Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

regardless of their property rights
They expected London or a Paris to
Immediately grow upon them, and were
indignant with the engineer who pre-
pared the plans. They protested
against their approval. But they have
long since been gathered unto theiI
fathers, and the village of HamtAra
is almost faded "reminiscences. Their
rights were never disturbed, and they
lived to the ends of their days upon
the lands which they had acquired by
priority of settlement. Their heirs
moved into the more popular portions
of the new city, and their property is
now, by purchase and sale, in the hands
of men and women whose grandfathers
were then unborn. They could not dip
into the future and see all the wonders
which should grow around their pris-
tine habitation. They never saw the
Potomac flats, nor heard the hills re-
sound with the whistles of palatial
steamers plying the placid stream on
which their shallops fioated. 1 have
often imagined how the man whom
Pocahontas saved would rub his eyes
and pinch himself to realize that he
was the same John Smith, if he could
row his heavy boat up the Potomac
from Norfolk to-day and gaze upon the
transformation scene.
But Analostan castle is no longer
known by that name, and Observatory
hill IS no longer the place where scicn-
lists study the heavens and WELD the
ponderous telescope. The entire
plant of the naval observatory has
been transferred to the heights back of
old Georgetown, that former suburb of
Washington, which is now very i'm
portaSt part of the city proper; shat
wonderful elevation which the original
lord of the domain called the "Rock of
Dumbarton;" for that splendid and
vast elevated acreage was originally
granted to a Scotchman named Miriam
Beall, who came here from the vicinity
of the medieval Dumbarton castle,
which is celebrated in the interesting
fiction of the Scottish Chiefs" by Jane
Porter. Everything has changed and
is constantly changing, so that the
student of current local history is in
voluntarily reminded of the saying of
the Apostle Paul: "Old things have
passed away. Behold! All things
have become new"
Twenty years ago the eminence be-
Yond the street called the Boundary was
farming land, and little village called
Mount Pleasant was just being formed.
Fifteen years ago that eminence called
Kalorama heights was purchased by
d syndicate and laid out in town lots.
Ten years ago the horse cars on 14th
street were started up the hill. Five
years ago cable line was begun And
now there are 10000 people in Mount
Pleasant, while $4,000 more have set
tied along the heights from Seventh 10
25th street. The old Boundary is
called Florida avenue, and circuits The
northern part of the city with beau
tiful boulevard. lie visitor of 20
years ago would search in vain for the
farmhouses and stumps along the
country road. All have passed a~ay.
Time works wonders in this progress
sive age. The city is extended out in
to the country, and the Boundary will
soon be near the long-neglected grave
of LEnfant, the designer of the city
which has grown SO great within a
generation. SMITH ID. Fry.
We have in Alaska one OF the greatest
rivers of the world, the KwichpalS. 1t
is believed to be more than /. 800 puilea
long.