The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-13
Parker's Glen, Pike Co., Pa, |
April 28th, 'S5. (

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DEAR Doctor:
A variety of causes have prevented me
from making good my promise to give
you an idea OF this supposed Eldorado of
health and beauty until the present mo-
ment. You will see by the postmark that
have located in Pike County, Peunsyl-
vania. During my short stay have looked
for cause for such name, and find it
suggestive to my mind of truthful old
settlers, rugged hills, little fine scenery,
good fishing, and last but not least, an Gle.
CANT opportunity to make improvements
on the truth by late comers 10 this rustic,
out of the way place. Horace Greedy des-
ignated it as the paradise of rattlesnakes
and Democrats. As to the rattlers, have
seen none as yet, but Democrats loom up
from every ledge and crevice and make
themselves prominent at local elections,
barn raisings and stone frolics.
To locate Parker's Glen, will say it is
102 miles from New York on the old Erie
r. r., between Port Jervis, N. Y. and
Shohola, Pa. 1t was originally known as
Carr's Rock, which took its name from an
accident. A man named Carr and his
family were moving down the Delaware
River on raft many years since, and
while passing this point, struck rock in
the river and made wreck Of his ark, and
in moment all were past salvation.
More recently, in 1864 think, that awful
railroad accident known as the "Car's
Rock disaster" occurred at the point
exactly opposite this rock on the railroad,
precipitating most of the carriages down
an embankmenl over 80 feet, crushing and
burning many. An eyewitness of the
wreck pronounced it the saddest day OF
his life, to see so much suffering. This
station is just where the cars jumped the
track, and a wild place II is. For a mile
each way the bluff rises nearly perpendic-
ularly to the height of from 80 to $50 feet,
suggestive of fatal accidents to trains pass.
ing, or TO the watchmen who hourly patrol
these dangerous passes day and night.
The name "Parker's Glen" is an i'm.
provement on "Carr's Rock" with its hor-
rible memories, and might be considered a
happy one, il il were not associated with
Parker as a prefix. The "Glen" is an
immense ravine, extending back for miles
into the hills, and has a noisy brook tear.
ing down sharp declines and over falls,
emptying into the Delaware at this point,
from which the Kilgour Blue Stone Co.
take the power for their large business, Of
which mention will be made in future
letter
Trout fishing is the present pastime for
those who are SO disposed, and that deli.
cacy often graces our table. How the
trout get over the dam and up the falls is
a mystery TO me, yet the old settler solves
II by saying that they sometimes burrow
through the solid rock or gP around by
land or, again, they go up the overflow OF
the dam. "You kin take yer choice"
went fishing with our landlord, Charles
Lewis. He caught all the trout that were
taken, while this court only slipped into a
basin below the dam(n) where the water was
not warmer than 40 degrees and about four
feet deep. OF course mine was fisherman's
luck. II is easy to have good time fish
ing even II you have to take an involuntary
bath to succeed.
More next week. S. s. PARKER.