American Adventures eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 608 pages of information about American Adventures.

American Adventures eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 608 pages of information about American Adventures.

[Illustration:  Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than all the cities of the middle west rolled into one]

[Illustration:  The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States—­Goose Creek Church]

[Illustration:  A reminder of the Chicago River—­Atlanta]

[Illustration:  With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music all night long]

[Illustration:  The office buildings are city office buildings, and are sufficiently numerous to look very much at home]

[Illustration:  The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows’ Building, Atlanta]

[Illustration:  I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to the Burge plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring]

[Illustration:  The planters cease their work]

[Illustration:  Birmingham—­The thin veil of smoke from far-off iron furnaces softens the city’s serrated outlines]

[Illustration:  Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit of “cutting in” at dances]

[Illustration:  Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises, great bursts of flame like fallen fragments from the sun]

[Illustration:  A shaggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and collarless, sat near the window and uttered convincing imitations of the sounds made by chickens, roosters, pigs, goats and crows]

[Illustration:  Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike!  Observe the manliness with which he thrusts his pink little hands deep in the pockets of his—­or somebody’s—­pantaloons!]

[Illustration:  The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going home life and an informal hospitality. (Back yard of the former home of General Stephen D. Lee.)]

[Illustration:  Her hands looked very white and small against his dark coat.  He was gazing down at them, his features distorted by a shockingly sentimental smile]

[Illustration:  As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river, so the visitor’s thoughts flow down to the great spectacular, mischievous, dominating stream]

[Illustration:  Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other buildings of a more self-respecting character, and, far off, the cupola of Vicksburg’s old stone court house]

[Illustration:  Vicksburg negroes.  Whether drowsing in the sun, doing a little stroke of work, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were upon the whole as cheerful and comical a lot of people as I ever saw]

[Illustration:  In some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted, advertised by large catfish dangling from posts and railing]

[Illustration:  The old Klein house, standing amid lawns and old-fashioned gardens on the bluff overlooking the river]

[Illustration:  Citizens go at midday to the square where they buy popcorn for the squirrels and pigeons—­Memphis]

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