Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-02
Editors Down In Virginia.

r offices, having a reading constitr
/ ency of more than two hundred an
: sixty-ive thousand people went O.
: an excursion to Virginia last week.
The objective point was Roanoke.
. The excursionists all came on th
, Pennsylvania railroad to Harrisbure
: and thence at noon on the Oath o
, August up the Cumberland Valley
' which Lees army in 1863 declares
| to be land flowing with milk ans
honey. A valley dotted with fin,
farm houses and large Swiss barns
The seventy six miles from Har
risburg to Hagerstown was made ov
er the Cumberland Valley Railroad
At Hagerstown the excursionistl
without change Of cars took the Nor
folk and Western railroad and jour
neyed across Maryland, passing An
tietam battle field into the Old Dom
inion and down the Shenandoah Val
ley southwark over large stretches o.
territory, made historic by the late
civil war.
The road keeps north of the Blue
Ridge Mountain through the gaps
of which General Lee sent his army
into the Shenandoah Valley on the
occasion of his two attempts of in.
vasion of Pennsylvania. After leav.
ing Maryland great change came
over the appearance of the face OF
the country, and it is plainly to be
seen that a different order of man.
agement from that in Pennsylvania
had ruled the country. In place OF
good houses, cabins abound, relies OF
slave holding days.
1t was a long run - 129 miles -
from Hagerstown to
| sHENDUN.
1t was 10 o'clock at night when
this growing place that is destined
to become one of the famous places
of resort in Virginia was reached.
Its electric lights gave weird and
cheerful setting to the darkness, and
to the swish sound of rain. The As
sociation WAS heartily greeted by
Major j. Hotchkiss and others
and taken to the Wright Ho
tel where they were mos com.
fortably quartered for the night.
On Tuesday morning the msjor
made an address of welcome, which
was responded to by DR.. A. p. Brum-
baugh of Huntingdon, Pa, after
which street cars conveyed the com
pany to ths foot of the mountain on
which an observatory stands from
which grand view may be had, but
the lowering clouds presented a
range of only about 50 miles to the
eye this day.
From the mountain a visit was
msde to the famous
GRoTToEs OF sHENpUN.
They were bright under the beams
of electric light. and ia the sparkle
and dazzle of the place one could
not help thinking of Rider Haggard
IN Egypt in the caves of Kor, look
ing for "She Who Must Be Obcyed." j"
Most of the editors had their shes
who must be obeyed with them.
The caves are destined to be seen by
thousands of visitors
Rider Haggard found in the caves
of Kor the unmistakable evidence of
civilization long since dead, and
the Juniata Valley editors found in
the caves of Shendun and in the town
of Shendun the unmistakable evi.
dence of newly vitalized civiliza-
ton that is impressing the mind of
Northern people with the belief that
n new era of industrial development
is unfolding itself in Virginia.
Before coming out of the caves the
Association sang Old Hundred.
Dinner was served at high noon.
At 1.35 p. NJ, the excursiomsts
were off under the guidance of the
Roanoke and Salem Press Reception
Committee on ITO miles ride to
ROANOKE
which they reached at 6:3O P. NJ,
and were taken in carriages to the
Ponce de Leon hotel the parlors of
which had been festooned and wrea. b.
ed in flowers by ladies in honor of
the guests. About 2, NJ, a band
WAS stationed in a corridor of the no
tel and sweet music filled all the
place. A half hour later, H. G. bern,
president of the association swung
the gavel for attention and when 81
lence fell upon the assembly, w. G.
Campbell, d. D., in behalf of the Vir
PraCC j
dress and introducedl Hon. NJ. G.
Evans mayor of Roanoke, who de-
ivered an address, which was re-
sponded to by VIM. NJ Allisen of
the .W.ffiintown Herald; Charles 1.
Stewart of the Roanoke Ti1aes was
then introduced and delivered the
address of welcame on behalf of the
Virginia Press Association; w. w.
Trout of the Lewistowu Free Press
was introduced and responded to ed
itor Stewards speech; J. G.. Kinslo
of Roanoke was called on and made
a speech; B. E. Morrison of Newton
Hamilton, was called on for speech.
He said he had left his speech at
home. Miss Grace Fusey of Altoona
read a poems, Mrs. Brumbaugh of
Huntingdon read an essay; Mrs.
Porter sang a song The reception
lasted from 8 to IL p. NJ. Many
ladies and gentlemen of the city
graced the occasion.
In Roanoke is found name sug-
gestive of romance and modern Amer
lean industrial civilization.
What more romantic event than
that of Walter Raleigh-ths founder
of the first Roanoke in America
throwing his red cloak Id the way
for Queen Elizabeth to walk on so
that he might claim hes attention
and present her paper that timid
friend of his failed to present at the
proper time.