The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-06-22
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been taking a trip through portion OF nun
terdon, and this is the way he was impressed:
A fresh morning in June, when the rains
have made vegetation luxuriant, and the road
is good, and the horses head pointed north
Up the turnpike to the Anchor, then by the
cid middle Road" past Windyqush, and
strike Soebury at the Buckmanyiiie cream
cry. Here we meet the tracks oil the Fem
mock road maker, for the Bnterprtse has told
you Solebury bought one, and like a little boy
with his first knife, they are using IL all the
time, on all the roads, Let other townships
follow the example, for it is great saving oil
money aud shovel handles. But, Is there not
danger of OVERRIDING il? They may make
the road too much rounded, so that load OF
hay and a load of cheese boxes may have
difficulty in passing. The road was rounded
UP when the ground was wet, the first trave-
lers kept to one side, and there the track is
now, requiring the driver TO lean to one side
to maintain the centre OF gravity, an ACTON
which perhaps his companion, under certain
conditions, might misinterpret. we ascend
the rough and rocky Solebury mountain, and
60 down Dark Hollow into New Hope, tnen
cross the river, and viewing its swollen rolling
flood see that both fisheries are busy catching
shad. 1t is the last day but one, and the Pat
riarch Hiram sits on a boulder III the shade,
counting up the profits for the season, and
wondering if he will live to see the river
damned, and the business of his life ruined.
Lambertvile is quite busy place, and we
are proud to see ON its signs many bucks
county pames, that of the worthy sons OF
Moses being in front Of two large adjoining
stores AS we wonder why the children OF
the city do not break their necks and limbs
climbing the steps which lead to their eyrie
school house, we turn up a ravine, and 60 out
of town. Reaching the top of the long hill,
we come to the fair ground, an investment
which up to this time has been losing one.
The road is now level and here we see the
New Jersey road member plying his vocation
He goes TO mud hole, and throws out the
mud then another man with cart puts
stones in il !; then the earth Is put back on
top of the stones, with more from the bank,
and the hole is not. Then comes the scrapef,
levelipg off all humps, ruts and inequalities,
and the road is mended-no troop of men and
BOYS This road Is wider than the generality
of Bucks county roads, and most OF the year
is very good one. A tall white. steeple in
dicates that we are approaching New Jersey
village. 1t is Mount Airy. The church is
large one, wooden and white, with large
grave yard, full of standing stones, their
height indicating the opulepce of the congre-
CATION. Beyond Mount Airy we strike the
red -shale region of New Jersey, that COM
prises the best part of three or more counties.
Here are good farms, and as we advance the
land gets better. In this region the grass IS
very fine, field after field, better than any we
see in Bucks The corn is growing nnely,
the soil mellow, and Is now being worked on
every side. Nocorn on this side of the river
looks SO large and luxuriant. But while the
land is good, and the farms large, and farm
ers are wealthy, we do not see barn worthy
of the name. The cellar barn will not grow
on New Jersey land, All are oil level, front
aud back big doors for the threshing floor,
stables on both sides, and mows over the sta
bles Then hay houses are added, and there
is IA cluster of wooden building, painted red
if painted at all, with white around the doors
aud windows. The houses are frame, gen
orally with the chimneys at the end, and the
style of architecture Jersey pure aud simple.
No spring houses no vaults about the pumps,
and where and how they make the butter Is a
mystery not SO much of a one though, when
you taste The butter. Here is the region for
the creamery, but there are none, wille III an
adjoining state, only few miles off, they are
too thick to thrive. II is singular what a
difference there is in manners aud costumes
building of barus, carriages, and harness, and
even in the shape and the looks of the wo-
men, IN an adjoining state, separated only by
n narrow bridged river Perhaps what New
Jersey people lack in the acknowledge of build
ing barns and making butter, is made up 10
piety and uniformity of religion, for the tall
Stttplc CHuICuto htdIiy III biShb VI Gown
other through all this region, and they are
nearly all Presbyterian. In considering these
subjects in all their bearings there is food for
thought.
Ringoes is q pleasantly situated town.
Here is large stone church with u high
steeple, the kirkpatrick Memorial" erected
only short time since, and here is the AM
well Academy, plain stone structure, built
many years ago and near 1t stone house,
l,.,t From va old ha
ing the crescent moons In the window shut
tiers, and hipped root, that denote the style of
building at that age. Here DIR. Larson has
his select school of both sexes. He has his
own peculiar manner of teaching, and is now
absent with his pupils on tour to the sea
coast. He has four horse wagon, with TENTS
and all appliances for cooking and living, and
he and his pupils ramble around the state
camping where they feel inclined, and learn
ing from the. broad open book of Nature. He
is not far from the sea coast, and the noun
tains, the outlying ranges of the Alleghenies
are but few miles north west. What a
grand mode of imparting information, his
scholars gaining knowledge and strength A
short distance beyond Ringoes is Larison's
Corner, where we bear to the left, and proceed
to Copper Hill, through a region where lux
uriant peach orchards abound. We inquired,
and found that in some of the orchards are
few peaches, in others none at all, depending
much on the situation. We are told that
from Cherryvile, which is few miles beyond
Pennington, to Schooley's Mountain, there is
a fair slow for peaches. The latter region is
high ground, which accounts therefor. Hav-
ing reached Copper Hill, which is station on
the railroad from Lambertvlle TO Fleming
ton, and only two or three miles from the last
named place, we found ourselves twenty two
miles from home, and as forty-four miles is
far enough for one day, we, like Moses Of old,
cast a lingering and whistfu look at the fair
land yet unexplored, and turned square
around and came back.
One thing cannot be overlooked in travelling
through this region of New Jersey, Hunter
don county particularly. Where years ago
the tavern keeper smiled, to-day the brers
and weeds are growing wild. In other words,
many of the country taverns are no longer
licensed by the courts to sell Intoxicating
drinks, and have been changed to something
else. AT Mount Airy the old tavern is u
store. At La. isoh's Corner it is private
house. The Judge of the court thought he
had discretionary power to grant or withhold
license, aud he refused to grant to about two
thirds Of the applicants. And plenty yet re-
main. There is a good hotel at Ringoes,
which is to be sold the coming fall, the pro-
prietor for the last thirty-hve years, Mr..
Young having died last fall.
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