J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

TO

MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Rose Window[13]
II.The Scenic Route[20]
III.Across the Meadows to the Passaic[24]
IV.The Piety and Eggs of Paterson[29]
V.Across the Delaware[35]
VI.An American Summer Resort[42]
VII.The Pennsylvanians[50]
VIII.Beautiful Wilkes-Barre[58]
IX.In and Out of Scranton[65]
X.A Little American Town[75]
XI.The Magic of the Road and Some Tales[81]
XII.Railroads and a New Wonder of the World[92]
XIII.A Country Hotel[98]
XIV.The City of Swamp Root[107]
XV.A Ride by Night[116]
XVI.Chemung[123]
XVII.Chicken and Waffles and the Toon O’ Bath[131]
XVIII.Mr. Hubbard and an Automobile Flirtation[141]
XIX.The Rev. J. Cadden McMickens[150]
XX.The Capital of the Fra[159]
XXI.Buffalo Old and New[169]
XXII.Along the Erie Shore[176]
XXIII.The Approach to Erie[182]
XXIV.The Wreckage of a Storm[190]
XXV.Conneaut[197]
XXVI.The Gay Life of the Lake Shore[204]
XXVII.A Summer Storm and Some Comments on the Picture Postcard[214]
XXVIII.In Cleveland[221]
XXIX.The Flat Lands of Ohio[229]
XXX.Ostend Purged of Sin[234]
XXXI.When Hope Hopped High[244]
XXXII.The Frontier of Indiana[256]
XXXIII.Across the Border of Boyland[264]
XXXIV.A Middle Western Crowd[273]
XXXV.Warsaw at Last[283]
XXXVI.Warsaw in 1884-6[290]
XXXVII.The Old House[298]
XXXVIII.Day Dreams[305]
XXXIX.The Kiss of Fair Gusta[309]
XL.Old Haunts and Old Dreams[317]
XLI.Bill Arnold and His Brood[327]
XLII.In the Chautauqua Belt[335]
XLIII.The Mystery of Coincidence[346]
XLIV.The Folks at Carmel[357]
XLV.An Indiana Village[370]
XLVI.A Sentimental Interlude[379]
XLVII.Indianapolis and a Glympse of Fairyland[385]
XLVIII.The Spirit of Terre Haute[396]
XLIX.Terre Haute After Thirty-Seven Years[401]
L.A Lush, Egyptian Land[409]
LI.Another “Old Home”[419]
LII.Hail, Indiana![428]
LIII.Fishing in the Busseron and a County Fair[434]
LIV.The Ferry at Decker[440]
LV.A Minstrel Brother[448]
LVI.Evansville[454]
LVII.The Backwoods of Indiana[465]
LVIII.French Lick[475]
LIX.A College Town[486]
LX.“Booster Day” and a Memory[496]
LXI.The End of the Journey[505]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Old Essex and Morris Canal[38]
Wilkes-Barre[58]
A Coal Breaker Near Scranton[62]
Franklin Studies an Obliterated Sign[70]
Factoryville Bids Us Farewell[88]
The Great Bridge at Nicholsen[94]
Florence and the Arno, at Owego[110]
Beyond Elmira[132]
Franklin Dreams Over a River Beyond Savona[136]
The “Toon O’ Bath”[140]
Egypt at Buffalo[178]
Pleasure before Business[186]
Conneaut, Ohio[200]
The Bridge That Is to Make Franklin Famous[218]
Where I Learn That I Am Not to Live Eighty Years[222]
Cedar Point, Lake Erie[238]
Hicksville[268]
With the Old Settlers at Columbia City, Indiana[276]
Central Indiana[330]
In Carmel[362]
The Best of Indianapolis[382]
The Standard Bridge of Fifty Years Ago[390]
Franklin’s Impression of My Birthplace[398]
Terre Haute from West of the Wabash[404]
My Father’s Mill[422]
Vincennes[432]
The Ferry at Decker[444]
The Ohio at Evansville[458]
A Beautiful Tree on a Vile Road[468]
A Cathedral of Trees[472]
French Lick[478]

A HOOSIER HOLIDAY

CHAPTER I
THE ROSE WINDOW