The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-06-21
Notes of Travel.
The Recepti0n--Tbe Boat
Ride-The State Dinner.
A Jolly Company and Il
Hearty Welcome.
n Chiefs Amang Them
Taking Notes

o crlbe the excursion as a Teacher mig
$ do, but will tell what she saw of il
terest to the school children, readers
the SENTINEL for whom this article
:. written. The Teachers are ali goo
writers and can have place with plea
t ure m the SENTINEL for any articl
, they may and ought TO write.
We all met in good time in tn
morning at the depot, equipped wit
well filled lunch baskets and the equal
Indispensable excursion fan and un
brella. When the train came, Mr.
Lanman, travelling passenger agent
stepped out, meet us, and turned owe
to the company the elegant and com
modious car, number %. There wer
forty-three in the company, just enough
to be comfortably accommodated ant
near enough together to be Oh speak
ing terms, all with one another. We
crossed the first apprehended danger
the Bridge that once went down under
a train, ir safety, and leaving the Hook
ing Valley took up Five Mile. The
first station is UNION FURNACE. This
is noted place in the early history OF
Hooking County. The first Iron Fur
mace was built here more than fifty
years ago by Judge Robert Wright,
Ollie, Brice and Others. The furnace
afterwards passed into the hands of the
McManigals of our city who closed up
iron making and began the work of
making brick. The Union Furnace
Terra Gotta Clay Works have a world
wide reputation. Our readers who
visited the Worlds Fair may know. at
least know now when we tell them. that
the beautiful facing of the front of the
Ohio Building Of which so much has
been written, was the product of these
works. Mr.. Fisher well known to our
Logan people, is the popular manager.
Across in field is a cluster of little
snug, old-fashioned houses. This is
New Cadiz, one of the first settled
places in the county. The pioneers
were New Englanders, coming up from
the mother settlement, Marietta. The
Post Master and village store keeper is
Mr.. Miller, well known to our Logan
people. At this point we cross the
water divide and then follow down
along the Raccoon almost to the Ohio
River.
The next station is Starr P. O so
called because we could only see a !
twinkle of q station or Post Office.
We passed New Plymouth next. 1t
is built up on hill and we couldn't
see only the back buildings of the
5own. 1t is on the boundary line be-
'wecn Hooking and Vinton Co. The
houses face Hooking and the stables
very properly are fronted on vinton.
Wepassed Macarthur without seeing
t. We have heard of it from Mr..
Frank McGee, who with his family.
'tten comes to visit us. The Editors
ak about admiral BarIeon, who they
ay, has boat. We didn't see anv
ratel, not enough to swim duck and
there are any boats here they must
'e land boats.
Two miles from Macarthur we came
pa stop at a place called 'The Junction"
)nce, In going to jackson, We stopped /;
ere to make a junction with another
rain. We staid five hours waiting
or train. That kind of Il junction"
le grammar class might call dis 9
motive con- junction.
Miss Downey,, one of our teachers, c
OF knowing relation to antecedents,
nd its distinctive character stepped .
# to get cup of coffee. The train
ent off leaving her for five long hours !.
study the Time, Rail Road, Sun, and
ong time. A telegram sent her on .
II arrival at Gailipolis brought her =
,wn on the night train, arriving in G
me for the Banquet. When she en- T
red the Reception Hall where the :
mpany of more than hundred had =,
sembled, there were more ado made !,
-er her than any other of us ninety y,
id nine who didn't get left, didn't =,
t lost. 1t is not pleasant to get left, g
it the glad welcome Miss Downev u
ce-ved. no doubt made her forget .
e dreary hours she spent killing ~
ne, or having Time killing her at r..
, Macarthur Junction.
Leaving the Junction our train ::
mt rushing down the winding stream
'ough wild and desolate country. -,
e road is here called the punkin nt
ne, because it winds about so much -.
e Punkin vine in the garden or 10
n field. There are no trees to be y,
II on the steep hill sides and high -,
nmits, only bushes. This was once q,
reat furnace region and the timber 49,.
; cut off and made into charcoal to u
used for the fires. At places we snc
great heaps of iron ore looking like To
IS of clay. The iron costs too much e
make in the country and the flrn-
were abandoned, ths people NOV rot
lway, and bushes have grown up n,o
covered the fields. For moro ill.,