The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-05
satetal corre.pondensc o. Ne lnlelIpmt.r.

Special Correspondence or th inttIigHre.
TApRYrows, n. Y, March 2S.-A re-
cont personal paragraph reproduced in
your columns from local paper hero
has duly informed your readers MS to
how 1t happens that am soiourning in
this part OF the country at this partcu-
lar time. Outside Of that explanation,
however, may remark that your
leadership has been SO long accustomed
TO my nomadic movements, ind to my
liability to turn up almost anywhere
outside OF tho Wheeling diocese, that
any date line whatever ut the head OF
ono OF my letters causes no surprise.
OF course this place is not a!winter
resort and oil course | am not hero at
this time OF the year for climatic reasons.
Our good old town OF Wheeling 10 far
enough north for tho month OF March.
the most trying month Of tho year and
the ono the most dreaded by all people
who live north OF latitude forty. and of
course no one would ever think OF OK
changing the valley OF tho Ohio for the
valley OF tho Hudson at this season as
matter OF temperature. However have
had no reason since my arrival here to
find fault with the temperature, no moro
than had with tho well behaved lem
perature at Wheeling MI tho winter
through. Providence seems to have
tempered the wind everywhere these
times OF prevailing distress to tho ''shorn
lamb" Throughout the north the eli
mate since November last has been OK
ceptlonally mild. hisriver thatlastyear
was frozen over solid and that is often
frozen over for months between Novom-
Der and April has been open through
out this last winter. Navigation was re-
sumed this season ahead OF time, and
for some days past wo have been &C.
cus,oned to SEQ all sorts OF river craft,
both sail aud steam. ascending and
descending the noble river. Ihe canal
boats that ply between Albany and Buf-
falo md bring the commerce Of tho
lakes to New York have been released
from the grasp of winter and have been
coming down in fotillai in tho wake OF
tho tugs that tow them. Indeed, 30 fer
as this great river and its immense
traffic is concerned, it looks as ii May
day had come and gone, and US il water
transportation was once more in active
competition with that OF the railroads.
The scene reminds one Just little OF
i whit we zee at Wheeling when there Is
4 good stage oil water in the Ohio, and
when the arriving and departing boats
4 unto their shrill whistles with that OF
the locomotives on the Cleveland &
4 Pittsburgh, the Ohio River and the
Y Pittsburgh, " Wheeling & Kentucky.
OF course the trade and travel OF tho
Ohio Valley in no wise comparable with
that OF this valley. No, indeed. We
& are not in it as compared with the Hud.
: Eon, neither in the number. the size.
nor appointments OF our boats, nor in
the wonderful frequency Of trains on
L tho two shores OF the river. An army
OF people come and so between New
York city and Albany every tvensy.four
hours. Al least hundred trains pass
thestation here in that time. Only GER
tain number OF them stop, albeit this
Is town Of ten thousand people. At
Z least one half OF them rush by without
i stopping.
I Now York City is a place OF about
i 1850, 900 people. There IRE that many
actual residents on Manhattan Island.
1 But could its census DO takcn.at midday,
when all the people who travel in those
trains and these boats, and ovor all
/ the other roads and boats that from
far and near land people in New York
every morning, tho population would
be full half million more. OF this vas,
number this Hudson river valley con-
tributes Its full proportion. Tho ex.
penae Of coming and going is so reason
able and tho time made so expeditions
that multitudcs OF people are induced
to reside in the towns aud villages. The
time from here. for instance, distance
OF twenty.six miles, is from forty min
ntes to an hour, and the fare as low n.
eleven cents, or less than half cent
per mile. People commence going as
early as in The morning and from that
time on to $3.50. And SO they com.
mence returning at in the evening
and from that time on until 0 and 10.
No wonder then. with these accommo-
Z datiops, that this river is lined with
towns and villages. Rents are decidedly
cheaper and the general cos. OF living
somewhat lower than in tho city, and
there Is in addition the purer air and
the greater freedom to be obtained. To
many families this is pearl OF great
price.
HISTORIC rARRYrowN.
But it was not in regard to these
matters-theso latter day features Of
lie here and hereabouts-that l set
out to write you. This region and
especially this locality has history
that has always interested me, as in.
I decd it must all Americans, and it was
about the lnrrytown OF hundred and
more years ago rather than nbout tho
hudson river valley OF to-day that
proposed to say something TO your
readers. The Tarrytown OF to-day is an
attractive spot and there is much that
one could write about. Like Wheeling
it Is a longitudinal rather than la,ilu.
dinal place, and like Wheeling, it climbs
back on the hill sides in hunt OF room
for expansion. It Ia somewhat famous
as the homo OF certain noted people.
The family Of Jay Gould has country.
seat here So have tho Rockeiellers
and other rich people. And so also
the heirs OF the late Cyrus W. Field.
Washington Irving'a late home,
"Sunnyside,o is close by tho town.
Samuel j. Tildeu lived not Jar away,
md Moses Grinncll, George Jones and
other noted New Workers are buried
within its precincts. in famous Sleepy
Hollow cemetery. Bu. as l said it is
not Of the little city as We SEQ it to-day
that propose to write at this time,
but OF tho TnrrYtnHn OF othnr mud mnrn