The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-09-19
OLD SCENES, OLD ACQUAINT=
ANCES AND INTERESTING
PLACES!
Great Army and Navy Parades
and a Visit to the Santiago
Fleet.
A DAY ON THE OCEAN, WITH
PORPOISES, SHARKS AND
SEASICKNESS AS
EXTRAS!

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the sights at Philadelphia. We needed
a rest, had a right to it, and took it.
To see the Switzerland of America, we
bought our ticket to Buffalo, thence
over the Lehigh Valley r. r. to VIM.
PENIS late residence. Our travel was
east for several counties through New
York, through poor country and over
an uneventful route. Thence from
Geneva, southeast between lakes
Cayuga and Seneca for forty miles, to
Ithaca, the seat of Cornell college, and
on into Pennsylvania. The country
along this part of the route was beau
tiful and much better farming country
than that we passed through before
reaching Geneva.
Entering the Wyoming valley, that
was made historic by the Indian mas
sacre of Revolutionary times, we did
not wonder that white settlers had been
attracted by it's beauty to push their
settlements far enough beyond the
frontier to invite the rapacity of the
savages urged on by British gold.
Just over the New York line we
struck the beautiful Susquehanna, at
Sayre, and followed it's course through
TOwanda and Tunkhannock to Wilkes
barre, keeping a southeast course.
From the latter point, the Susquehanna
runs to the southwest, and our engine
pulling and blowing, pulled our train
out of the Susquehanna valley, up the
mountain, in winding curves, and over
the summit of the range into the valley
of the Lehigh, at White Haven, the
point from which Drs. George Kali
and Gale Stinchcomb were won't to
leave the main line for Jeddo and Free
land, few miles west, where they
practiced medicine for several years
Thence our route lay along the Lehigf
valley, southeast through Mauch Chunl
to Allentown, and thence south t.
Philadelphia.
The mountain scenery along the Sus
quehanna and Lehigh was very fine, ant
we passed the mines which yield tn
black diamonds that bring comfort ant
cheer to our homes through the lons
winters, and deplete our purses of well
earned dollars.
The Susquehanna is noted for its clea
waters and beautiful scenery, an
deserves all the praise given it. Tn
cities and villages, nestle in beaut
in the valleys, or like part of Maucl
Chunk, stud the sides of the mour
tains, the houses flashing out like gem
from their emerald settings.
| The mountains, towering and frowr
ing, yet are clothed in forests of gree
and never lose their curves of beaut
and coloring.
To man who has always lived like
turtle, fiat in the mud of the dead leve
the hills and mountains are things {
exceedingly beauty and magniticence
The trip is worth the money-even
you have to pay full rates, which W
didn't.
AT Philadelphia, we enjoyed the no
pitality of our only living aunt, he
daughter, and son-in-law, DR.. ]. Wilso
West, all Ohio born, and had deligh
full visit aside from the sightseeing
the birthplace of the Nation.
!. Fairmount Park, the place where til
Centennial was held in 1876, locke
familiar, though it has been great
enlarged and improved. Monuments
Hall and the Ohio building are all thu
remain of the Centennial building
The park has been vastly improves
drives. William PENIS little, tw
story, quaint, brick house has bee
moved into the park, and is mark
historic interest.
The city is noted for it's miles of ROY
}, of brick houses with white copings al
u white steps, and it is a smart man wi
j. doesn't have to keep a pocket director
s to enable him to find the door of b
n own domicil, when he returns fro
,. business to the bosom of his family.
J. Philadelphia is great big, owe
II grown country town, but it is none t
5, worse for that. Next to Bethlehem,
T, Judea, it is the most illustrious Dirt
e place in the world, and during Revol
tionary times and the days followin
Is it sheltered more brains than any CT
in the> world has, since Rome was
her glory.
There is only one broad street in t
of city, and that is Broad, and it is paw
If with asphalt. The most illustriC
II street is Chestnut. And some latt
of day politicians think that the illustrio
Declaration of Independence, that "
framed in Independence Hall, on Il
street, is also chestnut, but that W.
derful declaration of our Fathers "
~ live when these pigmy politicif
nc have crawled into their holes and pull
l'' the holes in after them.
Independence Hall, where the Cor
ot mental Congress met and our Faith
. declared their Independence of CIR