The Washington critic., 1886-07-24

the well kept, easily graded road (open
TO everybody and maintained by the
w. M. II. r. Coz the driver aud
changed our talk from the hau'ers TO
the haulees, and | told him what dis.
tinguished party he was in charg3 of.
There's Gorham and Fox and
Rudd, said !, "weilders of public
opinion, wielders of thought in the
journalistic field"
Whats thcm?" said he, indiCfer-
emily.
Editors. " said l. newspaper men. "
is these all newspaper men I'm
haulin," said he.
They are, said I.
"Well," " said he, 81 thought the load
pulled mighty doggoned heavy"
Up at High Rock we got out and
took another swig at the free pano-
rama.
WAY UP.
Then we went up to Ragged Edge
and Brinkwood, two other points of
view, and finally stopped our climb at
Mt Quirauk pronounced Key Rock,
as nearly as | could catch 1t on the fly),
$500 feet above tide water and the
highest point in this division of the
Blue Ridge Here handsome open
tower of iron has been erected, seventy
feet high, in place of an old one blown
over by one of the strong zephyrs that
sport around hill tops occasionally, and
from its summit one can see everything
there is in the market. It's no trouble
to show goods there, and the customer
is not confronted with the sign "If you
don see what you want ask for IL. ="
"There never was but one person, l."
said General Hood, in serious tone,
who has visited this place and not
been satisfied with what he saw"
''He must have been from Boston,"
said Colonel Gorham.
"a New Yorker fresh from the
Rigi," said Brother Fox.
"le couldn't have been Baltimore
man." said Mr.. Rudd.
"Yes he was" said the General. "IIe
was Baltimore man--born blind"
"Chestnut," whispered Noyes to the
pretty girl of the party, aud Dickey fell up
against Major Webb and had to be famed
back to consciousness.
The view is simply magnificent. The ele-
vatlon is not so great as to dwarf the low
lands into indistinctness, and the area com
pretended within the visual orbit ia esti-
mated at 5000 square miles. OF In the
northeast the famous Round Top on the
field at Gettysburg lifted It's head into plain
sight, and sweeping around the horizon the
eye rested on Chambersburg, Waynesboro',
Greencastle, Mercersburg and the green
fields OF Pennsylvania on one side, and
Hagerstown, Smthsburg, Edgemont and the
blue hills Of Maryland on the other, with
South Mountain, Mount Sablla, Mount
Dunlap and Loop Mountain keeping eternal
vigil over the valleys.
"What's the name of this tower?n said
Brother Fox TO Major Webb.
1--WE have no particular name for it,"
said the Major.
"Call it whiskers," said Colonel Gorham
"Why" said Mr.. Grlswold, joining the
circle.
"Because the wind blows through IT,"
said the Colonel, and Messrs. Hood, Girls
wold and Webb held a committee meeting
and reported that henceforth it should be
known as "Whskers Tower.n
BLUE BLAZEs.
1t was blue day in the mountains and
the escenery was slightly obscure in places,
but 1t was enough to satisfy any ordinary
desire, and none OF us wanted the earth, or
| IL we did, we didn't say so. When we got
back to the hotel Colonel Gorham called
my attention to the blueness by saying that
he didn't think Mr.. Tilden would enjoy a
visit here.
"Why notY" said /, unocently.
"It's too hazy," said he, quietly.
"Drat your Shy Z jokes" said /, In q
huff, and went off to myself,
When man gets too smart think some
body ought to throw him over ten-rail
fence.
There are lots Of attractive places about
the Blue Mountain House: Pen-Mar Penn
sylvania and Maryland contracted to fit an
ordinary sized map, Glen Alton Springs
10000 gallons a day for mint juleps),
Mason Il Dixon's line that so many poll
tlcians and statesmen have stumbled over
and hung their grievances on1, and SO on,
and so on. But this letter is not hotel
directory or railroad guide, and you will
have to 90 and see for yourselves.
RATS.
One feature, though, you won't find, and
that is the usual appurtenance of a sum
mer hotel, namely, to wit: the bridal path,
| lovers leap, Cupid's bower and the dozen
| or more other eroticisms In summer resort
nomenclature. 1t was so unusual that /
| made inquiry about 1t and found that the
| average young man and woman who visited
| Blue Mountain, came to an understanding
| so quick, that no romantic auXiliaries were
needed. "Mary Jane" said Dickey, as we
were leaving, "if young man were to ask
you to marry him and come up and live on
| this mountain, what would you say ?"
"I'd say,n said |, "that marriage under
those circumstances came too high and we
| couldn't have itn
"Rats ' said She and the train few
down the hill at sixty miles an hour.
| MARY JANE.