Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-15

springs OF the SugO, Is equal 10 the nnest water
in any country. The mineral springs are very
| fine: the fresh-water springs are chemically
pure. containing no vegetable whatever. These
! springs bubble out of the rocks Forty feet be-
meath the surface is a heavy body Of tale and
beneath this tale is heavy body of pure white
| sand, through which these waters come, rem
dering them as pure as the frost Of the upper
| skies. These medicinal springs and the springs
of pure water, properly opened up, ought to
| cure the major portions of the ills and diseases
Of millions a year; in fact, there are but few
diseases that the waters Of these springs will not
relieve"
The water from two springs has been an
| alyzed, and the results show that spring No. 1
contains 26S grains Of solids per standard gal
Ion, while the solids in spring No. amount to
but Las grains per gallon. Compared with IA
nous springs this is a most favorable showing.
Poland water has 1857 grains of solids, the Po-
memoir spring sos, the White Mountains spring
2Os, Echo Grove spring s.41, Commonwealth
spring 245. Bentley's Chaiybeate spring 466,
and Bentley's Station spring 2.1S
HOW TAKoMA Is ILLUMINATED.
Takoma is determined not to belong to the
tallow-dip days of ''auld lang syne," nor is it
satisfied with place in the later coal oil
period Even gas is too antiquated so Mr.
Gilbert is fitting out Takoma homes and Ia
Roma streets with the light of applied electric
lty. Seventy street lamps are already up, but
the present arrangement is merely Temporal
~ one. The power is now being increased and
it will continue to be as the growth of Takoma
demands When the new and permanent ma
ch1nery is in place, as it will be in the course
of a couple of weeks, the clusters of three
incandescent lamps will give place to
the standard arc lights of 1000 candle
power. The dynamo which runs the
present lighting system is propelled by steam,
the eDgine-room being situated near the rail-
road depot. The dynamo was made at Takoma
by the hands of Mr.. W. H. Reynolds, the engi-
neer in charge of illumination, and was the
first piece of machinery turned out Of the set
Element Another and a more powerful plant
is being placed in the century-old Carroll mill
on the Sligo. not far from the site on which a
large hotel will be erected this fall Incandes-
cent lights will be placed in the houses of such
as desire them. and all will be supplied before
the frosts of October arrive. One huge lamp
of 10000 candle power is being prepared for
the loftiest building in the park-the observa-
ton tower which is attached to the log cabin
built for campaign uses by Mr.. Gilbert. The
summit of the tower is 80 feet above the base
and the light will be projected an additional
% feet into the smokeiess atmosphere.
CHURCHES AND BUSINESS HOUSES.
Business is beginning to flourish in Takoma.
Two stores are doing their best to supply the
villagers with staples and luxuries and the
proprietors of two others are hurrying build
ing operations along so that they may compete
as soon as possible. Two real estate offices are
i'll operation, and these, with MIR. Gilbert's and
others in the city, make total Of six firms who
handle nothing else but Takoma park realty
As yet there are but two churches in the park
One is devoted to followers of Episcopal doc
trines, the other is a Union church. and has for
board of control members of the Methodist
Episcopal. Baptist, Presbyterian. Lutheran,
Congregational, Christian. and Free-wiiI Bap-
fist churches. 1t is said that they agree pretty
WELL
The Takoma Park hotel will be an important
feature in the wooded landscape. 1t will be
situated little east of the center Of the park
just where the Sligo is most beautiful. The
main building and the annex, connected by a
rustic bridge. will present frontage of nearly
200 feet. Accommodations will be provided for
$50 guests. and all the latest improvements
necessary to the conduct of a first-class hotel
are provided for in the now almost completed
plans. w. L. Clark ID the architect, and he
promises that the result of his labors shall be
all that que SITS can desire.
The railroad accommodations are good and
they are improving all the time. Nineteen
trains stop at the park on every week day. The
pretty depot presents busy scene in the early
evening" when the trains from the city arrive.
Any person who knows not Takoma would WON
der where all the people went to. The platform
Is tbronSed and there is an overflow out into
the streets. Waiting for some of the arrivals
are carriages, for others saddle horses but the
majority walk and the streets are so good
Is no greater than that of the pedestrians and
pedestriennes. instantaneous connection NAV
be had with the city by telephone or telegraph
and an express Office has also been established
A freight depot is to be erected in the course
of a week or two.
Neither in time nor in distance can Takoma
Park be said to be far away from Washington
People residing in the park can leave their de-
pot after am. and be in the center of the
business part of the city in sixteen minutes by
0nn tyatN IL Al
ington electric road. The average time is
about twenty minutes.
The Takoma schools will, in the majority of
cases, do away with the necessity for the chill
dren's daily journeyinss to and fro. A graded
school. complete in every particular, is to be
opened in September. An academy will come
IN the near future, for Prof John NJ Lowery
OF Sewanee, Tenn, is now at Takoma, a
guest of Mr.. Gilbert, looking over the ground
and preparing to establish himself An Epis-
copal scholastic institution will also be opened
IN little while under the supervision of an
Episcopal nun, known in the park as ''Sister
Emily"
PROSPECTIVE RAILROAD CONNECTIONS
In the near future the now easy way of reach
ing Takoma will be easier still. because there
will be competing transportation companies
The BrightwOod Street railroad will have one
OF Its termini within one-third of mile of the
park, and the road must, according to the
vi MS VI tuc kIduIlIlS lIs cDarter. De run
ming soon. This road will have a business ar
rangement with the Metropolitan street rail-
road company by which mutually satisfactory
transfer system will be put into operation
whether the Brightwood road will have cleo
trio or horse motor is not yet settled.
The lexington electric railroad management
thinks 1t will extend its road in the spring until
Iakoma Park is reached; inf =, the extension
has practically been decided H.
The Sandy Spring railroad, ich was char
tered by Congress at its last Sc ssion will prob
ably not reach Sandy Spring. The present ar
rangement is to have the track end at Takoma.
The motor will be electric from Takoma to the
city, but if the lexington road extends to Ia
koma, then the Sandy Spring management will
probably make arrangements to have passen-
gers transferred at Takoma and sent to the city
by Mr.. Truesdell's line.
Another corporation proposes to touch at
Takoma-the Harrisburg and Gettysburg rail-
road company. Jay Cooke is the backbone of
the affair and his son-in-law, Mr.. Fuller is the
president IL Is an excursion road and runs
principally to the mountain resorts in Mary
land and Pennsylvania. It's local route LEADS
through Sandy Spring and skirts lust outside
OF the District line until il connects with the
Pennsylvanla road. This connection will
shorten the distance to Pittsburg and the west
at least % miles, so that Baltimoreans who are
| III hurry TO travel westward will save time by
coming to Washington and going out over the
new route rather than by going to Harrisburg.
Among the local advantages of that branch will
be the readiness with which carload lots of
lumber can be procured from williamsport.
Now lumber from that region has to come by