Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-19
WESTWARD HO!
SCENES AND INCIDENTS
En- Route to Chicago Over The
Picturesque Baltimore And
Ohio Railroad.

Special Correspondent OF the Capital
It was at Harper's Ferry that the Civil
War had its birth. and here il was that
John Brown, of Ossawatomie fame, with
his little band Of brave but fanatic fol-
lowers, shed the first blood. The monu
ment to MIN. referred to previously, is
simple shaft. and stands on the spot
where his improvised "fort' stood forty
years ago. Alongside the monument are
government tablets. on which the story
Of the invasion of Harper's Ferry is en-
blazoned. Below the present railway
track, and to the right. along the Poto-
mac, can be seen the old foundation, all
that is left of the u. S. arsenal once
located here.
After passing Shenandoah Junction.
where many skirmishes of the Civil War
took place. Duffields. w. Va, is reached.
Here General Drake. OF Revolutionary
fame, is buried short distance from the
station. Next along the route is kear-
neysville, famous during the Revolution
AIRY War. Here are still standing the
homes of Generals Gales and Charles
Lee. OF Revolutionary fame Gen. Rob-
ert f. Lee passed through this place on
his way 10 Antielam. The historic city
OF Martinsburg. which played an import
ant part in the Civil War. is the next
point of interest en- route. Ii was here
the wholesale destruction of railroad prop
erty of the Baltimore and Ohio by Stone
wall Jackson took place. His army car
red away eight B. & 0. engines, haul
ing them by men and horses thirty miles.
to be placed on Southern roads and used
by his army. In passing one catches a
sight of North Mountain, where the bat
tie OF that name between General Averill
and General Lees forces took place.
Sir Johns Run, w. Va, is town
founded long before the Revolution and
so named because it was once the head
quarters Of Sir John Sinclair, who was
General Braddock's quartermaster. This
place is famous for having been the scene
of the building of the first steamboat that
was run on the Potomac. Ramsay was
the builder. Passing several points of
more or less historic interest. Cumber-
land. the Queen City of Maryland, is
reached, one thousand feet above sea
level. Here, at Fort Cumberland, Gen.
eral Braddock and General George Wash
ington made their headquarters during
the French and Indian War, on a bluff
at the junction OF Wills creek with the
Potomac river. On this site an Episco-
pal church now stands. Leaving Cum
berland, the railway winds along Wells
creek. which flows through a natural
pass in Wills Mountain. called The Mar
rows" on either side OF which the
mountain sides are steep and precipitous.
In the "Virginians, Thackeray describes
Wills creek and the two ranges OF the
Laurel Hills and the Alleghanies. At
the entrance of the gorge, and to the left
is the National Bridge, great stone
structure. built by the government dur
ing the "Twenties." through the infu-
ence of Henry Clay and other Western
statesmen interested in public improve
ment. The bed of the railroad here had
to be cut through solid rock in many
places.
Going West. Bears Heights is on the
right and Mount Nebo on the left and
flowing between these is Wills creek.
This and Wills Mountain take their name
from an old Shwanee Chief, Will. One
side of Bears Heights is almost perpen-
dicular. and to this has been ascribed the
name Lovers Leap" to which is at
tached legend that an Indian maiden
cast herself from its summit to the rocks
below in her grief of her lovers death.
Two miles west OF this, and to the right,
is to be seen Devils Backbone"
narrow ledge of rock imbedded in the
mountain, whose peculiar shape accounts
for the name. West OF Cumberland, the
B. < 0. is along the route originally Sc
lected by George Washington as the best
avenue for commerce to Pittsburg, and
is said TO have been founded in 1853. At
Bowman, Pa, is the famous horse shoe
curve, tho heel prints OF which are not
more than two hundred yards apart
Passing on, and 225 miles from Balti-,
more, the road reaches an elevation OF
2,2S6 feet. Here is located "Sand Patch,
SO named because in the early part of
this century two brothers quarreled here,
one fatally shooting the other. The
tragedy occurred near large deposit of
sand, and was referred to by witnesses
throughout the trial as "sand patch"
Here it is that the railroad attains the
greatest altitude on this division, the sum-
NIT OF the mountain over the tunnel be-
ing 2.467 feet above tidewater. Passing
on over distance of between forty and
fifty miles, and through cities and towns
of more or less historic interest, a stop is
made at Ohio Pyle. Pa. on the Youghio-
gheny River.
Here the wild and mountainous scene
ry is indeed beautiful, and one cannot
but admire natures magnificent handi-
work while one looks through nature up
to natures God. The Yonghiogheny
river. which is now shortened into Yough,
is so called from legend which says
fight once occurred here between an
lrishman and an Indian, The Irishman
had agreed that the Indian should cry
out enough when the pugulist of Erin
had exercised the manly art" on his
ribs to the extent of human endurance.
The Indian forgot the word enough,
or else could not pronounce it, and kept
on crying out "Yough Youghl'' The
Irishman became incensed, and told the
Indian if he cried out .'yough" again he
would kill him, hence the naLae "Yough-
iogheny. Three miles from here is
Fort Necessity, where Washington sur
rendered to the French July 4th. 1884.
AT Connelsville. Pa, is located the great
est coke region of the world. Here are
to be seen coke ovens on both sides of
the railway, with flames shooting out
from them and lighting the vicinity like
so many blazing torches in line with the
procession. AT the confluence OF the
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