The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-02-21
A WONDERFUL TOWN.
ITS NAME IS WAYNE, AND IT is NEAR
PHILADELPHIA.

Founded by Anthony j. Dresei and George
W. Chiids-A Place of Quiet Residence,
Away From the Marts of Trade--Poiice-
men Are Not Needed.
About a dozen miles from Philadel-
phia, on the main line of the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad, is the wonderful town of
Wayne. The wonderful town of Wayne
is product of the philanthropy of
George w. Childs, who, together with
Anthony j. Drexel, planned to bring it
into existence for the benefit of such Phil
adelphians as yearned for more suburban
life than was afforded by the shady thor
oughfares and placid highways of their
native city, and as Mr.. Childs and Mr..
to carry out the plan for an ideal sub
urban settlement Wayne was founded
on the firmest of foundations and has
| hourished in manner calculated to
cause the proverbial bay tree to wither
with envy.
The inhabitants of Wayne number
several thousand and are all inordinate-
| ly proud of being Wayneites. They are
proud with the pride which flushes the
obsequious head salesman of the suspen-
der department when the firm recognizes
his worth and promotes him to the dizzy
altitude of second hoorwalker in chief,
and their pride is thorn III the sides of
all the surrounding settlements and less
ostentatious suburban stations. Most Of
them-that is, most of the males--are wor-
thy clerks under middle age and blessed
with wives and rapidly accommodating
olive branches, and if they arc not wor-
! thy clerks they are worthy in some other
line, for none but worthy persons have
ever found a foothold in Wayne, and the
breath of scandal has never smirched the
polish Of its purity. Their wives are as
typical of the quiet middle class Phila-
delphia women and girls as they them
selves are representative of the average
spotlessly conventional Philadelphia
masculine being.
Physically regarded, Wayne is as fair
to look upon as it is from n moral stand
| point. 1t is an exposition of the essence of
Queen Anne in architecture, tempered
with the colonial and the other popular
forms of rural residence design which
have in the last decade run riot through
| out the length and breadth of the land.
| There are dark red houses and bright
red ones, there are those which are red
and green, and pink and green, and ca
| nary and green, and there are orange and
| white ones, and there are pearl colored
| types with dove tinted trimmings. And
l r,1at 4.
designs in shape as there are in color,
and altogether the wonderful town of
| Wayne is q most satisfying spectacle to
any one who seeketh the beautiful, the
odd or the abnormally hideous in mex
pensive but conspicuous dwellings.
Naturally such a settlement is above
reproach in its government. 1t has
broad roads, perfectly laid, fine, broad
sidewalks, waterworks and splendid
drainage, all of which We're provided by
| Messrs. Chil6s and Drexel, and it has a
president and council, q fire engine
equipment, an athletic club and ground
for both sexes, debating society, a
series of winter dances, a sewing circle,
whist club and lot of other such at
| fractions provided by the residents them
selves, and all these things are managed
without q hitch or jar, and peace
reigns supreme from Jan. 1 in any given
year until the hour of midnight on the
| following 3lst of December.
Wayne has no stores of any kind, and
| of course q saloon is as foreign to its
confines as a snowstorm would be in az,
equatorial jungle. On the other side of
the railroad there is also a Wayne
an old fashioned Revolutionary times
Wayne-named after the American gen
eral who was known as Mad Anthony
Wayne, and there may be found shops
and stores and saloons and business
offices, but in the new and beautiful
Wayne such things are unknown and
must ever be unknown unless the laws
of its organization be ruthlessly shatter-
cd and the dictates of its title deeds ig-
nored.
Nor has it any police, but then why
should it have? No one is bad, no one is
other than faultless, the very dogs don't
bark at night, the cats remain indoors
after sunset, and q policeman would be
as much out Of place In Wayne as q