News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-08-23
QUAKER CITY QuIRKs.

army OF UBe hepuDHc, Wulcn VIII Coh
tens of thousands of visitors to the
Quaker City early in September, are
being pushed to completion. The
committee having in hand the ar
engagements for sleeping quarters for
such vast army, find they have a
task which will not be so easily solved,
but Philadelphia is full of good no.
tells, great numbers of boarding
houses and numberless department
or furnished room houses, where rea-
sonable rates will be secured. Added
to these the committee is bringing
into service great many public halls
and buildings, large warehouses, etc.
and a tent encampment to house
something like ten thousand will be
located near Belmont mansion IN
Paramount Park.
Elaborate plans are being made
for decorations for that occasion.
Particularly fine will be the electrical
decorations at night. On Broad
street, south Of City Hall from that
massive structure to and beyond
Walnut street, will be erected an
elaborate court of honor, or Avenue
of the Grand Army, with splendid
effects in artistic decorations. 1t is
understood that the Vermonters will
make headquarters at the Continent
al hotel, a large central hotel, six
floors high, fronting for a long dis
tance on Chestnut street, and on 9th
street, as far as SAMSON street. This
will be official headquarters for the
Vermont 6. A. R. and W. R. c., but
many visitors from the Green Noun
tain State will, no doubt, lodge and
lunch elsewhere.
By September first, Philadelphia
will awake, stand full figure and
shake herself from the drowsiness OF
protraCted and excessive midsummer
heat. Everyone now is staying in
town from force of circumstances,
sweltering in the broiling sun and ac-
cumulated heat of a great city, or, if
they have a few dimes in their poe
kets, HE themselves away to the sea-
shore. Atlantic City is the popular
resort for the masses wanting a sniff
at salt air, and a dollar takes one
down and back again. The excessive
dog day heat has it's results in fire.
quent suicides, murders, assaults and
high jinks generally, and yet Phila-
delphia is seemingly in remarkably
healthy condition. There has been a
little furry over yellow fever so near
as it is, but the rigid quarantine regu-
lations down the Delaware river and
bay, will make it's spread into Phila-
delphia next to impossible.
The season at all the great number
of parks, river resorts, amusement
grounds and the like will come to an
unusually early end by September 1
This on account OF the Grand Army
events to be followed almost imme
diately by the opening of the Export
Exposition which will remain open
until Dec. /. The first week in Sep
TENDER will also find nearly or quite
all the theatres, opera houses, con
cert halls, etc., open for the season
and with special attractions fol
Grand Army week. AS the amuse
ment places number eighteen or TWEEN
ty, the "Vets" will find ample oppor,
tunity to elbow in" some good hare
cash. 1t will possibly be discovered
too that Philadelphia, the good city
of "Brotherly Love-, has thousands
and thousands of places where
"Skoolkill" river water and pink lemo
made are not in it, that is, the com
ing Vermonters will, opine, have thu
good sense not to have any of it il
theirs. Beware of river water, ust
an ordinary garden rake faithfully
before using it even for bathing pur
poses.
Saturdays hardly have place or
the calendar during the months o
June, July and August. So a mar
on bicycling intent finds an oppor
tunity on these, if on no other days
to try the wheeling soil of Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey and Delaware
Pennsylvania seems to be getting OF
we'll with the good roads" question
though the tantalizing frequency o
toll gates takes the gloss off a bit
The Is mile run up the Wissahichon
the ride of the same distance out tC
Bryn Mawr college, to Consohocher
to Willow Grove, the ride through
out the vast Paramount Park, on th,
great asphalt pavement of BroaC
street, and other streets, the explora
tions into Jersey, through Glouces
ter, Camden, Woodbury., the run tt
Wilmington, Delaware, to Chester
Pa, found with but one or two excep
tions, road surface and attraction,
OF scenery sufficient to make glad tn,
heart of the wheelman. And then al
night Broad street, with wide asphalt
straight away for a distance of si1
miles in each direction, north OF
south of City Hall, aud its macadam
for much longer distance, brilliantly
lighted by electricity, free from stree
car tracks, is the favorite rendezvoul
for the riders of the silent steed, bu
woe be to the man, woman or chile
caught riding without lamp ant
bell-the "cops" will have them sure
Rob.
Philadelphia, Aug. 5.