The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-29
Communication.

LOCK HAVEN, June 25. 1855.
On Monday afternoon the editor accompanied !
by his better halt and Editor Lloyd of the Herald
lett Ebensburg To Join the excursion of .he Penn
sylvania Editorial Association to Erie the inten-
uon being TO yet on the excursion train on the
Philadelphia and Erie road at Lock Haven.
Leaving on the branch train at 800 we arrived
at Cresson where We had about an hour to spend
before the train east was due. which we spent in
looking over the grounds OF the Mountain House
This was the nrst daY that the house was open
Tor the guests and there were about ffty people
on the register Fifty people would be pretty
good Tor an ordinary hotel. but with a house the
size OF the Mountain House, Intended to accom-
modate twelve hundred guests, nifty makes a yery
sim appearance. However, everything must
have beginning. and the nifty guests on opening
day will in week or ten days grow to eight or
ten hundred, enough to people good shed coun-
try town.
iAklng the train east we got to Altoona. where
we had twenty minutes supper, and reached
Tyrone about seven O'Clock, where We changed
cars, taking the Bald Eagle Valley road to Lcck
Haven Here we met Mr.. G. B. Goodlander, ed
| itor of the Clearfield Republican, who, accompan
led by his estimsble wife, was booked for the
same destination.
Going up the Bald Eagle Valley was a disap-
| pointment 4 valley to Us had always been sug-
| gestive OF fine farms, which at this time OF the
year with their fields Of waving grain beginning
to color would be a sight pleasing TO behold But
| the Bald Eagle Valley. for twenty hve miles out
| IRON Tyrone, when II got too dark to make OBJ
| ser'auons, Is valley OF poor and for the most
4 part uncultivated land The land appears to
brlng nothing but a sort OF sour grass and a fell
low passenger, who seemed TO know the country
informed us that the land was very poor, too cold
to raise grain with any profit 1t costing more TO
bring the lanc up with fertilizers than he crop
would pay for, and even after being put in condi-
tiOn, required a constant outlay to prevent them
from going bacg.
On the way up we call 1t up for in the Bald
Eagle Valley after going up stream for eight or
ten miles the waters divide and run both yays
the one branch entering the Juniata at Tyrone
and the other emptng into the Susquehauna AT
LOCK Haven A stranger. however, does not no.
tice any dividing ridge and is utterly astonished
after noticing that he is going up the stream 10
nnd on glancing out, in the same valley, that tn,
waters have changed and running the othel
direction. On the way mp we passed the remain,
, OF Tour old furnaces, Martha, Ha nnah, Matflds
and Julia Amin the early days of iron maxim,
the iron master called his furnace after his wife
which accounts for the names. The furnace
were several miles apart, belonged TO diferen
men and have long since been abandoned bu
for what reason We do not know. There is moth
ing lett Of them but the old stone stacks and the,
are fast tumbling into decay. 1t is probabl /,
thirty or forty years since they operated and
iron ore abounds IT is said 1t does why il woulc
not have paid TO keep them in blast in the haley
on Gays oi high protection is something that w
! fail TO comprehend The Presidents messag
could have had no effect on them.
. When the train stopped at Bellefonte vs no
tieed demonstration of some kind on the street
and on inquiring found that the Republican
were holding pow-wow over the result of tn
Chicago circus-Harrison and Morton The de
J TuonstratiOn may have been q good one for tn
Republicans of Belefonte but to our eve it look
ed sickly and lacked en- thusiasm. After leavin,
Beiieionte we ran down to Lock Haven, and a
the night was dark we formed no opinion Of tn
streaeh of country between the two towns a
Lock Haven we got into the Irwin House bus an,
alter drive Of lew squares were landed a
that well known, and well conducted hostelrie
: S- Woods Caldwell, the proprietor. welcomed
, N q manner that made feel at home and a tie
a comfortable room. good bed and a good break
last We set out 20 get glimpse of Lock Haven
Lock Haven is a town Of seven or eight thous
{ and inhabitants, situate the Susquehann
{ where the Bald Eagle creek empties into tina
D river. The town has a plumber OF fne building
and private residences, and a stranger naturalI
concludes that there is good deal of wealth
The Court house is said 10 have cost over on
hundred thousand dollars, but in point, appear
!, ance, size, or finish inside or outside does no
b compare with ours. 1t is, however a ane build
= ing and q credit TO the county. Clintoa.
n After drive over the city we returned to n
hotel. and after inquIring for our bill found OF
hat chalked by the genial and clever propriett
OF the Irwin. and although we knew the houi
! was hrst-class in every way and the proprietor
gentleman and scholar our opinion OF both hou,
and landlord was better than ever and 10 peop
visiting Lock Haven we most emphaticaIly sa
| stop al the Irwin
The time is nearly up TO- us to take the excu
sion train and must bring this letter 20 a close
J. q. H.