The morning times., 1896-11-22

Baltimore street. and old Frederick road,
prloli'",iiy the continuation of EGmOndson
avenue.
uu.rr Ordinary conditions the latter is
The better Of tine TWO. in very bad ", athcT
The former i $ preferable; and as i general
thing 4 combination OF both is used as
folluweLh:
Get some friendly cyciist, thcir name is
legion IA lliiIlmu!yj 20 snow YOU tire smooth
est way to thc Intersection of FNltcn and
Edmoiidsou avcnGcS from whatever part OF
the city yau happen to be in. The corner
we shall make oar starting point. please.
aud will reckon our mileage Irnm it
To ouc uuaCCuStomed To Maryland roads,
The prospect i> not very cheering. but nt Yer
mind, iI's bound 10 improve by and by
CROSSING THE FALLS.
We rrnS~ Gwynn's Falls. ihc streams
hcreabouis have been called Fails
ever since Gov. Smith OF Virginia first
explored Chesapeake Bay and thus tcsiS-
mated lucm. doubtless Cn accom-, oI thcir
numerous cascades, alm'St 800 years
ago.
Inc hills We don't mind, but Edm Jndson
ayennr i.iSEr easily be somewhat less
rugged and things are not mucn better
when it mcrgcs into cid Frederick read,
two and th quarter miles from start.
This oll-time thuToughfare was the great
hignv-ly tom isini,norr To Frederick. and
With the exception of tn. road from
Frederick 10 Annapolis, 1t was the only
one in this section available for Wheeled
vehicles up 10 the time If the revolution
Frederick is only sixteen yelrs " unrcr
than Baltimore. and when il was laid
out in l7i5 the great city at TIE mouth
of the Patapsco occupied a tract OF cx-
acily sixty acres on the west side of
Jones Falls.
Inrer-uu,rJerS Of u mil. further Il neat
little road tempts US away from the old
pike; il has been usual TO leave the pike
mile farther and turn toward CatCnsvillr
via Inglcsidc road. Let Us see what this
new turn is like. II proves very good and
leads uS 10 trolley track. which we fol
low for another threc-quartcrs Of a mile;
there We cross il, turn into NunHcry Lane
and a quarter of mile brings us To Fred
erick road at Paradise.
You must not lie too fastdiOuS: see how
easy, af;cr all, we climb up To Gainesville
&c IN. aud down and up again until
long down grade takes us to the latapsC o
Cor Bolus River, as Capt. Smith named ii
un account of the red clay resembling ''lo Ole
ammouiac' which he found on its EankS)
and we enter Howard county.
INTO HOWARD COUNTY.
Howard recalls une of Marylands
noblcSt SONS, John Eager Howard, one
of the first to offer his scrvic IS o the com
miitec Of safety ON the approach of cur
Revolutionary struggle, and subsequently
named 10y Washington one of his hrigadiers
general.
The grand old man had lest nore of his
vigor and patriotism when the second war
with England broke out and when, after
the British had captured and destroyed the
city Of Washington III 1el4. il was sug
EeS:ed that Baltimore Tpght do well 10
capltulate, he went on record as saying
that he had as much property at stake as
most people and four sons of his Were III
the field. hut he would rather see his sons
weliering III their blood and his property
reduced 10 ashes than So far disgrace his
country as Ia capitulate to the enemy.
Whereupon he raised corps of aged men
and led them To the field himself.
1t was of him that Gen. Nathaniel Greene
said: He deserves a statue of gold l .
less than Roman and GreCiau heroes"
And the picturesque town we climb into
on the other side of the river is the coun.y
seat of Howard county, EIlicott City.
The father OF Joseph, Andrew and John
Ellicott, whose mill was the first nucleus
OF this place in 1872, had settled in Bucks
county, Pa, in 1880. The SONS proved
not only the founders, but the munificent
benefacturs of this section.
AT the fork opposite Howard House {! o
M you may as well dismuunt and take n
lelsurely look about you, straight Oh for
Frederick: we bear for Columbia. That
solitary stone house, conspicuous on that
bluff, is u Quaker school house; farther
back, that substantial group of modern
buildings is Rockhill College. When We
reach Tie brow of the hill, turn back and
take in the panorama of this striking To-
cality.