Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

"Nickel Plate" Railroad. The ride ov-
err that route enabled us to see an en-
tirely new part of the country to us
through the northern parts of the
states of Indiana and Ohio and the
western part of Pennsylvania and
New York
We stopped off at Niagara Falls
city and spent night and day. That
visit to "The Falls" was the fulfil
ment of another boyhood dream-the
sight of one of the unforgetable won
ders of the American Continent. In
previous years I had studied in Geog-
raphy about it. had read about it
in books and heard accounts Of it, but
the actual sight of that stupendous
spectacle-Niagra Falls-enabled me
to exclaim in the words of tn Script
ures as recorded in First Kings, 10th
Chapter and 7th verse, "Behold the
half was not told me-"
We arrived at Niagra Falls city
late in an afternoon of early August,
1896 and after a nights rest within
hearing distance of the rumbling and
continuous roar of the mighty catar-
act; the next day we were in good
trim for period of sightseeing. We
did justice to the chance to obtain a
full and satisfactory view of the nat
ural wonder from the Niagra River
bank, from Goat Island, and from
Victoria Park on the Canadian side,
from the latter of which we had a
complete view of the Horse Shoe
Falls.
A person could spend week at
Niagra Falls and receive new thrill
every day of the time, without being
surfeited by the inspiring sight of
the Falls and surroundings.
Niagra has its right name. It is
derived from an Indian word which
means Thunder of Water" It sub
stimulates the fact that Indian names
always possess significance. Beyond
Goat Island, which divides the Niagra
River into two falls, called respective
ly, the American Falls and the Horse
Shoe Falls, lie three smaller islands,
called, "The Three Sisters" They
are connected with each other and
with Goat Island and the main land
by bridges. The view of 'The Rapids"
above the Falls from the outer corner
of the three sisters islands is one of
the most inspiring of sights. The rap
ids are caused by the onward rush of
the great volume of water from Lake
Erie over the rocks in the Niagra
River above the Falls. If a tourist
wishes to obey the injunction, "See
America First" he surely will not be
censured if he writes Niagara Falls
first on his list of places to be visited.
Our one regret of our trip back
home was the fact that our schedule
required us to travel the distance
from Buffalo, N. Y, to Harrisburg,
Pa, by night, this preventing US from
beholding the beautiful landscape
scenery between those two cities-a
part of the country we had never
seen. 1t was very appropriate that I
should have spent a part of the vaca-
tion of my last full year of school
teaching in visiting the particularly
interesting parts of the country that
we saw on our trip to Independence,
Mo-, and Niagra Falls, N. Y.
1t has been a great satisfaction to
me to know that during the years of
my teaching, I endeavored to give
my pupils the benefit of what I had
learned by travelling in different
parts of the country, especially what
I had learned that would supplement
what they could learn from their
books.
My life in the School room was
spent entirely in that period, known
in modern history as "The Victorian
Age" However, young people did
not have the opportunity to travel
very extensively in those days as they
have been enabled to travel since the
new twentieth century came in and
since the construction of improved
roads and highways and the intro
duction of automobiles and airplanes.
The radio has been a great help in in
creasing our knowledg of this world
| in this wonderful aOa &C II hyinoc fbo
news of the world hourly to our very
firesides.
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