Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-09
The MAINE PARTY
Takes in the Sights Of Philadelphia and
Leaves for Washington.


fore leaving New York our party mai
taken birdseye view OF many OF the
attractive places sunday afternoon, n
We took a parting look at the city from
the speeding train. we We're more IMAM
grained that the laSt oplect Shoutd De
he statue Of Liberty at Bedioe lSlanu'
the statue OF Liberty en!lEntenihg tnr
world. Is her gaze prophellcal, as Stanu F.
ing with upraised arm ana with eyes al
most human in expression she looks eN
pectahtlN L" lhc East DOCS she inca I
for America to follow in the direction II
her gaze. and with civilization ami liberty
for the oppressed to plant II the Islands
of the far East the seeus OF Intelligence.
industry ana sobriety. ana TO build upon
the failure OF 5o years OF SPAN : lnhu
man rule. new Land of the tree aud
home of the brave? Let The men be
hind the guns make answer
Philadelphia Is known. really known, bN
comparatively few peop.c. SomG folks
will pass a day or two here and then tell
how SLOW the city is. how she lives in
the past. etc. Blu, write II down in lie; u
tiers Of living light that her policemen.
her officials and her citizens are the mos
courteous 10 lee met in month Of Sun
days. Some of her hotels may not be up
10 the ''doncherknow standard. but cN-
cry street car in her limits pays into IN"
city treasury the yearly sum OF $50 FOR z;
license 10 do hustneSS-Say, won tho
S250 900 pr $500. 400 per annum come handy
in tightening the taxpayers burdens?
Her streets may not be so quickly ,p''
| Iced 50 neatly kept, but they are Splen
didly paved or asnhalted. are broad. airy,
beautiful There is a sold.ty, modes; :
about the buildings in the city suggestive
| of the DAYS far in the past. OF the days
| of the "thees'' ana the 'thOus OF thr
| Quaker For instance. City hail, sur
mounted with statue of William Penn.
| covers an area of slightly more than f"u.
acres and has cost TO date SO, 0N0.oIO AN
not vet completed. \ tower is now beiE@
| erecied that will be. next to the Wash
| ington monument the highest in th@
| world
| Her Paramount park Horticultural hall.
| Museum of Fine Arts Washington park.
| reached by a delightful sail of SIX or
eight miles down the Delaware and tn
| free trolley into the park. and the won
| darfuI electrical display there every even
ing the Betsev Ross house. where Bel
| - Ross made the first American flaE.
| 1n'I.narJnnrn hall where are the por-
| trattt chairs and tables of the signers OF
| thn DecIaration of Indeprndencc. ami
| wbara that immortal document was
| stoned where Richard Henry Lee offered
| no restitution: Resolved that these
| uniteI colonies arc and BY right ought 10
| he free and independent states: mat all
p0litical allegiance existing between them
| mi thr state of Great Britain is herebr
| Inrrarrd at an end''-that burning resolu r
| Hon which will ring down the Centu
| rir. " offered on that eth day Of June.
| i--f still echoes through the old hall
| C,irarl College where no clergyman Is a.
| Iau'ad "a anter the Museum III Fine Arts
ocartainIv All these. together with the
| raSar,.nir tho Baldwin locomotive Works
| WHERE are emploved 1900 men, who turn
! out engines for every part of the world
surely these afford ample opportunity for