Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
STORIES OF The STATE.

| its deep historic interest would be found a.
Fort Necessity, the spot IL Fayette county
about which cluster SO many legends o
| Washington. There is little or nothing tc
distinguish the site of the fort from the rest
of the Great Meadows, as General Washing
ton called this fairly open valley. A farm
roads leads down from the turnpike to the
chose to await the onset of their Indian and
French foes. Three OF us tried the other
day to make out the lines of the embarked
stockade with which Washington fortified
his position, and slight but regular eleya.
ton of the ground could be traced, inclosing
sluggish stream flows through the place,
which Is little better than q swamp,
and tradition says it was so in Wash:
ington's time. Why that shrewd
hard to comprehend, for it is commanded on
two sides bv rising ground and has no nat
ural defensive features: Perhaps the supply
Of water . had to 40 with ~ OF
able clear ground in that wooded region,
and fort desirable there because the ap-
proach Of the stealthy red man could be
more readily observed? Seeing that Fort
Necessity was the only place worth men,
tioning that the Father Of His Country ever
yielded to foe, it seems probable that it
was really very weak position.
numerous and varied assortment of serpents
make their home in Fort Necessity, which
Mr. Fazcnbaker. the farmer who owns the
ground, says has never been cultivated an and
is to all intents worthless marsh land. The
subscriber did not know about the snakes
till he had emerged from the long
grass and bitches of the fort. but he
of two lights of the Fayette county
bar. 1t Is a well-Snown scientific fact that
snakes never bite Uniontown lawyers, for
reasons that are good and sufficient.
a1rnr.f fakn f-A Tz,e 4n11Nx a
clump of trees within q square inclosure
substantially fenced in marks Braddock's 5
grave. A fund to supply sfmply-fnscr16ed
stones to mark these Interesting localities,
one would think, could be easily raised. In
country with a short history like ours we
ought to makethe most of it.
Where Logs Are Devoured.
1t is seldom that small place has such q
big lion to show visitors as Austin, Potter
county, has. The Inhabitants of that very
new little town are, 1 believe, 27C0 in num-
Der, and all above the age of will tell you
at an early stage of the game that the saw
mill there is the largest in the United States.
trees into boards of all sorts and sizes than
any other mills or not, there is no disputing
the extraordinary dimensions and the per-
up the forests OF Potter county at fearful
rate. The trees that are chopped down on
the sides OF the Sinnamahoning Valley, and
along tributary creeks, find their way to the
into lengths of 80 feet or SO, Oh specially CON
structed cars, from which they are
tumbled into big pool of water above
stockyard men with elongated I boat,hooHs
are continually at work day and night guild
ing the logs to the slaughter. The last jour-
ney of the unsusrecting log, like that of its
rhyming mate, the hog, Mt Chicago, is swift
wi of
upward inclination snatches the log from
the pool and hurries it up into the mill,
where it is deposited upon platform, shelv-
ing on either side like the roof OF house.
Sliding down this declivity the log is re-
ceived upon q running carriage, to which it
is firmly nxed-a great iron claw, called in
the mill "the niager." forcing the luekless
has most wfckedly human way OF banging
and jerking around the logs, and when it has
done its work. slips out OF sight with dia.
which the log is bound rushes madly
away over the rails toward the
circular saw. revolving at lightning
speed. The saw makes a sharp exclama-
as it enters the log and cuts slices OF board
as easily as your grocer will pound Of
cheese. The log stays on the carriage till
the shs las last Of % it disappears In IT the The shape Of
hands, but falls as it Is cut by The saw upon
an endless belt which bears 1t away to the
other end of the mill, where the first man
who has handled the log since it left the
pool stacks the board in its proper class.
The refuse, from slabs to slivers, is carried
automatically from under the saws upon an
endless belt furnished with cross pieces to
q gigantic furnace outside the mill. The
sawdust is used to feed the furnaces under
the boilers. The mill runs p hours out of
the "a winter and summer, and the millions
business OF 81, 500 900 a
year at the least, which is good deal IN a
little town about which the bears still roam.
Austin is built upon the sawmill.
A Prohibition Center.
The beauties Of prohibition are displayed
in the bountiful supply of drugstores to be
found in Austin. Upon entering the town
the stranger will remark with alarm that
out of 20 stores on the main street one-third
deal in drugs and must be doing big busi-
ness at that, for they are handsomely fur
nished. Visiting of malaria and an enorm-
ous demand for quinine float before his eyes
He is uncomfortable till he asks the hotel
keeper If he can have q nice, cool glass of
district, but that any one of the neighboring
can sell him bottle of malt tonic
the landlord adds, ''is quite as
good" Upon trial it is found that the tonic
beats beer as al intoxicant. The whence
ness of the drugstores' prosperity is ap-
parent. Another proof OF the efficacy OF
prohibition is to be noted in the fact that
the big locomotive on the Sinnamahoning
Valley has to pull two extra cars loaded with
beer and whisky in bottles and kegs over
the mountain to Austin the day before July
lonesome some unique legislation, a speci
men of which is the law prohibiting the sale
Of liquors in the county, except in Germania
township, where the German settlers are
allowed to brew, sell and ergo, drink ale
within the townships limits.
Sewing Machines as Monuments.
Among the supplies furnished by the Re-
ief Committee to those wholost everything
n the fire AID flood at Oil City and Titus |
7ille are sewing machines. An agent OF one |
If the Pittsburg sewing machine houses |
old me that his firm had sent so ma
shines to Titusville alone. Walking among |
he ruins at Titusville a few hours after the |
disaster it was n common thing to see |
cooking stove and the iron frame of sew
M machine standing alone in little waste |
If SANDAL of a comfortable ho ne that fire |
md water had been unable to destroy. It |
vas pisiful and peculiar feature OF the
uins at Oil City and Titusville chat the
woman of the destroyed homo was con-
family suggested by them: now by ewing |
he skeleton of a baby carriage. Warped
md washed by flame and flood these scraps
# iron were an eloquent monument to
many q woman's worth.
Up Among the Bruins.
The very word Sinnamahoning suggests
up, Cinnamon, two by twof"-
nd if you hadn't been posted you'd suspect
he presence Of "B'rer Bar" among the
bushes that fill up the valley
rom the trout stream at the bottom to the
Iill-tcps which the woodmans ak has made
yell-nigh bare The Sinnamahoning Valley |
,ailroad does little to disturb the peace of
his Potter county wilderness; rather is it
ne of the romantic features of the region.
The locomotive that hanls the train of two
ars from Heating Summit to Coudersport is