Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-10-10

slowly. staining the clouds in the
east deep, dull red casting weird
light over the trees, houses, and fac
tories. and slowly lighting up the
great expanse of water, of which we
caught and lost ever-shifting vistas
through the trees.
At Cleveland we spent our time
wiring to friends who were to have
met us at Buffalo, and discovered
that the diner. which we had been
told would be put on at Cleveland,
had been taken off there, though it
was still early in the morning. No
lunch till Erie at 12:42. Nothing
more was needed to make it a pleas
ant forenoon for tired, hungry
people.
Expensive and unsatisfactory as
the railroad lunch counter usually is,
especially with the added and i'm
proved expense and dissatisfaction
for which the war has been a pre-
text, we found the journey much
more pleasant after leaving Erie
Most of the afternoon we were in the
famous Chautauqua grape district.
The vines, growing on wires as Ever
green blackberries are trained in
Western Washington. were loaded
with rich purple clusters. Much of
the fruit is shipped fresh to the great
cities of New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio. and much more is made into
grape juice by the factories of the
WEIGH and Armour companies, some
of which we saw from the train.
AT Dunkirk we succeeded in get
ting basket of the grapes, and
found them delicious, though not
more so than the western grapes, of
which the supply is unfortunately so
inadequate that great quantities of
eastern grapes are shipped into the
Northwest.
At Buffalo our hoodoo was still
running true to form Our friends
had missed us, and we had barely
time to go out to Niagara Falls, give
them one good look, and run for the
electric car. Doubtless we should
have been greatly inspired if we had
had time to stay for that purpose.
But even one look is worth two
hour trip, for Niagara is one of the
great unspoiled wonders of nature.
Here, at least, is place whose pop
ularity is not due to advertising or
the mob instinct, but to the sheer
greatness of the scene itself.
Safe on the train for Montreal, we
thought our troubles were over, and
the old hoodoo shaken for good and
all. Everything was comfortable and
wellordered, and we arrived with "a
hours to spare before our ship was
due to SAIL But Mr.. HoodOo had
been only kidding us along. We wilt
ed clear to the ground when we got
to the steamship company's Office anti
learned that our sailing had been
twice postponed since we left home,
and that our ship would not sail
until October 2, instead of Septem
Der .27.
Fortunately. steamship companies
are not so independent as the lordly
railroad companies, who smugly an
nounce that they twill not be respon-
sible for loss or delay resulting from
failure to make connections" and
that "this schedule is subject to
change without notice" After some
desultory discussion of other lines,
which didn't seem to offer any solu-
ton of our problem, the company
raised us more than half way out of
the depths by offering to pay our
hotel expenses until the ship sailed,
and, apparently out of sheer goodness
of heart, made it the best hotel in
Montreal while they were about it.
Montreal is the largest city in Can
ada, and has population of 100000.
1t is the strangest imaginable mix
ture of English, French and Cana
dian, the whole permeated by truly
American spirit of hustle and enter
prise Next week we shall tell some
| thing of it's queer customs, its strange