Although Paterson, New Jersey, is America's leading silk city, to the vicinity of Scranton, Pennsylvania, comes one-third of all the raw silk imported into the United States, and some of the country's biggest silk mills are located here. The illustration above shows the interior of one of these great manufactories and a typical modern American textile mill, where a maximum of cleanliness, pure air, and floods of sunlight make for the best working conditions. This enormous room has a floor area of about 35.000 square feet, and 450 operatives are required to attend to the wants of this acre of machinery. A VIEW OF THE ALLEGHENY AT PITTSBURGH No, this is not gravel from the river bottom nor oysters from the bay. It's a Pittsburgh coal fleet in the Allegheny River loaded with "black diamonds" to keep alight the fires which help to make Pittsburgh one of the foremost industrial cities of the world-a furnace of Vulcan in real life. Photograph by Gilbert H. Grosvenor ONE OF THE COUNTLESS AMAZING SIGHTS TO BE SEEN ON THE WHARVES OF OUR GREAT LAKES: FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OF COPPER INGOTS AWAITING SHIPMENT AT HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN Industrially as well as scenically the United States affords fields of interest to the tourist surpassed by no other part of the world. We produce three-fifths of the world's copper, two-fifths of its iron and coal, one-third of its silver, lead, and zinc, and one-fifth of its gold. land or Pennsylvania, you see a landscape that painters love-undulating hills, rolling fields, watered with 'winding streams and ornamented by groves of oak and hickory, picturesque farm-houses, and huge barns packed to the rafters with Nature's gifts, for these counties possess some of the best land and best farmers of America. Fifty-four thousand of as brave men as ever marched to martial music mingled their blood at Gettysburg in 1863. The government of the United States has spared no effort to preserve to the future the memories of those who bore the brunt of the bitter struggle, and to mark alike the position of the Blue and the Gray of those sanguinary days. It is the best marked and best cared-for bat tlefield in the world. With its magnificent picture of pastoral beauty, its splendid roadways, and its eloquent monuments, Gettysburg is a sight to thrill the heart of every American. Nowhere can we find sights and memories more precious to our hearts than those which abound in Washington, the most stately capital city in the world. The glories of the nation's capital have, however, been so well described in the pages of this Magazine by ex-President Taft and Viscount Bryce that they need not be referred to here. Not far from Washington is Harpers Ferry, where the Potomac breaks through the mountains on its way to the sea, and the scene of John Brown's raid; here came Stonewall Jackson to capture the Photograph by W. H. Brandel TYPES OF AMERICAN GRAIN ELEVATORS: THE GREAT LAKES The United States is the principal grain exporting nation in the world, having more grain elevators than the remainder of North and South America and Asia and Africa together force which stood in the way of the Confederate effort to carry the war into Maryland and the North in 1862. From Harpers Ferry far away to the south stretches the famous Shenandoah Valley, the granary of the Confederacy in the 60's, of which Sheridan declared that he had laid it so bare that a crow flying across it would have to carry his rations. The Valley Turnpike, once the race-course of armies, is now the peaceful highway of the automobilists who journey from the North to the South. WALLS OF DIAMONDS AND PEARLS Half way up the Shenandoah Valley are the Luray Caverns, an underworld palace built by the busy hands of trickling waters. Aladdin, we are told, was once permitted to enter a cave which exhibited such decorations that its glory both dazzled and affrighted. But Aladdin never beheld anything more wondrously exquisite than the water-built architecture of Luray. The Throne Room is canopied with curtains woven of diamonds and pearls. The Saracen's Tent has more than Oriental splendors of richest damasks and golden samite, which drape the crystal couch in festoons of magic beauty. Titania's Veil is woven of petrified spiders' webs, while the Ball-room seems as if set to celebrate a marriage between the gods. The visitor to Luray today shares the sentiment of another visitor of long ago, who exclaimed: "Mortal hath not made the like, nor human fancy conceived a thing more magnificent!" As one journeys westward from the Atlantic seaboard, whether by the northern route and by boat through the Great Lakes, touching at points of interest along their shores, or by one of the central routes through western Pennsylvania or West Virginia, or yet by a southern road through New Orleans, there will be discovered a continual succession of dramatic and matchless spectacles. Not the least of these is the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the biggest cavern of the world. The discovery of the cave |