Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-03-10
NO. 40.

AS a rule, all the resorts are con Quoted
with strict regard for the proprieties,
and IL is an uncommon thing to note the
least disturbance. These are the breath
| ing places of Cincinnatians; popular be-
cause so easy of access; no toiling up
steep hills, although they are many hum
| 1red feet above the level of the river that
runs mile away, but you are trans
ported noselessly and swiftly 10 the top
by steam railroad that seems to end in
the air. Truly, this IS the city of in
clined.planes, and were they abandoned,
the thousands of people residing on the
hills, up which these planes so swiftly
! lake them would be placed at great in
convenience.
| One of the most beautiful parks in this
country is close by the Highland House.
| II is a plot of many acres of ground, or
| iginaIly known as the Garden OF Eden.
Here, upon these now beautifully rounded
hills and macadamized valleys and road
ways, was where the well known Nicho-
las Longworth raised the grapes for the
wine that made his name famous. Years
ago these 206 acres were purchased by the
city and converted into Eden Park. They
have already cost the city $4,000 and
part OF it has not yet been improved.
| Through these beautiful grounds, shut
Off from The city by Mt. Adams and it's
sister hill, ON which stands massive
building just completed, and which has
been dedicated as an art museum, runs
line of street cars connecting Walnut
Hills and Madisonville, the latter six
miles away. From the car window one
can enjoy most enhancing view OF hill
and dale; can see the graceful bend Of
the river as it flows eastward between the
hills of Ohio and Kentucky, aud gaze with
delight upon the fertile and populous
plains of the latter state, and known as
the Kentucky Highlands.
If the glare aud glitter of the hilltop
resorts or the beautiful lawn Of Eden
Park pals on ones taste, a short ride will
take him TO the Geological Garden, one of
the largest and finest In the United States.
Buildings substantial and costly, the.
sixty-six acres comprising IL rendered as
beautiful as the art of the landscape
gardner can make 1t, dotted over with
lakes and fringed with leafy and um
brageous shelter, there Ii no better pil-
grimage than to this, the pride of the
Queen City. With nearly thousand
specimens Of animal life, culled from all
parts OF the world, within its EN-
closure; with a neat and tasteful place
in which to administer to the wants Of
the sinner man., he must be a cynic in
deed, who can find nothing to interest, in
struct or amuse Occasionally fetes,
parties, picnics, and perhaps operatic en-
tertainments are given within the
grounds, and at thee4 times all Cincin-
natl turns out and has gala day.
But it is not necessary to even Ind
these places il one is in search of anfase-
ment. Go "bchind the canal,u as the
Anglo-Germnn has it--equivalent to
Crossing the Rhine, and in five
minutes you enter portion of the city
as distinctively German as though You
had been suddenly transported by fairy
into the streets of Berlin or Munich.
You leave behind you the moment you
cross the dull, flowing, uninteresting
canal that divides the German quarter
from the native, every evidence of an
American city; you see signs printed In
German; you peep In at doors through
which are waited the songs and notes Of
music of the 'Faderland''; you meet
with fair-haired, stalwart men and
flaxen-haired women, whose costumes
bespeak their nativity; in fact, the
change is startling. Every other house
is a beer saloon with garden attached,
in which are seated a promiscuous as
semblage, seen nowhere else in the west.
Everybody Is tall1ing-all are drinking.
The music, from string and wind instrU-
ments, strikes the ear on every side; the
lights from hundreds of windows dazzle
you; you IRE 5osslcd by the ever surging
crowd of idlers that surge by in either di-
rection, and it is with difficulty you re-
alize that ia sueh brief walk the change
can be So great. Al. Is life, hustle and
animation. Concert halls, theaters,
saloons, shooting galleries, ''weiner
wurstn stands, and all the outdoor sights
and sounds incident to a dense population,
all commingle. You stop and wonder
where all the people come from and
where they are going. This is Vine street
of summer night "over the Rhine
No disturbance, all is decorous, but the
scene il animated and well calculated to
interest and amuse Truly, life int great
city affords sufficient excitement for the
most restless, and no city in the country
holds more unique place in this regard
than the ssParis of America. "a