Identifier: seeingamericafir418colb (find matches)
Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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l stocks and of course they are all anxious to make as much money aspossible and everyone seems to be gesturing and screaming and no one seems to be listening. Itis as exciting as a football game. After all the wild noises of the Stock Exchange, we went to the most quiet place in the city,Grants Tomb. We thought it would look like a cemetery, but it is a beautiful white granitebuilding high up above the Hudson. The inside of the building is finished in white marble andthere are the great red porphyry tombs of General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife. People whohave traveled across the sea say that Napoleons Tomb is more showy, but we were satisfied withGrants Tomb. Someway it made us proud of America and its heroes. By this time the sun was setting behind the Palisades on the other side of the river, and thosegreat cliffs looked like pictures of castles on the Rhine. The Hudson is far wider and more beauti-ful than the Rhine, though, which is another good reason for seeing America first.
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tock Exchaji^e One of the finest parts of SEEING AMERICA FIRST is the trip around the Great Lakes.They are so large that people call them inland seas, and when you are out of sight of land, it isjust like being on the ocean. Our steamer was what grown-ups call a floating palace, and welearned many interesting things as we went along. We never saw so many kinds of boats before. Great barges full of iron and copper ore, smallsteamboats tugging a whole lrne of lazy big barges, fine sailing vessels looking exactly like picture-book ships, and little naptha launches that came out and played around our big steamer whenshe neared a port. The great whaleback steamers looked like angry sea monsters snorting smokeout of their high stacks, but they are really kindly creatures for they carry immense loads of wheator ore from the Lake Superior region to the southern and eastern ports. Another kind of boat isknown as a rabbit, and the pictures on the opposite page show you these queer craft. People

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