Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-04
NE JOURNEYS TO BOSTON
And Makes Some Notes BY the
Wayside.
He Finally Gets to the Hub Without Being
Mobbed and Then Says Things
About 1t.

70 GRe R5sGOr Of dc Sunday Register:
Bosros, MASS, September 30.-At the
urgent request OF many of Wheeling's best
citizens / send you an account Of myself N
general and my trip to Boston in partica'
lar. To please the residents Of the latter
city call it the Hub" to tickle the vanity
Of railroad officials, iken their lines to the
spokes radiatiDg therefrom. Then if you
have any imagination at all you can easily
picture me as sliding down one of the beet
spokes in the wheel and you have me on
the B. & o. tearing along at the rate OF,
well say with the speed OF towpsth mule
when the grazing ia good on the banks, and
the tow boy has fallen into the water. But
to be serious, l left the good city of Wheel.
ing by daylight, as certaiu circumstance
prevented my doing 80 under cover OF
darkness, still as the train started at the
unesrthly hour OF $40 a, m, | felt little
fer of meeting anyone who might care TO
detsin me, and as little OF missing the train,
lnssmuch as all the saloon keepers seemed
70 have gone to bed. Although my family
has passed several years in Wheeling, L
(hsvipg been away from home all that time
with the exception of very short visits at in
tervsls of one or two years. am compare
i've stranger, / am sorry 10 say. So you
will excuse any mistakes / may make in
distances or geographical names connected
with the surrounding country. My father
has horse, and as he (the horse) has been
known to do mile inside of an hour, and
am sure pa has been to place called Ben
wood and back home under one sun. had
until the morning of my departure always
imagined the place to be at least within
reach of telegraph wire But here at the
very start was ut fault as to distance,
as hour after hour went BY at
no such speed as to make it
difficult to count them, and still
no Beuwood. When we did get there |
looked at the sun, as had forgotten to re-
lieve Solomon Of my watch before leaving,
and further more needed the dollar for
nights lodging if should be detained in a
place where had no relatives or friends
and thought we must be coming into Balu-
more. Since seeing the latter place as did
for the first time, | am ready to beg the
pardon of any inhsbitaut thereof for the
comparison After going some distance be-
yond Benwood we glided into view OF a
small muddy stream. A fellow passenger,
who proved to be son Of the Emerald Isle,
asked me the name of said stream. L re-
piled that believed it was either the Cheat
or Cheap river-I was not sure which. Where
uron my friend remarked: May the d-ltak
re difference. Chape, is it? and chats?
Faith, aud the loiks O that it be a foin
chste and az chspe as it might be had" ]
said / thought the present good time to
take stock, as it appeared to be very low
and was sure 10 rise at no distant date.
"Murtherin ages! Sthock! An all the
COWS I've seen in the last two hours wouldn't
kane baby alive. What will the people
an there be auy-be afther doin' for milkT'
While lighting stogie asked him if he
had ever heard of the milk Of human
kindness" While he was asking me if that
WAS the brand of my cigar gave him one,
and that finished him.
Doubtless most Of my readers are much
better acquainted than with the grand
scenery along the road from Wheeling to
Baltimore.
About halfpast six the train began to
slacken its speed and man poked his head
in the car and roared "Washington?' Hav.
ing vague idea that this name was in some
way connected with the history ofour couu-
try, l looked out of the window, and the
first thing / saw was an enormously high
column OF some sort OF rock, which L
learned fiom o te)low-traVeller is called the
Washington monument. | agree with the
gentleman who, in describing this noble
work, said that for simplicity of design 1t
had no rival in the world. |, as sn artist
have pretty good idea of the meaning and
value of simplicity in art; but until l can
paint frstclass portrait with one stroke
of my brush must permit the designer Of
this stately tribute to the memory of one
who deserves much to carry the palm OF
genius.
Philadelphia.
Arriving in Philadelphia at three o'clock
in the morning after tiresome, allday
ride and sleepless night is not as enjoyable
an event to me now as it might have been
fifteen years ago, but | made the pest Of it
by going to Kenney's opposite the Broad
street station and eating oysters until five
o'clock. From that time until nearly six |
whiled away the time by walking around
the new city buildings the beauty thereof
being greatly enhanced by the peculiarly
picturesque effect produced By the dawniug
OF new day. The great tower or splre
which is in process of construction has not
yet reached height beyond the power OF
vision natural to an ordinary pair OF opera
glasses. Still it is far enough
Above the admirably paved streets to
be le: alone. In my humble opinion, il
hslf the money which has been expended
upon this unnecessarily expensive pile OF
buildings had been used in repaving the
streets Of this otherwise beautiful city, the
natives would now be taking much more
comfort and would have one more (and that
the most reasonably Just cause Of pride in
their home Not only this, but strangers
visiting Philadelphia would carry away
with them much pleassuter impression OF
it. / think there is nothing which so de-
tracts from the beauty Of city as i'll paved
and dirty streets. 1t matters not to me
how handsome the buildings may be, they
cannot appear to the best advantage while
making the bulwsrks Of such thorOughtares
A bad street spoils the looks of everything
near it. Philadelphia is model
city with this great aud one other provoking
exception, that of compelling strangers to
| guess whether they are in the quarter of the
city where they want to be, OF if they are
four or FIVE miles out OF their way 1t is
extremely annoying to me to cross street
after street looking vsInly for the names
thereof and then for fear Of having passed
the one l want, being forced to AJAX come
other foot pad like myself, who as like as
not knows no more about it than | do. ]
. :, mink the natives even would gas hi
mixed up and forget the names o. half Of
their own streets. wish the REGISTER
would start crusade against the city gov
eruuent which is go negligent of its duty
ard so careless OF the public comfort.
The Hub.
On my arrival at the Hub vas not
disappointed at not finding the Governor
and staff in waiting, because the train ar
rives at such an unreasonable hour, (eisht
| o'clock that had too much regard for the