The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-30
CINCINNATI, THE
QUEEN OF THE WEST
OBSERVATIONS OF INTEREST IN
OHIO METROPOLIS.
Some of the characteristics Noted by
Delegate to the International
Baptist Young Peoples Conven-
ton Recently in Session in That
Ti+u

Written for The Tribune
This is not a synopsis Of instruction
gained at the twelve sessions of the
great gathering at Cincinnati week
before last, but intended simply to
give glimpses of the picturesque jour
ney and to touch on the scenic grand
eur of the surroundings Of the beau
tiful city SO fifty chosen for this years
rendezvous.
Leaving Scranton, the familiar spec
tacle of the Lackawanna valley broad
ening out into the Wyoming is sue
ceeded by the broader plains below,
and a short pause at that town so
quiet and free from ostentation, yet so
important from a government point Of
view. No need of describing the state
capital to loyal Keystone citizens, es-
pecially as the train is waiting.
This is the fast express the through
train to Cincinnati, and we feel now
that our long journey has begun in
earnest. Dashing along the banks of
the blue Juniata" as the stars begin
to come out, peaks of the Blue Ridge
seem to spring up, grow in height,
then fade from view as we thunder
on into deeper gorges and darker val
leys, the landscape growing ever more
rugged and weird until in the very
heart of the Alleghanies at midnight
we find by the slackening of speed we
are going around the dangerous but
never-to- be- forgotten Horseshoe Curve
near Altoona. How the purple cliffs
| tower above on either side, how the
| abyss yawns below as the Iron monster
Creeps trembling along its winding
I path, and our hearts seem to beat with
| it's throbbing. (Returning in daylight
| this part of the journey seemed less
mystical, though not less beautifully
TYPE OF CEASELESS ACTIVITY.
This point of interest passed, we
sink to rest until at 8 o'clock the lights
| of the great city of Pittsburg, to-
gether with the blazing of its never
resting iron furnaces, dazzle our eyes.
! What a type of ceaseless activity Is
this great belching centre of the iron
| trade! l feel a new respect for Andrew
Carnegie, the Iron King, and philan-
thropist for if any one man can Law
claim to any one city by work done in
and for 1t, he can say, THE Smoky
City is Mine"
Again we sink to slumber, to open
our eyes in the gray dawn to a new
order of scenery. fiat and monotonous
in comparison, for one has a foretaste
of the Western prairies in the plains
| of Ohio. Presently we reach the
Mound region where dimnutive round
ed hills, like biscuits compared with
the native peaks. rise in symmetrical
rows.
Suddenly oil derricks begin to shoot
from the ground in every direction
and for forty miles or more they are
continually in sight, while the air be-
comes sitting in its "keroseny" flavor
Without a grain of local prejudice we
decide that Ohio's handicap does mol
compare with Pennsylvania diversi.
fled scenery, and cease to loon out ot
the window.
IN CINCINNATI.
On reaching Cincinnati, we find hel
to be, in spite of the dreary level round
about her, a regal city sitting not or
"seven hills" but on nearly sever
times seven. Beautiful suburbs crown
almost perpendicular hills all around
the amphitheater that serves for the
business portion of the city, from
whose heat and smoke her wealthy
, citizens must gladly escape at night t
their homes on the heights.
1t was our good fortune TO Obtain
; boarding place on Mt. Adams, on
, of the highest declivities, ascending ant
descending daily by a 900-foot inclined
= plane, giving you very much the sen
I sation of going up in a balloon as yo,
I saw the houses dropping below, an
q your hair stood on end in the welcom
breeze (of course not at all in fear)
: The ascent of this plane is considere
[ an achievement in electrical engineer
ing. Arrived at the foot of an almos
$ perpendicular track, the car is ru
. upon an inclosed platform or sort O
cage, which begins TO move rapid
Q | upward, keeping the car in horizon
| tai position by means of a slantin
O framework beneath. Iron wheels an
:, pulleys are seen to move on the side
= track far below, while three iron ca
,. bles support the car, and the pre-
e pelling agency comes from the moto
house at the top of the hill, which "
= presently slide through into beautifl
Eden park, with it's graceful shrub
= berry and winding paths and drive
Il past the quaint architecture OF RooE
wood Pottery and the classic piles {
the Art museum and Art school, a
monuments to the genius, art and Gu
ture of Cincinnati,
. Going through the former, all II
n Bible passages mentioning the potter
}. and his wheel" and the "clay in h
d hands" with their comparison to &C
?, and His work, seemed radiant wit
@ meaning after seeing all the process,
8 by which the reddish clay of the We
q is transmitted into those wonderf
: luminous, priceless vessels and vase
d We silently watched a stalwa
workman at the first process, weldir