The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-10-28
SCENES AND CHANGES
4 GRAPHICALLY WRITTEN ARTICLE
BY A VISITOR.
PROM BALTIMoRE no HAoERs-
TowN-scENEs THERE-PAsTT THE
POTOMAC TO MARTINsRuRG.

charming country homes, and pieces OF
woodland, over the Western Maryland
to Hagerstown, passing on our route
the deserted camps Of Emory and
Glyndon, so throhged with thousands
| in the Summer, and the wild noun
tain gorges round Pen Mar with Cum
| berland Valley spread before as as .
tmap.
Prospect street and Potomac are re-
markable for the beauty OF homes,
grounds and trees, the latter at this
season wearing Autumn's changing
colors. But they are fast falling, and
the foot rustles on carpet Of dry
leaves.
The silk mill on the outskirts of
town is full of interest, the floss ma
terial shown us. and seeming of no
weight whatever. in the skein. is really
twenty thousand yards when warped,
and. when not warped, skein has ten
thousand yards. A single pound can
be stretched over ninety miles. Fifty
one noisy looms are in room two
hundred and twenty feet long, each
having in line forty-two or more shut
ties with gray colored silk. These
shuttles, as they pass in and out, at
each revolution, lay fresh thread on
the newly forming ribbon. There are
1.-TWO rooms Of special interest in which
very fine work is wholly done by
women. A reed is piece Of fat met
al quite small, only three inches wide,
lin which are two hundred and twenty
Sits. openings, or vents, like those ina
4 fine comb. Into each one Of these .
young girl slips three threads of silk,
1.-THE failure to insert q single one, would
i injure the ribbon when woven. The
shipping room, looking out on heaps
Of orange, black, gray, green, blue,
red, pink and other shades Of silk, is
the most cheerful Of all. Not far dis
tant, across the fields that intervene,
: in an old and beautiful mansion, is
Kelley Institute, where noble work is
being done in receiving those in whom
the appetite forFdrink, morphine, co
caine, cigarettes and tobacco, has be
come oyer-masterng.
1t is regarded as disease, and here
. so treated, without interfering with the
, patients liberty. We saw and talked
with many men, in town, who had
been cured entirely Of this appetite, af-
ter twenty and thirty years indulgence,
men who had been terror to their
i families. Some came drunk to the
; Institution, losing their taste in some
instances on the second day.
il The world moves. and that paper
! that proclaims such fact through its
columns, as well as that minister, who
makes it known from his pulpit, are
! alike worthy the thanks of grateful
!. community.
: From, Hagerstown, past the beauti'
+ full Potomac, we ride to Martinsburg
which we have not visited for more
than eighteen years.
We pass places then familiar and
: do not recognize them, 20 great is the
: change. And it is a change Of i'm
I provement. Streets and avenues have
Z extended, where fields and orchard:
I were before handsome churches, pub
. lie buildings, and schools have gone
up; and on the dusty edge Of town
one may hear the hum of machinery
and see hundreds of men and women
: at work on fabrics designed for oul
large city houses, and the far West.
AZ The house in which so sad part Of
our life was passed, had an outlook in.
: to an orchard, which was a beautiful
{ sight in a snow storm. How often We
watched it, and the feathery, fairy.
like appearance the falling element
2 gave to those bare branches.
We look in vain for the orchard, il
is gone long ago. Where it must have
!, been. is a school, and we hear the
shouts of noisy urchins. Sloping lawn
has been divided into lots, and houses
! kare on them.
The post-ofice, that was a quiet
place eighteen years ago, to which we
came eagerly for letters from those far
away, is a crowded resort now. We
drop mail in it, as of yore, IN . differ