Show exposition visitors write tenterden Teut Tent erden england july 1900 editor clipper As I 1 promised to write you I 1 will endeavor to tell you of our trip thus far but is as I 1 aul am no writer will not promise you a very interesting letter but will do the best I 1 can leaving 3 oden june icah nothing n of interest occurred until we had passed cheyenne when a storm passed through going south it rained and hailed so that when we reached the s spot pot it had passed over the ground round was covered with hall hail three or four inches deep and water was running down the alie hill in largo large streams the track of storm was about half a mile wide As the land there is only used tor for grazing C I 1 do not think it did much dania damage e we found tale crops looking well all the way through nebraska wo we readied reached omaha monday morning morning where wo we stopped one day some of our friends met us there and we spent the time VS visiting and looking around the city wo we left Oi omaha cinalia nalia half pa past st seven in the evening und arriva arrived d in D detroit the next night where wo made another stop slop to wait for my brother who camo came with us to eai england land all alou along c the route we found the count country r y in a nourishing flourishing condition and crops looking C well as a general thin thing 0 although M as is af always ways the case we saw some hard looking ra fields leaving detroit we crossed the river into canada which is a lovely country wo we traveled for about half a day in canada without seeing any rise in the ground round it was as level as a floor and the roads were vero fine no mud although they say they had had very wet weather and it had thrown them back in their farm work and the crops did not look so well as oth er years but we found them quite as good if not better than in the states it is 1 quite I aito a timbered country and good buildings the only thin thing we could see that it lacked was paint every farmer had good barns and outbuildings buildings out 0 but very few were painted and looked old and wether beaten As we neared nia niagara c an the country became more rough and uneven at the falls the train stopped five minutes to let the passengers 0 ta get et out to see them thein but we are not going tu to tell you of tho the grandeur of the falls so many writers have tried it and so utterly failed that we shall not try no pen can picture the dark green water as it comes foaming and tumbling over the rocks with its white foam mingled with tho 0 green reen or the white spray rising like a cloud from the water below ai it leaps over the falls while like an arch over it t all bangs a tobe to appreciated it must be seen we did not dot stay long 0 to view this grand work of nature as our tic tickets k were limited and we ve were obliged Z to be in new york next day this gave us one lay day in that city before sailing 7 we saw a large Z portion of the city that day clay we visited the different wharves and parks then as our time was short we took a trip on the elevated railway to the end of it it is quite nice riding and looking into the windows clows of the third 0 and fourth stories and seem seeing people eating C their evening meals when wo we got above the houses and had to round a curve some declared they felt a little nervous and it did seem a long way down to the ground if that thai iron horse should have I 1 got to buckin bucking t us off from there but it did not and we got to the end in safety we then climbed a hill and looked over the city by this time it was getting m ettin an dark so we went down and took a streetcar street car for our hotel next day june jodat at noon we steamed out of the harbor of new york some of the passengers gers herolan were laughing hing sone some crying bryin but nearly all wore were waving 0 handkerchiefs biats and hags flags 0 to those left onshore on shore while the docks looked like a mass of waving kerchiefs hats and flags soon we passed the statue of liberty just then the bell ran rang 0 fur for dinner and we went down to look to the inner man mail that was my last moal meal for seven days it at the alie table I 1 took side sick right after eating to and was sick all but the last two days that I 1 was on the ocean kept my illy bed four days as that was the only way I 1 could keep anything else mrs mis only lost one me meal the sea was quite smooth only when wo we passed tho the banks os oil newfoundland the banks are not lot as one would suppose land but it is water that when a storm is raging ragin g run mountain high but as we went throw rh looked like a rolling 0 prairie V b 0 HIP ship rolls doan doan ci di sp ap in your stomach something else rolls we had two rains while crossing that just poured down and one night of thick fo fog when the whistle kept blow blowing ingall all night at intervals and until noon next day when the fog cleared away we saw many whales in the ocean but no sharks we landed in glassgow J july ti ly 3rd ard and next day went to E edin d in burgh I 1 caught 0 cold on tho the 8 ship lip in a rain storm as we were la landing id which caused in me e to have neuralgia in my head bead and stomach of course I 1 had to see the sights c if my head so we visited the old castle where so many kings and queens lived and lied died the room where the old armour of kings and kul knights ailts now dead are kept visited the prison and saw queen marys crown and crest also kin king james sword and rin ring saw queen marys bed room which is small only being eight feet the longest way it was in this room king in james was born went in the old chapel where st margaret ca worshiped years ago which is still in good state of preservation from the castle we went to the palace I 1 where again we passed through the different rooms lo looking okill at atthe the portraits and quaint old furniture which I 1 have not room to write about in this letter after visiting several other places we took train for london and from thence linie hime where we will visit friends and rest before going 0 farther wishing you good night I 1 will close E D homewood |