Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-09
A THOUSAND MILE TRIP

Dear Social Corner. Many of you
 may remember Samantha Allen used to
 say she had been touring the country" Well, l have been a little and l want te
 tell you about It. Also send a few
 lines which express my feelings exactly on
 the subject. Although we get uneasy at times home is pretty good after all
 On the morning of August 20 at two l o'clock, Turner Greene and family and Elmer Greene and family and Mrs. Alice Erickson started by auto for tho west w1ht straight through to Hartford, Win
 stead and Canaan and so on to Rhinebecx
 and crossed the Hudson there for King | stoH. We had just a minute to catch the
 Terry boat we were very near the end
 so near the chains rubbed our tires. The
 water was. very rough. The waves roll
 ed high, owing suppose to the storm the night before. After getting into Kingston
 we went down what is called the Gapway
 trail on to EIlenviile and Liberty and on | to what is called "Jew Town" Many farms have been bought up by the Jews I and are used by them as summer homes | There are miles and miles of them and 1 hundreds in each camp. We arrived at ] our friends house which is few miles from Honesdale, Pa, at 430 in the aft I ernoon, covering a distance of 2S0 miles. | We passed on our way a place called ! Red Hook. a small clump of buildings
 painted bright red and there they make | brand of famous chocolates While
 there we visited large fish hatchery at Pleasant Mount. where all kinds of fresh 1 water fish are matched and shipped to 1 different ponds in Pennsylvania of which ] there are many. While in ShieIboro l
 attended a little country church on a
 big hill where young student from St.
 Louls preached a very interesting sermon.
 There were only q there beside myself and as the lamps had been neglected they all
 went out, only one small lamp shining
 on us, but we had a nice service after
 all. From Honssdale we went to Peck
 vile and Scranton. Penn, to more friends li On our way we viewed immense nloun-
 tains going up grade steadily for ten
 miles up the Moosic mountains We saw many large coal heaps and to look at
 them 1t seems so we people here ought to want for coal, but there was nd
 work in the mines, but all were hoping for a speedy settlement of all troubles
 We saw lots of sunken places In the earth caused by mines caving in and in
 Scranton many buildings were under
 mined from the same cause, some SC
 bad they could not be repaired at all While in Scranton we drove over the
 famous Lackawanna trail G2 miles long | which was built right ovef an old rail-
 road ad was built of cement. Every few
 miles there is what had been a little red station and Is now fixed over for tenements and they were all occupied. We also saw and took pictures of the large
 Nicholson railroad bridge which is 24C feet high, 1,375 feet lang and made o1 r cement and wide enough for two trains tc
 pass A 3S foot telegraph pole standing } near one of the pillars looked in conparf | son Ike a fly on the wall. From ther, : we went S5 miles to Sidney and Bain bridge, N. T., saw Borden's condensed r milk factories and many large fertil, r farms. During this drive we had to 2, t Tor ten miles on road called the ]. 'Dugway" and felt quite a bit afraid ' On one side the mountains were alYnos ? as high as we could see and on the othel g dropping to the Delaware river and Iat CT the SusQuehanna river which we fol
 lowed all the way. It had been rainin,
 and they were scraping the road and
 was much more slippery than the road
 ! are here, after being oiled. There wa . no railing either side but we 20 | through safely but saw one machinl 2 turned over down the bank and me, l. working to get 1t out. We covered on q thousand and fifty miles with no trouhl g kwhatever, only having found many place e where they were repairing the road an
 l had to wait our turn to get by an n some time detour many miles, The las a day of August we started for home an a after having most delightful trip and - pleasant visit with many friends and en
 toying ourselves immensely we made II y our minds that there is after all no plac t like home sweet home in the good ol h kowneo of Plainfeld.
 . MA OF GREENE cARYHs