The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-06
TO DO REVERENCE
Thousands OF Tourists Visit Mount
Vernon Every Summer.
Trolley Cars Now Run from ~ ashington
to the Gates OF the Virginia Home
OF the Father OF Ills Country
Riverside Park.
fspecial Wash,neton Iettsr1


the national capital every year. and a
majority OF them make pilgrimages to
/ the home of George Washington on the
/ hillside at his old home, Mount Yer
/ non Swift steamers ply the Potomac,
/ leaving their wharves at ten O'Clock
every morning. and reaching the YER
I dure-clad Virginia home of the father
| of his country about noon. The pa
/ triotic pilgrims climb the ascending
/ path and roadway 10 the historic manor,
and take their lunches in the old
kitchen and dining-room, where they
are attended by old-time Virginia negro
servants
The spirit of progress which has in
vaded the southern section of our COM
mon country since the civil war has de-
velOped many OF the natural resources
which had been hidden and untouched
because overshadowed by the cloud of
slavery. The same spirit is bringing
TO the city and country homes of that
section many of the lux-sies which
were for many years known only TO
the north. The same spirit is traversing
the hills and wales of Virginia with the
modern developments and require
ments of rapid transit, and to-day
along the palisades of the Potomac an
electric railway runs from ancient
Alexandria to the northern gates of
Mount Vernon.
Those who desire TO take the steam
boat route and ride two hours on the
placid stream, can always do so, be-
cause steamers will run for many years
despite the competition of the trolley
line. They go not only TO Mount Yer
non, but to a popular pleasure resort,
Marshall Hall. directly across the river
from Mount Vernon, and daily excur-
sions make the steamboat enterprise
very profitable one indeed.
Those who visit the national capital
rush pell nell from point 70 point,
manifesting desire to see as much as
possible in as little time as possible.
Therefore it is to be presumed that d
great number of visitors TO the ma
tional capital will In the future years
take the trolley to Mount Vernon be-
cause rapid transit will be a time saver
for them. A bill has Just passed con-
gress authorizing the electric line TO
cross the long bridge and enter the
city, but another year will elapse be-
fore the work in that direction is COM
pleted.
For the present it is necessary TO
take the cable cars and go to the
Seventh street wharf and there take
the ferryboat for Alexandria, a five
mile trip, which is pleasant enough,
but consumes q half hour of time.
Upon leaving the ferry at Alexandria
passengers can step aboard the electric
cars which are always at the wharf
awaiting the arrival of the ferry, and
with very little delay the gongs sound,
the motormaR turns on the electricity
and the cars move slowly through the
streets, up the hill, into the suburbs
and then go whirling across the open
fields over hills and far away towards
their destination.
Mount Vernon is closed 10 the public
on Sunday, but the electric cars carry
thousands of excursionists TO the VIZ
cinity of the ancient manor TO n place
called Riverside park, where Sunday
picnicing is INDUCED in by thousands
Of people from the national capital.
During the summer season baseball
games have been played by country
mines and the batting has been simply
The pitchers, of course,
are not experts, and the muscular boys
who WELD the club have.knocked many
, ball over the bluff d+down into the
liver.
1t is fact, which viii not be pleas
int for many of our readers TO contem-
olate, that the Sunday afternoon is
pent in this manner by American cit
zens within a few miles Of the old |
lone and present tomb Of the father
# his country. The music of the !