Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-09-19
ATRRGo GIRL n GOTHAM

A TREG0. GIRL n GOTMAM
Dear Folks:
left Detroit July l. at p. M
Lake Erie was rough and the evening
cool so staid in my berth As I felt bet
ter in repose, though I looked ont on
the waters more or less, and by morn
ing L felt better. The boat was due
at Buffalo at r. M eastern time,
but we were an hour and half late.
l. at once sought information con-
obtained it mostly through
grunts, as the Buffalo people appear,
to be at least one degree worse than
other folks about parting with facts.
At Niag.Ia I decided to take the
famous trip around the gorge. / paid
a dollar and rode for about three
hours, I think, going down on the
Canadian side on the very edge of a
high precipice and coming back Oh
the U. S. side, parts of which were
almost level with the rushing water
The Falls, sights, and all were won
derful but 1 was glad to get back to
Niagara.
returned to Buffalo, had dinner,
and then sought out the Grand Cen
trail station. 1t cost almost ten dol
lars to ride across the state of New
York but 1 stepped off at Albany on
the Hudson next morning all right,
and ready for another venture. !
hunted up the dock of the Hudson
River Daylight Line and left the car-
ital city of the Empire State at $3.50
a. m. on a trip that shall never be
forgotten. Among all the days of my
life that one will always stand out
separate and apart from the others.
To begin with, it WIS a pleasant day,
and, seated in a comfortable chair,
with the contentment of a bride las 1
imagine), with the air of a million
aire, but with the pocketbook of a
Kansas schoolma'am, / drank it all
in. The music on the boat added to
the pleasure of the trip and the
newly-weds (of which here were
several couples aboard) furnished the
amusement (for the rest of us). My
limited vocabulary will not permit me
to do justice to the beauty of the
trip, but the tree-covered hills with
old castle appearing houses back u.
among them, the Catskill mountains,
the winding river all made a grand
treat for me. We passed West Point
and Tarrytown and 1 enjoyed every
mile of the $50. I remained on the
boat to the very end of the line, which
means that rode for an hour after
passing the first New York city land
ing but this, l thuoght, would be
nearer the down town district and a
little more convenient for cousin,
see him at 7:20 p. m. (the boat was
an hour late AGAIN., for it had beer a
little strenuous, going about entirely
| alone in strange places, though I
| didn't fear anything. I went that
eve to Brooklyn and spent the Fourth
with cousin, Haines and family
Haines took me in their Dodge co
Coney Island which gave me my fl.
glimpse of the Atlantic and the
Statue of Liberty. We saw several
cruisers, (all camoufaged,) torpedo
boat destroyers and one transport.
Friday 1 came to Whittier Hall to
unpack my suitcase-just four weeks
after my departure from Kansas. In
the afternoon went through the sew
eral pens and when came out was
enrolled as student in Columbia
University. The enrolment is above
six thousand.
1t is interesting to meet girls from
all states in the Union. At my table
are girls from Kansas, Missouri,
Pennyslvanla and Alabama. The din
! ing rooms are on the 9th floor. The
'eats"are fairly good in quality DuI
not over-plentiful in quantity.
| Since arriving at the metropolis CT
the world have been up to the top OF
the Woolworth building-which is so
stories, or more than 700 feet high ;
visited the N. Y. Herald building and
saw the big presses which print, cut
and fold 4-page sections at the rate
of 5000 per hour; attended concerts,
went to the theater twice, saw the
Times building, took a "rubberneck'
bus ride over the city, went through
Astor Hotel visited the Russian
| Orthodox Greek church and the 1T
tie church around the corner" TINS