Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-23

extend to the excursionists an invitation
TO visit the extensive works of the com.
pany at Mt Clare and Locust Point. The
invitation was accepted and a large mum.
Der of the excursionisis went down to
those points this morning in special
train. At the former place we found 50
big thing" not On ice, but on dry land,
giving evidence of the great wealth,
power snd energy of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. These shops
are very complete in all their arrange
ments aud appliances, and in them all the
work of constructing engines and cars
is done, beginning with the toughest
iron work and ending with the flushing
touches of the most magnificent passen-
ger Car. Tee usual number of employees
ia about fifteen hundred. 1t may be ap-
propTiaiely mentioned in this connection,
that the company employ fourteen thou
sand persons in various positions, a pretty
large army of workers. The reader may
imagine what the payroll of this com>
panY will amount to each month. And
yet the large number of men employed in
these shops are barely able to supply the
wants of this great road. Though about
four fine passenger cars are completed
every month, they are needed on the road,
so rapid have been its extensions and the
increase of travel over its lines. The
vast rolling mills where the rails used by
this rosd and its extensions are m Ade is
located in Cumberland, Maryland. While
here the party rartook of most excel
lent collation., and as on former occasions,
wine and sentiment flowed freely. From
the machine shops the party we're carried
to Locust Point, where trains run down
alongside pier $50 feet in length to re-
ceive all freight and passengers by the
regular Bremen steamships and other yes
sells. Immigrants are here taken from the
ship Immediately after it lands and sent
directly to any point in the West, without
falling into the hands of sharks and
sharpers to be feeced. It only requires
visit to and stroll through the immense
shop at Mt Glare to form an idea of
the magnitude of the business of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COMPANY.
1t is indeed q power in the land.
BAYvIEw ASYLUM.
After having inspected the works of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comps nv.
the party visited Bayview Asylum, one
of the charitable institutions of Balti-
more. The main building and the two
wings present front of over 600 feet.
II is four stories high, and at pre- sent con-
tains over 600 benefciaries. II lis a model
of neatness and of well kept establish
ment in every department. The visitors
were received by the physici IN in very
neat speech, to which Capt. Darragh re.
sponded on behalf of the T ress Associs-
ton in one of his happiest Little speeches.
After inspecting the vario as departments
and psrtsking of lunch, tie visitors
took their leave of this noble charity.
DRUID HILL PARK.
Various other points of interest were
visited by members Of; the excursion psr4
ty, among which IVES Druid Hill Park,
which is being highly improved and is
susceptible of being made one of the
handsomest parks in the country. Balti-
more has several other beautiful parks.
WASHING TON MONUMENT.
Baltimore is K ioWu as the Monumental
City. 1t contains three monuments which
are sure to attract the attention of visi-
tors 20 the city-the Washington Monu.
ment, Baltimore Monument to the sold
iers who fell in '.he battle of North Point,
and that to the mel aory of the late Thorn
as Wildey--the latter not yet flushed.
The following ia a description of the
Washington Mo 1ument, furnished me by
the gentleman in charge OF the same:
Situated Oh a lofty eminence, 100
feet above tide, it is the first object that
attracts the attention of the stranger, and
located in the most fashionable section of
the city, is vicinity is grsced by all the
adornmer.ts of luxury and taste. Mount
Vernon and Washington Pisces, at whose
inters ection it is erected, form a cross,
each arm of which measures 372 feet in
leng Ia, and $50 feet in breadth. Within
eaC n of these arms Is embraced a paral-
lei 1gram of green sward enclosed with an
ir IN railing, and lanked by rows of noun
T. ain ash, while TO the whole the costly
1JubliC sud private buildings in the back
ground gives such an appearance of rich
ness and elegance as distinguishes few
city scenes IN this or any other country.
The monument itself is well proper
toned Doric column, built Of white mar
be- The base is so feet square and "a
feet high. This beautiful column is 1874
feet high erected at a cost of $3.50, 900,
and is surmounted by colossal figure OF
Washington, 16 feet in height aud weigh
ing 16 tons. The Statue was sculptured
in the City of Baltimore, and cost SO, 900.
The whole structure rises to an elevation
Oe nah ID eor h.
base of the statue ia balcony protected
by parapet, feet high, which is reach
ed by a winding stairway of 228 steps,
From this balcony is witnessed a sce1e, a
mingled panorama of city and rural life
that is rarely equslled. Beneath lies
city of 800 600 inhabitants, with its busy
marts, its factories, its store houses, and
public buildings, all embraced in one
coup a. ell, what must take days and |
weeks to view in detail. Below lies the |
harbor with its forests of masts, and be. |
yond these, to the South and East, Fed |
eral Hill, Fort McHenry, with its historic |
recollections, and Fort Carroll, with it,
huge masses OF unfinished masonry, in |
the middle of the Patapsco, with the |
and the wooded heights of |
Anne Aruedel to bind the horizon, whilst
to the North and West the view, al.
though not diversified by watery scenes,
is rich in all the beauties of inland land
scape.
"The Legislature of Maryland, in the |
year 1909, empowered number of prom
inent citizens, as commissioners, to erect
in the city OF Baltimore monument TO
The memory of George Washington. The
original design was to erect the monu
ment on the spot where the Baltimore
Monument, more commyn My called the
Battle Monument, now sands Owing
% the war which shortly after broke cut
between the United States and Crest
Britain, several years elapsed before the
corner stone was laid. But as soon as
peace dawned on the land, the General
Assembly directed the same gentlemen to
rect on the ground, originally selected
'Or the Washington Monumenr, a mon
lment TO the memory of those who
lad fallen in defence of the city, in 1914,
md authorized them to select another site
,or the former. The site at the lntersec-
ion Of Mount Vernon and Washington
Places, than which none more suitable
Gould have been selected, as well as the
ground occupied by these spaces were
presented TO the city, for this purpose, by