The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-10
"E. A." ACROAD.
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1 don't know when anything more
agreeable happened than hearing the
Lady of the Lake recited as we glided
over the very waters of her lake. Cap
tain Monroe, commander of the cute
little steamer on Loeb Katrine, in Glas-
Cow, repeats the lines beautifully. Do
not fail to get him to do so. 1t requires
an amount of cOaxing, but if ladies go
at him handsomely he will yield.
But it wasn't Rob Roy or even the
Lady of the Lake that interested me
most on Loeb KatTine. It's shocking to
say, and very heretical bnt 1 don't
usually care much for ruins and his
tOric relics. 1t must be laundering
| great ruin, if can rouse any enthusiasm
! over it. In general way, one day of
the living present is more to me than
century of the past.
What was it on Loeb Katrine that
fascinated your faithful correspondent
most? 1t was nothing more nor less
than the splendid triumph of science
displayed in the engineering which sup
plies the city of Glasgow, thirty-seVen
miles away, with its nearly million Of
inhabitants, with water. The figures l
give are had from Captain Monroe, who
seemed very intelligent The guide
books differ as to figures.
Loeb Katrine supplies Glasgow with
|
solid basaltic rock of one of her hills.
There is no pumping here. Glasgow is
lower than the LOch, and the water
merely runs down hill. The tunnel is
eight feet in diameter, and is five hun
dred and ten feet below the top Of the
mountain. The first tunnel is eight
miles long. There are altogether four
teen miles Of tunnels, and a guide-boOk
says there are seventy of them. Three
/ mir nd in
ter, feed the whole city of Glasgow. The
works have capacity of siXty-fve mil
lion gallons day. They are now run
ming fOrty-twO million gallons. Loeb
Katrine is nine miles long, and mile
and a half wide. The Scotch say, of
course, that the water is the best in the
world.
"But how do you manage when the
works get out of order? | should think
it would be difficult to repair them with
all this tunneling," said.
The Captain looked surprised. "They
never get out of order," he said. "The
Queen opened them in 1859, they were
finished then, and nothing has been done
to them SINCE"
am sure this will be interesting to
Cincinnatians. The whole water works
cost 100000 pounds sterling, a little
less than $7,5OO,OOO. The lakes are sup
now leap over the green hills. You will
never understand the full significance
of calling tiny stream of water crib
bon of silver" till you see these little
rills stripping the unending verdUre Of
the great hills. 1t rained while we
passed these hills, and we could not see
them fully. But their mighty heads
were enYeloped in a superb Scotch mist,
and we should have lost that fine effect
if it had been pleasant day.
'The Queen has taken tea on this
steamboat three times" said Captain
Monroe, warmly. "And 1 must say it
would be a good thing if all ladies gave
as little trouble as she did.
| forgot to tell you about the nice girl
clerk at the hotel in Glasgow. She was
in the place of the swell with the gold
chain and the diamond ring in our coun-
try. She did far more than the hotel
clerk in the United States, and did it in
far more business-like way. You
would have thought so if you had seen
this clear-headed young woman answer
ing the questions of some fifty people,
selling postage stamps, changing money,
telling green Americans the value of it,
snatching up great valises in her own
hands, and hurTying persons off to catch
their trains, all in one breath apparent
ly, and never getting bothered or max
| ing any IuSS. L COulu uOG SuuuCleuJly
! admire her. Don't tell me woman
can't be hotel clerk as well as man,
after that.i
One point more and shall close this
too long letter. | won't inflict such
another on you-if l can help it. Much
\ has been said for and against the Cook
! Tourist system. know it is a matter
of interest in our nation of travellers. l
must say that we have found it very
2 satisfactory so far. We have seen more
and learned more than persons wholly
Ignorant of the country could have done
g in any other way in the same length of
. ! time. There has been nothing that a
5 reasonable person could complain of in
the way of accommodations. The trip
{ will cost somewhat more than the Cooks
: advertise. Here in London, for instance
where we stay several days, we pay our
own carriage hire and fees of admission
! to places altogether. But it is most
7 agreeable in foreign country to have
your routes and hotels all selected be-
fOrehand by somebody who knows better
about it than you. 1t is pleasant to be
relieved of worry, also to some extent OF
!, the tipping" "abOminatiOn, which ought
to be crushed out by common consent
l. the civilized world over. Money fairly
$ earned ought to be paid by the person
g who hires the work done, and it is the
;, only honest and square way. Tipping is
beggaTly thing. 1t demOralizes ser
wants and walters, and makes then
= mean-spirited and slavish.
As say, the Cooks have done admir-
ably by us so far. If they continue as
well throughout, will tell you about it
If they don't, L will tell you that, too.
At Glasgow, just as we entered the
hotel, we saw leaving it carriage with
a trunk in front, and the name painted
on the trunk was 81. W. BOokwalter
Springfield, Ohio" Distinguished citi.
zens of Ohio are found everywhere, in
earth, heaven, or t'Other place, E. A.