The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1896-08-08
SATURDAY, AUGUST8

wisely and beautifully planned. ample
in all its details, it stands out the
roomiest city have ever seen. Parks,
gardens and public squares greet you
everywhere with splendid statuary,
fountains and flowers, and their wide
drives and walks are silent but eloquent
ushers to the convenient and comfort
able seats under the great trees, that
stand as scntincls over all this bewil-
dering beauty. 1t is said that Gen.
Washington planned many OF these
parks, etc.
OF course we visited the Capitol
first, the war, army and navy depart
ments, the treasury, (walkcd around
about 500. 0OU, ,0JO in the course CT a
minute, impressed unpleasantly with
the fact OF what ''tiny bit" this scribe
could call his own, the CorcoraD Art
Gallery, Medical Museum, Navy Yard,
and other public buildings. Did I go
to the Washington Monument, and on
it? Yes. # you don't believe it ask
Mr.. VIM. DuI}ard. OF course ! got
tired, aud came near breaking down,
as he did, at the dizzy height OF one
hundred ard seventy feet, but looked
down the shaft, which | ought not to
have done. Three hundred and thirty
four more feet to make, and ! started
not exactly with the motto that faint
heart never won fair lady, but lha; it
wouldn't carry me to the top Of this
shaft. I prggcd up hundred tect
more. 1t seemed to me that mad
been walking an hour. | think | may
have been now little irresolute, when
ripple of merry laughter caught my
ear. I turned and confronted the la
dies,-two, Mr.. DuBard says, from
Massachusetts. but how did he know?
He was away out Of sight, and afraid to
come up. Well, I will admit from
Boston. They greeted me pleasantly
While resting moment the elevator
passed us going down, with about
thirty occupants. They were singing
that great song, Nearer, My God, to
Thee The great tower caught and
held the sound until it seemed to rever-
berate from top to bottom of the great
shaft In com pany with these good
! women turned once more toward the
top of the monument, and ere long was
rewarded by breath of fresh air that
poured in from the windows at the top.
Not many people cared to 60 to the
windows. Standing on a thirty foot
base and looking down FIVE huLdred
feet through space was not attractive
to most of them. Although these win
dows are breast high, looking down
made me feel AS if my head and arms
were of lead, and the rest OF the body
of feathers, and light at that. Istayed
long enough to get over this and had
the most vivid living pictures of noun
tains and valleys, forests, fields and
streams. tina, it has ever been my for.
tune to behold, and there lays the
great Capital City on the bosom OF the
low, undulating hills, five hundred
feet below.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if I have not bored
you, will admit that YOU are man OF
wonderful patience.
1t is a source Of profound gratitica.
tion to learn that our usually good
humored friend, Mr.. Paschal Hol-
combe, arrived safely home. After u
careful estimate, by Dr.. Scruggs and
myself. we succeeded in keeping him
from jumping on, in a belligerent way,
not less than seven hundred different
men, asserting with considerable spirit
that he could clean out the whole lot.
For particulars, I refer you to Dr.
Scruggs.
Nothing of New York now, except
that as a ''Medical center" it is inferior
to none on this continent.
Truly yours,
E. w. CURLE.