The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-08-09

correspondent sends us the followinq,-
Westminster Is something of place, after
all. II is the county seat Of Carroll conntyt
the seat Of the Western Maryland COLLEGE and
several private schools-inslitutOn which are
doing noble work in education; the seat of
me Taylor Manufacturing Company, where
me pest OF engines are made; the seat of
ueorge siouch ) and j. C. Weaver AgricuI
,aral Implement Warehouses; the scat of II.
~ ShrlYer y Cos. Foundry and Machine
Shops; of Herr 4 Bros. and Eekenrode a
Snyder's Carriage Factories; Of Bankert d
Dailysi Ira II. Crouse's, aud Sharer's Furui.
ture Establishments; of Reese's Conservatory:
OF Moore's and VENTS Watch and Jewelry
Establishments; Of Beavers Marble Yard; Of
several large Cigar manufacturing establish.
menlsi OF two Brick Manufactures; Of several
saddle and Harness Manufactures; Of Sash
and Blind Mandatory; ofa Shirt, Drawers,
and general Underwear Manufactory; and OF
severn Boot and Shoe Manufactures, and
nearly all the mechanical trades. The popu.
laiion is over 1000; the town is high and
healthy, and becoming convenient summer
resort for Baltimoreans. There are lead,
iron, copper and silver ores, and valuable
mineral springs in the region round about,
and limestone and marble in great abundance.
Westminster district has an assessable prom.
erty basis Of $3,327,704 and pays $40, 1913. 81
IN taxes-more than any two districts in the
county beside. As tax payer she is "some
pumpkins and is entitled to hold her head
up high. She has eight fine churches and
her people are, "mebbe,i as good as their
neighbors. She has no more thieves, texcept
chicken thieyes,) burglars and rascals gener-
ally, than the neghboring towns and villages.
Her girls are pretty, her old men respectable
knowing old people, and her old women real
nice aud Indispensable her young men as
good as the ayerage,-but comparisons are
odi0us. Her three banks will discount you
as close as any other. Her merchants and
business men generally are as polite as poll.
tcians about election time, and won't stretch
the cloth in measuring single inch. Her
hotels will give you as much for dime or a
dollar as you can get anywhere, and her
washerwomen won't wear your stockings,
handkerchieis, and other things any oftener
than other laundresses are in the habit of do
ing. Westminster IS q pretty good place to
have around. 1t buys all the fire wood
Tor miles around, and all the spring chickens
and eggs and butter, aud wormy green
apples. In fact it is a pretty good market,
except that things come at a higher price
than they do in Baltimore, especially sun.
burnt cantaleups and watermelons from "Anne
Arundel Westminster has a brand. new
Fire Department, too; and then to see them
handling the ladders and the buckets why,
it is better than looking at "Pinafore." And
that isn't all-she's got a rifle club that for
craftsmanship eau rival Creedmoorc or VIM
bledon; and an embryo military company
that can do great deal better than ''hay
foot 'straw foot in its eyolntions, and
wouldn't shoot the captain and other officers
in target practice, unless by accident. Aud
that isn't all-she's got an awkward squad
who play eroquct aud wear eleven-ineh bro
gans, and WELD the mallet as though they
were splitting up rail timber with maui and
wedges. And that isn't all--some of her
citizens pick watches of the limbs Of apple
trees; but they don't grow there, as general
thing. Westminster has some very fine shade
aud fruit trees, but only now and then one of
the latter is to be found which bears watches
instead Of apples; aud, although they may be
stem .winders, they will stop, short, never to
go again, unless taken dolon and wound up
within forty eight hours. Now, Messrs. Ed,
tors, like "Grand Fathers Clock | will
stop short" but won't promise "never to
go again" for there are great many things
in and around your goodly town, Il beg par.
don-"city' won't do TO call Westminster
anything but city, tina, | may Ego for
when have nothing else to do, and when it
is good day for writing.