Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-10-13


boo and now make their home in Mus
kogee, Oklahoma.
But look on the other side of the
street. What are those long rows OF
Edingy blue and green buildings? Ten
cement houses--for the workers in the
lLackawanna Steel works. Street af-
ter street built solid with these ugly
looking, dingy frame buildings. Just
to spend day looking at them would
be enough to take the individuality
all out of person. And to think OF
ACTUALLY calling one of those places
.'Home; and being compelled to stay
there day after day, week after week,
year after year, would cause one to
inquire, why was born man? Why
not rather have been mere piece
Of machinery? Then all this monot-
! ony of existence, this dreary dinginess
! Of surroundings, would have been in
capable of piercing the very heart
within me by its bitter sameness?"
The heart of real man cries out for
Northumberland how utterly hope
less is his chance in such an environ
ment The little garden patch in the
community grounds is almost like a
slap in the face to the soul of an ar
tistic, ambitious individual A sight Of
such surroundings is enough to catse
one to stop and think if there is not
really some reason for the bitterness
that exists today between labor and
! capital Surely man who works
faithfully day in and day out, even
though it is only with his hands, and
whose mind is incapable of initiating
the work, deserves a better atmos-
phere in which to rest. How could
healthy brain and soul develop in such
sordid surroundings? They are splen-
did breeding places for Bolsheviki and
Red revolutionistS.
But we hurry through Buffalo, past
! the shipping docks, where lie at
least a dozen immense freighters of
the lakes, on through the business
section and away down Main street,
till we see an immense arrow point
ing to the left and saying, Niagara
Falls Boulevard"
At last we are on the home stretch
with a beautiful, wide brick boulevard
urging us onward. 1t is now nearing
supper time and we are very hungry
land tired. AS we near the Falls, we
hear rumors of how everything is
filed up in the city, and what fabu-
lous prices are being charged for ac-
commodations of any kind. So when
we are about seven miles from the city
lof Niagara Falls, and we see com
ffortable looking farm house with big
|sign in the yard, announcing Camp
ing Grounds and Rooms for Tourists,
we decide to investigate
Such a haven of rest as it is Every
I thing SO clean and inviting, and such
comfortable beds In the yard are
tables, chairs, and a place for a
campfire A neat elderly German WON
an is in charge and she asks only two
dollars bed. We accept at once. We
have good supper, a good bath, and
a good nights rest and are ready to
start for the day at the Falls, clean
and refreshed.
July 90,
The great Niagara Falls! How i'm
possible to describe, and how many
have failed in the attempt And yet
| will try to give you some of my OVID
impressions as gazed on this mighty
spectacle.
We went Immediately to the Can
adian side of the river, as its is from
there that the best panoramic view
can be obtained. AS we turned to get
our first real gaze, was conscious or
"a feeling of disappointment. We were
on a slightly higher level than the
top of the falls, while most of the
pictures have been taken from be-
low, looking up at them This lower
level makes them look so much high
er than to view them from the top
down. There are many higher fails
than Niagara but none with so tre-
mendous a volume Of water pouring
over them.
The longer we looked at them the
more inspiring they became. The
American Falls are so uniform and sy
metrical and show such mass OF
white foam. AS one turps' his gaze to
the Horse Shoe Falls, he is struck by
the wonderful coloring in the water,
Such azure blue, such restful green
and all the other colors of the rain-
bow dancing and playing around on
the edges of these foundation colors-
What a cloud of mist arises from the
main part of the falls and scatterS