The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-29
Dick Hardin i'm Philadelphia.
DICKS VISIT TO INDEPENDENCE HALL.
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DICKS VISIT TO INDEPENDENCE HALL.
PHILADELPHIA, April %, 1876.
DEAR MOTHER /: Me ana Willie went down to
the Independence Hall. Aunt Martha says
that is where they made the first Fourth of
July.
There is marble statute before the house
that stands for George Washington. He is
leaning onto stump, and has holes cut in his
eyes, There is a gold fence in the room, to
keep folks from touching the things. There
ia table with seven drawers, and big old
chair, and some other chairs, and they signed
it OH it.
There was man behind the fence. 1 think
he was a General. He had gold spectacles
There was moren hundred pictures on the
wall, and two flags. One was yellow, and they
had that on the ships and one was red and
white, and that was on the land and there
was a snake on them, and he said "Dont
tread on me-" Benjamin Franklin was in
gold frame on the wall. There is another man
up over him, in his shirt-sleeves, because he is
a minister; and another man with his trousers
tucked into his stockings. They are very
tight. There is a sofa what Washington had
but nobody cannot sit on it. 1t looks hard.
May be it was softer then. We saw the big
bell. 1t has crack and some Bible on it. The
sell. They had crack too, but the tongue
was gold. / wanted to buy one for Totty, but
We did not have enough.
Your ron, ID. HARDIN.
p. S.-We had only 33.
DICKS DESCRIPTION OF THE OPENING OF THE
CENTENNIAL
May IL, 1876
DEAR MOTHER: 1t has opened. There is a
yellow place to 60 In. and little hole to drop
the money in, and a thing that goes around.
There is a tau thing, too, that goes around
when the folks want to go out. 1t has arms,
and you are afraid it will catch you.
went in. 1 heard the band and that was
the parade. Uncle Ben put me on a ladder,
and saw it. The sash was blue, and the men
looked splendid with the red tassels on them.
President Grant came first, with a lady, and
she bowed to the people and then Mrs. Grant
came, and then some Generals, and then some
men with hats made of fur, about as high ~
Tooty. There was a muddy place, and they
talked and some folks sung, and they shot off
some guns and bells that opened it. Then they
went to another place, and the President pulled
something, and it Kissed, and all the machinery
began to CO. and it made a great noise. So
good-by. Your son, DICKERsoN II.
DICK DESCRIBES SOME OF THE CURIosrTIEs OF
THE CENTENNIAL.
MAY Is. 1876.
Centennial every Saturday all alone. Men
never get lost, but little boys get lost. We
never get lost. There is q long place, and
that is the Main Building. 1t has flags on it.
Every house has flags on it. There is a gold
monument in the M. b. (you know what that
~
it is sixty-five tons, and YOU must not touch 1t.
There is lots Of policemen, and there is red
stripe in their trouser-legs, and they don't
have to pay to go in.
There was bear, and he was stuffed and
stood up straight. and held tray, and said he
was dumb waiter on the card but guess he
could growl once.
There is a organ that plays by turning q
handle. think we might sell the piano and
get one. You don't have to learn to play on it
you just turn the handle. 1t has little things
that hop up on the under side to make the
music. the man plays q beautiful tune. i
could play beautiful tune IL had 1t. The
man said 30.
There ia little silver boy on horseback, and
he pours drop Of water out of silver cup all
the time. Everybody holds their handkerchiefs
under it, and thei, it smells sweet.
Your boy, ID. II.
p. Slow Is the baby?
DICK AT MEMORIAL HALL.
June 2, 1876.
DEAR MOTHER: There ia a Remorial Hall,
with a woman on the top, and some eagles.
There is soldier and two black horses in front,
up on a block, with a woman on one side, and q
wing on the other, and a big tail. She is big.
There are statutes inside. There are some
people without any clothes on. There Is WASH
ington, but he is cut of, 80 he hasn't got any
legs and there is little boy that has pounded
his fingers. There il little horse, and man
came and said Where is the lady
that belongs to that little horse ?"
But she had gone. There is room full
of old dirty heads and things that were dug
up. The folks hold telescope up to their
eyes. 1t has two round places, and you look
through. There are bout a million pictures
and you must not point stick at them it
saws So or you'll get rested. There are some
boots made OF alligator skin. A alligator is
a snake. There is one in glass box. There
are some whales too. When they are little the
mouth reaches almost to his tail. but when
they grow big it ia smaller. There are some
folks that have shot a elk. They stand up
and have guns, but they are not real folks.
There is fountain where four women hold a
djsh on their heads and there is another
fountain made out of snakes. The snakes
"a old their heads down. and the water comes