Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-04

VI SSt eAuIpttOn, take the Bible
and read the fgst nine verses of tn,
first chapter of the book of Esther. Il
Is not known that in that day they die
have locomotives, or means Of convey.
ance BY steam. All the records of tba,
age are silent about such mechanica
appliances. They we're too common t.
talk about, or they did not have them
We are taught to believe that they did
not even use wagons in those times
The ass, elephant, horse, camel and
dromedary were the animals used 70,
cohve. ance, at least so far as is known
now. What jolly ride-thiuk of II
on an elephant, q camel, dromedary OF
an ass What would our seven hun.
dred Juniata people have thought oi
going TO the Centennial Exhibition last
week on such nveyances. 1t would
have been a nice excursion caravan
How would quarter of a million OF
people get to or from the show in one
day on such quadrupeds
Did the government txenty-three
hundred years ago, manage the lines
of travel and furnish the means OF
transportation, or were those things
conducted BY corporations, or did peo-
Pile travel " each on his own hook l''
Scott and Gowen might, for the inform
alton of poor people, employ a score or
two OF antiquarians, to examine how or
by what means SIX hundred thousand
men were transported three times every
year TO Jerusalem to participate in the
three national feasts, the Feast of the
Passover, the Feast of Pentecost, and
the Feast of Tabernacles. 1t would.
however, be a joke on Scott and Gowen' s
antiquarians if their researches should
reveal the fact that the majority of the
people who went in such multitudes to
feasts, travelled afoot, an6 few of the
richer ones employed the ass, camel, or
dromedary as a means OF conveyance,
the principle of which in modern times
has been rendered by an Irishman thus
"When you're rich you ride in chaises,
When you're poor you walk, by jabers."
About seven hundred Juniata county
people were afoat in that ocean
of humankind on Thursday. They
had gone to the city on Tuesday,
and were IN time to secure comfort.
able quarters, which were not so
easily obtainsble by an eleventh hour
arrival on Wednesday evening, as we
found out, not to our sorrow, for we
rather enjoyed the search Cor an accept
able place TO pass the night, than dis
liked it.
We'had scarcely got into the city
when We became conscious of the fact
that on that day Third street bad been
thrown into state of the widest ex-
citement over the work of the bears on
Reading Railroad stock, which had de-
cIined from A TO 3d. 1t was a conso-
ls,len, as We 8oated among a million Of
people for place to suit us to lodge,
that we were not quite as uncomforia
BILE as the operators in stock who were
afoat among millions of money, on rail-
road stock to bankruptcy. What a
wonderful contrast would have present.
ed itself In action and appearance, if it
had been possible to place the tens of
thousands Of sightseeing strangers in
the city that evening, alongside of the
losing operators in railroad stock.
Wishing to secure a quiet lodging
place, We passed out Seventh street,
beyond Callowhil! street, to a place
that had been recommended but the
place not suiting, We left to try hotel
Application was made at the Colonade
hotel for room, but all had been en-
gagged; thence to the La Pierre, with
the same result, with the difference that
if We would room with company room
could be assigned to our use The Of
fer was passed, and applicat tion in turn
made at the St. Cloud, St. Elmo, the
Eagle, and the Merchants on Third
street. The obliging landlord of the
latter hotel, 10 answer to our applica-
tion for room, said that he could not
furnish one III his house, but he could
assign US to a loom IN house on Fourth
street, if We would board at bis place.
The offer was quite acceptable, and
after partaking of good supper we
passed out in comfortable frame
of mind to call on James J. Schweyer,
a member of the firm of Kneedler, Pat
terson & Co, importers and jobbers of
British, French and American dry
goods, doing business at No SO North
Third street. Mr.. Schweyer returned
with US to the hotel, when we ordered
our vaIise, and asked to be shown to a
room, ludulging in the anticipation of
quiet hour or two in reading up the city
papers before going to bed. An at
tache of the hotel conducted us to the
lodging place on Four til street. A lady
answered the bell call. The servant
stated that we were from the L" Mer-
charts" whereupon We were immedi-
ately conducted up three or four flight
of stairs TO room that fronted on
Fourth street. Everything appeared
comfortable, and yet there was so.ne-
thing about the place that did not har-
monize with the mood we we're in. We
thought of Rev. Peter Cartwright, who
was once seeking lodgings in New York,
and having reached place that did not
come up to his expectations, he said.
before the servant went ont, "Will you
please show Inc down stalrs!' We did
not say quite as be did, but SAID, "WiIl
you please light me down stairs % We
we're shown down stairs, and walked
over to the landlord. He would get US
good place on Callowh,ll street. A
servant was sent with us to the desig-
mated place, but alas clerk of the
hotel had anticipated our arrival by
sending enough to fill up all the one
bed rooms, aud theie was no room to
give US that had no company. The
pressure was not hard enough yet to
induce us to accept such conditions,
and We again sought the landlord, who