The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 11, 1919, Page 7, Image 7
LETTER PROM CANADA.
Mr, W. C. Patrick Writes Interestingly
of City of Toronto.
Toronto, Ont., Canada, Sept. 4.?
Dear Herald: Having the pleasure
of having a copy of the last week's
Herald to read while here has sugested
to me that it might be of some
interest if I wrote you a little note
r about my visit here to the greatest
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of all national exhibitions, the Canadian
National Exhibition, in company
with Mrs. Patrick.
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Rather suddenly I received orders
* from my house to report here to
represent them at this exhibition,
which necessitated quite a long trip
frnm tho Smith, and it has been the
means of our traveling through some
of the most beautiful and interesting
parts of the United States to reach
Toronto. This included the famous
Shenandoah valley of Virginia, a
, i short stop at Washington, passing
through Baltimore, and Buffalo, N.
Y., spending a day at Niagara Falls,
and finally a wonderful boat trip on
beautiful Lake Ontario, before reacha
ing our destination. Having encountered
very congested traveling
? 3 conditions throughout a large part
of the United States for the past
.-V several months I was not unprepared
'for the throngs which we have enC;
! countered on this trip, but other
CKfr: v'"* crowds
pale into insignificance by
comparison. It is quite evident that
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after a period of enforced remaining
)t\V > at home, or at least on this side of
'v the Atlantic, our people have thrown
. themselves wholeheartedly into the
v~. attempt to "see America.'' At Ni^
vagara an official told me that the
rjh crowds there were the largest for
; twenty years and this is not at all
hard to believe.
ft* ' I shall not attempt a description
^ , of the wonderful falls at Niagara; too
V-. many others who possess almost uns?
' limited powers of description have
- 7 failed dismally in that already. How.
ever, one cannot refrain from trying
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to put into words the awe with which
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he is inspired when brought into
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; 'such close proximity to the splendor,
i1- the grandeur, the sublimity of this
fife- most wonderful work of nature. Nor
1"<san he look upon its magnitude without
being impressed with the fact
H|*. . that the greatest of men is but an
v iv ' infinftesmal speck on God's creation.
Sometimes I wonder why it is that
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we cannot arrange to have that most
. august body, the United States Sen.
ate, spend a part of their time in the
|^^. w$cinity of these falls so "that they
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E& ception of their individual greatness.
^ Fortunately, we had enough sungV,
shine to enhance the scenic value of
|i|/r Niagara, for, added to the. beautiful
1 coloring of the waters as they dashed
' thetaselves madly over each precipice
^ V to the rocks hundreds of feet below
| were the multitude of rainbows, and
0^ the effect was so different from that
I had earlier in the year when after
g; v an extended period of rain parts of
v : v . the falls resembled cascades of chocovlate
cream.
When we had become weary of the
. sightseeing feast which had been
Wj&l .spread before us for hours we then
v thought to/find rest and seclusion by
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" ^ Hieing us awa.v tu t^wisiuu, a wmo
a*'%. terminus of the New York Central
railroad on the lakeside, which is
f alsp by way of being the "port of
embarkation." for Toronto. There
. we enjoyed possibly one hour of quietude
before the crowds surged in
j| our direction and spoiled uor fun.
|p However, we had had, in addition to
fc - our temporary rest, a ride alongside
rV the whirlpool rapids which afforded
|us probably the greatest scenic trip
V > of the entire continent.
^ >1 r Finally, when we were aboard boat
for Toronto with so many others that
| V one naturally wondered where all
i% could possibly find even standing
room, we settled down to enjoy the
beauty of our surroundings and had
the good fortune to witness an indescribably
beautiful sunset. Arrived
: * at the Toronto pier it was almost as
f|L . much as one's life was worth to be
f..< \ caught in the mad rush for shore.
We managed to get through without
serious mishap and were soon making
diligent search for a place where
to rest our weary heads. Every available
space seemed to be at a premium
but the task was finally accomplished
and we were soon to literally "fall
asleep."
After having spent years in forming
a mental picture of any thing or
place, as we had done regarding Canada
and our Canadian cousins, we
awoke rather rudely to find that we
were all wrong, and instead of finding
customs and people strange they
were much the same as one would
find in the everage city in good old
Yankeeland. If any great portion oi
Canada is as thoroughly Americanized
' as we have found Toronto then there
is little reason to wonder at hearing
the argument advanced that the twc
countries should be one, with one
government as they are of one ideal.
Just here let me make a predictior
which I do not believe will be long
in being fulfilled; that is that not
^ only will Canada become a part oi
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the United States eventually but so
also will Mexico. This is going to
come about through no great activity
on our part other than the example
which we are now and will be holding
up to these two countries.
Commercially, Canada seems to
have been making little progress of
her own, for it is evident that she
has been content to adapt Yankee
ideas and Yankee merchandise to her
needs. One of these fine days the
people will begin to think and when
they do they will not be satisfied
with less than reciprocity with which
to eliminate the burdensome duty
which has been the means of amassing
large fortunes for those manufacturers
who are doing very little more
than operating assembling plants for
American made goods or at least
factories which are replicas of American
institutions. Either this or annext
ation, mark it.
I have referred already to the fact
that this is the greatest of national
exhibitions and having been assured
of this in advance I might have been
prepared "to find an exposition on a
rather large scale, however, I soon
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found that the bare statement was
not enough to bring about a realization
of the truth of it. . Covering an
area running well into square miles,
it is composed altogether of permanent
buildings, quite unlike our
American fairs where the most pretentious
buidings are merely temporary
atfairs which fall into the hands
of the wrrecker to be razed and sold
as soon as the gates are closed on the
last crowd, and for the most part
very artistically designed and -built.
Every building is well filled with interesting
and instructive exhibits and
the automobile section (composed almost
entirely of American made cars
and trucks) is quite as large as our
national automobile show which was
held at Chicago last January and
February. So numerous have been
the entries that it has been necessary
to bring here from Newfoundland
l the hangars which recently housed
| those airplanes which were success
fully flown across the Atlantic m order
to take care of the overflow from
the permanent buildings.
For a d;stance of perhaps two miles
these grounds stretch away along the
lake front and it is here every day
that one is permitted to witness the
thrilling flights and "stunts" of some
of aCnada's most famous airmen,
| among whom is an "ace" with more
, than fifty German planes to his credit
who leads the two others, all flying1
captured German Fokker planes. It
is here also that one is thrilled by the
spectacular motor boat races in which
these bqats of rather odd shapes make
incredible speed.
The mention of airplanes suggests
that the enclosed clipping is an account
of probably the first aerial funeral
cortege on record* This is taken
from the Toronto Globe of September
4th:
: First Airplane Funeral for Toronto.
| Toronto had its first airplane funeral"
yesterday morning when the body
of the five months old baby of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Allan, 105 Trinity
street, was taken to Mount Pleasant
cemetery in a Curtiss machine. The
e-oriHna was held at the
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family residence at 10 a. m., Rev.
Cannot H. C. Dixon officiating. The
mourners were then conveyed to the
cemetery by motor, while the body
was taken to the foot of- Bathurst
street in a motor hearse. Here two
Curtiss machines were waiting. The
tiny coffin was strapped into one of
them in front of the pilot and the
two planes commenced their flight at
11.15. They landed in perfect order
to the east of the cemetery, where
motors were again waiting and the
remains conveyed to the grave and
the ceremony, concluded.
Who shall say that in future this
will not become commonplace?
It was not our good fortune to be
here at the opening of this exhibition
on August 27.th, but we were ably
represented by His Royal Highness,
the Prince of Wales, who pressed the
opening button for us. We shall very
likely remain until it has closed, however,
after having been attended by
more than one million people.
Enjoyable and instructive as such
a trip as this is there is but one
conclusion to reach after it is all over
and that is that we have the greatest
A fn 11 CO thp words
country uu cauu, ui, lu v?
of one of our doughboys in France:
"That was a d fine country we
stole from the Indians." Yours,
W. C. PATRICK.
GASTON DECLINES JOB.
Aiken Man Doesn't Want to Supervise
Census.
Aiken, Sept. 6.?Several weeks
ago D. W. Gaston, Jr., was notified
from Washington that he had neen
appointed census supervisor for the
. Second Congressional District. Mr.
Gaston has declined the appointment
in view of the fact that he has not
' the time tp devote to it as has farming
interests at present are absorbing
> his attention.
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