Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-17
HERE AND THERE.

The traveller who goes Ivy limited train can
roach PiuShurg from Philadelphia now in
about uino hours, taking his meals ns hc
rides; or il ho pursuoS hiS Journey Ivy night
he can eat q late supper in ono city aud nm
early breakfast in the othoS. sleeping in tho
interval ON better mattress than ho will got
at an average ul moro than ono ho,cl in ten.
Il wa, ,crv different in l7G6 whcn Matthew
Clnrkson, Philadelphia merchant and for
some wears mayor of that city. made the trip
Ou horseback, accompanied Nv IA servant Ho
kept manuscript journal Of tho incidents Of
his, trip which is very interesting reading,
especially by contrast with tho modern con.
NcncncoS Of travel AlaS how much of tho
picturesque and romantic travel has h"cn
dIvCstod of since the cnS,n" superseded tho
stage coach OF Cvou vhcn the tally hn sur.
ccodol the saddle.
Matthew ,iark>on records that on thc first
day he mot wagon, loaded With skins coming
from tho WcNt, and passed. others "loadcd with
purk grng for tho Kings uso 10 Fort Pitt"
He lodged the first nightat Tho ship n littlo
oNCr half way un tn" road from Philadelphia
10 Lancaster. llo dtnNd next day at ''the
uuko of cumberland" and arrived in Ian.
caster on Tho second evening
Whcro be stopped in, this city Clarksou's
journal Jo"' not toll; ltmay have, been At
tho town, established in l5c2, on tho spot
where High Il Martin NOW carry on trade
OR ho may havo been guest under the roof
ut tho Gross Keys" on West King street.
which had icCu made memorable genera
tton before that by the tragic stahhing of two
solOuruCUs ly drunken Indians RnGorcd at
the refusal Of their demand for run The
"trapc' had then been a hotel for a quarter
Of n century. WIN. Bausman, at that time
proprietor Of "Tho Lancaster County House"
was also chief burgess! ot the town
Sh"Ner's hotel was already opened Christie
lhcr Rclgnu was keeping tho "fountain
Inn - and II was into tho stable yards of
The Swan in Centre Square that the
Paxton lwvs thrCo wears before had turned
their horses before they went down 10 tho
old Jail and massacrod the Indians Tho
"IcoPard' had lust swung ont It's sign ; and
the BLACK Horse" and Bulls Head" con
tho site If the "ENchauEo'D we're newly
opened. At whichever of the fiftv-three
taverns then licensed in Lancaster Clarkson
tarried, no remained only over night and &C.
Cording to his Journal ho crossed the Susqu"-
hanna next day ut WrishtS Ferry, aud roach.
OIL York tho next evening.
Carlisle and Shippensburg wcre stations on
his routo, and somo idea Of the trade of that
carly day may 10 gathered from the fact
that at the Burnt Cabins"-near the line of
the now South Penn railroad-he overlook
thirtv.two horse loads Of flour going West,
cattle moving in the same direction and
skins coming East In the vicinity of
Bedford he fingered 10 buy land in the
valleys thnreaboCts at loss than fortv cents
per aero Cron his arrival in Pittsburg otter
RGter n ton days ride, he was ''stored away in
small crib on blankets. in company with
neAs and bugs"
There are thros very Interesting pictures
banging on the walls Of the ofTca Of II. II.
Houston, Uf philnlnIphia n director Of tho