The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-09
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
THE sENTINEL's CORRESPONDENT
SEES MANY THINGS OF NOTE.
He Rambles Around New York and Sees
More Than He Has Time to Tell About
An Actors Funeral.

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New York, Sept. 29.-When one
takes a sleeper at Greensboro and
rumbles all night over the Virgins
Midland, he opens his eyes'next morn.
ing away up in upper Virginia near
the sleepy old town of Alexandria:
Here Washington worshiped and
voted and danced 1t was quite gay
social town, as we'll as an important
shipping point, in the old days before
it was overshadowed by Washington.
Now it is what, in newspaper slang,
may be called finished town." 1t
wears an old, dilapidated look, with
few signs of modern progress. Near
Alexandria lived the Washingtons
and Fairfaxes and Lees. Gen. Fitz
Lee and Gen. w. Fl. F. Lee both live
near by now. In its streets Gen.
Washington was knocked down by
Col. Payne in a quarrel on election
day. The General ack nowledged af-
terwards that he was in the wrong and
made proper apologies to the plucky
little Colonel.
In even short stop for breakfast
in Washington, you cannot help
knowing that you are in the rendez'
vous of the politicians. Political gos
sip is buzzing in the air as you loiter
or stroll about the hotel lobbies. What
changes will be made in the McKin-
ley bill? What Is Tom Reed going to
do today?
In going from Washington to 'Balti-
more, you pass through country re
markable for its sterility and unat-
tractiveness. 1t has few signs of in
dustrial progress or of agricultural
thrift The land seems poor, and bar
rem of trees as we'll as of crops. Be-
tween Washington and New York you
find an entirely different condition of
affairs. The route is dotted with vii
lages-neat, smartly painted, pushing.
Orchards abound on every side and
are we'll cared for. Fine horses and
fat cattle and sheep dot the meadows
and slopes of Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania. Many of the railroad stations
are built of brick and are covered
with vines and surrounded by flower
plots. Neat modern dwellings-some
of them entirely too modern and glar-
ing for country villas, club
houses and parks are among the many
things that catch the eye as you are
whirled by. Occasionally you spy a
rambling Southern looking house. with
its long front porch and pillars and
vines. and you are Immediately made
homesick by the modest invitation it
seems to extend to you. inviting you
to quiet and repose, while it seems all
the while to ignore quietly the claims
of its gayer and more pretentious
neighbors.
But you are drawn on at head
long pace to the great metropolis. AS
you approach Newark, you get mag
nificent and dazzling view of New
York City. It looks as if it were
squeezing itself in order to get perch
ing place on Manhattan Island. Your
mind reverts to the old pictures in the
biographies of New Amsterdam with
its Dutch windmills, and you wonder
what the old Knickerbockers, many
of whom are now resting quietlyin old
Trinity church yard, the last pipe
smoked and the last bargain struck,
would say if they could walk up
Broadway one of these fine mornings
Only that original genius, Puck, can
give such surmise ssa local -habita-
tion and name"
! You are struck-Sin fact almost
knocked down-by the very vastness
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jerks and puffs and explodes. 1t
seems to be drawing everything into
its s-bosom-except the Worlds Fair.
Authors, artists, actors, preachers, f.
nanciers, railroad kings, mountebanks,
politicians, all throng here bringing
their wares and their schemes. 1t
were useless in this sshort article-or in
many long articles, for that matter
TO attempt description of the many
sights traveller and stranger sees
when he stops here for even couple
of days. It goes without saying tha.
he feels his mental life quickened and
his horizon broadened. Ii. man
makes his home here, it is more than
probable that his life and work win be
lost in that of the crowd; but it is we'll
for him to come here occasionally, as
the English go up. to London, or. as
the Jews went upto Jerusalem. to get
a new set Of springs for the mind.
One of the most impressive sights I
have seen here was the funeral OF
Dion Boucicault, the well-known &C.
tor and playwright. who came to this