The Wilmingtonian., 1884-08-16
= Winchester

in hazy moist atmosphere than at other
times.
Emmittsburg is a most delightfully."- old
fashioned secluded spot. Perhaps the
worthy and hospitable citizens may resent
| this remark, for they have recently cstab-
lishcd telephone communication with Fred
erick and have brought the mountain water
down into the heart of their little city, to
compete with the timc-honored town pump.
Progress has doomed the removal of the
pump and the erection of fountain in the
central square. Next will come electric
lighting, and thcn-why then it will be
time for the eonser ative old-time citizens
20 quit world in which 'new-fauglcd ideas
threaten to transform their cherished sweet
secluded home out of all recognition.
Everything in this corner of ''NIy Mary
land is picturesque and delightful. Once
established in the hosptabo quarters of the
Western Maryland Hotel, all that can con
tribute to make holiday enjoyable is at
the visitors disposal, at a cost far below that
of the fashionable resorts. Cool air, crystal
water, excellent bass-fshing, slietching,
horse-riding, carriage driving, music cheer
full and refined society. The Diminishing
girls have an abundant share of good looks,
and "a word to the wse) eligible SINGLE
| gentlemen are at a high premium.
One very agreeable feature of the summer
| season at Emmittsburg is the refreshing
GOODNESS of the air. In the mornings and
evenings there is always grateful breeze
blowing and the midday he at is nearly 20
degrees below that of Baltimore or Phila.
delphia. The visitor gets up at G a. m. feel
ing lively, vigorous and ready for ride or
drive as soon as breakfast is over. A horse
can be hired for dollar and half per day
or thereabouts; team will cost from two to
three dollars for a day. Speaking from
experience the writer can safely say that the
Emmittsburg saddle-horsc can scramble up
a mountain side like school boy. 1t is
worth all the hours rough-ridng among the
rocks and underwood to reach the top of
Carrick's Knob and look over the b.oad
fertile lands of Pennsylvania, extending far
as the eye can reach, thirty, forty, fifty miles
away. The highest point of the Knob,
known as 'lndian lookout" is nearly one
thousand feet above the sea, and SO vast is
the prospect that Gettysburg, zen miles dis
tant, seems almost at the Observers feet.
Emmittsburg is destined III the future to
become very popular and attractive sum-
mer resort for the people Of Northern and
Central Pennsylvania and even of Delaware.
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already runs south as far as Round Ton. six
miles from Einmlttsburg, and it is in con
temptation to prolong the line southwark to
Enmittsburg, thence by the Emmittsburg
Railroad which meets the Western Maryland
at ltocky Ridge, and lastly by a short branch
u io'r hi'leS 10 N"oasooroush, whence
V"o'o % u'iecC INC 10 Fredellck. There
''o nv engineering OF oCher diiicuItles to
o'o'1oiie, ana inc enterprise oil the people
70 i"'lS "ue'"aVo W tio IeaIi@"toh oil the
auT"n'"ge' 10 DC derived from northern as
"oii 40 " southern approach
GETTYSBURG.
OF course it was impossible to h, within
ten miles of the greatest battlefield of the
Civil War; if not of the world, without pay
ing it visit. There is daily stage between
Emmittsburg and Gettysburg, but the
writer drove over in u buggy which was
placed at his disposal during his stay. A driz-
cling rain was falling but this was of little
account. The men Of the First and Third
Corps, who marched from Emmittsburg to
Gettysburg twcnty-one years ago, went to
face something far sterner and dcadler than
shower of rain.
The road is a trying one. and n deCeetive
tire or spring quickly tells its tale, as the
vehicle .olts over the rocky crests. " bieh in
many places protrudc above the roadway
like the teeth Of a saw.
Round Ton comes into Wow oorl,, i, ,ho
drive hut +. nreson+l,, biddor h,, 10 i,t,
vonirr biIIs or is 1oS+ 20 ,,;o,,, a. +,,a ,a,,il
desccnds into a dam volle,, =, tro ,ood Al
t,,o surro,rdir,,0 az f,o+t,,S,,,,,,, H.. ~
hattie Titanic Rv and byo +ho c,,,,u;a,,
landmarks apncar mora oIoo,ly AMI ~
length the first pause is made at the historic
angle known as the Peach Orchard.
There * verv LITTLE of m or,b,rd ro,,
All tbe trees woro s,vo,t o,yo,, in +ro t,.ni,,,a
strurg,e which +ool, niooo ~, III octo.raa,,
.or tho socund dov Saw thot +1,o - 49,.
zone. There arc horever M vost;,,os ~ III
strife in which twenty thousand men were
stricken low in a few short hours Far