Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
The Industrial East
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the least excited about it. Large can
tonments and airfields are being built
all over Canada and large portion
of the younger generation are in uni
form and in training. However, their
concern seems to be the protection
of Canada from invasion rather than
what is going on over there.
The papers featured the windup of
the National and American league
baseball games on the front page;
hardly anything regarding the war,
such as our papers carry. A great
many former Americans have en-
listed in the Canadian air corps.
See Niagara Falls.
The next day we journeyed on to
Niagara falls, arriving there around
noon and spending a couple of hours
taking in the sights, both on the
Canadian and American sides of the
falls. The bridge across Niagara was
swept out by an ice jam a year ago
last spring and they are now working
on both sides putting in abutments
for a new one. On the Canadian side
of the falls 1 noticed statues and
memorials erected in honor of for
mer Canadians who had been either
shot or hung for securing Canada
complete dominion status. This was
something that for one did not know
much about. It might be very in
teresting subject to read up on.
That evening around $50 o'clock
we were in Rome, New York, where
my youngest brother lives. We spent
a couple of days there, taking in the
sights such as 150-mile trip up into
the Adirondacks, where we had din
ner in the famous Hubert House,
built in 1853. We also drove down
to Cooperstown where the Baseball
Hall of Fame is located, as we'll as the
grave of James Fenimore Cooper,
author of the Leather Stocking Tales.
Along the Mohawk.
We also saw the site and monu-
ment erected where the battle of
Oriskany was fought during the Revo-
luton. 1t was here that General
Herkimer stopped General Schuyler
in front of Fort Standwix and pre-
vented the English from cutting New
York state in two. So we drove on
down the Mohawk valley and saw
the old home of General Herkimer.
This home seems well preserved and
is furnished with the furniture of
that period, all of which suggested
to me that those old timers lived in
quite grand style after all and had
something worth fighting for.
The next day my brother took
us up to the headwaters of the St.
Lawrence river where we took the
three-hour boat trip through the
Thousand Islands region. On this trip
we saw the smallest international
bridge in the world, as well as the
largest one, which is some seven miles
in length and some 200 feet high.
Four spans of this bridge are owned
by Canada, one, which is the longest,
by the United States.
All of these islands have fine sum-
mer homes erected on them and are
owned by American and Canadian
industrial tycoons as well as movie
actors and famous radio stars. At
one island we got off the boat for
20 minutes or so and went through
the famous Boldt Castle patterned
after the Castle on the Rhine and
containing 265 rooms.
Gets Taste of Eastern Driving.
The next day we hit the famous
Boston turnpike for Boston and here
was where yours truly got his first
taste of eastern driving. There are
six lanes on this highway and on the
outside one they drive 70 miles an
hour with the cars four feet apart.
Six or more hours of this and your
legs begin to get pretty wobbly but
we made it, and that evening were
in Boston listening to Father O'Con-
ner of New York city giving the
memorial address for the Boston con-
vention to some 100000 Legionnaires
and natives of Boston. This was the
largest crowd have ever seen gath
cred in one place, but amplifiers car
ried his words perfectly to all of us.
What went on at the four-day
Legion convention most of you read
in the papers, or heard over the radio,
so won't 60 into that except to say
that it was very serious-minded
group of ex-service men that gathered
there. Boston police estimate some