Year: 1876




mouths to help consume the good things
which the surrounding country raises in
abundance The celebrated 6enesee
Falls here. often attract the pleasure
seekers and make them delay one train
50 they may enjoy them. and at the same
time get good look at this thrifty city.


Our next stopping place is Buffalo. on
Lake Erie. large manufacturing city.
and one of the most extensive grain
shipping points in the United States.
with grain elevators having a storing
capacity Of 5000. 900 bushels. The har-
Dor is claimed 70 be one of the very best
In the whole chain of lakes, and the en-
terprise of the people added to the nat
aral advantages of the city, has built up
town Of one hundred and twenty thou
sand people, with good prospect of
large increase in the next decade


From Albany to Buffalo the distance
is PCS miles. Judge for yourselves
whether central New York is entitled
to the reputation it enjoys.


From Buffalo to Cleveland. Ohio. the
road follows the lake shore. with some
few deviatiOus, often giving US view
of the lake which lay wonderfully calm
under the sunlight of that November
day with no tones of wrath in the dull
throbbings Of the tiny waves which bath
ed the sandy beach.


Just as thrifty is that part of New
York from Buffalo to the Pennsylvania
line as that over which the mornings
ride took Us, though the development is
more strictly agricultural with less ten
dency to centralizing in large towns
North East. in Pennsylvania, with
population Of twenty-one thousand. is
Erie with nineteen thousand, being the
largest towns in distance of 173 miles.
Numerous oil-tank cars testified to the
fact that we were not far from the IA
nous oil wells, which have made mil
liouaires out of men who had grown gray
toiling for bare subsistence Fortu-
nate were they if their sudden wealth
did not turn their heads, and start them
out on rsad so new they constantly
fell into blunders which made them
laughing stock for the world You all
remember the story Of the. wife Of one
Of these oil men, who sent her daughter
to fashionable boarding school. The
lack Of early advantages together with a
not very brilliant mind, combined to re-
tard the progress of the young lady, and
the complaint that she was not advanced
In her classes as rapidly IS other girls
Of the school reached the anxious moth
er's ears Bristling all over with iDdig-
nation, the rich mamma presented her
self at the school and called for the prin-
cipal. who made his appearance and lis
tened to the complaint Of the mother
'sThe fact is, madam, he said, after
lodging the question in every way he
could think Of. ''the fact is, your daugh-
ter has not the capacity that some Of her
mates possess" My goodness" ex-
claimed the indignant mother, why in
the world didn't you say so afore. Ca
pacityI Hain't her pap struck lie T?
Amt he a millionaire, and can't be buy
whatever is wanted I'll send to BaIt-
more to-day and order her number one
capacity, bound in best morocco r.


Just as night shuts down upon Us We
arrive at Cleveland. the second city Of
Ohio and one of the prettiest in the Uni
ted States. The streets were laid out
BY generous man and are many Of
them loo feet wide. while Superior st.
claims a width of 1872 feet The whole
sale business houses Of the town are
mainly situated on the lake shore and
along the Cuyahogs river which here
empties into Lake Erie. but the hand
some dwellings with their lovely grounds
together with the public buildings and
shops are upon broad plain two huBd-
red feet above the lake The beautiful
shade trees and well kept parks remind
I ne Of Savannah. Georgia la Nonu-
mental park IS q fine monument TO the
memory Of Commodore Perry, Of historic
fame. All who have visited the Capitol
at Washington will remember the large
picture commemorative Of the battle On
Lake Erie. 10 which Commodore Perry
distinguished himself


The OIL re6neries Of Cleveland. though
q source Of wealth, are blot upon her
beauties. for the odor they furnish Is
frequently uupaIatable. but like many
another unpleasant thing. must be en-
dured as il can't Be cured


A half hour 10 lunch in and then Of
again for Cincinnati. 245 miles south.
1t proves an all nights ride. and very
glad are the weary. through passengers
when they hear the brakeman shout
Cin-cin-uz-i-


4 The hour Of waiting proved all too
short to rest from my tedious journey.
but the end vas not yet. % ne this
time il was sce. indeed started for St
Louis. There i no tine to liDger IN
this Queen City where wealth and en-