The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-10-03
FARMER BEACH.
Tells Us About an Inter-
eSting Visit to
BUsTLIHG, HusTL|uG PHILADELPHIA.
A Discourse About Other Things in
General Of an Interesting
Nature.

FALLS CHURCH. Va, SEPT. 24.-Dear
Journal Correspondents Il have Just re.
turned from three weeks vacation spent
partly among the hills and wales OF nv
Latlve country in the northern part of
| New Jersey. and partly amid the grand
and picturesque scenery along the Hud.
son, finishing up in the staid old Quaker
city of Philadelphia which now seems to
be trying to rival or exceed New York in
the heights of it's buildings and in the
hustle and the hustle of its business ele-
ment aided by the rapid transit service of
Its numerous trolley lines of street cars.
And then, to overlook all this departure
from the old Quaker regime, these Phila
delphians have hoisted the statue OF Wil>
liam Penn to a position on the tower of
their new municipal building, five hundred
and forty>seven feet above the level of the
street where, however loudly he may choose
to protest Ut the innovations OF the spirit
| OF progress his voice is lost in the din be-
| low
On one Of the hottest days of the sea-
son, (last Saturday, Sept. 2l) Mrs. B
and assembled in an elevator to the Office
of R. G. Dun & Co.'S Mercantile agents. in
Philadelphia ON the thirteenth floor and
top floor of the Betz building, nearly two
hundred feet above the street. From this
point we obtained splendid birds eye
view OF this great city stretching miles and
miles in every direction; its two rivers, the
Delaware and Sehaylkill, looking ike two
silver ribbons sparkling in the sunlight as
they flowed onward to their point Of con-
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waters for the great sea. We enjoyed the
delightful breeze here for an hour or two
and then decended to the dust and heat oil
the city below, from which we escaped
again for a time into the great store 81
Philadelphia's greatest Merchants prince
John Wanamaker. We lacked few PEN
MES OF having enough money to buy ou!
the establishment, bat permitted US to in
spect its various departments which dis
played on small scale almost as great 8
variety as the great Worlds Fair.
| In New York the people are not YET
done ravin' about Duraven and his Val.
kyrie LII. We happened TO be in that city
on the day OF the second race. and dis
covered, to our inconvenience how many
people were interested therein. Children
and adults greeted each other in racy
way; people one wanted TO see had gone
to the race; newspapers we're filled with
nothing but descriptions of the race; anC
when, finally, we went to Pier a. East
River, to take passage to point out or
Long Island we wished to visit, our boat
the Idlewild, had taken party to see the
race and would not return until night
We thought ii a bad day Tor the human
race, or for part of it at least.
We were glad to set back to Dixie agar
and one OF my first acts on reaching home
was to read the copies of the MARKETS.
Journal that had come during my absence
and was particularly interested in tn,
account of your grand picnic at Unor
Chapel on Aug. 3lst, and also in ''Earnes
Willie's"' letter in a later issue, relative
to the same.
1t is Unnecessary for me 20 say | would
beer delighted to participate with you al
on the pleasurable occasion. A vein O
sadness, too, would have mingled with the
pleasure, on missing the cheerful faces o.
some who were at that first picnic. whose
voices now mingle in the songs of the re,
deemed in better land
have seen no county paper anywhere
that can boast of so faithful a corns of cor.
respondents as the Marietta JOURNAL, AND
a Correspondents Picnic" is feature pc,
cullar to Cobb county and the Journal
50 far as my observation goes.
l shall DE glad to see any OF you any time
IN my Virginia home, and even the Lazy
Man, who Yields his ''lazy" pen with
such graceful energy, will be welcome tc
stretch his lazy limbs in my hammock in
the shade OF my trees, or to break bread al
my table whenever he Tor she) may elect
to do so.
We have had two pleasant visits from
Earnest Willie" ..and Miss Julia Irwin
also delighted us with her presence for q
few weeks during the summer, making
many friends in this section. l know one
young man who, somehow broadened hel
name into Miss Jewel-you when he ad'
dressed her.
We hear glowing reports about Geor'
gas great Exposition and the generally
expressed opinion is that while it is not on
so grand scale as the great Columbian
Exposition, 1t is more practical in it's aims
and will result in great and permanent
good to our whole country and especially
to the South.
gee must close so that there may be
room tor our Lazy Man" to stretch him.
self. Uutil next time, good bye
FARMER BEACH.