Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-30
Home Again.

Home Again.
To cut a long story short as possible
the JOURNAL arrived in Chicago re-
Gently about 6 hours late, due to a
derallment of the locomotive in
Youngstown, 0. Otherwise the B. &
| 0. R. made the run a most pleasant
one.
So many people have seen the Fair,
and as it still defes description, it is
needless to refer to 1t at any length.
Maryland Day." however. brought
the old State out in all her glory. The
Chicago papers stated next morning
that no State had as yet so packed
Music Hall. There was prayer by
Cardinal Gibbons, an excellent address
by governor Brown, pretty recitation
of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" by
Miss Martha Ford, all eloquent Grafton
by Hon. j. V. L. Findlay, stentolian
song by Thomas McNulty, and band
music galore. Besides that of the gov
ernor the only two faces on the platform
the JOURNAL knew were those of the
martial Douglas, of Hagerstown. and
the modest Lowndes, of Cumberland.
After dark there was a reception at
the Maryland building, considerable
| illumination and a bountiful lunch.
Maryland abroad is almost as great as
Maryland at home.
By the way, there is now map in
the building showing in relief the
topography of the State. 1t is pretty
piece of work, yet incomplete. The
place where Homecoming is located
looks just as it probably did when
Columbus discovered America.
A few days later the Rock Island
railway was taken for the Rocky Noun
tains. There was a cowboy rush to
get home to the land of the grass
hopper, the prairie dog and the burro.
Tenderfeet had but little show in that
crowded train, but the undersigned
sample of the WORKOUT and effete
eastern press ''got there" just as soon
as the conductor comprehended that
the liberty of the foremost institution
| was at stake.
Next morning debate took place
between the conductor and a gentle
man from Bourbon county concerning
| the latitude and longitude of train
privileges for passengers. The former
was at last crushed by the following
conclusive remark:
o, shet up! When Pm down in ole Ken
lucky don't notice no SIGH looking men as
you!
Another night passed and dawn rose
on eastern Colorado. During the fore
noon the train ran upon derailed
construction car. Already several
hours behind, this heightened the
arrears to about 7 hours--a trying
experience to all the passengers,
especially those breakfastless ones who
were thus losing their connections at
Pueblo for California.
At last Colorado Springs was reach
ed. A warm dinner and an equally
warm welcome soon healed the i'm
patiences and vexations which DELAYS
had provoked.
The city is about as large as Cum
berland, but away beyond the latter
in every natural and artificial feature.
Situated upon one of the broadest
of the high table lands of the con-
tlnent and almost perpetually summed
under cloudless skies and famed by
the soft, warm winds of the South. it
is the elimination of climatic desire.
1t is literally watered from the broad
slopes of the mountains and its wide
avenues generously shaded by stately
trees. On the western side the CITY
faces the great rocky range whose
summit divides the waters of the
east from the west and whose structure
constitutes the backbone of the con-
tinent. In full view, apparently not
far away, is the overlapping eminence
of the visible series of mighty
pinnacles-Pike's Peak. Were Dams
Rock as high the summit. looking from
Frostburg, wouldappear to reach very
nearly halfway to the zenith. The
Peaks colors change with the passing
of the sun from morning brightness to
evening shadows, but no variation de-
spoils him of his pre-eminent ma iesty.
Not far away is the "Garden of the
Gods" one of the most weird, gro
tesque, yet enchanting spots on the
globe. A study in stone tables, set
edgeways, $50 feet high a dream of
colors-red. gray and green, bounded
by natural upheavals, it is an Arcadia
whose formation puzzles the geologist
and staggers the genius of the poet.
Then at Manitou, a few miles from
the city, is probably the most remark