits
! and started across, and were met by
the Canadian authorities, and told thai
We could not run the auto on their side
without license, but that we coulG
park the machine, and walk around
which we did, taking in the view of the
falls from that side before going back
on the American side, and we paid oul
toll of 10 cents each for crossing the
bridge. -
In travelling out from Buffalo to the
| falls, one naturally wonders how there
could be any falls around, when the
country is perfectly level, but wher
/ You get there and realize that Lake
Ontario in Canada is 326 feet lower
than Lake Erie, the source of the
/ water that flows over the falls, you car
readily understand. ... Il. b..
| Once on the American side again
we went right to where the falls were;
where the fine spray was blowing all
around you, and learned the falls or
the American side was 165 feet high
and on the Canadian side 160 feet HIGH