The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-10-13
q. Pratt and Family Take Trip East.

H. Pratt and Family Take a Trip East
On September IA Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
~ Pratt and their daughter, Ellen,
left for trip through the eastern
states. They remained over one day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Sharples in
Minneapolis, then continued their trip,
reaching Chicago on October 16. The
ladies of the party are not strongly
impressed with Chicago in general,
the streets being narrow and having
an unclean appearance.
The first stop after leaving Chicago
was at Toledo, Ohio, beautiful city
where they spent one day, then going
in an electric car to Haskins, town
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad of
about 1900 or 1900 inhabitants. Here
they visited cousins of Mr.. Pratt, who,
by the way, are old-time residents of
Princeton-Dr. and Mrs. o. C. Can
right. DR.. Canright practiced in
Princeton as long as IS years ago
and sends CHEEKY greetings to old &C
quaintances. He is enjoying splen-
did practice. The Pratts spent three
very pleasant days here and Harry
attended church (?) twice in one day,
the first time in his entire life such
calamity befell him. DR.. Canright
motored them to many interesting
places. The main industry there is the
raising of tomatoes for the famous
Heinz products made by the Heinz
Picking Co. One man had q acres
in and he netted $3.50 per acre. This
is putting one over on the Sherburne
county potato and bean crops. This
place is also in the oil we'll district,
which is not proving a good invest
ment as the wells average only three
or four barrels of crude oil per day.
One oil we'll has been burning 80
years.
Their next stop was at Bowling
Green, Ohio, most beautiful and at
tractive city of 1000 population, with
splendid schools, colleges, normal
buildings and beautiful churches.
There are wide streets with stately
trees and miles of concrete roads. Un-
fortunately Pratt had left his night
robe and had to send his wife bargain
hunting. He says she did we'll. They
then left for Buffalo, New York, and
Niagara Falls, which are Is miles
from Buffalo. They remained there one
day viewing the wonderful sight from
every angle-they walked down %
flights Of stairs to obtain a view where
the waters come roaring and twisting
and rushing into the river below. The
wind coming from the falls caused a
damp mist to rise on shore. Ellen has
numerous kodak pictures taken dur
ing the day. The majestic beauty of
this work Of nature cannot be por-
trayed-one must actually see it to
appreciate the wonder. They entered
the museum, where many Egyptian
mummies are kept, also stuffed ami
mails Of every kind. They inspected
the steel barrel in which a man went
over the falls and lived, the only sur
vivor known who ever attempted the
feat. This barrel is about #. long,
oblong in shape and made of steel
shedding with wooden ends, and is
well padded. 1t bears evidence of
rough trip judging from it's many
dents and fractures.
They arrived in New York City at 9
p. m. at the Grand Central depot,
which Ellen graphically describes as
having two hotels and several stores
inside Of it. 1t is one of the largest
in the world. Their rooms were on
Broadway and Fifth street. Their
first trip in the city was to former
President Grants tomb, the entrance
to which is through a large dome ar
tistically beautiful. In a concrete pit
in the center of the dome stand the
caskets of u S. Grant and wife which
are daily covered with fresh flowers,
while in the harbor outside U. S..
battleship, with flags at half mast
and ready for action at moments
notice, lies, as a means Of honor and
protection for the dead hero. The
tomb is near Fifth avenue, the most
aristocratic section of New York,
where the Astors, Goulds and Wander
bits, with the rest of the famous four
hundred, have their magnificent
homes. At Battery park they secured
a splendid view of the statue of liber-
ty and were enabled to watch the i'm
migrants entering Ellis island, which
was indeed interesting. They visited
the zoo during the afternoon and en-
joyed the sight of the many animals.
In the afternoon New York and Cleve-
land had a ball game and Pratt says
they attended the game eyes," he
said, I'VE went to see the ball game.
Babe Ruth was there 50 we took it in.
There were about $4,000 people on the
grounds-some game, almost as in
teresting as the ones we have in Zim-
town." They then visited Mrs. Man.
ME (Nelson) Mathwicn, former
teacher here, who pleasantly enter
tanned them in her usual gracious
manner. Here they had an oppor-
tunity to view the huge reservoir
which supplies water for the city of