Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1920-09-09

went on. For 30 miles was brick
road, then a 100 miles Of macadan
with messy mudholes and plenty
Of detours where construction Is 60.
ing on. The road is along Lake Erie
and will be beautiful drive when
the cities are connected. Forty
miles west Of Buffalo the new road
is reached and from that point east.
ward was no more dirt under the
tires.
A boulevard leads from Buffalo t0
Niagara Falls and 1t Is some busy
place with tourists from all the east
and south. The Falls had thou
sands of cars In the parks along the
river. The country is said to have
six million cars. think we have
seen most Of them. Every garage
was crowded to the doors; all the re-
sorts along Lake Erie were parked
acres Of them--the others were on
the road. A new cement road leads
from Niagara to Rochester and on
to the ma!a state road at Canandaig-
ma. We spent the night at Geneva
on one Of New York's charming
lakes. The next day 1t was an easy
drive Of 100 miles to Schenectady,
arriving at 4 p. m.-checking up L.
1874 miles from Abilene. s..
Eastern New York is a glorious
summer resort with its lakes and
green hills. Saratoga and Lake
George, the Berkshires over In
Massachusetts, the foothills of the
Green Mountains in Vermont, the
Mohawk Trail where you climb for
five miles on second speed and then
go down for IS miles more. Lebanon
mountain with its Shaker villages,
along the Hudson and out among the
quaint towns of Massachusetts make
one wish some Of this attractiveness
could be out in Kansas. There are
villages deserted. farm houses va
cant; everybody seems to be living
off tourists. At farm houses are set
home made dinners with fresh milk
and butter, red raspberries and blue
berry pie that beat any city hotel
menu. Children have little stands
by the road side selling boxes OF
apples, pears and tomatoes. You
get box Of a dozen luscious apples
for five cents-the only place we
found where five cents would buy
anything. Gasoline which was 27.S
cents when we left Abilene rose to
30 cents in Illinois, 80 in Ohio, "a in
New York and 35 in Vermont. The
knitting mills were all humming and
the factory towns seemed busy, but
business men said there is much un-
certainty in trade owing to cancella-
tions Of western orders. All wanted
to know IL Kansas had good crops.
The East counts on the West for its
prosperity.
asked a dozen men what New
York will do in November; some
were Democrats. All guessed 1t will
be Republican. The speeches of Cox
do not make much of hit with the
East. The criticism is that he Is
making a rather cheap campaign
while Harding shows dignity and
some sense of the office. The aver
age easterner talks about Wilson as
does the average Kansan. Big firms
say foreign business is growing and
a better railroad situation is expect
ed by October. Industrial concerns
have a years orders ahead-or more
and expect as large business next
year as this, which has been the
greatest in history. New lines are
being developed. An official of an
electric company says its manufac-
ture Of fractional horsepower mo-
tors has grown enormously as peo-
pie use til IN on sewing machines.
washing machines and a hundred
other things. 1t is making about
10000 week and hopes to make
$4,000 a week next year-but could
sell $4,000 a week. The motor truck
is everywhere,-carrying freight and
messengers between the cities. They
take up most of the road and drivers
are not particular about giving room.
One sees more Packards and other
high priced cars than in Kansas but
Just as many flivvers and other
small cars. New York has over
million cars licensed and they are
all busy all the time.
The East is greatly interested in
the Kansas Industrial Court law and
has great admiration for Governor
Allen. 1t hopes the court will work,
for something of the kind is needed.
New Workers. of all parties think we
shall have an era Of prosperity with
perhaps more sensible industrial con-
ditions. Wages are not as high as
they were-good men are willing to
work on farms for "a a day. Fac
tories are refusing to stand for I'M
der production. When men strike
they are likely to be discharged SO
they are more careful. Prohibition
has not made the East suffer much
vet but II has closed the open saloon.