Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-25
WilliamspOrt.

Its of the Republic, that have
the III, .,Ia.;on of 10000, Williamsport,
q a ? pO State, in freshness ofappearance,
.nli nS prosperity. equals the best Of
anu aI. humber 1t is beautiful place,
InAs u level piece of ground, on the
%rtb o. side of the West Branch of
.Se gc' Susouehanna river. Its borough
i:.5;ts Ine t extend along the river a dis
lLii'' i,a ~ seven miles. and back from
.al,t IA Stream one mile and a half. 1t
,,ne,s;ncadoff ,ne d the swaddling clothes
vi ~. he village. so that now the festive
Evening :. pig no longer foraSes on
= biobwa1s. and the lazy rumnatlng
"au ~ 70 be seen in almost every coun-
.g". 90 .oun has not the freedom Of the
risce i Many of the lots of the finer
Las;denees are without fence, and
.to buildings stand in plots of green
-r.ss '- dotted with trees and flowers.
In point OF
AGE
:. = five years Younger than Miililn-
IN = Il was laid out in 1886. In
= snswspaper article Of a column or
4ro the difference in the material
rrosperity and appearance OF the two
Noes I cannot be told. While our
to1,n has A fresh and Youthful ap-
ns.rance. it is not fresher looking
4 ibgp Williamsport. Everything looks
ra1, r sud bright here, and so recent
N arrearance that II Is only IN the
business part OF the town that the
borsss are built. one against the 9th
r The sixteenth and seventeenth
have been as bright rs the merry
.artb of June could make them. and
4r,m5to7 o'clock IN the evening"
tba families Of most OF the residences,
we're 10 be seen on the pOrches, and
On the green in front Of the houses,
Tarv many OF which stand 80 to
20 feet awav from the street. Even
tbe people look young, and not many
men and women appear Ike grand
parents.
THE RELIGION
Of tbs place should be good, for 40
prfschers ..break the bread OF spirit
nal life. in as many churches every
Sunday. TO large congregations, which
is a preacher for every 500 people
In our town, including Patterson, re
Igion is IL a higher state OF prog
ress. which Is evidenced by the TACT
that We have q preacher Tor every
400 people. NilliamspoTt should
have 50 churches to be up 10 the re-
Iri5rs standard OF lLiillirtown--
TLe7 have 4 larger population, more
business. greater wealth, more costly
stvia. but less religion, ana all tlls
beautiful young city WAS cut out Of
THE WOODS
in the pineries Of the head waters,
and tributaries Of the stream named
above. If 3Iifiintown had a forest
Of pine along the JunIata west Of it.
perhaps i TOO would be Il city oi 10000
people. The first saw mill was built
st Williamsport, in 1888. That was
tie beginning. The last saw mill
vii cease 10 work 25 years Lence,
when the pine AID hemlock viii have
been all cut away. BY that time the
place expects to have other industrial
Establishments established to make
up for the loss Of the lumber trade.
1t has two gum factories, that en-
ploy . or SO girls, FIVE large furni-
ture factories that employ many hun
dred men, several machine shops,
AMI other manufactures. and four
railroads, 50 tnat the citizens are con
yinced that their prosPeri-yis IS TO con
tiIue and that they are indeed out Of
the woods. It was the woods that
created the
GREAT BOOI
for WliiamspoTt. A man namei J.
H. Perkins came to the town from
Maine, IN 1915, and under charter
obtained from the Legislature built
the boom that concentrated lumber
here, that has kept 80 odd saw mills
running the past 10 years. Perkins
Is still living. and his boom was the
means upon which Wii4iamsporl
grew and fattened till it has more
wealth accumulated from the pro-
eesds Of the pineries, than all the
wealth Of Juniata. 1t is the paradise
Of middle men, the lumber is stop
ped here as It comes from the woods
ana sawed Tor other dealers. The
homes Of the middle men are strung
along 3rd and 4th streets, while south
OF them. fIlng;ng the riveT, are tie
mills lrom whence comes their gains.
The wOoGman lives IL his cabin, Re
mote from the marts of trade and
gets the pityance that nearly always
ialls to the lot OF the first producer
While the middle men by a conceD
nahon Of capital receive large re-
turns, but it Is a question, undeter-
ialhed which OF the two classes get
,ae most Of real enjoyment out Of
NE. The boom doomed not enly
hAhamspOrt TO wealth by stopping
lie lumber here and increasing It's
cost to the consumer by levying a
laA on Il, and 10y saving It into boards
ana so forth, but it was tie thing
over which there was great scandal
N the Legislature of the Conmon
"ea-lh. 1t Is only a few years since
o. Sa@t the boom men had the Bhole
31a'e II an uproar over the efforts to
"uy members of the Legislature pro
Ala '0a. Without the boom Williams
tUI' %orid be place of less magRi-
'uoe inan 1t is. The water for the
IO"h Is brought from the mountain
la;5 no Ihe rlver IN pipes that are
-II1 5 On the bottom of the stream SO
Teep t 'aat the boom logs nev5r affect
Two SUSPENSION BRIDGES
.5;l, tsI the river, for the passage OF
-, 1.el one must pay toll, which sug-
sss'' ~; the thought, il city as rich as
;Ta' .s' and county as rich as Lycom
county is, viii not free the river
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