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THE TRIP TO LEWISTON. Leaving the bridge have your driver take you to the New York Central’s Suspension Bridge Station, Dismiss him there and board the first Observation train for Lewiston. These trains are run about every hour by the New York Central. Tickets cost 25 cents for the round trip, and at no place at Niagara do you more fully get your money’s worth. The trip is replete with interest throughout its entire length. Leaving the Falls Street Station, the train travels two miles along the gorge between the falls and the rapids, both of which delightful views are visibie for almost the entire two miles. Leaving the lower station, the train gradually enters a deep cut through the rock, in which it travels for some distance, and then suddenly makes its exit from the cut, and the eyes of the passengers are allowed to feast upon one of the grandest views in the world. The train is now wending its way slowly along the bank mid-way between the water’s edge and the top of the high bank. On one side the rocky bluff is close by; on the other, the river is seen to turn in and out, as the water now smooth, now rough, hurries on to old Ontario. Nothing at Niagara can compare with it for natural beauty. The thickly wooded Canadian bank has a charm beyond description. Across the gorge hang cables of the old bridge. Suddenly the train shoots into a short tunnel and when it emerges on the other side the scene is changed. The train has made the passage down the mountain, and the fields and woods of the lowlands are before you. For a moment or two you lose sight of the stream, but soon the train stops at the station right on the river bank, and you stand awe-struck at the beautiful, placid stream before you. It is hard to comprehend that this same water on which your eyes now rest was seen but a short time before in battle in the gorge, as though struggling for supremacy and leadership, in floating past the guns at Fort Niagara, to be lost in the waters of Ontario. Do not leave the train at Lewiston, but return on it to the Niagara Falls station. If you have not tarried too long at the various points, you may still have an hour or two before your train leaves. Ifso, drive or walk to Prospect Park and there let the remaining moments of your stay at Niagara be passed in communing with the beauties of nature. If you have time, take another trip on the ‘‘ Maid of the Mist." Then you will leave Niagara with your face washed by the spray and with over-flowing admiration for grand, old Niagara.
