A TOUR IN
THE STATES & CANADA.
OUT AND HOME IN SIX WEEKS,
BY THOMAS GREENWOOD.
LONDON :
L. UPCOTT GILL, 170, STRAND, W.C.
PBINTED BY A. BRADLEY, 170, STBAND, LONDON.
PREFACE.
THE NEW WORLD is naturally a source of great interest to
most English people, and there are few in the old country who
have not friends or relatives in America. Much has been said
and written of that country, but it covers such a vast area, its
progress has been so rapid, and its future is so promising, that
the subject is far from being yet exhausted. A "run over to
the States " is a matter of far less importance, in these days
of travel, than a journey from York to London was considered
fifty years ago. In the way of many, however, who would like
to see for themselves the state of things across the Atlantic,
there are many obstacles, and to aid in the removing of a few
of these, and to give some practical and useful information, has
been the aim of
THE AUTHOR.
LONDON,
April, 1883.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
PREFACE ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... iii
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1
CHAPTER II.
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC ... 5
CHAPTER III.
HOTELS AND HOTEL LIFE 18
CHAPTER IV.
AMERICAN RAILWAYS ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 25
CHAPTER V.
NEW YORK AND ITS SIGHTS 30
CHAPTER VI.
UP THE HUDSON 39
CHAPTER VII.
BOSTON 43
vi Contents.
CHAPTEE VIII. PAGE
MONTREAL 51
CHAPTEE IX.
SHOOTING THE EAPIDS... 57
CHAPTEE X.
QUEBEC AND OTTAWA 61
CHAPTEE XI.
TORONTO 66
CHAPTEE XII.
THE NIAGARA FALLS 69
CHAPTEE XIII.
BUFFALO, CLEVELAND, AND DETROIT ... ... ... ... 74
CHAPTEE XIV.
CHICAGO 79
CHAPTEE XV.
CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE ... 85
CHAPTEE XVI.
ST. Louis AND PITTSBURGH 89
CHAPTEE XVII.
THE OIL EEGIONS 94
CHAPTEE XVIII.
ElCHMOND AND BALTIMORE ... ... ... ... ... ... 101
Contents. vii
CHAPTEE XIX. PAQB
WASHINGTON 105
CHAPTER XX.
PHILADELPHIA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 112
CHAPTEE XXI.
EAILBOAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA 123
CHAPTEE XXII.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES — TRENTON 128
CHAPTEE XXIII.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES — PATERSON ... ... ... ... 138
CHAPTEE XXIV.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES — NEWARK ... ... ... ... 142
CHAPTER XXV.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES — PROVIDENCE AND HARTFORD ... 145
CHAPTEE XXVI.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS 150
CHAPTEE XXVII.
WHO SHOULD EMIGRATE , 157
CHAPTEE XXVIII.
TARIFF CHARGES AND TABLE OF DISTANCES, &c. 161
A TOUR IN
THE STATES AND CANADA.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
SEVERAL prominent excursion agents may reasonably claim to
have created a vast amount of foreign travel. Thousands now
make tours on the Continent who, a few years ago, were content
to spend their annual holiday at some near watering place or
other English pleasure resort. It is well that it should be so,
for not only health and enlarged information accrue, but people
of various nationalities are, by these means, becoming far better
acquainted with each other than was the case twenty to forty
years ago, and a great civilising power is thus at work which
diplomatists of powder-and-shot proclivities will be compelled
in the future to take into consideration. Popular, and deservedly
so, as continental tours are, I have strong reasons for thinking
that very many who thus spend their holiday do not know
what might be done with a few weeks in a visit to the United
States.
That such a tour would be gladly welcomed by thousands of
business men, I am, from experience gained in moving about
over the greater part of the three kingdoms, thoroughly con-
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vinced. The general feeling, however, with regard to it is that
it would take so long to do, and that the journey would in itself
be so costly, that these barriers stand in the way of its being
undertaken. The object that I have now in view is to prove
that neither obstacle need deter from a visit to the New
World. The number of business and professional men who
need rest and an absolute change is legion. To these let me
seriously recommend crossing the Atlantic, and seeing for them-
selves the state of things generally in that immense country on
the other side. Such a visit could not fail to be full of the
greatest interest to the individual making it. Personally, I have
accomplished on two occasions what I am now suggesting, and,
of all the tours which I have made, those which have given me
the greatest pleasure and general profit have been my six weeks'
journeys to and from the States and Canada. My route and
work were carefully planned beforehand, and, nothing occurring
in any way to hinder my arrangements, I was enabled to be
back again at business almost on the very day that I had
calculated prior to sailing. To many, six weeks is not a long
holiday, and for real enjoyment, coupled with all that can give
rest and excite interest, commend me to a run over to America
and back again.
My endeavour will be to give such practical hints and informa-
tion that anyone following my suggestions may have a holiday
which will never fade from memory ; and, if the time is properly
used, the infusion of fresh ideas, in even such a hasty sight
of our energetic cousins, can of itself scarcely fail to fully
compensate for the pecuniary expense, which need not be by any
means heavy.
Sea travelling has moved with the times, and for safety and
comfort in locomotion I would sooner cross the Atlantic than
go to Borne. The chief liners of this ocean service are as
luxuriously furnished as many large hotels, and the conveniences
are such as many who have never been on board an ocean
Introduction.
steamer would little dream of. The carrying of the mails, and
the rapidly-increasing number of Americans who now visit this
country annually, enable the leading companies, by thus creating
competition, to cater for every reasonable requirement. Coming
over to Europe is a matter of such common occurrence in the
States> that the education of our cousins — especially of commer-
cial men — is looked upon as being scarcely completed until they
have done so ; and they undertake the tour as readily, and in
hundreds of cases as regularly, as English people rush over to
the Continent, and so aid to swell the great crowd that now
yearly cross the Channel. Why there should not be as many
from this side crossing the Atlantic as there are from the other
side I fail to see, and, in course of years, as it becomes known
how much may be done in a short time and far from extravagant
outlay, I have not the slightest doubt but that this will be the
case.
So much, again, is said of the competition of Americans and
the rapid strides which they are making in their manufacturing
industries, that, to see for oneself the actual state of things, and
where they have advantages over us, should certainly be a good
incentive to take an opportunity of forming opinions on these
matters from personal observation.
Even if there is, to begin with, a dash of the " Oh ! my ! ! "
complaint — to use Mark Twain's expressive designation of sea
sickness — it is really, in many cases at least, more beneficial to
the system than otherwise. It enhances the enjoyment of the
after part of the 'voyage, and gives a relish for meals that no
amount of exercise on terra firma can do. Ten days' life on an
ocean steamer is a holiday in itself. The freedom from post,
telegraph, and newspapers is a luxury which only those who
have experienced it can well appreciate. " Masterly inactivity "
becomes the order of the day. The saloon library is a decided
boon, and each passenger takes a vast interest in all the others.
The amount of fraternising between the voyagers places far into
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the shade the most sociable "at home " or evening party which
takes place on land. The exchange of opinions, developing into
discussions more or less excitable on every imaginable topic, is a
boon which to many a mind brings a decided change. The
stereotyped grooves of daily life are quite departed from, and
what would be considered trivial and commonplace, or even
infra dig. at home, is at sea looked upon in quite a different
light. The speed " she " is making, how the compass stands,
sighting other vessels, the momentary views of whales or even a
stray shark, the amusement growing out of watching shoals of
porpoises with their comical Indian file habit of jumping out of
the water, all afford a varied source of interest. Shuffleboard,
nautical quoits, and probably a little dancing, constitute other
amusements, played over and over again with a zest similar to
that with which schoolboys enter into marbles and the numerous
sports common to the playground.
The best months for crossing the Atlantic and for an agree-
able tour on the other side are April, May, June, and the latter
part of August, September, and October. The early or the
later periods of these months should be selected if the in-
tending voyager has a choice. The great heat of July and
August, and sometimes of June, account for this, and a further
reason is that the Americans are themselves taking their holi-
days during these months, so that anyone going there at these
periods must expect to find churches closed, those to whom
letters of introduction may be addressed gone out of town,
theatres and kindred places of amusement undergoing repairs,
and other drawbacks which need not now be discussed. From
95deg. to lOOdeg. Fahr. is a common heat in the sun during
July and August, and I have, at that time of year, experienced
104deg. in the shade, but even this great heat I found far less
oppressive and exhausting than ten to fifteen degrees less in
England.
CHAPTER II.
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
THE choice of an ocean company, and particular ship, is neces-
sarily most important. This account is not written with a view
of making comparisons between the various lines of steamers ;
but as I desire to be practical in all I have to say, I may men-
tion that my own choice has been the Cunard Company, and,
however often I might be crossing, this line would be my selec-
tion. Much has been said and written recently about certain
steamers having crossed from Queenstown to New York in a
little over seven days, but speed is, after all, not the most
admirable feature of sea travelling. Safety is, unquestionably,
the matter of primary concern, and this is as near absolutely
certain with the Cunard Company's steamers as is possible. For
forty-two years they have had the proud boast of not having
lost the life of a passenger, or even a letter; and, as I am
writing more particularly for those who have never crossed the
Atlantic, or, possibly, made any long sea voyage, I cannot do
better than place before their notice the oldest and, in my
humble estimation, the best of the ocean companies catering for
this traffic. Again, what is an extra one or two days at sea in a
journey of over three thousand miles ? Steaming at high pressure
speed may be, to some extent, amusing to captain and officers,
but, as the facts of certain greatly lauded swift passages which
have recently been made become widely known, the public will
commit themselves very charily to such ships. I may inciden-
tally mention that for one of these quick passages the consumption
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of coal was over 200 tons per day, that before leaving Liverpool
she took on twenty extra stokers, and even these were insufficient
for the work, the hands from the deck having to be sent down
to their assistance. Further than this, she was dangerously near
icebergs, as she was taking the most direct course, which would
bring her into their neighbourhood, nearer than a more southerly
course would have done. It appeared to me, in fact, just a
question of drawing the line at a "color'd gent'man " sitting on
the safety valve. The Cunard Company, while not claiming to
have the fastest vessels afloat, have ships engaged in this trade
which will more than compare with those of other competing
companies. The average passage of their best boats from Liver-
pool to New York is from nine to ten days. The companies
who advertise quick passages as their leading quality are careful
to give the length of time taken in steaming from Queenstown
to Sandy Hook, on the American side, or vice versa, which
means a difference of over twenty-four hours, as against the
length of time from Liverpool to New York. Anyone intending
to make such a tour as I purpose describing, and who selects one
of the ships of the Cunard Company, cannot fail to observe why
they have been so successful in avoiding accidents and loss of life.
The minutest detail about the vessel and her navigation is most
carefully attended to. Every man is appointed for his particular
work, and that man specially selected for his experience and
ability for that post. The officers are among the oldest in the
Atlantic service, and, by liberal pay and good treatment, they
endeavour not only to maintain their own reputation, but they
have the interests of the Company thoroughly at heart,
The leading steamers of this company are the " Cephalonia,''
"Gallia," "Servia," "Bothnia," and "Scythia." The three
first are very fine ships — in fact, simply floating palaces, con-
taining every accommodation and requirement possible in sea
travelling. The two last, by both of which I have crossed, are
twin ships, and capital sea-going boats. With the view of
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diminishing the chances of collision, the steamers of this line
take a specified course for all seasons of the year. On the out-
ward passage from Queenstown to New York crossing meridian
of 50 at 43 latitude, or nothing to the north of 43, and on the
homeward passage crossing the meridian of 50 at 42 latitude, or
nothing to the north of 42.
The rates are as follows : For saloon passengers, single tickets,
15, 18, 21, and 26 guineas, according to accommodation ;
return tickets, 30, 35, and 45 guineas. Saturday is the day on
which the steamers leave Liverpool for New York, this being
usually a very convenient day for commencing a holiday. The
passage should be booked as early as possible before going, as
the best state cabins are allotted in priority of application. It is
advisable to secure a cabin as near the centre of the vessel as
can be arranged. The difference in the fares I have named
refers entirely to the position of the state cabin, not to the
food supplied. This is exactly the same for all saloon pas-
sengers, and all use the same saloon. With the higher fares,
two only would share the same state cabin, but with the lower
fares there might, if passengers were numerous, be three, or
even four.
The officers and stewards are most courteous and attentive,
and personally I cherish some very agreeable acquaintances made
among the o fficers of the Cunard Company, who are all picked
men. On the boats I have named there is a captain and six
officers, and even each of the under officers must have been first
master of a ship before being eligible as fourth, fifth, or even
sixth officer on board these leading liners.
The table is a most liberal one. There are three full meals,
and supper is also supplied, but without the table being set out
for it. In order to give something like a complete idea of how
ample is the choice of dishes, the following bill of fare for a
dinner when we were in mid-ocean on the " Scythia " will be
interesting :
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Soups.
Kidney and Tomato.
Fish.
Salmon and Lobster Sauce.
Entries.
Haricot Ox Tail. Fricassee Calf Head aux Tomates.
Giblet Pies. Vegetable Stew.
Joints — Roast.
Beef and Baked Potatoes.
Haunch Mutton, Currant Jelly. Hare, Brown Sauce.
Sucking Pig, Bread Sauce.
Turkeys, Cranberry Sauce. Geese and Apple Sauce.
Joints — Boiled.
Corned Beef and Parsnips.
Fowls and Parsley Sauce. Ox Tongue.
Vegetables.
Plain Boiled Potatoes. Croquettes ditto.
Mashed Turnips. Lima Beans. Bice.
Entremets.
Bread and Butter Pudding. Italian Creams.
Apple Charlotte. Damson Vol-au-Vent.
Orange Mirlitons.
Dessert.
Apples, Pears, Pineapple, Oranges.
Barcelona Nuts. Almonds and Raisins.
Tea and Coffee.
The choice for breakfast (8.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.) and lunch
(1 o'clock) is just as complete as can be wished for such meals.
The same seat at table is retained during the whole voyage,
and so the gathering soon becomes of quite a family character, the
same faces being seen at every meal, unless, from motives of
domestic economy, the said faces be conspicuous by their absence.
These opportunities of forming acquaintances are really to be
appreciated. It is very probable that at the seasons of the year
to which I have referred there will be among the passengers some
representing almost every European nationality, and again likely
that there will be some of these who have travelled over the
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greater portion of the whole world. On a recent voyage, we had
Swedes, Frenchmen, Belgians, Germans, and Spaniards, as well
as Canadians and Americans, thus illustrating the great popu-
larity of the company I have named.
It is wonderful how communicative people become at sea.
Being thrown on each other's and on their individual resources
for a period of some ten days aids considerably in cultivating a
general desire to be agreeable, and to give and receive informa-
tion. In connection with this matter, I may state that on my
return voyage in May we had a celebrated English Arctic ex-
plorer, who gave us in the saloon, on one of the evenings at sea,
a most interesting lecture on Arctic travelling, a collection being
made afterwards in aid of the Orphanage for Seamen's Children.
There is invariably either an impromptu entertainment or concert
got up on every voyage for the benefit of this admirable institu-
tion, and the ladies, as a rule, take up the gifts, as, for some
peculiar reason, it is known that the pockets of the gentlemen
present suffer far more severely when a lady carries the plate*
than when those of the male persuasion take this duty in hand.
Anyone given to making friends and acquaintances cannot fail to
greatly enjoy the opportunities afforded in this direction.
As I have already said, a sea voyage is in every sense a real
holiday — to those, of course, who have no great dread of sea-
sickness, and who stand a good chance of picking up their sea
legs, say, by the beginning of the third day out. To a business
man, who has had a year of commercial worry, and who feels
that his physical machinery requires bracing up, I do not know
of any better way by which such a happy result can be arrived at
than by the absolute change that accrues from a sea voyage. If
I may digress for a moment, it is only to say that after my return
from the States I felt so benefited in health that I strongly
urged two commercial friends (each of whom had, during two or
three winters, attacks of blood-spitting and a tendency to chest
weakness and general debility, which might eventually have
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proved serious) to take such a trip as I had made, and although
this is now several years ago, after adopting the plan they
attributed entirely to this voyage a thoroughly recruited state
of health.
The question of sea-sickness is, of course, a vital one to many.
Unless there is some natural constitutional weakness which
makes the complaint habitual when travelling by water, there is
really nothing in itself to deter anyone from making the voyage.
Many cures and preventatives have been suggested. All may
prove fruitless if the stomach is out of order, and, in that case,
the sooner there is a clearance the better. Pyretic Saline is an
almost indispensable article for a sea voyage. In many instances
it will prevent sickness, and in other cases greatly alleviate it.
If not accustomed to sea travelling, it is well to avoid a great
mixture of foods. The choice at meals is so ample that a little
dieting is very necessary until the traveller is safe on his sea legs.
The cabin steward will bring anything needed to the berth.
The more abstemiousness with regard to intoxicants is exercised,
the better. Spirits, especially, certainly do not prevent or reduce
sickness, except in rare individual instances. Hard biscuits and
water are an old sea captain's remedy, until the system has
become accustomed to the motion of the vessel. Lying flat on
the back allays sickness wonderfully. A tight bandage of silk,
or other material, fastened round the waist is another capital
precaution. A pillow or bag, usually termed at sea a " bedfellow,"
to wedge yourself in your berth if the ship is rolling much, is
also a thing worth remembering. It is advisable to secure the
upper berth, if possible, for if your companion should be sick, it
is obviously preferable to be above than below him.
There is generally a great deal of card-playing during the
voyage, whichever line is selected, and there are invariably some
good players at the peculiarly American game of " poker."
There is no denying that money is played for in large sums,
although beans may be the ostensible things which change hands.
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There are few voyages in which a considerable sum is not lost and
won, and my advice is to have nothing to do with such games.
Betting on the speed "she " is making daily is another Atlantic
" sin ;" a pool is every day got up by some enterprising individual
or other for those who feel so inclined. According to the tastes
of the tourist he will invest, or not invest, irrespective of anything
which I might suggest.
In addition to the other matters to which I have referred as
aiding to pass the time pleasantly during the voyage, further
plans will suggest themselves very readily to anyone who goes
out with a view of securing the fullest enjoyment from the
passage. The smoke-room, the chief rendezvous, of course, of
the gentlemen, is usually the scene of much impromptu fun and
smart repartee, and woe be to the individual who in this sanctum
has got the name of " stringing the long bow," or " flinging the
hatchet " in a conversational sense, for he is sure, for his exag-
gerations and uncertain facts and information, to be drawn out
and exposed.
In moving up and down " the companion " and along the
corridors, it is well for a novice in sea travelling not to be too
venturesome. Keep a fast hold of the hand-rail, especially of
the one to the staircase leading from the saloon up to the deck,
known in nautical phraseology as above stated. I have in mind
one gentleman who, on account of ignoring this little precaution,
had a rib broken.
In the saloons and state cabins of the leading vessels of the
Cunard Company there are electric bells, so that there is quick
communication with the stewards. At the end of the voyage it
is customary to give the table steward and the cabin steward,
who have attended on your wants, a small fee — ten shillings each
is a usual sum, less or more as the tourist may be disposed ; it is
not compulsory, but in most cases it is cheerfully paid on
account of attentive and obliging service.
A word of advice here as to " keeping time " at sea. In
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journeying westward — that is, from Liverpool to New York — the
time is slower, so that a steamer of ordinary speed loses about half
an hour each day of the running time with which she is charged,
and in the journey home (eastward) gains a corresponding period.
Attempting to keep the watch with the ship's time would
thus necessitate putting backward or forward the timepiece, and
so, perhaps, seriously injuring it. The better plan is to let the
works run down, and depend upon the ship's bell and the saloon
clock for the time. The "bell time" at sea will soon be
mastered, and the passengers become accustomed to speaking of
"four," "six," and "eight bells," as the case may be, as they
would on land say "two," "three," and "four" o'clock, or the
other hours which a given number of strokes represent. In order
to be more explicit, the following statement will be of service.
Commencing the day at sea with the half hour after midnight,
the strokes of the bell will be :
1 bell ..
2 bells
*
1
o'clock a.r
3 „ ..
4 ,, ..
2
5 „ ..
6 ,
"".". 3*
99
7 „ ..
8 ,, ..
4
1 bell
"
2 bells ..
3
5
»
4
.. 6
.m.
5 be
6
7
8
Ib
2 be
3
4
5
6
7
8
]ls 6£ o'c
lock a.
i
m.
i
f
7
8
1 8*
Is 9
10
lOfc
11
12 noon.
Then repeat in the same order for the second twelve hours.
The ship's library is, as a rule, a carefully selected one. Old
voyagers make a speedy visit to the book-shelves after leaving
port, and select according to taste. This plan affords a better
choice than when some score of others have thinned the shelves
by 'taking to their state rooms whatever they wish to read. A
hint to the wise will be sufficient. It is scarcely necessary for
me to advise the intending voyager not to spend too much time
reading in the saloon if the weather is at all good. To pass as
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much time on deck as possible will be the aim of most, as this is
not only conducive to making the voyage enjoyable, but certainly
aids very considerably in keeping off or alleviating what to many
is looked upon as a dreadful malady — the mal de mer.
BAGGAGE.
Luggage is an important consideration in any tour, but
it is doubly so in a brief trip to the States and back. It is
advisable to mimimise it to the fullest extent if a short stay
only is intended. A warm overcoat and a travelling rug should
be taken for use during the voyage, as the air is often very
keen, especially in the early mornings and in the evenings. A
good sized Gladstone bag or portmanteau should afford enough
room for the ordinary paraphernalia which a tourist desires to
take with him, but if a longer stay is intended, a trunk or
additional portmanteau will be necessary. The idea has long
been exploded of the proverbial traveller coming over with
luggage represented by a toothpick and a paper collar, for the
personal belongings of a large number who visit Europe can in
many cases scarcely be contained in two or three monster
Saratoga trunks, and as many portmanteaus. A tourist suit,
for travelling and lounging about the deck in, is indispensable,
and woollen underclothing for wear during the voyage, for the
reason stated above, will also be found useful. By all means
reduce the quantity as low as possible, for moving luggage
about in the States is an expensive item, unless carefully
watched. Cab fares are exorbitantly dear; as much as six
shillings being an ordinary fare for less than a mile, and I have
known three dollars, or twelve shillings, charged for a fraction
over a mile. What other means of locomotion and dealing
with luggage there are I will refer to later, but I mention this
matter of cabs now to show how politic it is to keep the
quantity of baggage within narrow limits. A further reason
is that the Customs'-house officers are sometimes capricious,
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and not disposed to view too liberally "personal effects,"
especially jewellery and a superabundance of other small pro-
perty. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that
the getting up of linen is very dear, and that every article of
neck-wear, underclothing, clothes, hats, hosiery, boots, &c., is
about double the price the same article would be with us, so
that a sufficient supply should be taken to avoid having to
purchase or being at the mercy of the washerwoman.
A good opera glass would be found useful, not only during
the voyage, but on the other side when travelling by rail or
water.
MONEY.
It is not necessary to get any American money before leaving
England. Take for use on the other side English gold or
Bank of England notes. The purser of the ship will change a
few pounds for first requirements. The rate of exchange
varies from 4*75 dols. to 4-85 dols. to the pound sterling.
The tourist will very soon become accustomed to dollars and
cents., the decimal system being simple and easily mastered.
The Cunard Company give notes of exchange up to £20 free
to passengers by their steamers, payable on presentation to
their New York agents. Letters of credit, where a long tour
is contemplated, will be found useful, and care should be taken
to have these drawn on the best banks. The hotel proprietors
will readily exchange American money for English gold or
notes, or take same in payment of bills. With regard to the
total cash requirements for the tour, all depends on the
tourist himself. I have known £20 be sufficient for three
weeks' travelling and hotel expenses when in the States.
Thirty to forty pounds would amply serve, unless surplus items
were allowed to accumulate, and for each extra week over this
period say £7 to £10, according to the distances which are
covered. I purpose, however, to give some tables of expenses
which will enable an intending tourist to gauge within a little
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what charges he is likely to meet. It will be advisable that
a little more money be taken than may be actually required .
To find oneself with an insufficient supply of the " needful "
when moving about in one's own country is embarrassing enough,
but in a foreign land would be far from pleasant.
LANDING.
About the ninth day out the event of the day will be the
taking on of the pilot, who generally brings with him a supply
of newspapers of various dates. Immediately these are in the
smoke room they are seized, and the leading news of what has
occurred during the time spent at sea is retailed out as it is
noticed by those who have secured copies of the papers. During
the last few days of the voyage there will be placed on the
saloon tables railway maps, hotel cards, and other miscellaneous
literature of a like character. It is well to pack up in good
time, but in doing so it should be remembered that your luggage
will have to be examined by the Customs'-house officers on
landing, so that keys of trunks, bags, &c., should be kept as
handy as possible. Your first sight of the New World will be
Long Island and Fire Island, and very soon afterwards you will
be in the Hudson Eiver, and the medical officer and the Customs'
officials will board your steamer. With the former you will
have, personally, nothing to do ; but the steerage passengers will
have to pass by him in single file, and exhibit, as a species of
passport, their certificates of vaccination, without which they
would not be allowed to land. The doctor of your ship — and
every vessel carries a duly certified surgeon — is, of course, pre-
sent during this inspection. After that is over, the officers of
the Eevenue Department will seat themselves in the saloon, and
passengers will file past. The questions are :
Name?
Number of Packages ?
What description of Packages ?
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If you have anything liable to duty, you will have to declare it,
and all outside " personal effects " are liable to duties, which
vary from 20 per cent, to 60 per cent, on the value. At the end
of the book will be found a table showing some of the Customs'
rates. The marvel is that the great American people, who claim
to be the most enlightened nation in the world, should so meekly
stand these enormous duties. Everything is taxed, and if you
wish to see what it means, study the prices in the shop windows,
or, if you do not see sufficient to convince you there, make
inquiries, and you will learn enough to make you thankful
that you belong to a Free Trade country, or I greatly
mistake.
The gigantic sum of £30,000,000 is raised annually from the
customs duties over and above what is required for the expenses
of government. As to what becomes of this vast sum I would
advise you to make inquiries when in America. The answer
that I have always had to the question has been, "The pro-
fessional politicians know best — ask them."
Every passenger has to see after his own luggage. The
stewards will carry it on deck, and even on the landing stage,
but you will have to take the small packages to the officer who
has possession of the form bearing the number corresponding
with that of the ticket which had been given to you on the ship.
After this not always tender-hearted official has very gently (?)
turned topsy-turvy the contents of your packages, he will very
generously leave you to pack up again on a floor not always
noted for its cleanliness.
Before leaving the ship decide as to which hotel you will go.
" Garrett's " Express representative will be in attendance, and,
after your luggage has been examined, call for him, and he will
take all of it to the hotel selected, and you will find it there on
your arrival. He will give you a receipt for the number of
packages, and you will pay in your hotel bill for this conveying
of your chattels at the following rates : Half a dollar (2s.) for
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each trunk or portmanteau, and the same sum for two bags, or
bag and bundle of rugs.
The system of " expressing baggage " is a most convenient
one in the States. By adopting this plan on landing, it leaves
you quite free to walk to the hotel, or to follow any other course
which may be agreeable. Do not be alarmed if the luggage
does not reach the hotel before you, providing that you go direct
there. " Garrett's " man is perfectly safe, and you can fully
depend on its reaching its destination.
CHAPTER III.
HOTELS AND HOTEL LIFE.
AMERICAN hotels differ in many respects from those on this
side the Atlantic. Our cousins over the "herring-pond" have
strong leanings towards hotel life, and if the statistics could
only be arrived at of the number who board and live entirely
in them, it would convey to many in England a singular
state of things. The usual method adopted, when a couple
decide to get married, is, instead of furnishing and setting
up as housekeepers, to go to board at some hotel, where all
the cares and worries of domestic life are perhaps avoided, and
where everything works according to system, with no servants
to scold, and the wife's hands are not soiled (?) in pastry-making
and other domestic operations. Ladies come down to breakfast
in silks and satins, and children are neat and prim, fresh from
the nurses' hands. From this universal patronage of hotels,
they have been enabled to establish the " biggest things " in
this line of any country in the world. Not a few commercial
men, again, will have a bed and sitting room in some of the
more fashionable parts of the city, and get all their meals in a
convenient hotel. Whole families board and live in hotels, in
some cases having private sitting-rooms, in other cases sharing
the general parlours, which are usually most luxuriously
furnished. These are, to all intents and purposes, their home,
and in not a few instances the only home that many children
know.
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The Americans argue that the friction of domestic life is
thus obviated — that it saves trouble, enables them to estimate
exactly their expenses, and is altogether in accordance with
their go-a-head proclivities. This may be so, but it destroys
the very structure of domestic life. There is, in fact, little
home life in the large cities of the States ; and I am compelled
to believe that the system is a pernicious one, breeding, as it
unquestionably does, boldness and masculinity, if I may use
the word, in the ladies, and unattractive precocity in the
children.
That the hotels are well managed is very certain ; that the
table is good, and the food well cooked and served, all who have
been in them will readily admit. There are many hotels, and
the number is a growing one, which are conducted on the
European plan — this means paying a certain price for room
and each meal — but hotels conducted on the customary system
of the country, the American plan, signify a fixed price for
bedroom and three consecutive meals per day. This enables all
visiting them to calculate exactly what they will have to pay,
so that there need be no uneasiness as to whether "extras" — a
very comprehensive phrase so far as many hotels are concerned
on this side — will help to swell the bill. For three meals and
a room the prices all over the States are 3dols., 3dols. 50c., or
4dols. per day. The higher rate (sixteen shillings per day)
is for a bedroom on the second or third floor ; 3dols. 50c.
(fourteen shillings) per day for a room on the fourth floor ;
and 3dols. (twelve shillings) for bedroom on one of the other
floors. As there is an elevator in nearly all the hotels, always
in use, the height of the floors is not really felt, The meals
are the same in all cases. When entering the hotel the name
is registered, and it is most advisable to understand distinctly
what is the rate at which you will have to pay.
Many of the hotels are so large that an accommodation of five
hundred to a thousand bedrooms is not exceptional. The
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office, reading and smoking rooms, are on the ground floor,
where the lavatory, shaving, and hair-cutting departments,
telegraph and railway ticket offices are usually situated. On
the first floor, as a rule, are the dining and breakfast rooms,
and ladies' and gentlemen's parlours.
No one can complain on the score of the choice of dishes at
American hotels. It is so ample that it is almost bewildering,
and the most epicurean taste could not fail to be satisfied. In
order to show that such is the case, and as a matter of general
interest, the following copies of menus (not of a picked day or
specially-selected house) will give a good general idea. It will
be unnecessary, too, for me to give more than two out of the four
meals per diem — breakfast and dinner — as being indicative of
what lunch, served at 12.30 to 2.30, and supper, 7 to 11.30
p.m., are like. These two meals are just as elaborate as the
others for choice. Eaw oysters form one dish of almost everyone
who sits down at lunch, and of this very palatable and nutritious
shell-fish there is the most abundant supply — fried, stewed,
and pickled, or raw, as may be desired.
BREAKFAST, 6 TO 11 A.M.
Oranges.
Broiled.
Beefsteak. Kidneys. Ham. Breakfast Bacon.
Mutton Chopa. Jersey Pork Chops.
Calf's Liver. Pig's Feet. Country Sausages. Tripe.
Fish.
Codfish Balls. Shad. Live Codfish Steaks.
Panfish. Codfish with cream. Passaic Smelts.
Smoked Salmon. Fried Eels. Salt Mackerel.
Fried Saddle Eock Oysters.
Fried.
Ham and Eggs. Hominy. Liver and Bacon.
Tripe. Pigs' Feet.
Corned Beef Hash, browned. Frizzled Beef with Eggs.
Stewed.
Chicken. Oysters. Kidneys. Tripe.
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Eggs.
Boiled. Fried. Scrambled. Poached.
Omelette, plain, with ham, onions, parsley, jelly, and a PEspagnole.
Cold.
Beef. Mutton. Ham. Tongue. Corned Beef.
Potatoes.
Boiled. Baked. Fried. Sautee. Saratoga Chips.
Hashed with cream. Lyonnaise.
Bread, $c.
Hot Corn Bread. Boston Brown Bread. Vienna Rolls.
Hot Rolls. Milk and Buttered Toast.
Graham Rolls. Griddle Cakes. Wheaten Grits.
Hominy. Irish Oatmeal. Boiled Rice.
Coffee. English Breakfast Tea. Green Tea.
Oolong Tea. Chocolate.
DINNER, 5 TO 7 P.M.
Soups.
Chicken with rice. Consomme Distillac.
Fish.
Kennebec Salmon baked with cream. Potatoes a la Brabant.
Releves.
Breast of Veal farcie a PAnglaise.
Baked Pork and Beans, Boston style.
Entries.
Fillet of Beef piqu<§ a rimpe"riale.
Sweetbread Croquettes with French peas.
Timbale of Chicken aux champignons.
Calf's Brains breaded, tartar sauce.
Roast.
Ribs of Prime Beef. Spring Lamb, mint sauce.
Chicken with watercress. Ham, champagne sauce.
Cold Dishes.
Pate de Strasbourg. Ham. Pate de Foie-gras.
Roast Mutton. Tongue. Roast Beef.
Bermuda Beets. Potato Salad. Spanish Olives.
Watercress.
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Mayonnaise.
Lobster. Jersey Lettuce. Chicken.
Vegetables.
Onions, cream sauce. Green Peas. Stewed Tomatoes.
Boiled Potatoes. Fried Parsnips. Mashed Potatoes.
Spinach au jus. Boiled Eioe.
Pastry and Dessert.
Plum Pudding, brandy and hard sauce.
Sliced Apple Pie. Greengage Tartelettes.
Mixed Candies. Charlotte Eusse a la Chantilly.
Petits Fours. Macaroons Marseillaise. Neapolitan Ice Cream.
Fruits in Season. Nuts and Eaisins.
English Cheese. Roquefort Cheese.
French Coffee.
The coloured waiters are, as a rule, most attentive, and,
although some feeing is done, it is not at all general, and a good
and quick attention to orders may be relied upon.
I can now indicate a few hotels only where such accommoda-
tion as that I have been describing may be secured, and in
naming them I wish it to be distinctly understood that neither
the publisher nor myself have the least interest in doing so.
There are others in addition to those I purpose naming which
are equally good, but as it is an advantage to know and be able
to decide upon a particular hotel beforehand, the following are
now given with this practical object in view :
New York Hotels. — " The Grand Central," 667 to 677, Broad-
way ; " Grand Union," opposite Grand Central Depot ; " Inter-
national," opposite General Post Office; " Metropolitan," Broad-
way; "St. James's," Union-square. Any of these may be
selected with confidence. They are all conveniently situated in
the " Up Town " direction — that is, the more fashionable and
residential part of New York. "Down Town " is the business
portion of the city.
There are, of course, many other hotels which could be named,
and I have no object in mentioning those above and not others,
but from them there is sufficient choice. It is possible to obtain
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good accommodation at 10s. per day for room and meals, but the
table in these cases would necessarily be less elaborate than the
specimen menu cards which I have quoted. So far as New York
is concerned, in addition to the leading hotels which could be
named, there are upwards of 150 others of all grades, and at
these board and lodging can be obtained at from 28s. to £3
per week.
I have thought it requisite to give an idea of only two meals,
such as the bill of fare contained on one of the days I was staying
at a New York hotel. Its comprehensive choice is indicative of
what might be expected at most hotels charging the tariff
referred to in the leading cities. Some towns, however, are
lamentably lacking in good hotel accommodation, and in proof
of this I might instance Pittsburgh. All the leading hotels of
different cities are very much the same in character and manage-
ment. There is always plenty of life and activity about them.
Some are notoriously " political " houses, frequented by members
of Congress and the scores of wire-pullers who are always to be
found in their immediate neighbourhood.
I may say that the bill commences from the meal on the table
at the time of entering the hotel, and that the rates I have
named are for three consecutive meals per day — that is, breakfast,
lunch, and dinner, or breakfast, early dinner, and supper. Four
meals are actually laid, but if the whole are partaken of there
will be an extra one charged. No allowance is made if you do
not sit down to any of them. In some respects it may be incon-
venient to be away sight-seeing, and have to come to the meals ;
but even with those hotels conducted on the European plan the
charges for the meals are such that it just amounts to about
the same as the fixed sum per day for those on the American
plan.
Of American hotel life itself opinions would differ. In the
parlours, furnished, as I have said, in a most superb manner,
it is an exceptional thing to find a book; but this is easily
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accounted for by the fact of the company in them being very
general, so that book literature for the use of guests would be
too much to expect. There are, of course, files of newspapers in
the reading or writing rooms of all hotels. To the credit of
American hotels let it be said that there is little apparent
drinking in them. It is the exception, and not the rule, to see
wine taken at meals, and it would, I feel sure, be also readily
granted by all who have visited the States, that there is far less
open intemperance than is to be seen in some of our principal
towns.
A word of advice here will not be out of place — avoid
partaking too liberally of iced water. The very first thing
set before a guest in every hotel and restaurant is a glass
of iced water, and in the hot months this is very accept-
able. Filters containing it are also scattered about the hotel,
and if you are at all disposed you may have iced tea, iced
milk in abundance, and a variety of other drinks, treated in a
similar way, too numerous to mention. If you indulge too freely
you may have visions and dreams of a dentist, so beware ! You
will soon discover that the dental profession is one of the most
profitable in the States, and it is the excessive use of iced drinks,
followed often by hot rolls, hot bread, and other foods, which
makes this simply inevitable.
CHAPTER IV.
AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
OF the relative merits of English and American railways, and
whether travelling is more comfortable in the States than with
us and on the Continent, there is a wide diversity of opinion.
In some respects the Americans have the advantage, but in other
important details we certainly can claim it. First, and perhaps
most important, is the matter of the depots, or stations, as we
are accustomed to designate them. At those in America there
is no pretence of a platform, and as the officials are often not very
numerous, it is no difficult matter for a stranger to take his seat
in the wrong train, concerning which, when it is ready to start,
there is no proper signalling off, but the conductor simply calls
out, " All aboard ?" and in a second the train is off. Those visit-
ing the States must look out for this "All aboard?" and be
careful that they do not lose a moment in getting on the platform
of the train.
The great principle upon which life exists in America is that
the public must look after themselves, and if they do not or
cannot, the State will not do so for them. This specially applies
to railways. There are no bridges over crossings, unless in rare
instances, but simply a board bearing the injunction, " Eailroad
Crossing.-— Beware of the Engine." The railways cross and run
along some of the principal streets, and in Philadelphia and some
parts of Boston, and many other cities, a miscellaneous crowd of
foot passengers and vehicles waits on each side the rails until the
train has passed.
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The Grand Central Depot in New York City is perhaps the
finest and largest depot in the States. Money was lavished on
it, and yet for conveniences it is far behind the termini of most
of the railways running into London. The restaurant at this
large station is nothing more than a cellar, and the same may be
said of some other depots in New York, where a meal not only
costs about five times as much as it should, but is miserably
served. I was struck with this at the New Jersey central depot,
where passengers leave for Chicago and the Western cities. The
buffet is a counter, dirty and diminutive, and the food — supplied,
when I was there, by one coloured man and a boy — was such
that, on any other visit that I may make, unless I happen to be
starving, it will not have me for a customer again. When these
depots are contrasted with St. Pancras or King's Cross, or New-
street, Birmingham ; London-road Station, Manchester ; or Lime-
street, Liverpool, for conveniences and accommodation, they come
out the worse for the comparison. There are no obliging railway
porters who will, for a few coppers, take your small belongings
and find out for you a comfortable corner. The passengers on
the American railways walk down the long passage of the Pull-
man cars, loaded with their small packages, and stow them
away as best they may.
The Pullman day drawing-room and the sleeping cars are
luxuriously furnished and in every way convenient. These are
charged extra to the ordinary fares, according to the distance
travelled. From 2dols. to 4dols. additional may be accepted as
a criterion. The Pullman is really the American first class, and
that next it, designated on all the American railways as first, is
the only one which those visitors at all likely to go out simply on
a tour would care to make use of. These are the long cars with
a passage down the centre, and reversible cushioned seats on
either side to hold two in each. In every carriage are a lavatory
and stove, and the latter, even in April, is often kept burning
with anthracite coal to a most unbearable heat. When once in
American Railways.
the train there is little chance of going wrong, as the conductor
walks from end to end of it between each station. There is
always company in the carriage, and no chance of molestation in
any way, night or day, unless, of course, a man courts it. The
company is necessarily of a mixed character, but that is of no
consequence in travelling by American lines. There may be a
baby or two, but there will be no drinking from flasks, no rowdy-
ism, and I am bound to say I never yet saw an American placing
his feet on the cushion of the opposite seat in close proximity
to a lady's dress, as has often been described as a peculiarly
American mode of expressing manly independence.
At certain stations the conductor will call out, " Fifteen (or
twenty) minutes for breakfast," dinner, or supper, as the case
may be, and at all the depots where the trains are fixed to stop
in this way there is a marked difference in the accommodation
provided and the food supplied, from what I have mentioned as
being the case at the two New York depots specially named.
The usual charge for sitting down to breakfast or supper at these
restaurants is from half-a-dollar to a dollar, and for dinner from
one to two dollars, and the food is, as a rule, both good and well
served.
There is a peripatetic bookseller on every train who brings
round newspapers, books, and magazines, and, by way of change,
fruit and candy ; he walks from one end of the train to the
other, pushing his wares with the enterprise peculiar to the
country, and in a way that will sometimes strike the stranger as
being very odd.
The baggage system in operation on the American railways is
decidedly the best for long journeys, but for the many short
journeys on our English railways it is scarcely applicable. It is
only necessary for the passenger to have his luggage taken to the
baggage office, and there he can have it checked to whatever
station he likes ; he holds as a receipt for his packages brass
checks, bearing numbers which correspond with the numbered
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checks on his luggage. The passenger need not take the slightest
trouble about his luggage during the journey, for on reaching the
end of it he has only to present these brass checks, or hand them
to an " Express " agent (who enters the train several stations
before arriving at a large town), and this official will take the
luggage to wherever one wishes. Should the traveller desire to
break his journey — as there is every facility fordoing, intimation
only requiring to be given to the conductor, who will endorse
the ticket — the luggage will be kept at the station to where it
has been checked, and it is impossible for anyone else to obtain
it without the brass tokens in possession of the owner. This is
an admirable system, and works remarkably well in the States,
saving, as it does, all the worry of seeing baggage labelled and
looking after it when there are changes at junctions.
The speed of the trains on the American railways is not so
great as with us, and there are few trains for the long journeys,
but this is not to be wondered at, considering the immense mile-
age of many of the companies. The trestle bridges over rivers
and ravines will greatly interest the traveller who is in America
for the first time, unless he happens to be of a very nervous
temperament ; but all persons, whether nervous or not, I would
advise not to remain outside on the platform of the carriage when
the train is running.
In order to accomplish as much as possible in a limited time,
it will be necessary to do a little night travelling, but this to
many would not be a hardship. The Pullman sleeping cars are
quite as comfortable as a bed at an hotel. If the traveller is
not disposed to go to the expense of two dollars per night
extra for these, he will be able to make himself comfortable in
the first-class carriage with a rug and an air pillow. He will
have the consolation of not finding himself alone any time during
the journey.
With regard to fares, I have given at the end of the
book a table of rates to the leading places, but for first class
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the average in the Middle States and New England is Id. to
l|d. per mile, and from l^d. to 2£d. per mile in the Western
and Southern States, with the extra sum, as already named,
for the Pullman sleeping or day drawing-room cars. Where
there is strong competition the fares are lower. During the
early months of 1882, so great was the competition between
two companies, that each carried passengers from New York to
Chicago for 3dols., or 12s. The usual sum was, however, charged
for the return journey by both companies.
Tickets can be purchased at most hotels or ticket establish-
ments, or even from the conductor on the train. Do not buy from
the ticket " smashers " or "jobbers " who hang about some rail-
way depots.
It will be useful to know that an " air route," which the tourist
will see well advertised all over the States, means a direct line ;
and a "lightning express " is simply a fast train.
CHAPTER Y.
NEW YORK AND ITS SIGHTS.
I HAVE already referred to the matter of cab fares. These aie
exorbitantly dear, and in all cases when hiring them it is most
necessary to make the bargain beforehand ; but even by so doing
the price will seem not only excessive but most unjustifiable.
Six shillings (Idol. 50cents) is quite an ordinary fare for a
short distance, and I have known 3 dols., or 12s., paid for a
fraction over a mile, so that those hiring them will require to
know what they are about, or a few pounds in Jehus will very
soon melt. There is, however, a splendid service of tramcars —
" horse cars" they are termed in the States — stages, or
omnibuses, and the overhead railroad, of which an engraving is
given on page 31. This latter is a novelty which no other city
in the world presents. The line now almost encircles the city,
and the rails are on a level with the second-floor windows of the
houses and places of business, and in some streets higher than
this. Although accidents are not at all common on the line,
personally I prefer the tramcars, which in many streets run
underneath the ironwork of the " L " road, as the railway is called.
The speed, of course, is not so great as by rail. The fare is
10 cents (5d.) for any distance by the railway, and by the tram-
cars 5 cents, or 2^d. The streets in New York and other leading
cities, as all know who have read of America, intersect each
other at right angles, and there is a perfect network of tramways
along these, so that there is no difficulty in reaching any part of
New York and its Sights.
the city. Broadway and Fifth-avenue are the principal streets
where the tramway is not laid, and along these thoroughfares there
are running the stages, drawn by two horses, to which I have
referred. These have no conductor, the man on the box acting
in the double capacity of driver and conductor. Passengers drop
their fare (5 cents for any distance) into a box placed so that the
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driver can see it. If change is wanted, it can be obtained from
the driver, who passes it in sealed envelopes in convenient sums
through a little hole, and the person requiring this opens the
envelope and drops the right fare in the box. A more effectual
way of preventing peculation it would be impossible to imagine.
Passengers thus look after themselves, hailing the stage or
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stopping it as needed. It is not at all difficult to soon acquire
sufficient knowledge of the city to be able to move about without
great loss of time. A street map is indispensable, and will greatly
facilitate progress.
New York is a very cosmopolitan city. There is about it all
the busy aspect which has often been described. The Broadway
is frequently dangerously crowded with traffic, and the wonder is
that, considering how badly lighted and paved is the city, more
accidents do not occur. All know that New York is an island
of itself, with one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
It lies at the junction of the Hudson Eiver and East River. This
should aid largely in securing cleanliness and health to the city,
but, on account of its most corrupt municipality, the streets are
often in a dreadfully dirty condition, and the general sanitary
arrangements are very ineffectual.
The city is not prolific in prominent and special sights, but
among the first visits should be one to the Fifth-avenue. This
is the finest fashionable street in America, and one of the hand-
somest in the world. Here the cream of New York society live.
The largest of the houses in this street show to great advantage.
The two recently built by Mr. Vanderbilt, situated at the corner
of Fifty-fifth-street, are the most striking in the entire avenue ;
they are connected by a hall ; one of them is inhabited by
himself, and the other by a married daughter. In the inte-
rior furnishing of these more money has probably been lavished
than in any other house of the same size in America. Not
far from them is the house built by the late A. T. Stewart,
which is a massive and striking structure. The evidences of
wealth on every hand are apparent in this street ; to rent a
house in it is a certain passport to American society, and the
houses in the side streets, all along the avenue, are also
tenanted by well-to-do people. The churches of various deno-
minations form a very prominent feature in this avenue ; nearly
every creed is represented, and some of their edifices are
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very fine, both in exterior and interior. The Presbyterian
Church of Dr. John Hall is particularly so ;. this building cost,
when completed, a million dollars, or £200,000. Those who
take an interest in such buildings should not fail to pay this
church a visit.
Central Park. — This is the greatest boast of the New
Yorkers, and they have some reason to be proud of it. The
ornamental gardening is one of the chief features, and it aids
to make the park not only attractive but picturesque. The
lakes in it cover 185 acres, and are supplied by the Croton
Waterworks ; pleasure boats of various sizes cover the water
in the summer time, and with their little flags, and the
awnings of the larger boats, help to make a pretty and effec-
tive sight. The trees in it are not remarkable either for size
or variety, but what there are ornament delightful walks,
winding in and out among the thickets, and providing a very
pleasant shade in the summer time. The zoological houses
of the American Museum of Natural History are not of the
most comprehensive character, but contain some rare specimens.
The best collection is the aviary, which has a selection of birds
from almost every quarter of the world. The park, which is
situated at the end of the Fifth-avenue, has cost, it is stated,
ten million dollars, or £2,000,000, and the money has not been
wasted, as has been the case with very nearly every public
work in the city.
Commercial Buildings. — These of New York are among the
sights of the city. The most prominent are the newspaper
offices, such as The Herald and The Tribune-, the offices of
the Equitable Society, at Broadway and Cedar-street ; and of
the Mutual Company, Broadway and Liberty-street. " Business
palaces " are numerous, and this is not to be wondered at,
considering that the New Yorkers are above all things com-
mercial. I need not enumerate them ; Broadway, and some
of the streets branching from it, contain many. In whatever
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business those may be who contemplate going out, they will be
sure to find some commercial buildings which will be of special
interest to them.
Public Buildings. — The chief among these may be mentioned :
The Post Office, which occupies the southern extremity of
City Hall Park, opposite the Astor House. It is a most
imposing building, in the Doric and Eenaissance style of
architecture, four stories in height, and with a peculiarly-
constructed roof, surmounted by several Louvre domes. It
has a frontage of 279ft. toward the park and 144ft. toward
the south, and two equal trades of 262Jft. on Broadway
and Park Row. The walls are of granite, and the entire
cost of the building is stated as being between £1,200,000
and £1,400,000. It was completed seven years ago, and
the interior arrangements cannot fail to strike the visitor.
City Hall— in City Hall Park.
New Court House, and other city buildings — in the same park.
City Prison, named the " Tombs " — in Centre- street.
Custom House and Sub-Treasury — Wall-street.
(Wall-street is the quarter for stockbrokers, and presents a
lively appearance during the business part of the day).
Academy of Music — Fourteenth-street and Irving-place.
Academy of Designs — Twenty-third-street and Fourth-avenue.
Bible House — Eighth-street, Fourth-avenue.
Castle Garden — Battery Park, North Eiver, the emigrant
landing-place and departments.
Cooper Institute — junction of Third and Fourth Avenues.
Cotton Exchange — Hanover-square.
Christian Association Buildings — Twenty-third-street and
Fourth-avenue.
Masonic Temple — corner of Twenty-third-street and Sixth-
avenue.
Among the museums and libraries are :
The Lennox Library — near the Central Park.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Fourteenth-street, near Sixth-
avenue.
Astor Library — Lafayette-place.
Mercantile Library — for merchants and clerks, Astor-place.
Of theatres, New York has an ample supply. The chief are :
Wallack's — Thirtieth-street and Broadway.
Union-square — Fourteenth-street and Union-square.
Madison-square — West Twenty-fourth-street.
Haverley's — Fourteenth-street and Sixth-avenue.
Fifth-avenue — Twenty-eighth-street and Broadway.
Grand Opera House — Eighth-avenue and Twenty-third-street.
The most prominent squares are Mount Morris -square on the
Fifth-avenue, between One Hundred and Twentieth-street and
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth-street, embracing 20 acres ;
Madison-square, 6f acres in extent ; Union-square, 3^ acres
(of this beautiful square the engraving on the preceding page
conveys a good idea). The first of these comprises some very
handsome buildings, and the last is filled with trees and has a
large fountain in the centre. There are also here statues of
Washington and Lincoln. Washington-square is in the west
part of the city, in Fourth-street.
I may mention, with regard to the rates of admission to
theatres, that for all parts of the house, half-a-dollar (two shil-
lings) is charged, simply for entrance ; the charges for a seat in
addition range from half-a-dollar upwards. Do not buy tickets
from speculators, who are outside every place of amusement.
I have already referred to the large number of churches — there
being over 370. of all denominations in the city. The singing in
most of them is quite a special feature, being usually rendered by
professionals, who are liberally paid for their services.
Suburbs. — Brooklyn is to New York what the Surrey side is to
London, and Birkenhead to Liverpool. It may be reached from
any of the under-named ferries at the bottom of any of the
following streets : Fulton, Wall, and Catherine Streets, and Peck
New York and its Sights. 37
Slip. Fulton Ferry is the chief, and the horse cars going there are
labelled " Fulton Ferries." The suspension bridge over the East
River, from the New York to the Brooklyn side, is so gigantic a
piece of engineering, that it has already ruined several firms, and
it is impossible to say when it will be completed. Prospect Park
is a very handsome public ground, which, Brooklynites say, sur-
passes the Central Park in New York. It has a lake, dairy
cottage and barn, and a wide stretch of trees. Greenwood
Cemetery should also be visited, being one of the largest burial-
places on the globe. Costly monuments abound on every hand,
and, aided by rising ground, with lakes and shady groves, a very
picturesque scene is made up. The views from Ocean Hill and
Battle Hill in the cemetery should not be missed. Brooklyn is said
to be a city of churches. Here are the Tabernacle of Dr. Talmage
and the Plymouth Church of the Eev. Henry Ward Beecher.
Short excursions may be made from New York to Coney
Island, where is a fine sea beach, with capital bathing accommo-
dation. This island may be reached from New York by Fulton
Ferry, and by Smith and Jay-street horse cars, or by either of
the horse-car lines to Greenwood, thence by the steam cars to the
beach, or all the way by steamer from New York.
Eockaway Beach and Far Eockaway, both very picturesque
lines of coast, are on the south side of Long Island. This district
is always cool, even in the hottest weather. The sight of some
thousand or more people, of either sex, bathing together a la
Fran$ais} in the warmer months, will not be soon forgotten ; and
this sight, with the crowds of people on the beach partaking of
shell-fish of every imaginable size and description, will be one
long remembered. The beach has been celebrated by a popular
song, commencing
On old Long Island's sea-girt shore
Many an hour I've whiled away,
Listening to the breakers' roar
That washed the beach of Rockaway.
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Manhattan Beach is another pleasure resort, which should not
on any account be missed. The monster hotel here will surprise
many who come from Europe. Long Branch, on the New Jersey
side, is a very enjoyable resort. It was here that the late
President Garfield died. There is hotel accommodation for about
forty thousand visitors, so that its popularity may be easily
judged. The summer residences of many conspicuous Americans
are here. Staten Island, the largest in the harbour, is very
A visit should also be made to High Bridge, reached by a
small steamer from Harlem, by Harlem Eiver E.E., from Grand
Central Depot, or by carriage drive through the Central Park.
The Croton Aqueduct crosses the Harlem River, and is a
magnificent structure. It is built of granite, and spans the
valley from cliff to cliff. It is 1450ft. long, and 114ft. high,
supported on fourteen massive piers. At the south end of it is
an immense reservoir, the water of which is pumped into it by
special machinery.
CHAPTER VI.
UP THE HUDSON.
SOME of the prettiest scenery in America is to be found in
the State of New York, and a more enjoyable trip cannot be had
than one up the Hudson to Albany, or further north than this
city if the tourist has time for it. Many enthusiastic writers
about the River Hudson claim for it that, although it lacks the
ruined castles which are to be found along the banks of the
Rhine, and notwithstanding that the wild and romantic character
of some of the Scotch lakes is also absent, yet the scenery along
each side of it quite equals that of either. Every bend of the
stream, after a certain point has been reached, reveals some new
beauty, providing a rich variety of objects of interest. The river
takes its rise in the Adirondack Mountains, in the northern part
of the State. Unless the time of the visitor is more limited
than the period named on the title-page of this book, it will be
more enjoyable to journey to Albany the whole distance by the
river. American steamboats are a sight in themselves, and their
structure and general luxuriousness will be matters of attrac-
tiveness to the tourist the first time he steps on one, which may
probably be in taking the short trip now indicated.
The morning boats leave New York at an early hour, but
there is also an afternoon boat. On all there is ample accommo-
dation for dining and sleeping. The chief points of interest
begin after arriving at West Point, which is a journey by rail
(Hudson River Railway) of from two to four hours. The first
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stopping place of prominence is Westchester, where many New
York merchants reside, in villas that will at once strike the
visitor for their variety in styles of architecture and building
materials. On the western side of the river, after passing Spuy-
tenduyvel, and at Fort Lee begin the Palisades. This is the
term applied to immense masses of rock rising perpendicularly
out of the water, and that extend in one unbroken line for more
than twenty miles ; this wall of rock rises in many places
to the height of 300ft., but for the greater part of the distance
the height is lower and more uniform. The summit of these
cliffs is thickly wooded, and until a few years ago no sign
of habitation could be noticed on the top of them. Now a
large hotel indicates life and civilisation, and this crowns one
of the taller rocks; pretty villas have also been erected. The
Palisades are narrow, being in some places not more than
three-quarters of a mile wide, the top being singularly level, and
affording a long narrow tableland. During the heat of summer
these rocks afford a delightfully cool place, where long rambles
may be taken on the level surface in the pleasant shade of the
trees.
Tarrytown, the next place, is where Washington Irving resided.
This name, he says, was given in former times by the house-
wives of the neighbouring country, in consequence of the
inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the
village taverns on market days. Sing Sing, the State prison, is
also near here.
The next stopping place of interest is Peekskill, and after
leaving here the Highlands of the Hudson are entered. These
present a continual change of rich scenery.
West Point is the next stopping place of importance. Here
are the Military Academy Docks. The military school is one of
the first of its kind in America. The cadets' parade, morning
and evening, is quite a sight. After leaving West Point, the
Storm King, the largest hill of the range, is seen, and on
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the opposite side is Cornwall Landing, round about which there
is some admirable scenery. Newburgh comes next, which shows
all the life of a large trade. On the bluffs below it were Wash-
ington's head-quarters, and other reminders are present of the
struggle of a hundred years ago.
Poughkeepsie follows, and it is from this place that the
greatest beauty of the river scenery commences. Near it is
Vassar College, where from three to four hundred young ladies
live for a few years an academic life, with examinations as severe
as at Harvard, Yale, or other universities for the sterner sex.
The college stands in its own grounds, which cover 'some two
hundred acres. After leaving Poughkeepsie, the Catskill Moun-
tains, which can be seen for a very long distance from the river,
begin now to assume a nobler aspect, and form a striking back-
ground to the beautiful scenery stretching from them to the river-
side. Catskill Station is the landing place for the mountains,
for those who desire to remain for a time in this delightful spot.
Here there are always stage coaches waiting, which will convey
the tourists through Sleepy Hollow, where Eip Van Winkle is
fabled to have had his long, deep sleep. All along here are
districts patronised largely by holiday people from the various
cities of the State. The remaining part of the journey, from
Catskill to Albany, can either be performed by the boat or by
rail. Albany is the capital of the State of New York. It is
very picturesquely situated, and now a flourishing city, with a
large and increasing trade. Eight railways terminate in or pass
through it. Within easy distance are several thriving villages,
one of which — Lebanon — is the chief centre of the Shaker com-
munity, with their peculiar forms of worship. Troy is eight
miles only from Albany, with a choice of reaching it by street
car, omnibus, or railway. This is quite a flourishing town ; a
variety of trades are carried on, and it possesses also some of the
most extensive lumber and timber depots of the world.
Glen Falls and Saratoga Springs are well deserving of a visit
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if the tourist has time for it. These places lie conveniently
north of Albany, but I would remind the reader that Saratoga
has the reputation of being excessively dear. It affords, however,
a capital idea of what a fashionable season resort is like in America.
Before taking this trip up the Hudson, the tourist should
decide whether he will come back to New York or go on to
Boston by rail, which can easily be done. There are two lines
of steamers that go up and down the Hudson — the New Jersey
Steamboat Company, or the People's Line, and the Troy Steam-
boat Company. If time is very limited, take train by the New
York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad for West Point or
Poughkeepsie, and proceed thence to Albany by boat. This,
however, must all depend on what leisure there may be at
disposal.
The fare from New York to Albany is 2dols. (8s.), and the
time occupied about ten hours for the whole distance of 148
miles. The journey by rail takes five hours, and the fare is
3dols. lOc. (12s. 5d.). The hotels at the latter place are the
Stanwix Hall and the Delavan and Congress Hall, at 3dols. per
day. The journey by rail from Albany to Boston occupies about
six hours.
As a special object of interest at Albany, I may name the New
Capitol, which was commenced in 1871. It is claimed to be
the largest and most splendid edifice in America, next to the
Capitol at Washington. The style is Eenaissance, and the chief
material Maine granite. State- street contains State Hall, the
State Library, with its 86,000 volumes, and an interesting col-
lection of curiosities and historical relics, including Washington's
dress sword and pistol.
Should the tourist return to New York and then purpose
leaving for Boston, the best route to select is the Fall Eiver Line.
Sometimes, in the season, there is some very brisk competition
among the companies for this traffic. The usual fare is 5dols..
but it often comes down to 3dols.
CHAPTER VII.
BOSTON.
I HAVE already mentioned that it was optional whether the tourist
went direct to Boston from Albany or returned to New York, pro-
ceeding afterwards to the first-named city. Adopting the latter
plan, one of several available routes can be selected. For variety
in travel, the Fall Eiver route is preferable, being partially by
land and partially by water. The steamers running on the river
would afford a further opportunity of observing to what a high
state of perfection the Americans have brought river travelling.
These powerful and peculiarly-constructed boats are different
from those in use in any other country in the world, except the
adjoining Dominion of Canada. The only fault, to a nervous
traveller, perhaps, is that they go too fast, and that they steam
at times dangerously near each other, but this is a matter to which
the tourist will soon become well accustomed. If the rail journey
is preferred for the whole distance, there is a good train leaves
New York at 11.85 p.m., due in Boston the next morning at
7.55 a.m. The fare is 5dols., Pullman sleeping car extra ; this
is by the New York and New England Eailroad from the Grand
Central Depot. The Fall Eiver line takes about three hours
longer, the fare being 4dols., or 16s. The leading sights by this
route are the Penal and Benevolent institutions on Blackwell's
Island, Eandall's Island, and Ward's Island. " Hell Gate " is
not an attractive name or place, but its rocky dangers account,
perhaps, for its designation. These and other chief points of
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interest will be passed in the evening, the boat leaving at 4.0 or
5.0 p.m., according to the season ; the remainder of the water
journey affords few attractions.
Those interested in colleges and similar buildings would be sure
to select the rail route in order to pass through New Haven, the
largest city in Connecticut. Its origin dates back to 1638. Here
is Yale College, founded in 1700 ; besides its academic depart-
ment, the college has a law school, a medical school, a scientific
school, a theological school, and a school of fine arts. The library,
a very handsome building, has about 100,000 volumes. In the
art building are valuable collections of historical paintings, Italian
pictures, and casts from Greek antiquities. The entire buildings
are most interesting.
The available hotels are the St. James's, United States, and
Eivere House, at 3dols. per day, or, in the latter case, more,
according to the location of the bedroom. The Maverick Hotel,
Maverick-square, East Boston, is another house which may be
named, but, on account of having to cross the ferry to and
from Boston proper, seme inconvenience would probably be
experienced.
Of the two cities, Boston is better paved and lighted than New
York. It is the capital of Massachusetts, and the Bostonians
claim that it is the intellectual metropolis of the New World.
The Boston merchants are said to be the most enterprising in all
the States, the "'drummers" (or travellers) the boldest, and the
ladies the prettiest. How far this is true is not for me to " guess;"
the tourist must judge for himself, and he will, doubtless, have
good opportunity for doing so. Boston and Philadelphia are
much more representative of Trans-Atlantic towns than is
cosmopolitan New York. Most English visitors would very soon
find themselves at home, so genial and hospitable are the
Bostonians ; and in no part of the States is the feeling towards
England and Englishmen so warm and genuine as it is found in
this city. The streets are, as I have said, better paved than
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those in New York, but they are much more irregular, and are
not laid out at right angles. There is, in fact, an old-standing
joke that "they were laid out by the cows going to pasture." It
is as easy to get lost in its winding thoroughfares as it is in
Chester or Bristol. In addition to these features Boston possesses
several buildings of historical interest, the chief of which is the
Old State House, erected in 1748, and used for many years as
the head-quarters of the State Legislature. Faneuil Hall is
another building of more than ordinary interest. It is situated
in a square, bearing its name, but the hail itself is best known as
the " Cradle of Liberty." It was erected in 1742, by an old
Huguenot merchant, and contains some national pictures illustra-
tive of scenes of the early struggles of the patriots for indepen-
dence. Fire destroying it, it was rebuilt in 1761, and for some
time prior to 1776 it served as a barracks for the British troops.
General Washington entered the city, and the troops of George
the Third were sent to the rightabout. Whenever any great
question, political or social, is to be discussed by the Bostonians,
this is their place of meeting. No money is ever allowed to be
taken at the door, and an old charter forbids the sale or lease of
this historic edifice.
Fortunately for the reputation of the Boston hackmen, the
fares here are more reasonable than is the case in New York.
For one passenger per course in the city proper, one dollar ; and
each additional passenger, 50 cents ; from midnight until 6 a.m.,
double the above fares.
Other antiquities are "Brattle-street Church," with one of the
round shot still embedded in the front wall as a memento of the
Charlestown bombardment during the War of Independence;
" Ordway Hall," in Province Court House, which was once the
residence of the colonial governors; and "Liberty Tree," on
Boston Common, with a history dating back to Puritan times,
and often the scene now of many patriotic gatherings. Of this
common the Bostonians are as proud as Londoners are of any of
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their parks. It is triangular in shape, and covers nearly fifty
acres. It is beautifully shaded with stately elms, and has about it
a homely charm, which makes the New Englanders rejoice in it-
Adjoining the common are the "Public Gardens," in which there
is a small but very pretty lake, derisively called the "Frog Pond.'
COMMONWEALTH-AVENUE, BOSTON.
The ornamental gardening in these grounds and the equestrian
statue of Washington are especially to be noticed.
The most prominent streets are "Washington," as a com-
mercial street ; "Beacon "and "Tremont" Streets, as fashion-
able thoroughfares, where milliners and tailors largely congregate ;
Boston.
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" State," " Congress," and other streets branching from the
Old Court House, for insurance, financial, law, and similar
offices. Around the common are also a number of
other fashionable streets which will interest the visitor.
" Bunker's Hill Monument," on Breed's Hill, is a spot to
be early visited as the birthplace of American Nat ional Inde-
pendence. It is a high and massive tower, built square, and
CITY HALL, BOSTON.
from its summit can be obtained an excellent view of the whole
city and country for miles round. It is a stiff climb up, but
certainly worth the labour.
There are many beautiful avenues, of which Commonwealth-
avenue is perhaps the finest. It is 240ft. wide, and through the
centre runs a long park, with rows of trees, as will be seen from
the illustration given on page 46.
Among the chief public buildings may be named the Public
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Free Library, a very fair indication, with its several branches, of
the intellectual status of the Bostonians ; and the Custom House,
Exchange, and Post Office, in State-street. In School-street is
the City Hall, of which an engraving is shown on page 47. It
is built of white Concord granite, in the Italian Eenaissance
style, and is surmounted by a Louvre dome 109ft. high; the
total cost of it was over £100,000. Opposite this is an immense
statue of Franklin. The general and city hospitals may likewise
be mentioned. The various bridges connecting the suburbs with
the city proper are noticeable. The suburbs are — Cambridge on
the west, Charlestown on the north, and Chelsea and East
Boston on the east. It will be remembered that Charlestown
Harbour played an important part in the Civil War.
Another place of interest is the Museum of Fine Arts, in
Art-square, which is an elegant building, richly adorned with
terra-cotta bas-reliefs, copings, and mouldings. The picture
galleries here contain as good and valuable a selection as will be
found in the States. Of public libraries Boston can claim to
have an exceptionally large number. The Free Library named
above has over 260,000 volumes, besides 100,000 pamphlets,
and a collection of engravings. The Athenseum, an imposing
edifice in the Palladian style, has 96,000 volumes in its library.
The Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the same buildings, has
a library of over 15,000 volumes.
The harbour of Boston is one of the best and most spacious
on the coast. Frequent excursions to different points take place
during the summer season, and, by taking a steamer to Hing-
ham, from Liverpool Wharf, the principal islands (some of them
very pretty), and also the fortifications, may be seen.
Plymouth is only a short distance from Boston, and should
be visited. Here the Pilgrim Fathers landed in 1620, in the
"Mayflower." In every period of American history the character
of the descendants of these families, who sought in a new
country freedom from the persecution which had driven them
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from their native land, has been stamped on the New
Englanders. They have been foremost in adherence to prin-
ciples in every national struggle which the country has passed
through. They were the first to take the lead in the revo-
lutionary contest against the mother country, over a hundred
years ago, and in the Civil War they were foremost to assert
the rights of the slave, and to find the sinews of War for that
gigantic struggle. At Plymouth is the monument showing the
landing place of our countrymen ; and Pilgrim's Hall, in which
are a number of "Mayflower" relics, will be of interest to all
who visit the place.
Cambridge, a suburb, as stated, should not be neglected.
The tramway runs the whole distance, about three miles from
the city. The residence of the late Henry Wadsworth Long-
fellow will be shown by the tram conductor. This house was
formerly the headquarters of Washington, and so, on this
account, has a double interest. With the freedom which
characterises all things American, it is usual for visitors, even
if they have not an introduction to the house, to enter and walk
round the grounds. It is a very picturesque spot, and I shall not
readily forget my saunter there a few years ago, when I was
fortunate in having the only sight I ever had of the great
poet. The chief buildings at Cambridge are those of Harvard
University, comprising altogether some fifteen to twenty different
structures. If the college is in session, the interest attaching
to the visit will be greatly enhanced. The Anatomical Museum
and the Observatory are special objects to be visited. Near at
hand, also, is the tree under which Washington took command
of the American forces. It is around Harvard and Yale College,
in Connecticut, that much of the intellectual life of the States
centres. It has been my good fortune to meet not a few
students who have passed through one or the other, and also
professors, and from facts gathered from these gentlemen I
think their whole system of training has much to recommend it.
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There will be no difficulty in seeing over, at any reasonable
hour, some of the buildings. Mount Auburn Cemetery, about
four miles from the city, and Wenham Lake, which largely
-supplies Europe with ice, should be also seen.
Concord is a pretty little town on the Concord branch of the
Merrimac River, where lived Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and other celebrities who have passed away, and
where to-day reside Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mr. Charles
W. Clemence, better known as "Mark Twain."
Lynn is within easy distance, too, of Boston. This is the
seat of American shoe manufacturing, and gives one a capital
idea of an industrial centre on the other side of the Atlantic.
CHAPTER VIII.
MONTREAL.
As the natural wish of all making a first visit to the United
States would be to see Niagara Falls, I would suggest that,
instead of going direct to there from Boston or New York, they
should travel first to Montreal. This, with a visit to Toronto,
within easy distance of the Falls, and one or two other cities,
would enable the tourist to have a brief but very interesting
sight of a portion of Canada, which could not fail to greatly
enhance the pleasure of the tour.
There is a choice of several routes, the distance varying
according to that selected. It can be reached by the Lowell and
Vermont Central Railroad, the distance being 334 miles ; or via
Fitchburg and Eutland, 344 miles ; or through Portland by the
Boston and Maine Eailroad, which joins with the Grand Trunk
Line of Canada, and so has direct communication with Montreal.
There is the choice of a good train which leaves Boston at
5.0 p.m. in the evening, due in Montreal at about 8.0 a.m. the
following morning, or a day train leaving at about 8.0 a.m., and
occupying fourteen hours on the journey. The first-class fare is
about 8dols., or 32s.
The chief points of interest on the route are Lawrence, noted
for its cotton and print manufactories, which lie scattered along
the banks of the Merrimac River. These mills, with those at
Manchester and Lowell, are the largest in the States in these
industries — the district is, in fact, the Lancashire of America —
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and for cleanliness and conveniently-arranged manufacturing
centres, they convey a very favourable impression. Anyone
interested in these important trades would not pass through the
districts named without remaining for a day or so to go over
some of the mills — a privilege which it is not by any means
difficult to obtain.
Exeter, lying on Exeter Eiver, has a good coasting trade and
several important factories. Newmarket Junction connects with
Concord, or direct on to Portsmouth on the Piscatagua Eiver.
There is a good harbour here, and it is also the seat of one of
the United States Navy Yards.
Portland is a flourishing commercial city, lying on a peninsula
at the south-west of Casco Bay. Since a large fire, which
occurred in this town in 1866, its newly-built streets have a
striking and attractive appearance. Congress-street is the most
important business thoroughfare of the town. The prominent
buildings are the City Hall, Court House, and Marine Hospital.
A capital view of the White Mountains can be obtained from
the Observatory, which overlooks the harbour. Between Port-
land and Montreal there is not much of special interest, and
unless the time at the disposal of the tourist is longer than six
weeks, and there are points which he desires to explore, such as
the White Mountains and other places, I would counsel a direct
journeying from Boston to Montreal.
The Victoria Bridge, across the Eiver St. Lawrence, which is
nearly two miles long, cost, it is said, considerably over a million
pounds to build. It is in tubular form, on the same plan as the
Menai Bridge, on twenty-three spans of 242ft. each, with a
centre one of 330ft. The late Eobert Stephenson was its
chief constructor, and it was opened by the Prince of Wales in
1860.
The hotels in Montreal are numerous, and the number of
representatives of these generally present at the depot on the
arrival of the trains is rather bewildering. The comical manner
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in which they call out, one after the other, the names of their
respective hotels is very amusing. Of this elaborate choice,
selection may be made of the St. Lawrence Hall, or the Windsor
Hotel, the best of the two, at 3dols., or 12s. 6d., per day,
American plan. There are also a number of cafes and boarding
houses on a smaller scale. Good accommodation can be obtained
at some of these for 2dols. per day. The use of the omnibus
from the depot to the hotel will be put down in the bill at 2s.,
or even a dollar if there is much luggage.
The view of Montreal from the terminus of the Grand Trunk
Railway is very disappointing, but when the city is explored and
its different points of interest visited, this feeling invariably
gives place to one of admiration. The illustration on the
preceding page gives a good view of the city from the Eiver St.
Lawrence. The visitor will, by the time that he reaches the
capital of the Canadian Dominion, have become accustomed to
the wooden pavements ; these, in the hot months of the year,
become so heated that they are somewhat uncomfortable to walk
upon.
Montreal conveys a very good idea of the progress which
Canada has made during, say, the last twenty-five years. It
is the largest and most prosperous of the cities in British
North America. There are many Americans who argue that
Canada certainly has not progressed with the rapidity which has
characterised the States. Whether this is so or not it can
scarcely form part of our present work to inquire into, but my
own conviction is that the leading cities of Canada will compare
very favourably with the cities of the States. I may mention,
in passing, that one reason given for the slow rate of progress
which Canada can claim for herself, is that her population has in
it a strong French element, who, it is asserted, do not make the
most enterprising colonists. In Montreal alone there are some
20,000, principally engaged as work-people in the lighter trades,
such as the making up of millinery, clothing, and fur caps. The
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Catholic Cathedral of Notre Dame, standing in the Place
d'Armes in the street bearing the name of the church, and which
comfortably holds 10,000 people, is an evidence of the French
prominence in the population. This is a fine building, Gothic in
style, with two tall towers, from the tops of which there is a
magnificent view of the city and its precincts, which should not
be missed. The Eiver St. Lawrence lies at the foot of the city,
and on the rapidly rising ground from the river a large number
of new and costly residences have been built, which convey a
very good idea of Montreal's commercial prosperity. These
houses are built chiefly of greyish limestone from adjacent quarries ;
and, with its tall spires and glittering roofs and domes, and the
beautiful villas that stud its lofty background of Mount Eoyal,
the city presents as attractive and picturesque a panorama as can
be found in any part of Canada or the States. Mount Eoyal will
repay the tourist for the rather arduous climb up to its summit.
Very pleasantly cool in August is the top of this elevated ground,
and a number of pretty little villas of wood, scattered all about,
betoken how many of the well-to-do citizens of Montreal reside
there.
The public and commercial buildings of the city are numerous.
Among these the City Hall is the most prominent, and, as a
municipal building, will compare very favourably with many on
this side of the Atlantic. Others are the Court House; the
Bank of Montreal, near the Cathedral ; the McGill College, at the
foot of Mount Eoyal ; Bonsecours Market, on the quay, which
has a large dome and capital internal arrangements ; and St.
Patrick's Hall, in Victoria-square. The handsome Nelson
Monument will also be noticed. Of churches and chapels there
is ample choice, and some of these, for chasteness in style of
architecture and for interior fittings, would very suitably afford
models for such buildings in this country. The chief commercial
thoroughfare is St. Paul-street, and Notre Dame and Great St.
James Streets are noted for extensive shops, or "stores," to use
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the trans-Atlantic phrase. The fine quays along the river
present, during seven or eight months of the year, a lively scene
of excitement in the coming and going of large and small
steamers. As two additional attractions, I may mention that the
church of the Jesuits contains a good collection of pictures by
the old masters, and one of three nunneries may be visited at
certain seasons of the year if the visitor has any desire to do so.
Many excursions of interest can be made from Montreal, but the
most indispensable, and what would to many be the gem of the
whole tour, would be a sail up the Lachine Eapids, which should
on no account be missed by the visitor. For the benefit of those
who may not have an opportunity of "shooting the rapids " for
themselves, the description given in the following chapter
will be of interest.
CHAPTER IX.
SHOOTING THE RAPIDS.
" SHOOTING the rapids " means everything that this rather
startling title indicates. Shooting a river weir is a pastime
sometimes resorted to, but that bears about as much resemblance
to shooting the rapids as bathing in a ten-inch water bucket does
to a splash in a large swimming bath. There is no occasion to
understand from this that it is a piece of bravery on the part of
the person who pays his fare to undergo the operation. Not a
bit of it. You keep your seat or walk about, in a good-sized
steamer which does the "shooting" business, the care and respon-
sibility of which steamer and passengers lie in the hands of the
man at the wheel and the pilot. Personally, I would rather be
a "sandwich man" walking between two advertising boards,
navigating the Strand on a windy day, than I would be either a
pilot or a helmsman on board one of those steamers.
I left Montreal about four in the afternoon by one of the
steam-cars of the Grand Trunk Railway, and travelled down to
Lachine. The line runs almost parallel with the Eiver St.
Lawrence the whole distance, and is dotted with numerous pretty
villa residences, built of wood in the orthodox style of Canadian
architecture. As well as owning some 2500 miles of track, the
Grand Trunk Eailway Company are also the proprietors of a
number of steamers which ply on the river. These steamers
are not as large as those sailing between Birkenhead and
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Liverpool, although larger than those on the Thames, nor do
they vie in interior accommodation with the splendid vessels of
the Cunard Company, but are, nevertheless, luxuriously fitted up.
They are used, I may incidentally remark, very extensively by
the Canadians for picnics ; and a day's sail in one of them
down to the Thousand Islands — another trip which should be
made by the tourist if he has time — costs only 5s. each person,
exclusive of meals. The fare for the round trip — that is, to
Lachine by rail and back by steamer — costs only 2s., first
The Lachine Eapids are between seven and eight miles west of
Montreal, and are the most dangerous of a succession of rapids in
the St. Lawrence Eiver. Steamers, however, descend them in
safety, but smaller craft would speedily come to grief. Although
the passage of the rapids is dangerous, a sense of pleasurable
excitement takes the place of timidity in the minds of tourists in
general. The pilot is insensible to fear, though not to the
responsibility which rests upon him. Accidents have occurred,
but not for some years.
I took my seat in the bow of the steamer, and waited expec-
tantly for the approaching of the rapids. We steamed on for a
considerable distance before any perceptible difference in the
water could be noticed. A portion of the river was passed in
which scarcely a ripple could be discerned, and I learned after-
wards that this is one of the deepest parts of the St. Lawrence.
The width at this place is about four miles. Away we steamed,
and a gurgling of the water could now be easily seen. This
gradually increased, until we reached a spot where the water was
dashing in tons over massive rocks, just between two of which
our boat sailed. The noise of the water grew greater as we pro-
gressed, until the whole of that around the boat became furiously
restless. Two men were now at the helm, and the pilot did not
move his eyes off one particular spot. On we sped, and the water
boiled around us as 'if a very Nebuchadnezzar's furnace were
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below it. The spray was dashed upwards for a score of feet, and
the steamer began to pitch in a frantic manner. The force of the
water against the sides of the vessel was simply terrible. A
thought flashed through my mind : Suppose the chains of the
rudder should snap — what then ? I could imagine no one
escaping, except by a miracle, from those rolling, tumbling,
maddened waves, dashing headlong over gigantic rocks of a
thousand years' standing. One moment we were on the top of a
wave, and below we could see the deep trough, with the water
running hither and thither, searching, as it were, for a quiet
resting place and failing to find it. The whole waves appeared
in a state of civil war. Half the water is American and the other
half British, and there was every resemblance of war to the knife.
The river was as varied in its colour as it was in the direction of
its currents. One narrow strip just beneath our bow was as
black as midnight, and a little way from our boat was a track of
bright blue. These and other colours, fringed with white foam,
made a picture in my mind which will never fade away. I
would willingly go all the distance from London to Canada to
spend another hour on those rapids. During the most dangerous
and the most interesting portion of them, I was not conscious of
taking breath. I do not remember hearing a single word spoken
by anyone for at least ten minutes. All appeared to be under
the spell of an excitement, intense and enjoyable. We left the
rapids at last by a very sudden turn of the boat, and I could not
suppress the wish to see us wheel round and try the journey the
other way. But such desire was of no avail, as we were rapidly
nearing Montreal. Even very timid people feel heedless of the
danger, but I am sure that the heedlessness arises from a sense
of confidence in the steamer and its officers. You know, or pro-
bably learn, that all the officials are doing that sort of thing
every day when the river is navigable. Nevertheless, we felt a
considerable amount of admiration for the pilot. As we steamed
towards Montreal he took the trouble to point out to me the
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prominent public buildings ; he also told me that he had been a
pilot on the St. Lawrence for over ten years, and gave me other
particulars of his history. A few days afterwards I stood by
the Niagara Falls, but previously I was on the rapids, and perhaps
that is the reason why I experienced more pleasure in the one
case than the other. I was awed with Niagara, but I experienced
sensations of a different nature when " shooting the rapids."
CHAPTER X.
QUEBEC AND OTTAWA.
A VISIT to Quebec must be quite optional with the visitor if he
desires to be home again within a limited time. Personally, I
did not visit this city on the occasion of my first crossing the
Atlantic for a six weeks' holiday. It could, however, be in-
cluded in a tour extending over this period, as it is only an eight
hours' journey from Montreal, the distance being 178 miles by
the Grand Trunk Eailway. If the time of the year is favour-
able, it is by far the preferable plan to go by steamer up the
Sfc. Lawrence, the distance being 260 miles. The fare is
usually, for first class, including state rooms and meals, 3dols.
(12s.), and, second class, without meals, as low as 4s. The
fare is considerably higher by rail.
As I have already remarked, there is at times considerable
variation in fares, especially where there is competition, so that
the fares I name must be accepted as approximate rather than
the exact amount.
The river journey is cheap, as will be seen, and affords views
of as fine scenery as could be wished for. Quebec has been
called the " Gibraltar of America," on account of the extensive
fortifications of the " Citadel," which occupy some forty acres,
and are considered to be impregnable. It is the oldest city
after Montreal, and becomes of increasing importance each year,
not only for its lumber and timber markets, but for its general
maritime trade. Boots and shoes, furniture, and machinery are
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also manufactured largely in Quebec. The city is divided into
the Upper and Lower Town, the descent from the latter to the
Upper Town being by Mountain-street — a very appropriate name,
for it is a steep and winding thoroughfare. The Lower Town
represents the commercial part of the city, and is built around
the base of the promontory. The most conspicuous buildings of
the Upper Town proper are the Seminary and Laval University,
the Ursulines, and the Hospital or Hotel Dieu. There is also
here a Jesuit College, which was founded as far back as 1633,
but was after 1812 occupied as a barracks. St. Louis and St.
John are very pretty suburbs of the Upper City, and contain a
large number of private residences. Here also are several
conventual establishments and churches. A labyrinth of
irregular streets make up the busiest part of the Lower Town.
St. Paul-street stretches westward on the narrow strand between
the cliff and the bay, and contains many manufactories and
other commercial establishments.
The hotels are : St. Louis, in St. Louis-street, near Durham-
terrace, and the Russell House, corner of Ann and Garden
Streets ; from 3dols. to 4dols. per day.
The Plains of Abraham are reached via the St. Louis Gate.
Here Wolfe, the English general, fell in the memorable battle
of 13th September, 1759, and a column of not large proportions
has been erected to his memory.
From Quebec, several interesting excursions may be made.
The Isle of Orleans, by ferry-boat ; the Falls of Montmorenci,
eight miles below Quebec ; other falls are Chaudiere, eighteen
miles from the city, which are reached via Point Levi, on the
opposite side of the St. Lawrence. Here the river plunges in a
sheet 350ft. wide over a precipice 150ft. high, and presents a
very striking sight. ,
Even a very brief visit to the Dominion would, of course, be
very incomplete if Ottawa, the seat of Government and where
the Governor-General resides, were not seen. It may be reached
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from Montreal up the Ottawa Biver, the distance being 100
miles, or via Grand Trunk Railway to Prescott Junction, and then
•via St. Lawrence and Ottawa B.B., 170 miles.
The Bussell House, Daniels' and the Albion Hotels, may be
mentioned. Charges, 2dols. 50c. to 3dols. 50c. per day.
Ottawa is divided into the Upper and the Lower Town by the
Bideau Canal, which passes through it and connects it with
Kingston on Lake Ontario. Within the city proper two bridges
span the river, one of stone and the other of stone and iron, and
it has eight very large locks. Outside the city precincts there
are also bridges connecting Ottawa with the suburban towns of
Hull and New Edinburgh, districts very picturesque certainly,
but widely different from the towns on this side of the Atlantic
from which they take their names. The majority of the streets
are wide and regular, and present during the day, especially when
the Dominion Parliament is sitting, a very busy aspect. Sparks
and Sussex Streets are among the most prominent.
The population of the capital is rapidly increasing. Anyone
interested in the timber trade may have an opportunity of
witnessing, in the immediate neighbourhood of the city, the most
extensive operations in the rafting and sawing of lumber and
pine of any district in the whole range of the continent. Flour
mills, foundries, and engineering works are to be found in con-
siderable number and size.
The points of attraction, of course, in the city are the Parlia-
ment House and Government buildings. They form three sides
of a very large quadrangle on Barrack Hill, some 150ft. above
the river. Parliament Hoase forms the south side of the quad-
Tangle, and is 472ft. long and 572ft. deep from the front of the
main tower to the rear of the library. The central tower is
180ft. high, and the body of the building 40ft. high. The
departmental buildings are on the north of Parliament House,
and form the east and west sides of the quadrangle. The
eastern block is 318ft. long by 253ft. deep, and the western
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211ft. long by 277ft. deep. Here are the Post Office, model
department of the Patent Office, and various Government offices.
The buildings cost a total sum of 4,000,000 dols., or £800,000,
and are constructed in the Italian-Q-othic style, of cream-coloured
sandstone — a native stone found in large quantities in the
Dominion. The roofs are covered with green and purple slates,
and the pinnacles are ornamented with iron, relieved with various
coloured paints. The Senate Hall is close by the main entrance ;
it is luxuriously furnished and capacious. The viceregal canopy
and throne are at one end of this hall, and at the other end are
a marble statue and a portrait of Queen Victoria, together with
full-length portraits, painted by Sir Joshua Eeynolds, of George
III. and Queen Charlotte. The Chamber of Commons is on the
left of the entrance hall, and contains some beautiful marble
columns and arches. In the library are about 45,000 volumes.
The quadrangle has a very pretty appearance, it being laid out
with trees and flowers. Should the House be in session at the
time of the visit, there would be no difficulty in obtaining
admission to the galleries. Often the presenting of a card to the
doorkeeper will secure it. Eideau Hall, the official residence of
the Governor-General, the Marquis of Lome, is in New Edinburgh,
across the Ottawa Eiver, and is a very fashionable district.
Students of colonial architecture will have much in this district
to gratify their curiosity.
Notre Dame, the Eoman Catholic cathedral, is a very handsome
building. It has double spires, 200ft. high. There is a painting,
said to be by Murillo, "The Flight into Egypt." The buildings
of the Ladies' College are also worth noting. The falls of the
river will be a source of great interest to the visitor. Chaudiere
Falls are 40ft. high, and over 200ft. wide ; they are near the
centre of the river, and have many features of grandeur. The
water of the Chaudiere (or cauldron) Great Falls is very deep,
the sounding line not having found a bottom at 300ft. Below
these falls there is a splendid suspension bridge, from which a
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capital view can be obtained. The Little Chaudiere Falls are a
mile from Ottawa, and are eclipsed by those within the precincts
of the city. Eideau Falls and De Cheyne Bapids, the latter
about eight miles from Ottawa, are worth a visit if the tourist is
so disposed. The timber "shoots," running alongside the falls,
convey a capital idea of the immensity of the Canadian lumber
trade.
CHAPTER XI.
TORONTO.
THE distance from Montreal to Toronto is 333 miles by Grand
Trunk Eailway, or the whole distance can be made by steamer,
on the Eiver St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, if the visitor has
inclination and time ; and the sail is a most enjoyable one.
Toronto is a typical Canadian city. It is situated on a bay of
Lake Ontario, and presents, with its lake trade, a thriving
aspect. It was founded in 1794 ; and, in passing, I may say that
" Toronto " means, in the language of the North American
Indians, " the place of meeting." There are many commercial
buildings of interest in the leading thoroughfares of King
and Yonge-streets. The latter street extends through a flourish-
ing agricultural district to Lake Simcoe, which is thirty-six
miles distant from the city, and affords an unbroken drive the
entire distance.
The University of Toronto is a splendid structure, standing in
a large park, and approached by an avenue half-a-mile long,
lined with double rows of fine trees. The college was founded
fifty-five years ago, and has a liberal endowment. Access to the
main portions of the buildings is easy. Knox College, a Pres-
byterian institution, is a prominent pile of buildings, near the
university just named. The Post Office, the City Hall in Front-
street, near Lake Shore, Lawrence Market, Custom House,
Osgood Hall, and Merchants' Exchange, should all be visited.
Osgood Hall, in Queen-street, is an imposing building of the
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Ionic order, and contains the provincial law courts and a large
law library.
The (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. James, corner of King-street,
is a very handsome building, in the Gothic style of the thirteenth
century. Some of the prettiest churches and chapels in the
entire Dominion are to be found in Toronto. The Normal
School, the Model Schools, the Educational Museum, Trinity
College, the General Hospital, and the Crystal Palace, in which
are held annual exhibitions of the products of the province, are
all objects of interest.
The Queen's Park covers about fifty acres, and is very skilfully
laid out and well shaded with trees. There is a monument in it,
erected to the memory of the Canadians who fell in repelling
the Fenian invasion of 1866.
There is usually some good sculling on the lake that will to
some be an attraction. It is here that Hanlan won his laurels,
the lake having afforded him one of the best practice-grounds in
the world.
The hotels are Eossin House, 2dols. to 3dols. per day ;
Queen's Hotel, 3dols. ; Eevere House, 2dols.
I may here state that, with regard to trade and navigation,
the returns for the year ending June, 1882, show the very favour-
able condition of Canada. The exports and imports have been
steadily increasing during the past few years :
1878-79 ....
1879-80
Exports.
.£14,298,251 ,
. . 17 582 291
Imports.
£16,392,885
17,297,949
1880-81 ...
19 658 164
21,066,188
1881-82 ..
' 20,427,440
23.883,900
It is not uninteresting to notice the growth of imports from
Great Britain, which, contrary to expectation in many quarters,
have largely increased, tending to show that up to the present
time, at any rate, the tariff has not adversely affected such im-
portations. In 1879 the value of these imports was £6,198,626,
r2
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and in 1882 £10,119,460. The values of goods imported from
the United States during the same periods were £8,749,844 and
£9,657,810 respectively, showing an increase of only £910,000,
as against the increase of nearly £4,000,000 in British impor-
tations.
CHAPTER XII.
THE NIAGARA FALLS.
THE next point of interest, after leaving Toronto, is Niagara
Falls, and naturally a first visit to this celebrated spot will be
eagerly looked forward to. The journey to the Falls from
Toronto occupies about two hours. An hour-and-a-quarter are
taken up in crossing Lake Ontario and in the remainder of the
journey by rail to the village or town of Niagara Falls. Before
reaching the American side of the lake General Brock's monu-
ment (who fell here in 1812) will be noticed on the Canadian
side, and immediately opposite, on the other side, is the United
States battery. The eddying of the stream, caused by the rush
of water over the Falls, will be noticed here, although they are
four miles away.
I received, prior to visiting the Falls, various pieces of advice
about the exorbitant prices which are charged at the hotels and
for everything bought in the district. " Do not buy anything,
not even a hasty lunch, within three miles of the Falls," said a
Montreal tradesman to me. "You will, of course, 'do ' Niagara."
wrote a friend to me, before I sailed on my first visit, " and take
precious good care not to be done by the score or more cheate
there are at that greatly visited spot ;" and so, in many respects,
the idea has got abroad that Niagara is the most expensive place
to visit of any resort in the States. To the credit of Niagara, it
may be said that it is no dearer place than Brighton, Buxton, or
the English or Scotch lakes in the season.
So much has been said and written of the Falls that the subject
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is thoroughly threadbare, and I feel somewhat disposed to say, as
another writer has done : " There are some waterfalls hereabouts
which are said to be very pretty. For a description of them the
reader is referred to the works of the late Mr. Charles Dickens,
Dr. Charles Mackay, Mr. Nicholas Woods, Mr. N. P. Willis,
Baron Humboldt, Sir Charles Lyell, Professor Agassiz, and ten
thousand more or less accomplished tourists, savans, and sketch
writers." With this in mind, the little I have to say will be trite
and matter-of-fact.
"Where there is occasion to remain all night, the available hotels
are the International, at 3dols. a day, on the American side, and
on the Canadian side the Clifton House, at the same tariff.
When time is short, by leaving Toronto early in the day,
opportunity will be given to see the Falls and pass on in the
evening to the next stopping place.
It is a very general but a very true expression, with regard to
the Falls, that the impression on first glancing at them is one of
keen disappointment. The spot has been so eulogised by poets
and prose writers that a picture of vastness and immensity takes
possession of the imagination respecting them, and yet the most
elaborate description must fail to picture the scene as it actually
appears. It is one of those things which must indeed " be seen
to be appreciated." An honest Hibernian, while he gazed upon
it, being asked if it was not the most wonderful thing that he
had ever seen, replied : " Never a bit, man, never a bit. Shure,
it's no wonder at all that the wather should fall down there,
for I would like to know what could hinther it ; but its mighty
quare, though, I'm thinking, how the mischief it ever got up 1"
There are several points from which the Falls can be seen
— the suspension bridge from the American to the Canadian
side, and Goat Island, on the United States side. Two shillings
is the toll, for going over the bridge, and the same sum is also
charged for going on to the Island. I prefer the Goat Island
view, as this enables the visitor to have a good sight of the
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American Falls and to get quite near the Horseshoe Falls. In
crossing the bridge on to the island there is an admirable view
of the Cataracts, which forms a very fitting prelude to the Falls;
tons of rushing water tumbling headlong over stones so large
that years have not displaced them. Those cataracts alone are
worth travelling miles to see. Passing through an avenue of
trees on the island, the nearest of the Falls will be noticed by
the deafening noise.
On descending a long staircase, the visitor will soon be along-
side the American Falls, so termed because they are entirely on
American soil ; and then a short walk further, and the Horse-
shoe Falls are reached. When I visited the place, a single plank
bridge led to a small platform, which overhangs a portion of
the Falls. This platform was strangely insecure at that time.
A single rail round it was all the protection there was
against persons falling over ; but long before reaching the Falls
the tourist will have well learned that the great American people
have to take care of themselves, and if they cannot do that the
Government will not for them. Simply a hasty glance does not
realise Niagara. It is requisite to stand there and drink in
the scene gradually, and then the first feeling of disappoint-
ment disappears, and gives place to an indescribable sensation of
awe at its grandeur. The precipice over which the water falls
is estimated at 160ft. in depth, and the entire width is about
1800ft., the shape resembling a horseshoe, and hence the name.
No less than 100,000,000 tons of water is believed to pass over
the ledge every hour, that is nearly 1,500,000 tons every minute,
or about 25,000 tons every second or beat of the pulse. The
air has been full of plans and projects during the last few years
for utilising the Falls in turning some gigantic water-wheel or
electric motor, but up to the present moment, fortunately for
lovers of nature, no step has been taken to do this. As I stood
there watching that fierce rush of water, I felt my hands
and face becoming covered with the spray, which, arising as
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it does from the great trough at the bottom, forms a sight of
itself. The lunar bow and the solar bow are formed with this
spray rising far above the edge of the precipice ; the former visible
when the moon is full and sufficiently high in the heavens ;
the latter always when the sun shines on the Falls, and it makes
an exceedingly pretty scene.
There are few words I have read respecting Niagara which
so thoroughly describe the feelings of many of those who
visit this scene — a piece of handiwork from Nature's quarry,
untouched by human hand with mallet or chisel — as the
words of Charles Dickens: "Then, when I felt how near to
my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring
one — instant and lasting — of the tremendous spectacle, was
peace. Peace of mind, tranquillity, calm recollections of the
dead, great thoughts of eternal rest and happiness, nothing of
gloom or terror. Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart,
an image of beauty ; to remain there, changeless and indelible,
until its pulses cease to beat for ever."
The majority of visitors seeing Niagara for the first time would
naturally wish to descend the staircase and go right under the
Falls, and it is only by so doing that the force and volume of the
cataract can be adequately realised. The small sum of 2s. is
charged for an oilskin suit, and down a rough staircase the
traveller descends. This staircase is enclosed in a wooden shaft,
fixed with iron clamps to the rock. The air is stifling, both
in the staircase and at the bottom, and the spray fills the eyes,
the mouth, and the nostrils. A few only who go down penetrate
beyond the lower part of the staircase, as to do so entails climbing
over slimy boulders. To the sure of foot it is well worth while
doing so, as the over-arching canopy of rock, with the incessant
downpour of water, increases in the mind the idea of vastness.
The dashing of the spray, the cold winds, and the slippery con-
dition of every inch on which the foot may be placed, prevents a
lengthened stay below.
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The Suspension Bridge previously referred to is deserving of
more than a passing notice. From tower to tower it is 800ft.
long, and is 258ft. above the water. The cost of it is put down
at £100,000, and it was finished in 1855. The carriage and
foot way is immediately underneath the railway track, the depth
between the bottom of this and the footway being 28ft.
Other points of interest in connection with the Falls may be
mentioned :
Terrapin Tower, at the edge of the Canadian Fall, which gives
an opportunity to look almost perpendicularly down the cataract.
Table Eock, higher up on the Canadian side, immediately at
the verge and edge of the Horseshoe Fall. This is a favourite
spot for visitors to stand.
The Sister Islands, three in number, connected by handsome
bridges with Goat Island. From these a splendid view of the
Upper Eapids can be obtained.
Burning Spring, a short distance above the Falls, on the Canada
side, which are interesting as showing some singular phenomena
of liquid combustion.
CHAPTER XIII.
BUFFALO, CLEVELAND, AND DETROIT.
AFTER leaving Niagara Falls, it will necessarily be a matter of
choice with the tourist what points of interest he purposes
visiting afterwards. Buffalo, however, is such a convenient
distance from the Falls, being only twenty-three miles off, that
it forms a very convenient place for spending a night before
proceeding. This city presents during the day all the aspects
of a busy and thriving town. It is the third in order of size
in the State of New York, and is situated at the entrance of
Buffalo Creek and head of Niagara Eiver, at the east end
of Lake Erie. It is the point of entrance to the Erie Canal
from the Lake, and as it possesses a water-front of about
six miles, it enjoys an immense grain and timber trade.
Six or seven different railways run into the station which
connect it with all parts of the country, and this, with its
canal and lake traffic, has made it one of the most important
distributing cities in the States. Its population in 1880 was
155,134. Iron, tin, brass, and copper occupy a very important
place in its industries, and malting and brewing are also largely
carried on. The grain elevators will be a source of interest to
most visitors, and an effort should be made to look over some of
the large iron-works. A public park, embracing between 500
and 600 acres, and divided into three plots, is one of the chief
points of interest. Spacious thoroughfares connect them and
form a continuous drive of nearly ten miles. This park is very
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picturesquely laid out. A splendid International Bridge,
crossing the Niagara Eiver to the Canadian village of Fort Erie,
was completed in 1873, at an enormous cost. The American
end of it is at Black Bock, a suburb of Buffalo. Its chief streets
are Main, Delaware, and Niagara, and these, with others, are
bordered with a profusion of trees. Buffalo has, in fact, gone
in for these trees largely, and their shady and pretty effect is
best noticed in the squares named Niagara, Lafayette-place,
Franklin, Washington, Delaware-place, and Terrace-parks.
Among the public and prominent buildings the following
may be named : St. Paul's Cathedral (Episcopal), in Pearl-street ;
the State Arsenal, in Batavia-street ; the State Armoury, in
Virginia-street ; the General Hospital, in High-street ; Court
House, and City Hall, Franklin-street ; St. Joseph's (Eoman
Catholic) Cathedral, and the State Asylum for the Insane, which
the Buffaloites claim to be largest in the States, if not in the
world. Its frontage is about 2700ft., and the grounds attached
to it cover some 283 acres. How many disappointed kings and
queens and presidents there are in this admirable institution, I
do not know.
The hotels are : the Mansion House, Tifft House, Main-street,
and the Continental, near the Depot, all of them at the usual
rates.
Within very easy distance of Buffalo is Cleveland, where the
late noble President of the States lies interred. It is a charming
district, and has for this and other reasons had a very rapid
growth. In 1830 the population was only 1000, now it is over
160,000. It is very fitly called the " Forest City," for its rich
abundance of trees, especially maple and elm, makes it well
deserving of this name. The main portion of the city stands on
a gravelly plain, elevated some 100ft. above Lake Erie, on the
south shore of which the city is situated. A river passes
through it in a winding course, affording a capital harbour for
the numerous coasting steamers and schooners, and which carry
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on a considerable trade with Canada. There are several hand-
some bridges across the Ouyahoga, the river referred to, which
connect the different portions of the city.
Cleveland, with the other parts of the city, named Brooklyn
and Ohio, contains between ninety and one hundred churches,
and the little edifice where the late President Garfield was accus-
tomed to worship, should be an object of interest, as also his
tomb, which has been guarded up to the present by a small
detachment of United States soldiers. Euclid Avenue is the
fashionable part of the city, and is lined with elegant residences,
surrounded by extensive grounds. Monumental Park, although
only some ten acres in extent, is very prettily laid out. There is
a fine statue in the park of Commodore Perry, the hero of the
battle of Lake Erie, which cost about £1600. The chief public
buildings are the Post Office, Custom House, City Hall, Case
Hall, a building used for lectures, public meetings, &c. A
medical college stands on the shore of the lake, and on University
Heights there is a Homoeopathic Hospital, with which is
connected a college for the same practice of medicine. As an
evidence of one practical way which our cousins have of doing
things, I may mention that the Cleveland City Infirmary has
attached to it a good farm, which is worked by the inmates of
the institution.
Hotels : Weddell House, corner of Superior and Bank-streets ;
Kennard House, and the American House.
It is a very pleasant sail across Lake Erie from Cleveland to
Detroit, which is situated on the banks of the Detroit Eiver.
This is the largest city in the State of Michigan, having in
1880 a population of 1,282,772. It presents evidences of con-
siderable wealth and commercial enterprise. Extending, as it
does, for some eight miles along the river, which joins Lake
Erie, ample space is thus afforded for mills, timber-yards, grain
elevators, warehouses, and dry-docks, and it has thus lent itself
naturally to the rapid development which it has experienced.
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The original site of the city was visited by the French as
early as 1610. In 1796 the United States took possession
of it, but in 1812 it fell during the war into the hands of
the British, and was recaptured in 1813. The Freight Depot
of the Michigan Central Eailroad occupies an immense area, and
near it are the Custom House, with the Post Office, Opera House,
which claims to be one of the largest and most elegant in the
country, and the Board of Trade buildings. The chief streets
are Jefferson Avenue, Woodward Avenue, which crosses the
former at right angles, and divides the city into almost two equal
parts ; Grand Eiver Avenue, Fort-street, Michigan Avenue, and
Gratiot-street, at different angles with Woodward Avenue. One
of the finest thoroughfares is West Fort-street, which is a very
fashionable locality ; Lafayette Avenue bears a similar character.
The Grand Circus is the leading park, and is semi-circular in
form. A short distance from this is the Campus Martius, an
open space, 600ft. long and 250ft. wide. This is crossed by
Woodward and Michigan Avenues, and Monroe Avenue and
Fort-street radiate from it. Facing this square is the City
Hall, considered the handsomest structure in the whole city.
As cost is always an item of general interest with regard to
public buildings in the States, I may mention that in this in-
stance it is put down as £120,000. In front of the City Hall,
which is some 200ft. long and 180ft. high to the top of the
tower, is a soldiers' monument, to commemorate the Michigan
soldiers who fell in the Civil War.
Churches of every denomination are found in abundance, and
I would here remark that, with regard to places of worship, the
majority of the cities of both the States and Canada have shown
a commendable zeal in erecting edifices noted equally for their
substantial and striking character and the taste and finish of their
interiors. Church architecture, in fact, forms a prominent source
of interest to most people visiting the States. Public libraries
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again, form very striking features of the public spirit which has
been displayed by our Transatlantic cousins in this respect.
There are over 20,000 volumes in the public library in Detroit,
and the Young Men's Society has a library of some 12,000
volumes.
The Hotels are the Russell House, at 3dols. 50 cents (14s. 6d.)
per day ; the Biddle House and the Michigan Exchange, from
Sdols. to 4dols.
Pleasant excursions may be made by steamers on Lake Erie
from Detroit by those so disposed.
CHAPTER XIY.
CHICAGO.
THEBE is no other town or city in the entire States which has
been so much talked and written about as Chicago. Even San
Francisco, with its Golden Gate and perplexing Chinese problem,
and which is considered to be so wealthy that some of its million-
aires (in dollars) are said to light their cigars with twenty- dollar
bills, sinks into insignificance when compared with " wonderful
Chicago." All will remember the large fire of 1871, which is
supposed to have arisen from a cow kicking over a lamp in a
stable, and which destroyed some 209,000,000 dollars' worth of
property, including about 25,000 buildings, covering an area of
from three to four square miles. On the ruins of these, one of
the finest cities in the entire Union has been built. Marvellous
accounts reached this country of the rapidity with which build-
ings were erected. Even before the fire had exhausted itself
plans were made for new streets and stores, and, with all the
vigour of modern American enterprise, the major part of the
present vast city rose towering above the ruins, a monument
to succeeding generations of western progress. Amusing reports
were heard of the commercial announcements of some of the
ruined tradesmen, who had to begin business over again.
"Nothing left out of the fire but a five-dollar bill, wife and
four children — never say die," was not an uncommon appeal to
the public.
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In 1830 the population of Chicago was put down as 80, in 1870
as 298,977, and now it is considerably over 500,000. Of the
growth in the value of property, it is quite unnecessary for me to
quote the numerous statistics which might be given, but suffice it
to say that the rise in the value of land and property has scarcely
been equalled even by some portions of the City of London. A
citizen of Chicago is reported to have said to an English visitor :
" Our city is the biggest thing on the planet ; we've had the
biggest fire ; we lifted the city five feet out of the mud ;
we made a river run up hill — it wouldn't go where we wanted
it, so we turned it end and end about ; and it's the only city
on earth every inch of which is covered three inches deep
in mortgages." Another denizen of that vast city has also
the credit of saying that " New York has the money, Boston
the brains, but we start the big ideas and carry them out with
eastern money."
The site of the city lends itself admirably to the rapid progress
which it has experienced. Situated at the southern extremity
of Lake Michigan, it is in direct water communication with the
spacious territory reaching from the north-west portion of Lake
Superior to the Atlantic. Surrounded, again, as it is, by a net-
work of railways connecting it with all the leading cities of the
States and Canada, it is in communication by land with every
important part of the country. These facts account for its
marvellous development, and to what extent it may grow during
the coming years yet remains to be seen. New Chicago may
well claim the title of Queen City, for its buildings, streets, and
general aspect are of the most striking character. Its streets are
all laid out at right angles — in fact, in no city of the Union is
the right-angle principle with regard to its thoroughfares so
conspicuous as it is in Chicago, and some of its streets run
to a length of from three to ten miles. Chicago Eiver flows
through the city, and with its numerous slips affords a water
frontage of over forty miles ; in addition to the lake front,
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where a splendid outer harbour has been constructed, this river
divides the city into three distinct parts, which are known as
the north, south, and west divisions. These are connected by
between thirty and forty bridges and several tunnels under
the river-bed.
The industries of Chicago are as multifarious as is its
population. It would be difficult at the moment to say what
is not manufactured there. Its grain trade is simply immense —
a phrase so very applicable to many things American. The
shipments in 1879 amounted to 129,851,553 bushels. The
elevators for receiving the grain and transferring it to the rail-
way waggons, when it is brought in by ship, are the largest in
the country. They are towers of corrugated zinc reaching a
height of 80ft. or more, and unload with a capacity of 7000
bushels each. The miles of water troughs to be seen along
the streets show the vastness of the live-stock trade. Thousands
of cattle, hogs, and sheep are driven into the city, and leave it in
the form of tinned meats, hams and bacon, &c. Over three
million head of these animals are now driven into the city every
year, and of these nearly 2,000,000 are hogs. Now and again a
shipload of wooden hams find their way out of the city, for
Chicago can do a few things of that kind. A smart Chicagoan
(when, a year or two ago, so much was said of a disease prevalent
among the hogs) exclaimed : " You Britishers may call our ladies
the most overdressed of any in the world ; you may say that New
York is the worst lighted and paved of any large city in creation ;
you may call our political life a mixture of jobbery and cheat,
and we don't care a continental ; but you say anything against
our hogs, and every particle of American honour feels itself
insulted and disposed to smash anything which comes in its
way ! " Thus highly do they value this trade. In 1880, it is
said, the Chicago packers could find room for 300,000 barrels of
pork, 400,000 tierces of lard and hams, and 90,000,000lb. of
meat, or 140,000 tons of stuff, the product of nearly 1,250,000
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hogs. One house claims that it can slaughter and dress
20,000 animals in a day. Who does not long to be a " hog
merchant " with these facts before him ? The progress of the
animal from pig to pork and hams is a very brief one. Fifteen
or twenty minutes represents the space of time to go through
the whole operation of being killed and suspended in the large
ice houses to get cool so that they may be properly seasoned
before being boxed; but the further methods of dealing with
this large business are not matters for us to inquire into at
present.
The lumber trade is another gigantic industry in Chicago, so
vast, indeed, that I will refrain from quoting any statistics.
Much of this finds its way to this country in the form of floor-
ings, mouldings, doors, sashes, &c. Brass foundries, brick yards,
reaping machine and sewing machine manufactories, abound
in the city, as also do flour mills, tanneries, breweries, and
cotton mills.
The leading hotels in Chicago are among the largest and
most handsome buildings in the country. Palmer House is
a vast pile, occupying an entire block in State-street, between
Wabash-avenue and Monroe-street. Its tariff ranges from
3dols. 50 cents to 6dols. (14s. 6d. to 24s.) per day. The Grand
Pacific Hotel is six stories high, and has a frontage of 750ft.
Throughout it is most luxuriously furnished, as is also the
Palmer House. The dining hall of the Pacific is 130ft. by 60ft.,
and the scene in the entrance hall, called the Grand Exchange
during the business parts of the day, is one not likely to be
forgotten. The tariff here is 3dols. 50 cents to 7dols. per day.
The Sherman House and Tremont House are less expensive, being
3dols. per day, and are very comfortable houses. Less expensive
places still are the Central Hotel, in Market-street, near Madison-
street, at 10s. per day, and the Massasoit House, opposite the
Union Depot, at 8s. per day. Tramcars traverse the streets in
.all directions, the fare for the entire distance being 2Jd.
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Carriages have a reputed fare of 2s. per mile, but the English
visitor would be fortunate if he succeeded in hiring one at this
rate.
The public buildings are the Court House, Custom House.
Post Office, and Chamber of Commerce, which last is one of
the finest and most complete buildings of its kind in the world.
Commercial gentlemen visiting the city should obtain an intro-
duction from a member to visit the chamber from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. The City Hall is a magnificent building. The University
of Chicago occupies a beautiful site overlooking Lake Michigan,
at Cottage Grove. The main building is 136ft. by 172ft. There
are also several theological seminaries worthy of notice. Mercy
Hospital, corner of Calumet-avenue and Twenty-eighth-street, is
a very handsome building, with capital interior arrangements.
The chief parks are the Lincoln Park and the Union Park ; the
former is on the lake shore in the northern division, and contains
about 230 acres, and has five miles of drives and walks. The
latter is in the western division ; some £20,000 has been spent
in this park on lakes, drives, hills, zoological and landscape
gardens, &c. The smaller parks are Douglas, Lake, and
Jefferson.
The most important streets are the Michigan and Wabash
Avenues, State-street, and Dearborn, Clark, La Salle, and Wells
Streets running parallel with Lake Shore, and Jackson, Adams,
Monroe, Madison, Washington, Randolph, and Lake Streets, cross-
ing them at right angles, and extending across the city from the
lake.
One very prominent source of interest is the system by which
Chicago is supplied with water. The waterworks are situated
on the Lake Shore in the north division, and in order to obtain
the purest water possible, a shaft has been sunk under the works,
and a tunnel has been built out from it for a distance of two
miles. At the end of this tunnel a water tower 130ft. high has
been built, up which the water is forced by four engines having
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a pumping capacity of 72,000,000 gallons per day. There are
also forty artesian wells supplying the city with fresh water, in
addition to what is obtained from the lake. A splendid view of
Chicago Lake and surrounding country may be obtained from
the top of the tower, which is reached by a spiral staircase.
Permission to view the works can be readily obtained from the
chief engineer.
CHAPTER XY.
CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE.
THERE are several places north of Chicago well worth visiting,
notably Milwaukee, the commercial capital of Wisconsin, and,
next to Chicago, the largest city in the North- West. This is
quite a large and flourishing town, covering about nineteen
miles square. It has an immense grain and flour trade. The
distance from Chicago is eighty-five miles, and the journey
occupies from two to three hours. All interested in the grain
and flour trade going out to visit America should certainly go to
Milwaukee. The granaries of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail-
road have a storage capacity of 1,500,000 bushels, and an
adjoining flour mill is capable of producing 1000 barrels of flour
daily.
By many, however, and especially those going out for a very
brief visit, Milwaukee would be omitted, and the traveller would
strike south, intending most likely to travel direct to Cincinnati.
The " Queen City " is the name which has been given to this
town on the Ohio Eiver. On the opposite side of the Ohio to
Cincinnati are the towns of Newport and Covington, in the State
of Kentucky. Built, as the city chiefly is, on two terraces, one
60ft. and the other 112ft. above the river, it naturally possesses
a splendid position and scenery, and hence the pretty name it
has derived as mentioned above. It may reasonably claim to
have its streets well planned and built. They are laid out with
great regularity, and are broad and much better paved than
many other cities in the Union, some being well shaded with
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leafy trees, giving a very picturesque aspect. The more aristo-
cratic residences on the higher terrace are built of blue limestone.
There is considerable wealth in the city, as iron, furniture, boot,
shoe, pottery, and machinery manufactories abound. Pork pack-
ing is also very largely carried on, its trade in this commodity
ranking in importance next to Chicago. Its population is now
about 260,000, and the city dates back its origin to 1788.
There was, however, in its early history, much difficulty with
the Indians, who retarded the progress of the town.
The public buildings of prominence are the U.S. Government
Buildings, embracing the Post Office and Customs House. The
City Municipal Buildings occupy a whole square in Plum-street.
The County Court House would put into the shade many of our
severely plain edifices for a similar use in this country, having
an entrance porch with six Corinthian columns. The Chamber
of Commerce in Fourth-street has a public hall which affords
standing room for 25,000 people, and the Masonic Temple and
the Oddfellows' Hall show to what extent these orders are
favoured in the city, both buildings having a very handsome
appearance, with elaborately ornamented interiors. The building
of the Public Free Library is a very prominent structure, in the
Romanesque style, and affords shelving room for some 300,000
volumes. There are a number of halls, where meetings, lectures,
and entertainments take place during the winter months. One
of these, the Greenwood Hall, in the Mechanics' Institute, is
spacious and very conveniently arranged.
The Tyler-Davison Fountain in Fifth-street is a very con-
spicuous feature of the city. It stands on a freestone esplanade
400ft. long, and 60ft. wide. The lower basin is 40ft. in
diameter, and in the centre of this is the Saxon porphyry base
supporting the bronze work, which is 12ft. square. At each
corner there are infant figures in bronze in a variety of atti-
tudes, and there are also bas-relief figures around the base
which represent some of the different uses of water to mankind.
Cincinnati and Louisville.
From the upper part of the bronze base extend four large basins,
and from the centre rises a column with vines ascending and
branching off at the top, in the form of palm-leaves. Around
this column are groups of statuary ; and on the summit of it
stands a large female figure with arms outstretched, and over
the fingers the water rains down in rather an artistic and
pleasing way. The entire cost of the work is said to be
£40,000, and it was executed in Munich.
The other places of interest are : Eden Park, situated on a
hill in the eastern part of the city. The park contains about
216 acres, and from it a splendid view of the city and the
valley of the Ohio can be obtained. Burnet Woods, Lincoln
Park, and Washington Park, are the other public pleasure resorts
of the city. Spring Grove Cemetery comprises over 600 acres
and claims to be one of the most beautiful in the West. It
is very picturesquely laid out, and contains many fine monu-
ments. The entrance buildings are a prominent feature, and
cost about £10,000.
The suspension bridge connecting Cincinnati with Covington
on the Kentucky side is a very handsome structure. The entire
length of the bridge is 2252ft., and from tower to tower
1057ft. ; the height from the water is 100ft.
There are many beautiful drives in the suburbs of the city,
and the accommodation for transit from place to place is good,
but cab hire is very expensive, as in other places in the States.
The hotels are : Keppler's, 12s. per day ; Merchant's Hotel,
10s. ; and the Grand Hotel, 16s. per day.
The city of Louisville is located on the Ohio Eiver and is the
chief town of Kentucky. It is situated at the Falls of the Ohio.
A canal 2J- miles long has been made to obviate the obstruction
to navigation caused by the Falls. The cutting of this canal
proved a very costly undertaking, as most of it was through
solid rock.
Louisville thrives upon whisky and tobacco chiefly, and these
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being very profitable trades, the wealth of many of the inha-
bitants is evinced by the large number of large and elaborate
residences.
The City Hall is the most conspicuous building, and is some-
what peculiar in style, having a large square clock tower. The
Industrial Exposition buildings outside the city are worth a
visit, especially if there is an exhibition in progress at the time.
The State Blind Asylum is one of the finest institutions in the
West.
The city is surrounded with pretty villages, of which the
chief are Portland, three miles below the Falls ; Silver Creek,
four miles on the Indiana side ; Harrod's Creek, eight miles up
the river ; and Lexington, the road to which is especially attrac-
tive. Jeffersonville is a good-sized town on the Indiana side,
and connected by ferry and bridge, which is 5219ft. long,
divided into twenty-five spans supported on twenty-four pillars.
New Albany is another town on the same side as Jeffersonville,
with a population of 16,422. A Louisville writer says : "From
the hills at the back of New Albany one may look down on the
large extent of Louisville, half -hidden beneath the foliage which
surrounds so many of its houses ; can note the steamers slowly
winding about the bends in the Ohio, or carefully working
their way up to the broad walks ; can see the trains crawling
like serpents over the high suspension bridge, and the church
spires and towers gleaming under the mellow sunlight."
CHAPTER XVI.
ST. LOUIS AND PITTSBURGH.
ST. Louis is one of the most important cities of the West, as
well as one of the largest, and boasts what not many cities
in the States can, an existence of upwards of a century. In
1764, it is recorded, there was a population of 120, and a
further account says that "In 1790 a St. Louis merchant
was a man who, in the corner of his cabin, had a large chest
which contained a few pounds of powder and shot, a few knives
and hatchets, a little red paint, two or three rifles, some hunting
shirts of buckskin, a few tin cups and iron pots, and perhaps a
little tea, coffee, sugar, and spice." To-day the St. Louis
merchant is a very different personage, with an immense store
and a vast stock. The city lies on the west bank of the Missis-
sippi Eiver, some twenty miles below the entrance of the
Missouri, about half-way between St. Paul, at the head of the
navigable part of that river, and New Orleans, at the mouth of
the Mississippi. The city is built a considerable distance above
the surface of the water, and covers an area of over twenty
square miles, with a population, in 1880, of 350,518.
The steel bridge across the Mississippi is one of the principal
sights of the city ; it cost £2,000,000, and has the reputation
of being one of the finest bridges in the world. It con-
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limestone. The centre span is 520ft., the others 500ft. each ;
and each of them is formed of four ribbed arches made of cast
steel. The arches rise 60ft., which allows the passage of any
steamboat at any height of the water. The bridge is built in
two stories, of which the upper has two carriage ways, two
horse-car tracks, and two footways, and the lower has a double
railroad track.
The Water Works, near the bank of the river, contain two
pumping engines, each having a capacity of 17,000,000 gallons
per day. The engine house is always open for visitors.
The chief public buildings are : The Four Courts, a very hand-
some edifice, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets ; and the
Court House, which cost about £240,000, and is built in the
form of a Greek Cross, with a lofty iron dome in the centre.
The new Custom House and Post Office, at the corner of Olive
and Eighth Streets, is well deserving of a careful inspection.
The Merchants' Exchange, in Third-street, of grey limestone, is
also very fine. The galleries are free to all visitors when
business is proceeding, and the sight is worth seeing. The
main hall is a room 102ft. by 81ft.
St. Louis can boast of several spacious parks and pleasure
grounds, the aggregate number of acres covered by these resorts
being 2000. Lafayette Park is the most beautiful. There is,
however, no drive in it, but it is very tastefully laid out. Forest
Park is the largest, and contains no less than 1350 acres. Tower
Grove Park contains some pretty lawns and shrubberies, and
covers about 277 acres. Shaw's Garden, near the last-named,
was presented to the city a few years ago. The flower gardens
in this are quite a source of interest. Hyde Park, Washington
Square, Northern Park, and Lindell Park are other public
recreation grounds.
St. Louis is famous for the number of its charitable institu-
tions, and I may incidentally remark here that asylums for
various objects form a very conspicuous source of interest in all
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the leading cities of the States. The sick, the maimed, the
blind, and the insane, have all been well cared for.
There are a number of libraries, art galleries, churches, and
educational institutes, some of which will be of considerable
interest to many.
The hotels are : The Laclede, at 12s. per day ; Lindell House,
from 8s. to 15s. per day, according to location; and the
Southern Hotel, the largest in the city, and the most ex-
pensive.
The industries of St. Louis are numerous, of which flour is the
chief, something like 2,000,000 barrels per year now being
produced. Hog packing, iron works, and other commercial
enterprises are carried on with considerable push. The rivalry
between cities on the other side of the Atlantic is very charac-
teristic of the people. Chicago sneers at St. Louis as being
slow and behind the necessities of the (American) age. In
retort, a pamphlet has been published by order of the St. Louis
County Court, and in it the bold author says, " Chicago is a
depot for speculators in grain, and Cincinnati abounds in hogs ;
but this is the end of their glory St. Louis is destined
at no distant day to be the great vitalising heart of the world's
civilization ! "
I have visited many towns and cities in the States, but I do
not remember one where mud and dirt abounded as in the "iron
city," as it is fitly termed. One part of Pittsburgh is appro-
priately called Birmingham, on account of the large number
of iron works, and there are also in the same district numerous
glass works. Pittsburgh offers nothing of interest to sightseers
pure and simple, and they will find it only lost time to go
there, but others who are desirous of seeing fully how rapidly
America has progressed in its industries will do well not to
leave Pittsburgh unseen. It is the second city in Pennsylvania
in importance and population, there being now (1883) about
160,000 people within its precincts, a large number of whom
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are connected with the iron trades. The Alleghany River, which
divides the city, is spanned by seven bridges, and five bridges
cross the Monongahela River.
There are no public buildings particularly worthy of men-
tion. Pittsburgh is essentially a business city, and makes
no pretences. However far removed the visitor may be from
the glass and iron trade, he cannot fail to have his interest
aroused in visiting some of the works, and I may say here that
there is no difficulty in obtaining permission to go over them.
The American Ironworks alone employ over 2500 hands, and
cover seventeen acres.
The only hotels which I need mention, as the choice is any-
thing but good, are the Monongahela House at 16s. a day, and
the hotel of the Union Depot at 14s.
The following verses, by Richard Realf, in a recent issue of
a San Francisco paper, take off in a capital way what Pitts-
burgh is famous for :
HYMN 'OF PITTSBURGH.
My father was a mighty Vulcan ;
I am smith of the land and sea ;
The cunning spirit of Tubal Cain
Came with my marrow to me.
I think great thoughts, strong- winged with steel ;
I coin vast iron acts,
And orb the impalpable dreams of seers
Into comely, lyric facts.
I am Monarch of all the Forges,
I have solved the riddle of fire,
The Amen of Nature to cry of Man
Answers at my desire.
I search with the subtle soul of flame
The heart of the rocky Earth,
And hot from my anvils the prophecies
Of the miracle -years leap forth.
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I am swart with the soots of my furnace,
I drip with the sweats of toil ;
My fingers throttle the savage wastes,
I tear the curse from the soil.
I fling the bridges across the gulfs
That hold us from the To-Be,
And build the roads for the bannered march
Of crowned humanity.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE OIL REGIONS.
WHILE referring to the Pittsburgh district it will not be out
of place to give some particulars of the modern industry which
has done so much to promote labour and create wealth in the
State of Pennsylvania. During my journey to the States, three
years previously, my time was chiefly absorbed in Canada and
several leading American cities, but during the last journey,
among my visits to various manufacturing centres, certainly the
most agreeable were my peregrinations among the oil-fields
of Bradford and Oil City. The present gigantic trade in burning
oils sprung from a very insignificant beginning. It originated
and developed with the railway system, and has grown to dimen-
sions which can only be fully realised by a visit to the territories
rich in an earthy sap which aids now in lighting most of the
civilised world.
Notwithstanding the extensive use of gas and the later adop-
tion of the electric light, illuminating oils not only retain their
hold, but are rapidly increasing in consumption. I could give
many statistics in proof of this, but to the general reader these
would be uninteresting. Suffice it to say that during 1881 no
less than 552,356,275 gallons of oil were exported from the
States, and the Bradford district contributed a very considerable
portion of this.
Bradford is about four hundred miles from New York, and
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long before the district itself is reached evidence of what it is
noted for is seen in the oil tanks scattered about everywhere
in close proximity to the railroad track. I have seen many
American towns, but none that I remember as so thoroughly
BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.
typical of how towns rapidly spring up in America as Brad-
ford. The engraving gives a good idea of what the district is
like. The railway runs right across one end of the main
street, and the depot is adjacent. The " city " may, in fact,
be said to consist of one long street and a few little ones,
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with houses, erected of wood, scattered about, and so covering a
tolerably wide area. I spent some considerable time with the
mayor, who informed me that the population was between
15,000 and 20,000. Almost the whole of the houses and many
shops are built of wood, and the street pavements are of the same
material ; in fact, timber is everywhere the prevailing element ;
but long before an English visitor has reached Bradford, he will
have become accustomed to wooden erections on all hands. Small
as the town is, it supports three daily papers, and also boasts an
opera house. There is vast accumulated wealth in the town,
and, where money-making is such a powerful element, and the
district itself may only be temporarily prominent, it is not
reasonable to expect much in the way of street cleansing and
sanitary arrangements, and these are conspicuous by their absence.
Oil tanks and derricks are to be seen on all sides, and the
most casual observer could not fail to notice evidences that the
entire city, directly or indirectly, obtains its living out of oil.
Bradford claims to produce, on an average, from 60,000 to
70,000 barrels of crude oil per day, and there were, the mayor
informed me, 30,000,000 barrels on the surface of the earth,
stored in the tanks, at the time of my visit. These tanks, made
of iron, are as close together as is indicated in the illustration
on page 97, and range in capacity from 2000 or 3000 to 3500
barrels (a barrel is 42 gallons) ! They are 93ft. in diameter
and 30ft. high. Fires occasionally take place at them, caused
either by lightning or overflowing. The greater majority of
those lost by lightning have been station tanks, with pipes
running over the roof ; but there have been tanks burned where
the only pipe connection was through the shell near the bottom,
the spark evidently going from the end of the swing pipe.
The derricks, erected of wood, run to a height of about seventy
to eighty feet, as will be judged from the engraving given on
page 99.
The artesian borings usually run to an average depth of from
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750ft. to 1750ft., and often the oil will flow some 40ft. above
the top of the derrick. The system of drilling is the same
throughout the district.
Oil City, another important centre of the oil industry, possesses
OIL TANKS AT BRADFORD.
a similar character to Bradford, except that there are more
buildings of a permanent character in it. If the stranger passes
through Oil City in the evening or at night, he would be con-
siderably surprised to notice that the only light for the entire
depot comes from a long pipe overhanging one of the goods
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sheds. The other end of this pipe has been driven down into a
natural gas well, and for lighting all that is necessary is to
perforate the end of the pipe above the station, and it at once
breaks out into a blaze that suffices to illuminate not only the
depot, but four or five surrounding streets. Several towns are,
in fact, lighted in this way, certainly at an extremely cheap
rate ; although it appears to be a somewhat singular method
when viewed by English eyes, accustomed in the large towns
of our own country to see in use some of the newest im-
provements in gas burners, throwing out a brilliant and well-
diffused light.
The millionaires (in dollars, please remember) who have netted
their wealth out of oil are very numerous. Oil is struck in a new
district, and immediately there is a rush to it, and land advances
to an enormous price in a few days. Garfield, one of the very
newest oil towns in Pennsylvania, has very recently exemplified
this. This district has been in the unfortunate predicament of
being without water, and the quantity required for human
existence there has had to be brought from a spring some con-
siderable distance from the town. It has thus cost half-a-crown a
barrel, but oil in the same district is worth only 2s. 4d. per barrel,
and the water vendors have declined, it is said, to give a barrel
of water for a barrel of oil. " Barrels, yet not a drop to drink 1"
must have been the cry of the Garfieldites.
I may mention that there is very little refining in Bradford,
Oil City, and Titusville, another important town in the oil
regions. The crude oil is simply stored in the tanks at these
places, and is pumped through pipe lines which are laid down all
the way from Bradford to Philadelphia, New York, and other
places (a distance, it will be remembered, of about 400 miles),
and there refined. A very large portion of this trade is in the
hands of a gigantic monopolising company, who own newspapers,
a trade paper, and many other organisations, by which they are
specially enabled to operate in a very powerful manner, to the
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detriment of other producers and the purchasers. Seventy-five
per cent, of refined oil is obtained from the crude, and the
remaining twenty-five is used for benzoline, wax, and in other
manufactures. It really is not at all to be wondered at
that so much wealth is widely distributed in the States, when
the fact is taken into account how largely Nature has contri-
buted towards it in such resources as those to which I have been
referring.
CHAPTER XVIII.
RICHMOND AND BALTIMORE.
RICHMOND is 344 miles from New York, and occupies some
fourteen hours in the journey. It is the largest city in Virginia,
and the capital of that State, a position it has occupied since
1779. Several important meetings have taken place in this city,
which have affected more or less the entire United States. It
was the scene, in 1788, of a Convention to ratify the Federal
Constitution, and in 1861 it became prominent as the capital of
the Southern Confederacy. It was defended with great obstinacy,
and was at last fired by General Lee. It is said that about 1000
buildings were destroyed. At the present time its population is
about 80,000, and it has a large trade in tobacco and flour.
The statue of Washington is one of the first sights of the city.
It consists of a bronze horse and rider, of colossal size, on a
granite pedestal of large proportions. Six bronze figures surround
it. This very fine statue stands near the gate of the Capitol-
square. The State Capitol stands in the centre of a park, some
eight acres in extent, on the summit of Shockhoe Hill, one of
the principal eminences upon which Richmond is built. In the
centre of the building is a square hall, surmounted by a dome,
beneath which stands another statue of Washington, in marble.
Washington statues, and streets named after the great general, are
as numerous almost as the towns and cities of the Union, and the
Americans are not to be blamed for thus perpetuating the
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memory of one of whom they have every cause to be proud.
The city has been very picturesquely laid out, and the James
River, on which it is situated, has a winding but pretty course,
being full of small islands.
At the north-west corner of the Capitol-square is the City
Hall, and at the opposite corner is the Governor's house. The
Post Office, in Main-street, is a handsome structure. Richmond
contains many places of worship, some of which are very striking
specimens of architecture, particularly the Monumental Episcopal
Church, at the corner of Broad and Thirteenth Streets. The site
was formerly that of the Richmond Theatre, but in 1811, during
the performance of a piece entitled " The Bleeding Nun," the
theatre caught fire, and in the commotion which ensued about
sixty-nine persons were crushed or burned to death. On the
spot the church was erected to commemorate the event, the
remains of the victims being interred beneath a mural tablet in
the vestibule.
The Hollywood Cemetery, in the western part of the city,
embraces a considerable area, and is very beautifully laid out.
Trees, shrubs, and flowers are to be seen in abundance. The
remains of President Monroe and General J. E. B. Stuart are
buried here. The soldiers' section contains the graves of
hundreds of the Confederate dead. As will be gathered from
this very brief description of Richmond, the city is not prolific in
sights, but will be interesting to visit. Entrance to one or other
of the tobacco factories could be obtained, and a sight of one of
the immense buildings devoted to this trade would be sure to add
to the pleasure of seeing Richmond.
The hotels are the Exchange and Ballard House, at 12s. per
day.
Baltimore is the most important town in Maryland, and had
in 1880 a population of 332,313. It is very picturesquely
situated on the Patapsco River, about fourteen miles from its
entrance into Chesapeake Bay. A well-constructed harbour
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has enabled the city to develope a good coasting and foreign
trade in the products of the district — tobacco, cotton, petro-
leum, bacon, cheese, lard, &c. Large quantities of copper
ore are also refined in the neighbourhood of Canton, a short
distance from the city. Some of these smelting works em-
ploy a considerable number of men. Canning oysters, fruits,
and vegetables are also important industries, and most people,
whether from a business point of view or simply as consumers,
could not fail to be greatly interested in these trades. No
difficulty need be experienced in obtaining the necessary per-
mission to visit the various works. Baltimore has been desig-
nated a "monumental city," on account of its many statues and
their artistic value. The Washington Monument, in Mount
Vernon-place, is one of the finest of many of the great General
in the States. It stands upon a terrace 100ft. above tide water,
and has a base 50ft. square, and 20ft. high. This supports a
massive column, 176ft. high, at the summit of which is the
colossal statue, 16ft. high. A height of 312ft. is thus reached
above the level of the river. The fee, 15 cents, for entrance to
the tower is well worth paying, as there is a capital view of the
city and its surroundings from the top. The cost is estimated
at £40,000. The Battle Monument ranks next in importance,
and was erected to the memory of those who fell when defending
the city in 1814. It is a Eoman column with emblematical
sculptures. The Wildey Monument, on Broadway, near Balti-
more-street, is in memory of Thomas Wildey, the founder of the
order of Odd Fellows in the States.
The most important streets are Baltimore-street, which runs
east and west the whole length of the city, and contains many
handsome places of business, and Holliday, Calvert, Fayette,
Lexington, Madison, Park, Saratoga, and others. The favourite
drives are through Druid Hill Park, via Charles-street, to Lake
Eoland, a distance of six miles, leading through a well-paved
and shaded thoroughfare.
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Among the public buildings is the Exchange, in Gay-street,
a handsome structure, with a frontage of 240ft. There are
on the east and west sides six columns of fine Italian marble,
and a dome surmounts the building. The City Hall has been
completed only seven years, and is considered one of the finest
municipal buildings in the country. White marble has entered
largely into its erection, and it fills the entire square enclosed
by Holliday, Fayette, and two other streets. The Post Office
and Custom House are close by the Exchange. The Maryland
Institute in Baltimore-street is used chiefly for industrial ex-
hibitions, fairs, &c. The Peabody Institute, at the corner of
Charles and Monument Streets, contains nearly 60,000 volumes,
and is free to all. Other libraries are : Odd Fellows' Hall, about
30,000 volumes ; Mercantile, about 32,000 ; Maryland Historical
Society, over 10,000. Church architecture forms a prominent
feature in Baltimore, the Catholic Cathedral being especially
imposing. Almost every denomination is well represented.
Druid Hill Park, already named, is the principal park of
the city. It covers 680 acres, and is situated in the northern
suburbs; rural beauty is the chief feature of this park. At
the head of the lake is a tower, from the top of which a
capital view is obtained of the city and harbour.
The hotels are: The Eutaw House and Maltby House, at
12s. 6d. per day ; Howard House, in Howard-street, near
Baltimore-street, is a comfortable house, at 8s. per day..
CHAPTER XIX.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON well deserves its name of " the City of Magnificent
Distances." Mr. G. A. Sala said of this city, some years ago,
" that it would be the most magnificent city on that side the
Atlantic, and some of its edifices, as, for instance, the Post Office,
the Patent Office, and the Treasury Buildings, are really magni-
ficent in proportion and design, but it is not quite begun yet. It
contains certainly some noble public buildings, but they are
scattered far and wide, with all kinds of incongruous environ-
ments, producing upon the stranger a perplexed impression that
the British Museum has migrated to the centre of an exhausted
brickfield, where rubbish may be shot, or that St. Paul's
Cathedral, washed quite white and stuck upon stone stilts, has
been transferred to the centre of the Libyan Desert, and called a
Capitol." Since the time this well-known journalist wrote these
lines, many of the vacant spaces have been built upon with either
private residences or places of business, but there is still plenty
of breathing room in and around the city. Its site is an
admirable one, and was selected through the agency of General
Washington, who laid the corner stone of the Capitol on 18th
Sept., 1793.
The population is put down at 150,000 ; this, however, is
largely increased when Congress is in session, and the in-
terest in the visit of the tourist would be greatly enhanced if
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he were in Washington at such a time. The Congressmen and
Senators, being paid for their services, can afford to spend the
business part of the day in the work of the country ; and so in
both Houses the sittings commence at noon and do not very often
extend into the night, as they do at St. Stephen's. Members
of Congress receive £1000 per annum, and senators £2500, and,
in addition to this, they are allowed mileage expenses, according
to the distance which they travel to and from their homes to
Washington, in order to attend to their parliamentary duties. It
can scarcely be wondered at, with this incentive, that politics
should be so much in the hands of professional politicians who
make a living thereby. There is no difficulty in strangers
obtaining access to the galleries, and there are few of the " male
persuasion," at least, on a visit to America who would not desire
to spend as much time as possible in the precincts of Congress,
in order to see for themselves something of the legislative
proceedings of the country. The Capitol and other public
buildings, I may here mention, are open to the public every
day, Sundays excepted, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is no
fixed fee for being shown over them, but I never yet discovered
an official in such places who declined a gift for services of this
nature.
The Capitol is what it claims to be, one of the largest and
most elaborate buildings in the world. The hill upon which it is
built is 90ft. high. The main structure is 352ffc. long and
121ft. deep, and each of the two wings is 238ft. by 140ft. The
entire length is 751ft., and the area covered is 3i acres. Pure
white marble enters largely into the materials, and this is always
beautifully clean, so that when the sun is shining the effect is
dazzling. Handsome grounds surrounding are beautifully laid
Out with landscape gardens, trees, and plants, and groups of
statuary are distributed, some of which well merit close inspec-
tion. The main front has an immense colonnade and portico,
with statues of Columbus, Washington, and allegorical figures of
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"Peace and War," "Civilisation," &c. The bronze door which
forms the entrance to the Eotunda from the east portico was cast
at Munich. It is 17ft. high and 9ft. wide, and weighs, it is
stated, 20,Q001b. It is divided into eight panels, each con-
taining a scene in the life of Columbus, and between the panels
are sixteen statuettes, representing some of the contemporaries
of the discoverer.
The dome is, of course, a prominent feature of this immense
pile. It rises to a height of 400ft., and is crowned with a
colossal statue of Freedom. A spiral staircase leads up to it,
and the view afforded of the surrounding country should not be
missed. The fresco painting on the corridor near the staircase,
covering some 6000ft. of space, is remarkable for good grouping
and careful execution. In the Eotunda, immediately underneath
the dome, are eight fine historical paintings executed specially
for the Government. The subjects are "The Declaration of
Independence," "The Surrender of General Burgoyne," "The
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis," " General Washington Eesigning
his Commission," " The Landing of Columbus," "The Embarka-
tion of the Pilgrim Fathers," and others, which cannot fail to
occupy much of the attention of the visitor.
The Senate and the Eepresentative Chamber, the former in
the north wing and the latter in the south wing, are both large,
and very elaborately finished. The Hall of Eepresentatives is
139ft. long, 93ft. wide, and 36ft. high, and the Senate Chamber
is 113ft. long, and about 80ft. wide. Both halls are very taste-
fully decorated. Costly staircases are the means of access.
The Library of Congress, now containing about 450,000
volumes, is in the western portion of the building. It is the law
of the country that to secure copyright a copy of every work
published in the States must be deposited there. This part of
the Capitol is, in fact, the British Museum of America. The old
Hall of Eepresentatives is now used as a National Hall of
Statuary. It is semi-circular in form, and contains twenty-
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four columns. The ceiling is painted in panels, and light is
admitted through a cupola in the centre, as in the Pantheon
at Rome. Statues of celebrated Americans fill the hall. The
President's and Vice President's rooms, the Speaker's, Senators'
Reception, and some of the committee rooms are lavishly
furnished.
The White House is almost as well known, by name at least,
on this side the Atlantic as Windsor Castle. It is a plain but
very substantial structure, some portions of it dating back to
1792. The material is freestone, painted white; it is 170ft.
long, and 86ft. deep, and is two stories high. The building has
a colonnaded front, but otherwise has no particular architec-
tural merit, and were it not for its importance as the official
residence of the President, it would be passed by as not being
specially worthy of notice. It is close by the River Potomac,
and for some reason the Washington sanitary authorities do
not consider that in the summer it is one of the healthiest
residences in the city. The " East Room " is the grand parlour,
and the Blue, Red, and Green Rooms are on the same floor.
Luxuriousness and costliness are two very conspicuous elements
in the decoration and furnishing of these rooms. The East Room,
I may mention, is 80ft. long and 40ft. wide. The Executive
Office and Cabinet Room are on the second floor. Access to the
public rooms of the White House from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., when
the President and family are in residence, is easy. No court or
evening dress is necessary, except at receptions.
It may be interesting to note here that white ties and dress
coats in the evening are in vogue in all the leading cities of the
Union. I have attended political meetings where they have been
general, and at a church tea party there would scarcely be a
gentleman present who was not thus attired ; in theatres and
other places of amusement they may be counted by the score,
and even a "quiet evening" at a friend's house would scarcely
be complete if this custom of civilisation were not observed.
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Theoretically, Americans abhor the conventional, but in reality
they bow down and worship not only titles but high-sounding
gratuitous diplomas, with a persistency at once surprising and
perplexing. Notwithstanding, they are a warm-hearted hospi-
table people, possessing many admirable traits of character.
The commotion at the Capitol and the White House during
the congressional session is peculiarly American ; representatives
may be seen by the dozen simultaneously discussing in certain
places politics and tobacco. Copies of the Congressional Globe,
the official record of the speeches, should be obtained as
mementoes of what could not fail to be to all a pleasing re-
miniscence of a visit to a noted city. Members may begin a
speech, and if with an eye to re-election by their constituency they
desire to make a long one, they may easily get the permission
of the House to have the whole printed in the Globe, having
actually only delivered the first portion, and the entire speech is
thus accepted as having been made in the House. Bead speeches
are very common, the percentage in fact of representatives who
speak extempore being small, and without claiming to be
acquainted with every detail of American political life, I can only
mention that on more than one occasion I heard it stated that
writers for the newspaper press are in some cases the authors of
read speeches.
The Treasury Department is not far from the White House,
at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue, and is open to visitors
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The east front is modelled after the
temple of Minerva, at Athens, and is 342ft. long, with an
unbroken front of Ionic colonnade. There are in all about 200
rooms in the building. The cash and the gold rooms are of
extraordinary strength, and possess decorative combinations of
considerable merit. In the latter room there is usually stored
about £2,000,000 in coin. Strangers are often granted the
privilege of inspecting the rooms by permit of the treasurer.
The printing of paper money, carried on in the upper and lower
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portions of the structure, may also be seen, and is of considerable
interest.
The State, War, and Navy Departments, built of granite, are
a magnificent pile of buildings, entrance to the public rooms of
which can be readily obtained. These buildings are among the
newest public structures in Washington. The Navy Yard,
situated about one-and-a-quarter miles south-east of the Capitol,
covers some 27 acres. The Ordnance Foundry and shop for the
manufacture of guns, shot, and shell, are opened to visitors,
under the direction of a guide. The museum contains an in-
teresting collection of fire-arms, warlike munitions, and relics.
Guns and other old trophies are to be seen also scattered about
the yard.
The Patent Office is a very interesting building to inspect ; it
is located on F street (many of the streets in Washington are
designated by letters). The Model Boom is open from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. The contents of these large rooms, which were in
considerable confusion some time ago, are as multitudinous as
they are various. The printing press of Benjamin Franklin, and
many of the personal effects of Washington, would be sure to
attract the attention of the visitor. Mechanics and those pos-
sessing more or less ingenuity would spend a good portion of
their stay in Washington at this Patent Office. Some of the
models are marvels of skill and precision, and are connected
with every industry which the New World has yet seen, from
the making of a toasting fork to a locomotive.
The Washington Monument reminded me strongly of Scot-
land's Folly at Edinburgh — a grand conception uncompleted.
The Botanical Gardens, National Observatory, and the United
States Arsenal are other objects of interest.
The Corcoran Art Gallery, at the corner of Pennsylvania
Avenue and Seventeenth-street, is the gift of a banker, whose
name it bears. It contains a good selection of pictures, porce-
lain, and other pottery ware. The Smithsonian Institution stands
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in inclosed grounds, covering over 52 acres. This noble institu-
tion was founded by an Englishman for the increase and diffusion
of knowledge. It is 447ft. long by 150ft. wide, and has nine
towers, ranging from 75ft. to 150ft. high. The Museum of
Natural History and kindred collections is very extensive and
worthy of close inspection. The Columbian and the Howard
Universities, the Louise Home, and the Soldiers' Home should
also be visited.
Georgetown, about two miles from the Capitol ; Alexandria,
seven miles from the city, on the banks of the Potomac Eiver ;
and Mount Vernon, fifteen miles below Washington, are interest-
ing places, the last particularly, as containing the tomb of
Washington. This is a plain but solid structure, built of brick,
with an iron gate, through the bars of which may be seen the
marble sarcophagi containing the remains of George and Martha
Washington.
The hotels are Ebbitt House at 12s. 6d. per day ; the National,
at 12s. 6d. and 14s. per day ; and others. Boarding houses may
be found in all parts of the city at 30s. to 80s. per week.
CHAPTER XX.
PHILADELPHIA.
I DO not know of any more interesting city in the entire Union
to visit than this, the city of brotherly love, or Quaker city. Its
founder, the celebrated William Penn, said of it, "Of all the
places I have seen in the world, I remember not one better seated,
so that it seems to me to have been appointed for a town, because
of its coves, docks, springs, and lofty lands." What was the exact
locality of these places in the days of this worthy member of the
Society of Friends is a matter of some little wonder to the
modern tourist ; the city lies between two navigable rivers, the
Delaware and the Schuylkill, six miles above their junction,
and only ninety-six miles from the Atlantic. It is the second
city in population to New York, and is more thoroughly
American, both in its streets and people, than is the Empire
city, with its cosmopolitan inhabitants. In 1880 the census
returns showed the number to be 847,170 against 674,022 in
1870. Founded in 1682 by the little Quaker colony, the im-
press of the sturdy, vigorous, and conscientious nature of that
sect is stamped indelibly on its citizens of to-day, and the
city is associated with the most important events which have
occurred in the history of the New World. Its charter was
bestowed in 1701, and the city has since prospered rapidly. The
first Congress assembled here, holding its sittings during the
troublous times of the War, and on 4th July, 1776, the Declara-
tion of Independence was signed in the old hall, to which I shall
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refer later. We in England have little conception what a great
day this 4th of July always is all over the States ; and really
our cousins are very remarkable for the ecstatic joy that they
universally give way to on this anniversary, which they usually
extend beyond the day. A perfect Niagara of oratory is poured
forth ; there are reviews, processions, bonfires, and fireworks in-
numerable all over the country, and it is rare that the day is got
over without some lives being lost. In crossing the first time to
the States I spent the 4th of July on the Atlantic ; and a Boston
gentleman, who had visited England many times, said to me
that the greatest blessing of that voyage to him was the fact of
being on the ocean away from all the noise and turmoil of its
celebration. This Signing of the Declaration of Independence
is deservedly an epoch in history, and in American literature
and in general intercourse many things date from it. An
American schoolboy being asked some question about the
Eeformation, in reply shook his head, and said, "I guess it
must have occurred before the signing of the Declaration of
Independence."
One of the oldest guide books says that " the original plan of
the city was a parallelogram two miles long, from the Delaware
to the Schuylkill, by one mile wide, and contained nine streets,
running from the Delaware to the Schuylkill, crossed by twenty-
one running north and south. In the centre was a square of ten
acres, and in each quarter of the city one of eight acres, for
public promenades and athletic exercises. This plan, so far as
the arrangement of the streets is concerned, is still substantially
adhered to." It is now claimed for it, and it may appear almost
incredible, but may, nevertheless, be accepted as being the case,
that it has considerably over 1000 miles of streets and roads, the
majority of which are well paved, and underneath which is an
admirable drainage system. Its population are well housed, well
educated, and it is the experience of myself and many with
whom I have come in contact, that more ordinary courtesy and
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attention are met with in Philadelphia than in any other city in
the Union. The policemen and railway servants, as a class, it
will very soon be discovered, are not overflowing with politeness ;
in fact, I have known civil inquiries from both treated in New
York and other places with a gruffness gross and repugnant. A
large number of these officials on the other side of the Atlantic
might with advantage go to school to their fellow officers in
Philadelphia. The working classes are, as I have remarked,
well cared for. Madison-square and other parts of the city have
been built upon with houses specially suited to their require-
ments, and between the two rows of houses there is a pretty
strip of garden and children's play ground. Every possible
organisation exists for the benefit of every conceivable form of
want that charitable sympathy can provide for. I was con-
siderably amused to notice a large signboard showing the rooms
of the " Association for Promotion of Marriage among Germans."
Whether similar societies with this benevolent object in view
exist for the benefit of emigrants of other nationalities settling
in that district, I do not know.
Of the antiquities, if we can apply this term to erections of a
little over a hundred years old, the Independence Hall would, no
doubt, be one of the first sights visited. It is in Chesnut-street,
between Fourth and Fifth-streets ; it was commenced in 1729
and completed in 1735. In the east room of the main building
the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. It
was afterwards read from the steps of the building to the
•crowd, which had assembled in State House Yard. Liberty
Bell, rung at the time of the Declaration, occupies an
honourable position in the hall. On it is inscribed, " Proclaim
liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof."
The room is full of old relics, such as the furniture used
by the Congress at that time, and portraits of the country's
worthies. The entire Declaration, which could be repeated
by every school-boy in America, is too long to quote in
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full, but, as it may, perhaps, not be familiar to some, I will give
the closing paragraph of it, which is as follows : " We, therefore,
the Representatives of the United States of America in General
Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name, and by
the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly
publish and declare : That these United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, Free and Independent States, they have full
power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish
commerce, and to do all other acts and things which Independent
States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honour."
The simple grave of Benjamin Franklin, one of the chief
signatories to this Declaration, is in the graveyard of Christ
Church, near the Independence Hall. It can be easily seen
through the railing from the street. This church was com-
menced in 1727, and is still in a good state of preservation.
Its steeple is 196ft. high, and contains the oldest chime of bells
in America.
Other objects of antiquarian interest are the old Swede's
Cottage, in Swan son- street, built in 1700 ; Ponn's Cottage, a
two-story house off Market-street ; Carpenter's Hall, built in
1770, where assembled the first Congress of the United Colonies ;
Treaty Monument, a simple obelisk upon a granite pedestal, at
the corner of Beach and Hanover-streets, marks the site where
Penn made his memorable treaty with the Indians. The old
elm tree under which it stood was blown down in 1810.
The general appearance of the chief business thoroughfares of
Philadelphia is that of a busy, well-to-do character. Handsome
business premises are to be seen on all hands, and the majority
of these are very solid and durable structures. So numerous are
these prominent commercial premises that a list of them would
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be rather long and to some, perhaps, uninteresting. A few,
however, may be named. The Public Ledger Buildings, in
Chesnut-street, is, I should say, the finest newspaper office in the
world. It is five stories high, and is built of brown stone.
Mr. Child, the proprietor of the Ledger, and also owner of the
building, is one of the wealthiest men in the entire city, and,
indeed, it might be said the States, which is saying much. He
is at the same time one of the most generous of Philadelphia's
many eminent citizens. Every Sunday he may be found opening
the pews of the church where he regularly attends, so that he
might be termed the richest pew-opener in the universe. He is
unostentatious in manner, but possessing the well-merited
character of strict probity and conscientiousness. Philadelphia
owes much to him, and this is freely acknowledged.
Other buildings are the Commercial Exchange, Second-street,
below Ohesnut-street, standing by the side of the old slate-roof
house of William Penn ; the premises of Messrs. Lippincott and Co.,
publishers, which are large and of noble aspect ; the Guarantee
Trust and Safe Deposit Company ; the Custom House and Post
Office in Chesnut-street, between Fourth and Fifth-streets, built
in imitation of the Parthenon at Athens, and for which it is
claimed that it is one of the finest specimens of Doric architecture
in the States. The old Masonic Temple is another building of
prominence, and so also is the new temple of the brotherhood of
the mystic tie at the corner of Broad and Filbert-streets^ Dry
goods' houses, fine-art depots, jewellery establishments, and a
thousand and one other stores would not fail to interest all. It
might be that now and again incidental bits of humour would
occur in some of these stores ; as, for instance, a young lady
attired in a sealskin sacque of considerable value, was heard to
say, in one of the fine art galleries, " Oh ! ma ! do look at those
terra firma ornaments at the other side of the room, a'int they
just lovely?" There is also a story told of a lady parading
magnificently and making purchases, in one of the Chesnut-street
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jewellery stores. Two ladies were watching her, and one
whispered to the other, " Evidently shoddy !" The grand dame
overheard her, and answered, " No, madam, petroleum ! " The
largest of these stores connected with various trades are
situated along Chesnut, Arch, Walnut, Broad, and Market-
streets, which are all very spacious thoroughfares.
The most prominent public and educational buildings, taking
them in the streets in which they are situated, are in Chesnut-
street, always very crowded in the business parts of the day.
The bridge over the river in this street is a very substantial
structure. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company is a
somewhat peculiar but handsome building, made of pressed
bricks, ornamented with Ohio stone and coloured tiles. Security
against fire and thieves are of course the chief features of the
building. Between Fourth and Fifth-streets the Custom House
buildings are situated, to which I have already referred. Oppo-
site this is the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, a handsome
structure in white marble. Close by the Custom House is the
old Post Office, an imposing marble building. The new Post
Office, however, at the corner of Ninth and Chesnut-streets, is a
far more handsome erection, and cost about three-quarters of a
million pounds sterling. The buildings of the American Sunday
School Union are worthy of notice. On the north side of the
street and crossing Thirteenth-street stands the United States'
Mint. Ionic is the style of architecture, and the design was
copied from a temple at Athens. The delicate and interesting
operations of coining may be seen by visitors every day except
Saturdays and Sundays. There are also other matters in the
building which would arouse the attention of the visitor. The
building of the Young Men's Christian Association is one of
the finest structures of a similar nature to be found on the other
side of the Atlantic. There are stores on the ground floor, but
the majority of the upper floors are used for reading, class, and
lecture rooms and libraries. Its imposing appearance and the
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immense outlay which on all hands is evident in it would at once
suggest themselves to all seeing it for the first time. The
membership of this institution is very large, and the rooms are
daily visited by hundreds of young men. We have no Young
Men's Christian Association buildings in Great Britain that will
compare favourably with those in some of the leading cities of
the more Northern States. Their work is of the most practical
and beneficial character, and were the present the time I could
give many facts to prove what a powerful lever of usefulness
they are. At the junction of Thirty-Sixth-street, Darby-road,
and Locust-street, stand the new buildings of the University of
Philadelphia. The Science and Art Department of the College is
one of the largest and most conveniently arranged of any college
building in the country. It stands in a square covering over six
acres ; the frontage is about two hundred and sixty feet, and
over one hundred in depth. The Medical Department is also a
very handsome building, and adjoining this is the hospital,
under the charge of the Medical Faculty of the College.
There are private rooms for invalids who have means and wish
to pay. The University building and grounds will be of con-
siderable general interest to the tourist. This institution is one
of the oldest in the country. It was an academy in 1749, a
college in 1755, and promoted to the dignity of a university in
1779. It possesses a large library, and its professors are very
able men. Visitors will have no difficulty in obtaining access to
some portions of the college buildings. Walnut-street, a wide,
well paved, and well lighted thoroughfare, contains the building
of the Pennsylvania Eailroad Company, and the Philadelphia
and Beading Company. The offices of a number of insurance
companies are here, and also several conspicuous for good archi-
tecture. This street has been much built upon during the last
few years, and contains many large and important buildings.
Another important locality is Broad-street, which has its
terminus at League Island, a low tract of land at the junction
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of the two rivers — the Delaware and the Schuylkill. This
island has been used since 1875 as a naval depot, and a visit ta
it should not be omitted. It is admirably adapted for the pur-
pose. Churches and other places of worship are very numerous
in this street, not a few of which are very handsome erections,
Near to Pine-street is the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Horticul-
tural Hall is, as its name indicates, the home of floral beauty.
This was the first institution of its kind in the country, being
established in 1827. At certain seasons of the year the displays
in this building are of a very magnificent character. The
American Academy of Music is close beside the hall just referred
to. This opera house may reasonably claim not only to be a
striking and capacious building, but to have excellent seeing and
hearing properties. The Academy of Music, the Alhambra
Palace, and other places of amusement are also in this immediate
neighbourhood. The Union League Buildings is a club house
with a large patronage. The Public Buildings, including the
law courts and offices of the Corporation, is among the finest
of its kind in the States, and I am not aware of any public
building in this country, not excepting even the Manchester
New Town Hall, which can be compared to it. Its length is
486fi. north and south, and the central tower rises to a height
of 450ft. The entire space covered is between four and five
acres, and there are over 500 rooms. An immense sum of
money, up to the present, has been spent on this building, and
it is indicative of the public spirit which the Philadelphians
have always shown. The School of Design for Women is also
in this same street, and has proved itself a very useful institution.
The new Masonic Temple, already referred to, in which there are
nine lodge rooms, is very elegant. Its style of architecture
is somewhat peculiar, a tower rising at one corner to a height of
230ft. The extensive use of white marble in the buildings of
Philadelphia will strike most visitors ; scores of doorsteps to
private houses may be noticed of this material, and, this being
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the case, it will be readily understood how largely it enters into
more important uses. This gives a beautifully clean appearance
to most of the edifices ; in fact, I do not remember in all my pere-
grinations over not a small area to have noticed this quality so
conspicuously marked about buildings and thoroughfares as in
the leading streets of the Quaker City. The New Academy of
Fine Arts is another building well worthy of an inspection of
both interior and exterior. There are also a number of streets
branching off Broad-street, which are most picturesquely laid
out ; private residences abound in them, exhibiting all the wealth
and taste to which I have previously referred.
I may mention, among other places of interest, the Girard
College, on Eidge Avenue, founded by the late Stephen Girard,
who died in 1831. The original bequest was £400,000, for the
erection of suitable buildings " for the gratuitous instruction and
support of destitute orphans." The site embraces some 42 acres,
and from the main buildings there is a fine view to be obtained.
The College is built in Corinthian style in marble, and is about
218ft. long, 160ft. wide, and 97ft. high. Blockley Almshouse, in
Thirty-fourth street, the Blind Asylum, corner of Twentieth and
Eace-streets, and other charitable institutions which abound in
the city are worthy of being visited, the necessary permission not
being difficult to obtain.
The Centennial Buildings in Fairmount Park are still standing,
but they may almost be described as a gigantic cage with but few
birds in. It was intended to have a kind of permanent exhibi-
tion of American manufactures in them, but many had withdrawn
their exhibits when I was last there. They have, however,
much that would interest any visitor. The structure itself is
of the most marked character, but seeing that the purpose for
which it was erected is a thing of the past, it is scarcely neces-
sary for me to give details of the size of its exterior or the
dimensions of the Machinery, Memorial, Horticultural, and
Agricultural Halls. When it was completed, and the exhibition
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in full operation, it was probably the largest building in the
universe. Some parts of the park are very prettily laid out.
Lippincott's Guide says that the park itself "arose from the
necessity for a supply of pure water, the deterioration of which
threatened to become not only an evil but a grievous calamity.
The mills and manufactories on the banks of the Schuylkill were
multiplying rapidly, and there was great danger that in the course
of a very few years the river banks for miles above the city
would be lined with factories and workshops, to the utter ruin of
the stream on which the citizens depended for their supply of
pure water. Just in time to prevent this catastrophe Fairmount
Park was conceived." Over five miles of the river and six of an
important tributary have been enclosed and preserved for ever
from the pollution of manufacturing processes. Nearly 3000
acres are embraced in these public pleasure and recreation
grounds, and every year adds beauty to them. There is boating
in abundance ; lovely glens and spacious drives, where the elite of
Philadelphia take their airing. Ornamental gardening and a
rich variety of trees and plants have added to the natural beauty
of the grounds. The buildings of the Zoological Society are in
the park. The aviary here is a very pretty and suitable building
for the purpose. The buildings for the carnivora, the monkey
and elephant houses, the bear-pits, &c., I must dismiss by saying
that they are all fully tenanted, and the tenants more than earn
their board and lodging by ministering to the amusement of the
many visitors who go to see them. Sweet Briar Eavine, in the
park, is a charming spot. It is not often that country seats are
in a public park, but there are several in Fairmount Park, the
chief of which is Belmont Mansion. Washington and Franklin
often visited here ; Talleyrand and Louis Philippe were also
guests at the mansion. The building is now a huge restaurant.
"Tom Moore's Cottage " is close by the house, on the river bank.
The Wissahickon is a pretty stream winding through a narrow
valley between steep and lofty hills, well wooded. There is
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much up this stream, such as the Creek, the Hermit's Pool,
Hemlock Glen, and Glen Fern, worth spending much time
amongst. The entire grounds of this vast park are most
interesting, and the public spirit which prompted the acquisition
reflects great credit on those — and the number is large — who
have been mainly instrumental in the matter.
Some other objects of interest are the Philadelphia Library,
sometimes called Franklin Library, founded by him in 1731.
A marble statue of Franklin, executed in Italy, stands over the
front entrance. The library contains over 100,000 volumes.
Admission is free from 10 o'clock to sunset. The "Bidgway
Branch " of the Philadelphia Library is a very fine building?
with a frontage of 220ft., and a depth of 105ft. It contains a
very large number of books. The Mercantile Library in Tenth-
street, above Ohesnut-street, contains about 120,000 volumes.
The Athenaeum, an imposing building, in Sixth-street, has in it
some 20,000 volumes.
There are many large squares, some of which are beautifully laid
out. Among these, Logan-square, covering seven acres ; Indepen-
dence-square, near Independence Hall ; and Washington-square,
diagonally opposite Independence-square, surrounded by a hand-
some iron railing. The chief feature of the latter square is that
it contains nearly every species of tree that will grow in the
American climate, whether indigenous or not. An interesting
map of the square may be bought, showing the position of each
tree. Franklin-square, at Sixth and Bace-streets, is a very pretty
promenade ; Eittenhouse-square, at Eighteenth and Walnut-
streets, is in a very aristocratic part of the city, and contains
many elegant private residences.
The hotels are : The Girard House, Chesnut-street, the
Colonnade, and the American, in the same street, at 12s. 6d.
per day ; the Central, in Arch-street, and the Bidgway, at the
foot of Market-street, at 8s. per day.
CHAPTER XXI.
RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
PENNSYLVANIA is particularly noted for its pretty railroad
scenery — in fact, as much, if not more so, than any other State in
the Union. It is a proud boast of the Pennsylvania^ that they
had the second railway which was opened in America, for they
have one dating back to 1827. At the present time the State
has a network of railways, and several of them are the best
constructed of any in the entire States, a feature which is of no
inconsiderable importance in the estimation of all who have
passed over the somewhat flimsy trestle bridges and badly
constructed tracks of some other lines which could be mentioned.
All making a tour in the States, whether simply on pleasure
bent or with a view to settling down in the New World, could
not fail to be interested in the scenery which would be observed
in travelling by railway in almost any part of the State to which
we are now more particularly referring. In many other parts of
America the eye misses the pretty hedges which divide the fields
in England, and as a substitute a rough kind of railing stands by
the railway on both sides. All along, those which are imme-
diately near the track are covered with advertisements of some-
body's liver pills, or some marvellous oil never known to fail in
curing anything and everything. Literally, if these advertise-
ments, whitewashed on the railings, were placed together in a
line they could not fail to stretch for hundreds of miles. Truly,
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the Americans are an advertising people, as everybody will soon
find out who goes over there. Notwithstanding, however, that
some charming spots are desecrated with quack advertisements,
these will be overlooked in the presence of scenery, rich in hill,
vale, water, and foliage, in the oldest State of the Union —
Pennsylvania — forming the perfection of beauty.
The North Pennsylvania Eailroad travels through Mont-
gomery and Bucks divisions of the State, noted for their fertility,
and trains loaded with grain and produce will be seen at certain
times of the year conveying such freight to Philadelphia. The
Lehigh Valley and Wyoming Branch joins this railway, well
known as one of the chief anthracite coal districts of the States.
Bethlehem, along this line, is an old-fashioned, but very pretty
little town, only a short distance from Philadelphia. Its
Moravian founders have left their mark upon it, as also upon
Nazareth, ten miles north, another very picturesque spot, as is
evidenced by many families from New York and Philadelphia
going there to spend the summer months. The Lehigh Eiver
in this district winds in and out among the hills in a way that
cannot fail to strike the visitor. The Lehigh Gap is the name
of a narrow pass where the mountains close in the river ; and
railway, canal and river all struggle together for elbow room.
Mauch Chunk is a favourite district near here, giving its
name to a village closed in on all sides by lofty mountains.
The town, as the Chunkites designate it, is right at the bottom
of a deep ravine, where the sun in winter can scarcely find its
way down. But in face of this drawback, hotels and pretty
residences have been built, and quite a nourishing business is
being done. The district will well repay a visit if the tourist
has time to make it. There are some very heavy gradients along
the line here, one rising to a height of 664ft., up and down
which the train is moved by a stationary engine.
Romantic scenery abounds all over the Lehigh Mountains.
Waterfalls and gorges are to be found in the out-of-the-way
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places, among which may be mentioned the neighbourhood of
Mauch Chunk, the Chameleon Falls, Onoko Falls, Terrace Falls,
Cloud Point, and Stony Creek. After leaving these places, the
traveller may travel on into the Wyoming Valley, revealing a
perfect panorama of beauty.
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad, about which we have,
unfortunately, heard so much for some time past, runs through
a very beautiful district over the greater part of its route.
There are several depots of this railroad in Philadelphia. The
"Long road," as it is termed to distinguish it from the shorter
branches, has its terminus in Thirteenth-street. It passes, first
of all, on leaving Philadelphia, through the entire length of
Fairmount Park, where the Centennial Exhibition buildings still
stand, and of which I shall have something to say later. The
falls of the river Schuylkill, over which the railway crosses, are
an early sight after leaving the Quaker City. Valley Forge,
along which the track runs, was, during the Civil War, the scene'
of much fighting.
Soon after leaving this district a long succession of pecu-
liarly named places will be passed, such as Pottstown, Mingo,
Aramingo, Monocacy, and Birdsborough. Beading, the county
seat of Berks, will afterwards be reached, where the company's
works for rolling stock are situated, and to and from which
railways radiate to all parts of the States. Port Clinton, after
leaving Reading, is a very romantic district, high and rugged
hills causing sharp curves and stiff gradients of the railway.
Pottsville, the " Mountain City," as it is termed, well deserves
its designation, and a few miles below this place are Schuylkill
Haven and Cressona, two small towns. Minersville, named from
its being the centre of the coal regions, is not the bleak unin-
teresting spot that some of our English colliery districts are.
Ultima Thule may be reached from the last-named place, and it
is the end of that particular branch of railway.
The visitor will observe that he is now in one of the
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•wildest parts of the States, and, with all the ingenuity of
American railway constructors, they have been unable to make a
line across a tremendous ravine below Ultima Thule. Taking
the other line of rails beyond the one just travelled, the route
passes through Frackville. The railway here is constructed
along the side of the mountain, and the Mahoney Valley will be
particularly noted. Here mining operations are briskly carried
•on, and engineering skill, which has made a perfect network of
narrow tracks for coal waggons, has been exercised to a sur-
prising extent. There would be a choice of several routes
from this part. If the tourist pass through Losberry Junction,
he will see between that place and Catawissa feats of engineering
skill with which we have little in this country to compare.
The journey could be pursued hence through New Jersey to
New York, or back to Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Eailroad, opened in 1834, covers a large
mileage, and runs through most picturesque districts. Its main
route is to Pittsburgh. Bryn Mawr is a growing town, some
nine miles from Philadelphia. Hence on to Susquehanna
the route is very beautiful. Harrisburgh and Gettysburgh will
afterwards be reached ; near to the former town is the "five mile
bridge," which, however, does not indicate the length of the
bridge, but its distance from Harrisburgh. The bridge itself is
a very handsome structure, about three-quarters of a mile in
length. Further on is Lewiston, about thirty miles from the
railway and well among the Alleghanies, affording mountain
scenery of great grandeur. Look out for Altoona hereabout, and
you will soon see the Horseshoe Curve, a sight not likely to be
forgotten, and the name of which admirably explains itself. This
is a difficult pass round the head of a narrow valley, where the
road has been squeezed into a hollow of the hills till it takes the
shape of a perfect horseshoe, and approaching trains on either
arm run parallel, though but a stone's throw apart, until at the
apex they meet and pass. Not far from this curve is Ores son, a
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town on the very summit of the mountain, 3000ft. above the sea.
Johnstown and other manufacturing centres will be passed as
Pittsburgh is neared.
There are numerous other railways in Pennsylvania, but I have,
I think, said sufficient to indicate that there are many vast
sources of interest in the State.
CHAPTER XXII.
MANUFA CTURING CENTRES— TRENTON.
AFTER leaving Philadelphia, it will, perhaps, be convenient for
most tourists, especially those out only on a brief visit, to turn
their faces towards New YorH, by taking the Pennsylvania
railroad; it passes through several important manufacturing
districts, which cannot fail to be interesting to many. Trenton,
the chief seat of the American pottery industry, is only fifty-
eight miles from Philadelphia, and is very pleasantly situated at
the head of navigation on the Delaware. Historically its chief
interest lies in Washington having won his famous victory over
the Hessians there on 26th Dec., 1776. It is a pretty little town
of some 27,550 inhabitants. It is admirably adapted for its
trade, having capital water and rail communication with New
York and Philadelphia. According to the latest statistics,
which, I may say, were corroborated by my own inquiries in
April last, the present extent of the trade may be accepted
asfollows : Number of establishments, 29 ; capital invested,
£380,500 ; greatest number of hands employed at any time
during the year 1881, 2966 ; males above sixteen years, 1792 ;
females above fifteen years, 441 ; children and youths, 644 ;
average day's wages of skilled potters, 2'50 dols., or 10s. ; average
for ordinary labour, 1'25 dols., or 5s. ; total amount paid in
wages during 1881, £180,635 ; materials, £190,048 ; products
during 1881, £468,267.
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It will be seen from what has been said that this is not by any
means an extensive industry in the United States. There are a
few more potteries in Cincinnati and East Liverpool, Ohio, but
several of these make only a common kind of brown ware.
Trenton is the chief seat of the trade, and as the tariff stands
as follows — earthenware, plain and printed, 40 per cent. ; white
china, 45 per cent. ; and decorated china, 50 per cent. — it is
greatly surprising that, with such a powerful nursing as this, the
pottery trade has not developed much more rapidly than is at
present the case. When compared to the Staffordshire Potteries,
with some 150 manufactories, producing every description of
ware, from the commonest earthenware dinner plate to the
richest works of ceramic art, it must be confessed that Trenton
rather sinks into insignificance. The number of kilns owned
is the best criterion of extent of manufacture in the pottery
trade. Two firms have ten kilns, and the fifteen largest manu-
factories in the district have a total of eighty-three. Of these,
about ten are making less or more printed ware — that is, a
ware decorated in one or more colours ; but I was informed that
about three only were doing underglaze printing, and the number
decorating on the premises is also very small. By far the bulk
of American ware produced is a heavy hotel ware, for which
there is an immense demand. This is white, without the least
decoration, and visitors to the States would scarcely fail to
notice that every or nearly every hotel of importance uses this
description of earthenware. It is very thick, and not a few have
been impelled to make strong complaint against the eternal
display of white tea cups, and plates of an unpalatable thickness.
Mr. Oscar Wilde, who claims to be the high priest of JEstheticism,
in one of the many lectures which he has recently been delivering
in America, said to an aristocratic audience, in one of the largest
New York theatres : " When I was in San Francisco, I used to
visit the Chinese quarters frequently ; there I used to watch a
great hulking Chinese workman at his task of digging, and used
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to see him every day drink his tea from a little cup as delicate in
texture as the petal of the flower, whereas in all the grand hotels
of the land, where thousands of dollars have been lavished on
great gilt mirrors and gaudy columns, I have been given my
coffee or my chocolate in cups an inch-and-a-quarter thick. I
think I have deserved something better." No doubt, Mr. Wilde
did deserve something better. There can be no question, how-
ever, that a cultured taste is very rapidly progressing in America,
which is creating an increased demand for better-class china, and
decoration on English and French ware is now carried on very
successfully and profitably by several firms in Trenton and East
Liverpool. Female decorators are chiefly employed, and ladies
with taste and skill in this way are meeting with very remunerative
results from their labours. There is a strong disinclination
among some English china and porcelain manufacturers to
employ lady amateurs, and there is thus a great difficulty in the
way of many ladies whose services in some firms could not fail
to be an acquisition. There is no such disinclination in America,
but, on the contrary, such labour is in good demand for both
under and overglaze painting.
Being well acquainted with the condition of the English
pottery trade, I was, I must confess, somewhat disappointed
with the yet youthful condition of the American manufacturers,
but doubtless the next few years will see a marked change,
and I anticipate a rapid progress, both in the number of pro-
ducers and in the class of wares made. I may say, with regard
to the work of amateurs, as in London and elsewhere, several
kilns have been erected in New York and other cities for the
firing of china, and some ladies, I was informed, made quite a
successful business in buying white ware, decorating it, having
it fired at not a high rate, and then selling it to the fancy
warehouses and dealers.
We last year sent -from this country no less a value than
£867,054 worth of china and earthenware to the United States,
Trenton. 131
notwithstanding the heavy duties that I have already named.
There is at present a great outcry among the Trenton manu-
facturers for more Protection. The Hon. Hart Brewer is a
master potter, and represents Trenton in Congress. He is a
most vigorous advocate for a higher tariff, and has exercised
a personal influence in urging the Government to harass china
and earthenware importers, which is one indication among
many how politics with our cousins are made subservient
to personal interests. The seat of sensitiveness is the trousers
pocket, and if the general English commercial public could
hear what frantic shrieks some of the American manufacturers
are making for increased duties, they would be amused
at the arguments, and as Englishmen would feel flattered
at the compliment thus paid to our manufacturing capa
bilities. As I desire to cover as much ground as possible
in this work, I will quote a few extracts from a speech made
in Congress by Mr. Brewer, for these will serve to show
the style of protectionist arguments, as well as Mr. Brewer's
views of the necessities of the industry with which he is
immediately associated. He said, in a long speech, on the 8th
April, 1882 :
"Mr. Chairman, — The question of Protection has been dis-
cussed from the origin of the Government, and will continue
to be discussed until the great battle between enslaved and
pauperised labour products and free and well-fed labour pro-
ducts is decided. I shall make no apology for debating a
question which addresses itself to every State and every interest
upon which our internal and external commerce depends. I
am a manufacturer; I comprehend my own position, and the
position of the labour I employ, and the exact effect a fair
protection has produced on prices ; I believe I comprehend
something of the vast interests at stake in the United States.
I shall therefore ask the attention of the House to such views
as I may present in favour of that kind of tariff I believe
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132 A Tour in the States and Canada.
essential to a full and fair development of our resources and
to a full and fair protection of American labour.
" The tariff, as I shall proceed to demonstrate, is to deter-
mine the condition labour is to occupy. It is to determine
whether one-half of our population is to be consigned to the
condition of the labourer of England, or whether, in the
manhood of liberties, and the grandeur of our resources, we
shall make it the handmaid of capital, and, through the unity,
go on achieving and developing until, independent in our own
resources, we are able to show to the effete aristocracies of
Europe the manhood of labour, the grandeur of its opportunities,
and the glories of its triumphs.
"Take away the tariff, break down all barriers to open
markets, let the English, Belgian, French, and German manu-
facturers flood our cities, our towns and our country with their
products, produced at starvation wages, and sold at starvation
prices, and what will be the result ? Our manufacturers cannot
manufacture because they cannot sell ; they cannot sell because
the value of their product is chiefly made up of labour, and
American labour is double in cost for production to European
labour. Free trade, then, either excludes the American product
from sale, or it forces the American labourer to labour
for and live on starvation wages. The American people will
never consent to so wholesale a degradation. It would
be to roll back the wheels of civilisation ; it would be to
revive all the servitudes of the past; it would be to consign
millions of our artisans, our producers, our mechanics, to a
hopeless future.
" It always has been the policy of England to keep us depen-
dent upon her for everything we manufacture. She would enslave
us to-day if she could. She spares no one. She killed the
woollen factories of Ireland to protect her own. She annihilated
every industry in Scotland which interfered with her own
monopoly. She hampered and restricted the production of every
Trenton. 133
article, while we were her colonists, which in the remotest degree
interfered with her production.
" England would rule the industrial world. It is too late for
her to think of ruling the United States. In every period of her
domination she has excluded everything from her market she
could produce unless it paid tribute to her treasury, or aided her
to become mistress of the seas and ruler of the markets of the
world. 'But/ say her free-trade propagandists, 'her markets
are open, free trade is her policy, and perfect freedom of exchange
is now the principle of her commercial code.' It is but the old
politeness of the spider to the fly. By prohibitory tariffs she
perfected her machinery, built up cities, created factories, and
accumulated capital. By war she subjugated nations and made
them her customers ; India, and made her her slave ; the South
Sea Islands, and forced them to buy her products. By her navy
she forced her merchantmen into every sea and her merchandise
into every port, until she had gained a force, a perfection and an
accumulation of means for manufacturing no people could equal,
and to a point where she could defy competition.
" To reach this point she had subjugated labour to poverty, and
poverty to hunger, until her factory operatives were mere slaves
to bread, and beggars for wages, working for half the pay of the
free, well fed, unfettered and working men of the United States.
" The condition of labour in England and generally in Europe*
as compared with labour in the United States, is one of the
forcible and unanswerable arguments why we should protect our
country and our people from the degradation, poverty, and crime
which low wages impose. To produce articles which depend for
their value on the labour required to produce them, in competi-
tion with English or European labour, one or two facts must
exist. We must bring the price of wages to the standard of
European enslavement, or we must protect our manufacturers
and our people by such tariff duties as will enable us to meet the
foreign manufacturer in our markets.
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" What, then, is the condition of the English labourer ? ' He
lives in wretched tenements, in most cases unfit for human
habitation.' ' He is generally confined to one or two rooms for
a family, where comfort, cleanliness, and even decency is impos-
sible.' 'They are ill- ventilated, dreary, dirty rooms.'
"Labour and capital are essential unities. They have to unite,
join hands, and make but one interest, for their unity is essential
to all manufacturing, to all production, and to all progress. A
tariff is a bond of union ; it is safety to the one, it is security to
the other. As the two elements are combined by its effects, so
are wealth and comfort diffused. The best interests of society
are promoted in the exact ratio that wages are increased. The
tastes for comfort, elegancies, and enjoyments which educated
life demand, should everywhere be attainable and everywhere be
diffused. There can be no general prosperity, no real progress,
where they are not interwoven with and made a part of civilised
life. Low wages exclude them ; a tariff produces them. There
is no stimulus to effort, no spur to energy, no promise to hope, so
direct as remunerative wages. They lead to independence, which
is manhood's highest purpose.
" Crime, ignorance, and destitution are the unfailing accom-
paniments of low or starving wages. It is inadequate wages
which has made the operatives of England what they are. Good
wages procure homes, improvement, education, self-respect ; low
wages force men into hovels, degradation, and want. The
American labourer, by virtue of the tariff, has had remunerative
wages ; his position in society has shown the result. English
labour, forced into low wages, forced into ignorance, and forced
into want, has made the English labourer a mere drudge, a slave
to subsistence, conscript to degradation. High wages cannot
exist without a tariff. Free trade is low wages, it is servitude, it
is ignorance.
" Labour is the source of all wealth. Manufacturing is the
application of labour to raw materials to perfect them for use.
Trenton. 135
A tariff enables us to manufacture. Production is but another
name for development. A tariff enables us to produce. Low
wages are poverty, want, and suffering ; high wages are pros-
perity, plenty, and comfort. A tariff is the sole barrier between
cheap labour and low wages and well paid labour and remunera-
tive wages. In England, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain the
labourer is a slave to subsistence ; his life is one long struggle
for bread. In the United States labour reaches beyond subsis-
tence. It aspires to manhood, which cannot exist without
comfort ; to respectability, which society denies to hunger, to
want, and to dependence ; to education, which cannot be pro-
cured without the means to secure it ; to cheerfulness, and
progress, and elevation, which the labourer cannot secure unless
he can earn enough to save. A tariff helps the labourer to attain
to manhood, to respectability, to comfort, to the surplus essential
to elevation, to cheerfulness, and to saving.
" Why, then, diminish the tariff ? To diminish rather than
increase our manufacturing interests, when the whole people
demand the policy of expansion, which is protection — when our
common welfare demands the extension of our commerce which
nothing but protection can insure ? Agriculture demands a
protective tariff, for agriculture can only be up to the fair
measure of its prosperity when every order of industry is full
of manufacturing, when every spindle is moving, when every
forge is in blast, when every engine is moving, when the ring of
the hammer, the sound of the shuttle, and the buzz of machinery
tell the farmer that they who consume are at work. It is
protection to labour from competition with pauperised and
debased labour. It is protection to capital from the brigandage
of English piratical manufacturing wealth, which, having accu-
mulated power by centuries of oppression and profit in dominating
over the markets of the world, would now subjugate all opposition,
by underselling, until it ruins and destroys that it finally may
monopolise and rule the market. It is protection to every
136 A Tour in the States and Canada.
trade, calling, enterprise, and industry. All trades are dependent.
The farmer lives on the prosperity of the manufacturer, the
manufacturer on the wealth of the farmer, the mechanic on the
success of each, the labourer on the employment of all.
" The whole people demand protection. Our common pros-
perity demands it. Labour demands it, for labour is our wealth.
Agriculture demands it, for agriculture would be without a market
if free trade existed. Why, then, this eternal battle to
subjugate our trade to British control ? Why this endless
theorising against all experience to give control to foreign
capital? Why this deathless crusade, which a century of
defeats and disasters should have educated into reason, against
the broad, full, and comprehensive development of our incom-
parable resources ? If we give up our tariffs we must give up
our manufacturing. If we do not protect ourselves, no one will
protect us. If labour does not stand by labour, labour will be
crushed. Absolute prosperity is when every arm is employed
and every mouth is fed. With a tariff for protection, every
arm can be employed to enrich into development the incom-
parable grandeur of our resources. With a tariff for protection,
every mouth can be fed with the abundance which is over-
flowing in the land, if the industry of our land is not forced
to give way to the half -paid, half-starved pauperised dependents
of Europe."
I have, perhaps, wearied the patience of the reader in quoting
these extracts, but which are only a tithe of the entire speech.
But this question of Protection is so inseparably linked not
only with the fortunes of the country, but with the individual
fortunes of those going out to find a home in the New World,
that this must be my apology for quoting arguments from the
Protectionist side. The entire question resolves itself into a
very simple issue ; the consumer pays the tariff, whatever it is ;
the manufacturer may be enriched by the system, but it is most
Trenton.
certainly at the expense of the community at large, particularly
the labouring classes.
There has been, this year (1883), a general revision of the tariffs,
which comes into operation on July 1st. Mr. Brewer and his
very small party have been instrumental in obtaining an advance
in the tariff on pottery. In some commodities there has been a
reduction in favour of the manufacturers on this side.
Trenton, as I have said, is a pretty little town, with good
streets, and there are shady lanes outside it. Considering all
that has been done in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York in
the way of schools of design, it is very remarkable that nothing
of this kind exists, or at least did at the time of my visit, in
Trenton, the chief seat of one of the industries most needing
instruction of a technical and artistic character.
CHAPTER XXIII.
MANUFA CTURING CENTRES— PA TEESON.
AFTER leaving the potteries of Trenton, Paterson, the centre of
the silk trade in the States, would, to many, be of interest to
visit. Its distance from New York is only about fifteen miles,
and it is about the same distance from Trenton. Locomotive
making is also carried on in the town, but silk is its leading
industry, providing employment for a large portion of its
53,000 inhabitants. It is a clean, well-ordered town, and has as
residents and workpeople in it a very large number from
Macclesfield, Leek, and Congleton. With a tariff of 60 per cent.
for dress, piece and shawl silk, and the same for silk ribbons,
the trade has thus been as much nursed as a hothouse plant.
Considerable enterprise has been shown for years by those
engaged in the trade, and this supported with unlimited capital,
and the newest and most improved machinery, has given the
silk trade there a status of great influence and importance.
This state of things contrasts very forcibly just now with the
very unsatisfactory condition of the Macclesfield silk trade,
which has for some time past been occupying the serious
attention not only of those engaged in it, but of outsiders who
have taken no small interest in the various causes which have
been alleged for its decline. Many of such out of employment
are making their way to Paterson, and becoming quickly
absorbed in the increasing number of manufactories there. When
Pater son. 139
crossing to the States in April last, one of my fellow passengers
was a Paterson silk dyer, who had been on a visit to Maccles-
field, his native place, after an absence of some years. I asked
him if he would prefer to have remained in England rather than
be returning to Paterson, as he was doing, and his answer was
a very decided negative. As a place of residence he said he
would prefer Maccles field, but as for the labour and its relative
remuneration, the comparison lay most decidedly, he said, in
favour of Paterson. He was, I should remark, evidently a well-
skilled artizan, who had, by a thoroughly experienced knowledge,
made himself invaluable to his firm, especially in the dyeing of
the blended shades, which have been so fashionable.
A correspondent says, in a communication which has just
reached my hands, that " there never was a time in the history
of America when its textile industries were more tried than now ;
on the one hand, by competition with the great manufacturing
establishments of England (against which our tariff presents but
a poor protection for our native labour), and, on the other hand,
by the disheartening effects of 'strikes,' which paralyse the
efforts of capital and compel the acceptance of foreign products
at the expense of our home industries. But, happily, the clouds
are lifting, and strikes cease to be prevalent, and the natural
consequence will, therefore, be a resumption of energy and an
increase of national textile manufacture and a resumption of
general prosperity."
There are differences between the methods of manufacture
adopted in the States and those in vogue here. Anyone who
has visited Macclesfield, Leek, Oongleton, and Coventry, would
see many evidences of much of the work being done at the house
of the operative. In Paterson and Connecticut, where the silk
industry is also carried on, all the work is done at the mill.
This work at home is carried on by hand looms, while at the
American mills steam power is used in every instance.
One of the greatest difficulties with which silk culture in the
140 A Tour in the States and Canada.
States has had to contend is that of proper reeling. This is not
merely mechanical labour, and cannot be performed by any
unskilled person. It is an art which requires years of observa-
tion, study, and constant practice. Eeelers are trained in
England, and on the Continent are trained from very early life,
and so progress from the ordinary to the more subtle manipula-
tions. This process of reeling, which is one of the primary ones
in the silk industry, has been so indifferently done that this has
beed a serious drawback in the trade.
The following table of the rates of wages paid per week,
compiled 27th April, 1882, by Mr. W. C. Wyckoff, the secretary
of the Silk Association of the States, will be interesting, and
perhaps of service to those immediately connected with the
trade. It was furnished at the request of the Secretary of the
U.S. Treasury, and is published in an official document :
Designation of
Operative.
Hard silk winder ...
Hard silk doubter ...
Hard silk spinner ...
Hard silk twister ...
Soft silk winder ...
Warper
Sex.
F.
F.
M.
M.
F.
M
Ave
in 1
18
18!
8.
... 21
... 20
... 20
... 24
... 25
... 43
irage
J.S.,
79,
JO.
d.
0
9
0
0
6
0
9
6
8
10
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
3
3
Esti- Esti-
mated mated
Average Average
England. France,
s. d. s. d.
... 12 0 ... 58
— ... 9 10
— ... 8 0
— ... 13 9
— ... 8 0
— "' 98
— ... 21 8
— ... 12 0
21 8 ... —
... 17 7 ... —
"! 48 0 '."
... 36 6 ... —
... 12 0 ... —
— ... 30 0
... , — ... 30 0
— ... 5 10
... 28 0 ... —
Ditto
Beamer
Weaver on hand
looms
Ditto
Weaver on power
looms
F.
M.
M.
F.
M
... 30
... 48
... 56
... 33
... 45
Ditto
Finisher
F.
M
... 31
... 54
Designer
Lace operative (ma-
chine)
Ditto
Braid operative
Braider
M.
M.
F.
M.
F
.. 99
... 59
... 20
... 64
... 21
Fringe maker
Dver
F.
M.
... 21
... 51
Pater son. 141
He says of the English plan, that "the manufacturer buys
filling and warp, which he sends to the dye house, and finally
puts it out to weavers who have looms at their own homes. . . .
In several of the Paterson mills all the different processes are
conducted under a single roof, so that the raw silk becomes
finished goods before it leaves the place." In not a few cases
the greater part of the machines used in the spinning and
weaving of the silk are made on the premises where they are
used.
There are few industries in the States which have made a
more rapid progress than that of silk, from the culture of the
worm to the manufactured article. The conditions for raising
silkworms are favourable in most of the States, and many ladies
of means and leisure have formed in Philadelphia, San Francisco,
and Sacramento, a "Women's Silk Culture Association," and a
large quantity of raw silk is thus being placed in the market.
The condition of those engaged in the trade in Paterson is
very creditable. The operatives have a comfortable and well-to-
do appearance. The cost of living is fully 50 per cent, more
than it would be in Macclesfield or Coventry, but notwith-
standing this, at the present time they are infinitely better off
than hundreds in the English districts referred to.
CHAPTER XXIY.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES— NEWARK.
NEWAKK is only ten miles from New York, on the New Jersey
side, and only a short distance from Paterson. Its population is
125,000, and its chief trades are cotton manufactures, lead and
zinc smelting, saw works, and hat and leather manufacturing.
Carriage making and fancy work are also largely carried on. It
is the largest city in New Jersey, and is well and substantially
built. The city claims to be famed for the beauty of its
female population as well as to be an important industrial
centre, but of the former fact I was ignorant until after I had
left the district. Of the hat manufacture I need now say
but little. It is carried on chiefly along the Orange Valley,
about a mile or two out of Newark. Many of the works
are picturesquely situated, and above and around them are the
Orange Mountains. The lower grade qualities of hats occupy
the attention of most of the firms engaged in the trade. The
wages, take the branches through, are 50 to 100 per cent,
higher than in England. This trade in the States is conducted
with a great amount of ability and enterprise. Unlimited
capital is at the disposal of the leading houses, and there
is nothing new or meritorious in the way of labour-saving
machinery, either in England or the States, that they have
not in work.
Patent and enamelled leather are the chief products of this
Newark. 143
industry in Newark, which town, in fact, monopolises this trade,
for there is very little carried on elsewhere in America. In this
trade tanners are paid 48s. a week, and finishers average 60s.
While I am referring to the leather trade it will be convenient
here to mention the wages paid in the other branches. These
are as follows :
Morocco leather : In New York and Philadelphia tanners are
paid 60s. per week ; in Wilmington and Lynn, 40s. per week.
Morocco finishers by machinery, New York and Philadelphia,
52s. and 56s. ; and in Lynn, 44s. and 48s. per week. Upper
leather and calf skin manufactures : Tanners in Eastern and
Western cities, 40s. to 44s. ; and curriers, 52s. and 60s. per
week. Wages in the country are less by 8s. to 12s. than in the
towns. Sole leather : 5s. per day for tanners, and finishers 6s.
to 6s. 6d. per day. In Chicago and other cities tanners earn
36s. to 42s. per week. In each of these cases ten hours is a
day's labour.
A well-known Scotch firm of thread manufacturers have large
works in Newark, New Jersey, and employ a very large number
of females, both young and adults. Mr. W. Clark, one of the
principals, says, in a letter sent to the Bureau of Statistics at
Washington, on 31st January, 1882: "With regard to your
question as to the effectiveness of labour here and in Paisley,
would say that my experience is about equal in both places, and
the employes in either place, with the same machinery, will pro-
duce about the same amount of work, and they work as steadily
in one place as in the other. The idea of the superiority of
American workmen over British workmen is humbug. It is
used when a speaker wants to please an American audience, and
generally has the effect he intends. But there is no doubt that
both countries have their specialities in which they excel. Cotton
spinning and cotton spinning machinery is ahead in Great Britain,
and most of our improvements come from there." After careful
examination and inquiry, I must say that this view of American
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labour I can fully endorse. The comparative rates of weekly
wages in the thread trade are :
Girls. Paisley.
s. d.
Spoolers 14 6
Eeelers 14 6
Cop Winders 14 6
Twisters 9 6
Slippers 6 9
Bobbin Cleaners 6 0
Newark,
s. d.
32 0
32 0
32 0
22 0
12 0
10 0
Men.
Paisley.
Newark.
s. d. s. d.
Carpenters 29 0 68 0
Machinists 29 0 72 0
Dyers 28 0 60 0
Bleachers 26 0 54 0
Firemen 24 0 50 0
In Newark fifty-nine hours are worked to the week, and in-
Paisley fifty-five.
CHAPTER XXV.
MANUFACTURING CENTRES— PROVIDENCE AND
HARTFORD.
PEOVIDENCE is the capital of the State of Ehode Island, and is a
perfect beehive of industry. Its population is put down at
104,850. It is very picturesquely situated on Narragansett Bay,
with woods and country behind. It was founded originally in
1636 by Eoger Williams, a Welshman. The Williams Park
contains a very handsome monument to him, executed in granite,
and erected in 1877. The industries of the city are numerous,
and it has suffered less disaster during the years of financial
distress than have many others, an exemption to be attributed
to the great variety of trades carried on. In it are numerous
cotton factories, such as the Oriental Mills, the Providence Steam
Mills, and the Grant Mill ; in worsted work, there are the
Geneva Worsted Mills, the Providence Worsted Mills, and the
Valley Mills for braids, yarns, and hosiery, the Elba and the
Weybosset for cashmeres. The manufactures of coatings, boots
and shoes, corsets, braids, and twine, with bleaching and dyeing,
are also largely carried on. The immense Corliss Engine Works
are here, and the factory of Messrs. Willcox and Gibbs would in
size and other features surprise many on this side. The making
of tools, screws, files, and locomotives, also employs many hands.
One of the chief industries of Providence — purposely mentioned
last in this extensive list — is the jewellery and silver trade. The
production in these goods will, I feel sure, compare favourably
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146 A Tour in the States and Canada.
with that of any other country. I am, in fact, disposed to doubt
at the moment whether Birmingham produces a greater variety
of these wares than are made in Providence. When I was in
the district in the spring of last year, there was a great demand
for silver and jewel chasers, and I was informed that good silver
chasers earned as much as £5 per week. This is one of the
industries in the States which has made very rapid progress
during the last ten years. Both in silver goods and jewellery
there is a constant output of novelties noted as much for artistic
merit as for the skill with which they are produced. Jewellery
is worn universally in the States, and so there is a growing
demand which the Providence manufacturers are bent upon
keeping pace with. The city itself is a pleasant and healthy
one. There are two fresh-water rivers which flow into the
Providence salt-water river. Several public buildings of
prominence are situated in the principal streets.
The houses are chiefly built of red brick, and very many of
these are detached or semi-detached with plenty of trees about
them. There is a capital service of both trains and steamboats
with New York. The soil generally of Ehode Island is stony,
rough, and hard to cultivate ; hence throughout the whole island
people have turned to other trades, and are absorbed in the
many factories and workshops. The population are for the
most part clean, industrious, and thrifty.
Johnston, five miles from Providence, is noted for market
gardening, but also contains cotton and woollen mills, and at
Cranston, six miles away, there is the State prison and asylum
for the insane and paupers. Eocky Point, Oatlands Beach,
Jamestown Island, which contains a park of 500 acres, are
summer and pleasure resorts of the people of Providence. From
Sandy Point, a few miles from Providence, there is sometimes
observed a phenomenon of flashes of light from the ocean, like
the appearance of a ship on fire, supposed to be produced by the
same means as the Aurora Borealis.
Providence and Hartford.
It will be opportune to give here some tables of wages paid in
the various trades referred to. Taking first the cotton trade, the
following were the rates paid in 1880 in Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and other places in the New England States :
Per day of
10 hours,
s. d.
Overseer 15 0
Secondhand 8 0
Picker 4 5
Cardstripper 4 0
Frame spinner 3 1
Per day of
10 hours.
s. d.
Mule spinner 6 5
Warper 3 10
Spooler 3 4
Dresser 6 6
Weaver... 3 4
Woollen trade : per day of ten hours in Massachusetts, and
eleven hours in New Hampshire and Maine :
Wool sorting
Carding.
Spinning
Spooling
Dressing
••
Per day.
s. d.
7 0
3 0
4 10
2 3
4 9
Drawing
Weaving 4
Gigging 4
Finishing 4
Per day.
s. d.
3 4
1
0
0
In the iron and steel trades, there were in 1880 some 140,978
persons employed. The average daily wages as given in the
official returns were 10s. 6d. for skilled labour, and for unskilled
labour 5s. The highest average daily wages for skilled labour
were paid in Providence and other parts of Ehode Island,
Colorado. Taking the Eastern States throughout, the average
was — for skilled labour lls., unskilled 4s. lOd. ; Southern
States, skilled 10s. 10d., unskilled 4s. 3d.; Western States,
skilled lls., unskilled 5s. 4d. ; Pacific States and Territories,
skilled 14s., unskilled 7s.
In the rolling mills of Pittsburgh the average has been as
follows :
Per ton.
s. d.
Hoop Rolling and Heat-
ing (lin. by No. 18)
16s. to 19 4
Sheet Boiling and Heat-
ing (No. 24) 28 8
Boiling
Shingling
Barrelling
Heating
Guide rolling rounds and
squares fin
Per ton.
s. d.
20 0
3 3
2 9
2 9
9 8
L 2
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The wages in tanneries in Pennsylvania and New York are :
Per day of
10 hours,
s. d.
Beam hand 5 3
Yard hand . 5 0
Per day of
10 hours.
s. d.
Bark Grinder 4 6
Labourer 46
Boiler 5 0
Sole leather tanners in Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c., earn 36s..
to 42s. per week.
Sole leather tanners in the county towns get 5s. per day, and
sole leather curriers 6s. to 6s. 6d. per day, working 10 hours to
the day.
Hartford (Connecticut) is another of the very many important
manufacturing centres of the States, being noted for its iron and
brass ware, steam-engines and boilers, sewing machines, fire-
arms, mechanics' tools, screws, silver-plated ware, stoneware,
silk, woollens, envelopes, cigars, fertilisers, and a vast number of
other productions, in common parlance, too numerous to mention.
There are also several large factories for bedsteads and wire
mattresses. It is situated 109 miles from New York, and has
a population of 42,553. Some twelve to fifteen square miles
are comprised by the town. Park River intersects it, and this
is spanned by eleven or twelve bridges. There is also a bridge
across the River Connecticut, 1000ft. long, which connects the
city proper with East Hartford. The city is well built, and has
a more finished appearance than many other American towns.
I may say that this peculiarity applies to most of the towns in
the New England States. The New State House, built of
marble, in the Gothic style, is a very fine building, 300ft. long
by 200ft. wide, and 250ft. high to the top of the dome. The
City Hall, Post Office, the Union Railway Depot, Trinity College,
and the Wadsworth Athenaeum, would all be objects of interest
to the visitor.
The Colt's Firearms Manufactory and the Willow Works form
quite an important district in the S.E. portion of the city.
There is no great difficulty in English visitors seeing over some
Providence and Hartford. 149
parts of these works, and they could scarcely fail to be interest-
ing to all. Some very pretty drives surround Hartford. Hart-
ford, I may mention, is one of the chief centres of fire and life
insurance business. The offices of some of these companies are
very handsome structures.
The hotel charges are the same as in other cities, viz., 12s.
to 16s. per day.
CHAPTER XXYI.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS.
IT will, of course, be at once acknowledged that it is only by a
lengthened stay in any country that a trustworthy and compre-
hensive idea of it can be obtained. Even in brief visits, however,
some impressions must be formed by every one, and succeeding
visits strengthen or remove these impressions. The former was
my own case. Of the vastness of the country across the Atlantic
we on this side are far from having anything like a definite idea.
Mere size is scarcely a merit in itself, and with our cousins it
has the effect of requiring everything worth considering to have
this characteristic. Churches and shows, railways and manufac-
tories, rivers and waterfalls, failures and wealth, all must be on
a gigantic scale to be equal to the American notion of things
in general, and some things in particular. Yield them this fact
of immensity — a very prolific word in the American vocabulary
— and they will overlook criticism on other features. Breathing
and elbow room is the first feeling that most people who visit the
country become conscious of. Excepting in the largest cities,
the houses and manufactories are scattered over a large area, and
this could scarcely be otherwise, considering the large space at
disposal. The mileage of some of the railways and the area of
some of the States will be interesting, and, according to a table
General Impressions.
compiled on Jan. 1st, 1882, the railway mileage of the various
States and Territories was as follows :
Miles.
Miles.
Illinois
8,326
Mississippi
.. 1,232
Pennsylvania
... 6,690
Maryland and D.C. .
. 1,048
Ohio
... 6,664
Arkansas
. 1,042
New York
... 6,279
New Hampshire ...
. 1,026
Iow&
6 113
Maine
1,022
Texas
5,344
Louisiana
99£
Indiana
... 4,765
New Mexico Territory
975
Michigan
... 4,284
Connecticut
959
Missouri
... 4,211
Vermont
916
Kansas
... 3,718
Utah Territory ... .
908
Wisconsin
... 3,442
Nevada
890
Minnesota
... 3,391
Florida
793
Georgia
... 2,581
West Virginia ...
712
K"6brfcislcft
2,310
689
Colorado
!!! 2,'275
Arizona Territory
557
California
... 2,261
Wyoming Territory .
533
Virginia
... 2,194
Washington Territory
480
Tennessee
... 1,974
Delaware ' .
278
Massachusetts ...
... 1,935
Indian Territory ... .
275
Alabama
... 1,804
Idaho Territory ... .
265
New Jersey
... 1,753
Montana Territory .
232
Kentucky
... 1,715
Rhode Island
211
Dakota Territory
... 1,639
North Carolina ..
... 1,619
Total miles
104,813
South Carolina ..
... 1,484
The area of the
leading States and Territories is given below :
Square
Square
Miles.
Miles.
New York
... 49,170
Maryland
12,210
Pennsylvania . . .
... 45,215
New Hampshire
9,305
North Carolina...
... 52,250
Kentucky
40,400
South Carolina . . .
... 30,570
Maine
33,040
Georgia
... 59,475
Missouri
69,415
Arkansas
... 53,850
Texas
265,780
California
... 158,360
Nevada
110,700
Nebraska
... 76,855
Minnesota
83,365
New Mexico
... 122,580
Dakota
149,100
Alaska
... 577,390
Arizona
113,020
The trite saying of " facts being stubborn things " is especially
true with regard to such statistics as those now quoted. We
in England read them with amazement, and cannot wonder
152 A Tour in the States and Canada.
that our cousins should " talk large " now and then. I believe
that for America there is a grand future. She has much to
contend with in the teeming millions pouring into her country.
Heterogeneous as is the mass, it may safely be said that the
majority are turned into peaceable, industrious, and law-abiding
citizens.
The friction of life between class and class is less than with
us. There is no class looked down upon. The artisan popu-
lation holds a powerful position in the country, and there is no
doubt whatever but that there is among them more sobriety,
and a far more general endeavour to meet the wishes of em-
ployers than with us. There has been, without doubt, on the
other side of the Atlantic, a larger uplifting of the masses than
with us. Educational and religious matters are conducted
with a vigour that in some respects we would do well to copy
in this country. Public and private philanthropy is carried
on to an extent that were some facts quoted, which might be,
they would be surprising to many. Almost every want of man-
kind in this country has been cared for.
If in commercial life there is not an infrequent exhibition
of "smartness," there are on the other hand thousands of
business firms conducted with as much uprightness and con-
scientiousness as can be found in any part of Great Britain,
and in addition to these qualities there is withal far more
enterprise and spirit thrown into their business than may be
found in any other part of the world. This is not evident
merely in puffing advertisements and self-laudation, but in
the practical and thorough way that they have in going about
things.
The Americans, especially in the New England and imme-
diately surrounding States, are a genial and hospitable people.
They are ever ready to extend a warm welcome to English
people, and in the affairs of our country they take the liveliest
interest. Our prominent statesmen are through their news-
General Impressions. 153
papers almost as familiar to them as to us. The American
press always gives English news liberally, and there is, happily
for both countries, an improved tone observable in their columns
when dealing with English matters.
Intemperance is far less common among all classes than with
us. Lager beer, it is true, is consumed in large quantities, but
this is a light, unintoxicating drink. Cases of drunkenness
along the streets are not by any means common. This alone
shows a great advance on the old country. There is no room
in factories for drunken workmen, and many an English
artisan who takes this bad habit with him has to move
about from situation to situation, for he can find few masters
who will put up with such conduct longer than it will take to
find another man to fill his place.
I am strongly disposed to think that labour troubles in
America are her inheritance for the next few years. We have
in this country been watching the strikes in the iron and other
trades. Labour organisations for various industries are less
general than with us,(but the "Knights of Labour" movement
has given trouble during the last year or two, and will give more
trouble as it gathers strength. The original object of this and
many other trade organisations was a form of benefit society, but
latterly they have added to their action all the power and objects
known to trades' unions here. In some trades in the States
masters are compelling their operatives to sign agreements, that
during the time they are in their employ they will not become
members of the Knights of Labour league or any other such
organisation. The gist of this document is as follows :
"I, A B, agree to work for 0 D at my trade, for the
regularly established prices, doing my work in a good workman-
like manner; withdrawing from the Knights of Labour and
ignoring all outside parties, committees, and trade or labour
associations ; and I also agree not to connect myself with the
Knights of Labour or any similar organisation, or to join in any
154 A Tour in the States and Canada.
meeting or procession of such organisations while in the employ
of the said 0 D. In consideration of which the said 0 D
agrees to pay the said A B for his services every two weeks as
customary — necessary stoppages excepted. The above agree-
ment can only be terminated by either party giving to the other
two weeks' notice, unless for bad workmanship, violation of this
contract or the rules of the factory, or for interference with other
workmen."
The working classes have hitherto been so scattered that they
have scarcely had the opportunity to organise themselves into
unions, but centralisation is going on at such a rapid rate that
it is giving them the opportunity of doing so, and they are
setting about it with a determination which bodes evil in the
future.
The Americans are essentially a practical people. If you
enter a store to make a purchase, there is invariably an un-
demonstrative demeanour on the part of the salesman (or clerk,
as he is termed), which contrasts somewhat with the attention
generally bestowed in the shops of the metropolis. This must
not be construed into a feeling of indifference or disrespect on
the part of the salesman, but is part of their system, which
assumes without its being claimed, that there is no social
inferiority between the wealthy merchant and landowner, and
the labourer or clerk. There is also the further reason that
the salesman credits the customer with the desire to have his
business well and promptly done, and so pays no compliments,
but attends at once to what he is asked for. Many business men,
again, on this side would delight at the quick way in which
both large and small buyers make up their minds as to what
they require. There is on this side a great amount of hesi-
tancy and indecision, often very trying, and we might with
advantage follow more generally the quick dispatch with which
the Americans execute their business.
There are natural resources of America scarcely yet touched.
General Impressions.
155
The amount of mineral wealth is alone incalculable, and will
provide millions of money in years to come, but the opening
up and developing of these interests is a question of years.
The progress of America, commercially, dates back only some
ten to twenty years, and what the next ten years will reveal
in further progress remains to be seen. There need, however,
be no jealousy between the United States and England, for each,
I do not fear, will be able to hold her own ; and at present,
with her tariffs on raw materials, we have no reason to fear
the competition of American manufacturers in foreign markets
which we have hitherto largely controlled. One advantage the
Americans have in their favour, and that is, that in whatever
part of the world there is business to be done they will not
be long in placing someone there to do it. The Americana
may be said to live to travel, and the English to travel to live.
American consuls are officially the Government representa-
tives, in their various districts, but in reality the resident
agents of American manufacturers, and being in most cases men
of business, they take up commercial interests as a matter of
course ; whilst our own consuls are retired colonels and captains,
or the sons of the aristocracy, not particularly interested in
business, and as for their reports, as a rule supposed to be of
value, it is usually twelve months or so before they are pub-
lished in blue-book form, and then they are of very little
service to the British trading class. It is greatly astonishing
that this should be the case in regard to a country which can
reasonably claim to be the most commercial in the world.
I have a growing conviction that a marked improvement is-
taking place in the tone of society both in the States and
in England. The feeling of friendship has been cemented
during the last year or two, and never were these two vast
English-speaking countries more in accord one with another
than at the present time. That this feeling may not only
continue but deepen should be the wish of all right-minded
156 A Tour in the States and Canada.
people. There is no doubt that England and America com-
bined are exercising more moral power than all the other
countries of the world put together, and they are the great
civilising forces of the future. George Washington, over a
hundred years ago, said that the forming of that country into
an independent State was an experiment, and so far the ex-
periment has proved a most successful one. That there are
some dangers ahead will be readily admitted by all Americans,
and by all who have visited the country, but of what country
can this not be said ?
CHAPTEE XXVII.
WHO SHOULD EMIGRATE.
PUBLIC attention has been so generally turned towards America
during the years of commercial depression in this country, now
happily passed, or nearly so, that such a question as the above
has been asked over and over again, and received a variety of
answers. America is not by any means an Eldorado for all.
There could be found in New York as much poverty as there is
in London, and the overcrowding of dwelling-houses in the
districts inhabited by the working classes would provide in many
cases quite as appalling facts as could be found in St. Giles's or
Whitechapel. There are at the present time in the leading cities
of the States quite as many unemployed as may be found in
many English towns. There has been some exaggeration in the
prospects held out to those who contemplate rinding anew home,
and there are some industries which are greatly overdone in
America. It is just as possible to do well in England as
America ; and success there is dependent on just the same quali-
ties as are necessary here. Of unskilled labour there is enough
and to spare in America. The old saying must again be used,
that a man with a trade in his hands stands a hundred per cent,
better chance there than one who has not. American industries
are progressing at a rapid rate, and there is room in them for
men of skill and industry, with good remuneration for their work,
and a social position higher than would be their corresponding
158 A Tour in the States and Canada.
status here. Whatever a man's trade is in the States is no
barrier to his social progress. Labour is honoured highly, as all
the world over it ought to be, if honestly followed.
My own view is that, comparing the two countries, there
is a better and quicker return for the same amount of capital or
labour in the States than is possible in the majority of cases
here.
The feeling that there is scope in the States obtains possession
of the mind of the man who goes out determined to make his
way. Willingness to work and to take the work which presents
itself ought to be dominant. Several cases come to my mind
that I know personally. A friend of mine had an excellent
training as a mechanical engineer, crossed the Atlantic, and is
doing favourably as a store keeper and small farmer, killing his
pigs himself and taking all such work as part of the day's labour.
Another was unsuccessful in business on his own account, in one
of the midland towns of England, and is now a manager of
works in the trade in which he was engaged here, at an excellent
salary, and bids fair to be a partner by-and-bye, without any
large investment, his knowledge and skill in the business being
accepted as the equivalent of capital. For those who have good
situations in this country, to give them up for the sake of change,
with the idea of doing better out there, is not by any means
advisable. On the other hand, for unmarried young men, with
plenty of energy, and who like work for its own sake, there is
plenty of room ; and such, with tact, push and principle, the
great motto of Abraham Lincoln, would scarcely fail to get on.
Let me here give one practical suggestion to those who con-
template going out and who have a trade in their hands.
Advertise for what employment you are seeking in the journal
representing your particular trade. Class papers are prolific in
America, and are largely read, and used for the purpose of
bringing employer and employe together.
America is full of schoolmasters, tutors, professors of music,
Who Should Emigrate.
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languages, and other arts. For clever and original designers
there is a demand. In the engineering and hardware trade
there is a good scope. The chemical industries are rapidly
developing, and those who have a good and trustworthy know-
ledge of the making of chemicals for manufacturing purposes
would find room for their labours. I have already referred to
the jewellery and silver trade. The shirt, collar, and clothing
trades are overstocked, excepting, perhaps, as regards hats.
Saddlery and harness makers find remunerative employment.
Printers are in demand, but, before such could find good employ-
ment, they would require to get well accustomed to the American
ideas of display. In the Birmingham and Sheffield trades there
are openings for labour.
With whatever capital a person emigrates, and none should go
without some, he should prefer to err in being over cautious
rather than prematurely confident. There are all manner of
methods for ridding a new comer of his stock of wealth if he be
not wide awake. A short time spent in reconnoitring after
arrival would be advisable to most, bat in few cases is it well to
attempt settling down in New York. Other cities present far
better opportunities than that one, which unfortunately receives
a good deal of scum from every part of the world.
I know nothing of the value of land and the practical prospects
of farming, but I do know that farming there is very different
from what it is here. It may be rough and primitive there
when compared with scientific farming here, but it is, at all
events, more likely of success. Untold millions of acres yet
remain to be cultivated, and here I will quote a few figures.
Of the 220,000,000 acres of land in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, and Wisconsin, about 90,000,000 are under cultiva-
tion, and 70,000,000 consists of forests and sandy plains, the
other 60,000,000 being still available for colonisation. There
are in the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota
160,000,000 acres, 12,000,000 of which are under cultivation,
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while 78,000,000 might be cultivated at a large profit and a
very small preliminary outlay. Texas has 200,000,000 acres,
but the greater part has hitherto been used chiefly for grazing,
yet there are at least 60,000,000 acres which might with advan-
tage be planted with corn and cotton. In the territories of
Montana, Wyoming, and Dakota there are about 120,000,000
acres of very good land, nearly the whole of which is at present
uncultivated and can be obtained on very easy terms.
In the purchasing of land every care and caution will require
to be exercised. The literature of the various land companies
must not always be accepted without question. They naturally
speak graphically and enthusiastically about what they are
desirous of selling.
In the towns living is very much dearer than in England.
Money has not the same purchasing value there as here. Eents
are notoriously high, and it may safely be said that an average
rent in New York would swallow up of itself an average salary
on this side.
The immense increase in the emigration returns for the last
few years, from what can be gathered, has not perceptibly over-
stocked the market. Some writers in Germany have been
making a great deal recently of the fact of some German
emigrants returning to their native districts with disappointed
hopes, but it is patent that official Germany does not relish
this drain of the bone and sinew of the country, glad to find a
home in the Far West where conscription cannot follow them.
The population of the United States at the last census was
50,155,783, and there is yet room for some five or six times the
number, so far as the size of the country is concerned. For her
vast absorbing power Europe owes a debt of gratitude to her, and
she is fulfilling her duty to Europe very faithfully, and to British
people especially she holds out a very welcome hand.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
TARIFF CHARGES AND TABLE OF DISTANCES, $c.
THE following list of the tariff charges on some leading com-
modities will be useful, not only to such as may contemplate
going out to the States, but to those on this side. It should be
borne in mind that the charges must be paid by the purchaser, so
that the amount must be added to what the article would
cost in this country. The American-made article is only in some
few instances sold cheaper than the imported article.
As mentioned in a former chapter, the tariff has been
considerably modified ; on some manufactures there has been a
reduction, and on others an increase. The new rates were
appointed to come into operation on July 1st, 1883, and they
are now given as revised. To give the United States tariff in
its entirety would, of itself, fill a book, and I mention only
those articles which intending emigrants and tourists are likely
to take with them.
THE TAXED LIST.
Animals: Living 20 per cent.
Books 25 „
Boots and shoes 35 ,,
Bronze, manufactures of 35 ,,
Carpets : Axminster and all woven whole for ) 45 cents per sq. yard, and
room ) 30 per cent.
,, Brussels tapestry 30 cents per sq. yard, and
30 per cent.
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Carpets : Velvet, patent or tapestry 25 cents per sq. yard, and
30 per cent.
Carriages 35 per cent.
Clocks 30 „
China : Porcelain and Parian ware, plain ... 55 „
,, gilded, or decorated 50 ,,
Clothing, wholly or in part of wool 50 cents per lb., and 40>
per cent.
,, silk component 60 per cent.
,, all other descriptions 35 ,,
Cutlery, table, &c 35 ,,
„ Pen and pocket knives 50 ,,
Diamonds and other precious stones, set ... 25 ,,
,, unset 10 ,,
Engravings 25 ,,
Furniture, Furs, manufacture 35 ,,
Gilt and plated ware 35
Guns 35
Glass ware, plain, mould or pressed 35 .,
,, cut, engraved, gilt, painted ... 40 ,,
Gold and silver ware 40 ,,
Gloves, kid 50 „
Hats, straw 40
„ trimmed with silk and artificial flowers,
exceeding the value of the hat 60 ,,
„ with feathers and artificial flowers ... 50 ,.
Hosiery, cotton 35 ,,
„ silk 60 „
„ wool 35
Jewellery, gold, silver or imitation 25 ,,
„ jet 25 „
Laces, silk and cotton 60 ,,
„ thread 30
Leather, manufactures of 35 ,,
Linen, table, towelling, &c 35 to 40 per cent.
Machinery, brass or iron 35 per cent.
,, copper or steel 45 ,,
Medicinal preparations 40 ,,
Musical instruments 30 „
Music, printed 20 ,,
Paintings ... 10 ,,
Frames 25 „
Photographs 25 „
Saddles and harness 35 ,,
Shawls, wool 50 cents per b. and 40
per cent.
Silk, dress piece, shawls 60 per cent.
Soap, fancy, perfumed, toilet 10 cents per lb. and 35
per cent.
Stereoscopic views on paper 25 per cent.
Tariff Charges and Table of Distances, &*c. 163
Stereoscopic views on glass ...
Spirits, brandy, gin, and whiskey
Umbrella, silk or alpaca
Velvet, silk
„ cotton
Watches ..'
Wines
40 per cent.
2dols. per proof gallon.
50 per cent.
60 „
35 „
25 „
from 40 cents per gallon
to 24s. per doz.
It will be seen from the foregoing list that it is not the
luxuries of life which are the most heavily taxed. Diamonds
are 10 per cent., but the most important necessaries of life,
such as clothing, 35 per cent., and blankets 100 per cent.
THE FREE LIST.
The following articles are exempt from duty :
Books, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, maps, and
charts, which shall have been printed and manufactured more
than twenty years at the date of importation.
Professional books of those intending to remain in the country.
Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of
antiquities.
Newspapers and periodicals, philosophical and scientific
apparatus, instruments, and preparations, statuary casts in
marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris, paintings, drawings,
and etchings for scientific and literary purposes, and not intended
for sale.
CHABGES FOE WASHING LINEN, &o.
The cost of washing and getting up linen, either in hotels or
boarding houses, is as follows :
Shirts 6|d. each
,, with collars ... 7£d.
Shirt fronts with collars
attached 6fcd.
Undershirts 6fcd.
Nightshirts 6£d.
Drawers 6|d.
Handkerchiefs 3d.
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Collars ... .
. Hd. each
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Cuffs ... .
. 3d. per pair
Socks ... .
. 3d. „
Neck ties
. l£d. each
Dust Coats .
. Is. to Is. 6d. each
Pants ... .
. Is. each
Vests ... .
. Is. to Is. 6d. each
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Care should, at all times, be exercised in addressing letters
to America, that the name of the State is given, as there
are many towns and cities of the same name in different States.
I have now only to thank my readers who have followed me
thus far, and trust that I may have been of some service,
not only to those who have an immediate prospect of going
out, but to others who are looking forward to spending
a holiday at some future time in a visit to the great,
beautiful, and progressive country on the other side of the
Atlantic. I would again repeat, as a last word, that a trip
to America and back is as much within the reach of thou-
sands of business men as is a scamper over the Continent,
and for real interest and freshness, the former is preferable
to the latter.
INDEX.
A
Albany
PAGE
... 41
C
Cab fares, Boston
PAGE"
... 45
Alexandria
Atlantic, across the
*, 111
... 5
Fares, New York ...
Cambridge
Catskill
... 30
... 4fr
41
B
Baltimore
. . 102
Charges, tariff
Chaudiere Falls
Chicago
... 161
62, 64
... 79
Buildings, principal
Hotels
... 104
104
Buildings, principal
Hotels
... 83
... 82
Places of interest in
... 103
Industries of
Cincinnati
... 81
85
Boston
.. 43
Buildings, principal
Cab fares
Hotels
45, 47
... 45
44
Buildings, principal
Hotels
Places of interest in
... 86
... .87
... 87
Cleveland
... 75
Places of interest in
Streets, principal . . .
... 45
... 46
Buildings, principal
Hotels . ..
... 76
76
Suburbs of
... 49
Concord
50
Bradford
... 94
Brooklyn
36
Coney Island
... 37
Buffalo
74
Buildings, principal
Hotels
Burning Spring
... 75
... 75
... 73
D
De Cheyne Eapids
... 65
i68
Index.
PAGE
PAGE
Detroit .
76
Hotels, Boston
44
Buildings, principal
... 77
Buffalo
75
Hotels
78
Chicago
82
Distances from New York of
Cincinnati
87
various towns.
table
Cleveland .
76
of
.... 164
Cost of living at American
19
Detroit „ ...
79
E
Fare in American
20
Life in American
23
Emigrate, who should ..
... 157
Montreal ...
52
Exeter
52
New York ... ..'.
25
Niagara
69
Philadelphia
122
F
Pittsburgh
92
Falls of Niagara
... 69
Quebec
62
FarEockaway
... 37
Richmond
102
Fare on Cunard Company's
St. Louis
91
steamers
... 7
Toronto
67
Washington
111
G
Hudson, up the
39
Garfield
98
I
General impressions
150—156
Georgetown
... Ill
Impressions, general 150 — 156
Glen Falls
... 41
Introduction
1
Isle of Orleans
62
H
J
Harrod's Creek
... 88
Hartford
... 148
Joffersonville
88
Buildings, principal
... 148
Johnston
146
Industries of
... 148
Horseshoe Falls
... 71
L
Hotels, American .;. ...
... 18
And Hotel Life
... 18
Lachine Eapids
58
Baltimore
'.:. 104
Landing, arrangements on ...
15
Index.
169
Lexington
Long Branch
Louisville
Buildings, principal
Luggage, necessary
Lynn
PAGE
88
38
, 87
, 88
13
50
Manhattan Beach ...
Manufacturing centres
Milwaukee
Money, American ...
. ... 38
128—149
85
14
Montmorenci, Falls of 62
Montreal 51
Buildings, principal ... 55
Hotels ... ' 52
Mount Vernon . Ill
N
New Albany 88
Haven 44
York, buildings, principal 33
York cab fares 30
York hotels 22
York, places of interest in
33—36
York, sights 30
York, streets, principal 32
York, suburbs of 36
York tram fares ... ... 31
Newark 142
Industries of 142
Niagara Falls 69
Hotels 69
Oil City 97
Eegions, the 94
Ottawa 63
Buildings, principal ... 63
Passage, cost of 7
Paterson 138
Industries of 138
Peekskill 40
Pennsylvania 123
Philadelphia 112
Buildings, principal 114 — 122
Hotels 122
Places of interest in 115 — 122
Pittsburgh 91
Hotels 92
Portland 52
Poughkeepsie 41
Providence 145
Industries of . .. 145
Quebec 61
Buildings, principal ... 62
Hotels 62
Eailroad scenery of Pennsyl-
vania 123
Eailways, American 25
American, baggage system
on 27
Rapids, shooting the 57
N
iyo
Index.
Richmond ...
Buildings, principal
Hotels
Places of interest in
PAGE
. 101
. 102
. 102
. 102
Eideau Falls 65
Eoekaway Beach 37
S
St. Lawrence, Eiver 58
St. Louis 89
Buildings, principal ... 90
Hotels 91
Industries of 91
Places of interest in ... 90
Saratoga Springs 41
Sea-sickness, preventatives of 10
Shooting the Eapids 57
Silver Creek 88
Staten Island 38
Steamer, amusements on board 10
Choice of ... 5
PAGE
Table of distances from New
York 164
Tariff charges 161
Tarrytown 40
Titusville 98
Toronto 66
Buildings, principal ... 67
Hotels 67
Tram fares at New Tork ... 31
Trenton 128
Industries of .. . 128
W
Washington 105
Buildings, principal ... 106
Hotels Ill
Places of interest in ... 106
Westchester 40
West Point 40
Who should emigrate 157
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TRICYCLES OP THE YEAR:
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