The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
MRS. HITCHCOCK
WRITES INTERESTINGLY
Of EASTERN TRIP
HISTORICAL CITIES AND SCENES
VISITED, INCLUDING NATION
AL CAPITAL AND TOMB OF
WASHINGTON AT MT. VERNON

Dear Friends:
Mr.. Rearick seems to think some Of
you will enjoy hearing of my trip
through the east, so | will try to do
my best briefly.
In company with two splendid
girls for travelling companions | left
here Oct 18th, spending several days
enroutc in Spokane. Had we chosen
our own routing, we could not have
been more fortunate. We followed
the grand old Mississippi from St
Paul to Dubuque. A panorama Of
radiance spread before us all the way
east as the October woods were re-
splendant in colorng.
One day in Chicago was pleasantly
spent at my brothers home. Upon
leaving Detroit enroute to Niagara
Falls we were on the Canadian side
and found this part of the country
very quaint and different. The
woods were beautiful-regular Wal
lace Nutting studies in places.
Words are inadequate to describe
the wonders of Niagara, so I will not
attempt it. Suffice to say we were
awed by this mighty cataract. We
took an auto and viewed the three
wonderful falls, including the Horse
shoe Falls on the Canadian side, the
Whirlpool Rapids, the Royal Gorgs
and other points of interest, return
ing to the Cave of the Winds about
l p. m. We found the Cave of the
Winds rather strenuous the day we
visited it, but novel experience. Out
of a party of twenty-three there were
only two men and we three Washing
ton ladies who reached the Hurri-
cane Deck, the others turning back
on account of the terrific wind. This
trip takes one way down below the
falls and across wooden bridges past
the Rock IF Ages, across the Hurri-
cane Deck and back of the falls. We
also went through the Shredded
Wheat factory in Niagara Falls, N.
Y. A short stop at Buffalo was made
and We saw the Mckinley Monument.
From Albany, N. Y, our train fol-
lowed the Hudson River to New York
Ciey, where we stopped a week. We
travelled east of Chicago entirely by
daylight so that we could see the
country. After spending a week in
New York City. began to realize
what the saying, "When you see New
York, you see it ALL" meant, for we
were estounded at the immensity Of
it all. We were centrally located and
started out each morning about $50
and never stopped until about II pm ,
usually spending the evening at the
theatres. We enjoyed the Hippo
dromo where they change the bill
once a year only. In the play, "The
Red Shoe" the immense stage was
all ice and all the actors and actres-
ses, probably hundred or more,
were on skates. Another treat was d
concert by the New York Symptom,
orchestra, Walter Damrosch, leader.
OF course we went to the top of the
Woolworth Building, the highest in
the world-viewing the city from
there; also around Manhattan Island
on sightseeing yacht, which gave
US a good view of the Statue of Lib
erty, Ellis Island, all the big bridge,
the harbor with its monstrous ships,
(amonP which was the Aquetania)
Blackwell Island, the Palisades of the
Hudson, the sky line, etc. We took
the 9th Avenue auto bus the entire
length of the avenue, both up and
down town, and the Riverside Drive,
past Millionaire Row. Grants TOMB
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and
many other interesting points. We
visited "The Little Church Aroun
the Corner" Wall Street, and We're
fortunate in getting into the New
York Stock Exchange, which is pro-
hibitive now since the bomb-throwing
of a few years ago, so we had to be
taken in by member of the board
This was arranged through a frenj
for us. We stopped at the Waldorf
Astori2-for about thirty minutes
also at the Astor House, visited Tiff
fany's. had dinner down in Green
wich Village one evening and a de-
licious Italian dinner one evening al
Guiffanti's. Spent a day in the Too
logical Gardens having picnic din.
ner there, returning rode the Length
of the island in the subway. AlsC
went through the tube to Brooklyr
and returned over the BrooklyT
Bridge. We also saw where Babe
Ruth made his home runs. One OF
the sights which stands out in boil,
relief was the Sky Line at night
viewed from an observation platform
in Brooklyn. The mammoth building,