Two thousand miles on an automobile; being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West . he lightof things the world pronounces beautiful, there areno more hideous monstrosities on the face of the earththan train, trolley, and automobile; but each genera-tion has its own standard of beauty, though it seldomconfesses it. We say and actually persuade ourselvesthat we admire the Parthenon; in reality we admire themammoth factory and the thirty-story office as we may to deceive ourselves by loud protes-tations, our standards are not the stand
Two thousand miles on an automobile; being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West . he lightof things the world pronounces beautiful, there areno more hideous monstrosities on the face of the earththan train, trolley, and automobile; but each genera-tion has its own standard of beauty, though it seldomconfesses it. We say and actually persuade ourselvesthat we admire the Parthenon; in reality we admire themammoth factory and the thirty-story office as we may to deceive ourselves by loud protes-tations, our standards are not the standards of like best the things we have; we may call thingsugly, but we think them beautiful, for they are partof us,—and the automobile fits into our surroundingslike a pocket in a coat. We may turn up our nosesat it or away from it, as the case may be, but none theless it is the perambulator of the twentieth century. • Buffalo Jt -v^^as exactly one oclock when we pulled up near the City Hall. Total time from Erie five hours andfifty minutes, actual running time five hours, distanceby road about ninety-four CHAPTER SIX BUFFALO Housing the machine in a convenient and well-appointed stable for automobiles, we were remindedof the fact that we had arrived in Buffalo at no ordi-nary time, by a charge of three dollars per night forstorage, with everything else extra. But was it notthe Exposition we had come to see? and are not Ex-positions proverbially expensive—to promoters andstockholders as well as visitors? Then, too, the hotels of Buffalo had expected somuch and were so wofully disappointed. Vast arraysof figures had been compiled showing that within a 73 TheExpositioji 74 On an Automobile radius of four hundred miles of Buffalo lived all thepeople in the United States who were worth statistics were not without their foundation infact, but therein lay the weakness of the entire schemeso far as hotels were concerned; people lived so nearthey could l
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