Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-23

seems to be that of cutting up the stocks
shocking them, and husking the corn in the
fields, throwing the ears into heaps, prepare
tory to drawing them to the corn bara
Along the streams we saw good sized manu-
factories, it being much cheaper for manufac-
turers to carry on their business here than in
the city. The soil is of reddish color, ow-
ing to the presence, it is said, of the red sand
stone.
Easton is a large and growing town at the
junction of the Delaware aud Lehigh rivers,
in the eastern part of the State of Pennsvlva-
mia. Directly across the Delaware in New
Jersey, is Phillipsburg. These two places
contain about fifteen thousand inhabitants A
large portion of the traders are of the German
race. Five railroads pass through these places,
the Central Railroad Of N. j.. the Lehigh VAL
ley, the Lehigb and Susquehanna, the Belvi-
dere (Delaware), and the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western r. X. Along these, long
coal trains are continually passing, bearing
fuel from the mines.
The places of interest in Easton are soon
visited. On one part of the range of hills
which surrounds the village is the Northamp-
ton county prison, which now has about
thirty five inmates. The county finds it much
cheaper to keep them here than to send them
mates are obliged to work. A few rods from
the prison is the Court house, from the cupo-
la of which a fine view can be obtained of the
village and its surroundings. North of the
village, on the same range of hills, are the
nine buildings of Lafayette College. The last
erected of these is the Pardee building, built
at cost of $500, 900, exclusive of furniture
and apparatus. This generous sum was con-
trbuted by gentleman of the village, whose
name it bears. The centre building is five
the two lateral wings are each four stories in
height. The entire length of the front in
a straight line is two hundred and fifty feet.
The material is brown stone, with trimmings
of light sand stone. 1t stands there, plain and
simple, yet grand, being fully characteristic
of the man. Grading of the ground immedi
ately about is now going on, and great prepa
ratious are making for lis dedication, which
: will take place on next Tuesday, Oct 2lst
} 1t is expected that the people will turn out e,
: masse on that day, and that the most of tn,
I stores will be closed. OF the rest of the Col
, lege buildings 1 have not space to speak il
detail. Suffice it to say that they are all good
!, The grass on the ground is kept cut very clos
throughout the season, and continued i'm
provement is making. The grounds ar,
reached by series of stone steps and gradu
: ally ascending walks. whose sides are pro.
tected and adorned by substantial balus
trade. The number of students has increased
wonderfully within two or three years, SO that
they now number about three hundred. The
College is under the auspices of the Presby-
terrain church, wish the pleasant, genial and
affable DR.. Cattell at its head.
There is one thing which one who has been
accustomed to the Maine liquor law can no,
help noticing. that is, the free and open sale
of spirituous liquors at all the hotels. Every
, one drinks as often and as much as he pleases,
, and yet but very little drunkenness is seen on
the streets.
The leaves which with you have nearly all
fallen, have just begun to fall here, and or
many trees they have not yet changed their
color. There has been as yet no frost worth
mentioning
An occasion which has called many strang-
ers here-strangers in name, they may be to
each other, but not in hearts, the two days
convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fra
ternity. There were delegates from twenty
seven or eight different colleges. Founded
in 1914 at Yale, by few energetic, genial and
social men. it has gradually grown in mum.
bers till to-day it has nearly five thousand
names enrolled in its catalogue. At the pub
lie exercises last evening in the opera house,
Whitelaw Reid, Esq, of the N. Y. Tribune, a
graduate of Miami College, of the class of sc,
presided and delivered the opening address.
The Grafton was by the Hon. Wayne Mac
veagh of Harrisburg, Pa, of the class of '53
at Yale, formerly U. S. Minister to Constan-
city, of the class of '67 at Yale. There was
a banquet at the United ates Hotel after the
exercises. Your correspondent learns that
the Zeta Psi Fraternity also proposes to hold
convention at Lafayette College this winter
Easton supports two daily papers, the Eas.
ton Free Press and the Easton Express, which
are at loggerheads with each other. Each
contributes its full quota of accounts of acct
dents, fires, murders, &c. Since our stay
here, two or three men have been killed on
the railroad in the vicinity. . The burning of
barn last Wednesday evening on College
hill, furnished an item fourth of a column
in length. EPSILON.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
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