Motoring aboard . es of the famous New York hotels, includ-ing palm rooms, cafes, ballrooms, et cetera, andone could almost imagine, if it were not for thepeople he saw about him, that he was in theAmerican metropolis. It is said that it always rains in cannot attest to that fact but we are certainthat we never saw it rain harder anywhere thanit did all the time we were there. It was such adownpour that we did not leave the hotel fromthe time we arrived until we left the city. We hadhoped to see something of the splendid municipaland manufacturing features of the city, which hasb
Motoring aboard . es of the famous New York hotels, includ-ing palm rooms, cafes, ballrooms, et cetera, andone could almost imagine, if it were not for thepeople he saw about him, that he was in theAmerican metropolis. It is said that it always rains in cannot attest to that fact but we are certainthat we never saw it rain harder anywhere thanit did all the time we were there. It was such adownpour that we did not leave the hotel fromthe time we arrived until we left the city. We hadhoped to see something of the splendid municipaland manufacturing features of the city, which hasbeen the worlds center for cotton goods forcenturies, but we decided that it would be likeviewing scenery through Niagara Falls, so wegave it up, and the day following our arrival,during a brief respite in the rain, we started forDerby, our friend, the then Consul General atManchester, and his daughters, accompanying usin their motor as far as Buxton where we lunchedtogether at the St. Anns Hotel. This run took 264. Our friend the Consul-General and his daugh-ters accompanied ns and we photographed thecars on the highest point reached by any roadin England. Jfrom Clies(ter to ^outfjampton us through the far-famed Peak country, overthe highest portion of England, and we stoppedand photographed the two automobiles side byside where the greatest altitude above sea levelis reached by any highway. The country overwhich we passed was rather bare, but the viewsundoubtedly would have been worth seeing hadthe rain given us a chance to see for any dis-tance. Buxton is famous as one of the three chief in-land watering places of England and the highesttown above the sea level. It has long beenfamous for its hot springs and baths and remindsone, in general appearance, very much of Hom-burg and other German spas. From Buxton we followed the valley of thediminutive Wye, the road being chiefly downgrade, and taking us through almost a continu-ous succession of little settlements. At Edensor,a q
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