Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-06-28
THE EDITOR OF THE LEDGER
BOUND FOR HIS OLD HOME
ON LONG ISLAND
WHERE HE WILL REST AND FISH
Something About the Pleasure Resorts
Along the Baltimore and Ohio
Road-This Popular Route
Takes In AL the Big
Eastern Cities.

ON THE "H0YAL BLUEn BALTIMORE
AND OHIO, NEAR WARRINGTON CITY,
June 1o.-You can't make any mis-
take by going east via the Baltimore
4 Ohio railroad. The service Is first
class, the scenery is perfect, the train
is fast and you touch all of the large
oitles; the accommodation of all
kinds could not be improved. The
travel over this line is not only q
comfort, but a pleasure. The Balti-
more & Ohio not only passes through
the large eastern cities and has some
Of the finest scenery In the world on
it's line, but It's fishing, hunting and
summer resorts are most popular with
the traveller.
OF American mountain resorts, Deer
Park, Maryland, is perhaps the most
ideal resort that can be found. On
the top of the Alleghenies, at an ele-
walton Of 5000 feet above the sea
level, In broad plateau, nine miles
in width; beautiful plane of luxuriant
vegetation high up in the air. 1t Is on
this plateau the splendid hotels Of
Deer Park and the cottages in connec-
tion herewith are built. During the
hotter summer months, the air, which
is always In motion, is simply de-
lightful and the temperature is natur-
ally much lower than 1t is In the val
ley on either side Of the great noun
tain range.
The plateau is known as the" Gladesn
and the Deer Park hotels and their
family Of cottages occupy a lovely
tract OF land Of five hundred acres in
it's midst. The original forests are
still maintained, much to the credit of
the resort, and excellent roadways
have been built across the mountains
to afford good drive-ways and bicy-
cling.
The splendid hotel buildings, with
large airy rooms and immense veran-
das, are on the top of knoll, with
beautiful lawn slopIng gently to the
railway station, not three hundred
yards away. The buildings are divid-
cd into three parts, known as the
AEain DnSidipss ase East an.i pzeaa
Annexes. They are built on the very
edge OF the forest facing the plane,
through which the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad wends its way. The ten or
twelve cottages belonging to the
hotel, which are taken every summer
BY families, lie about six hundred yards
to the east of the building and are
connected with well laid ont path
ways and drives.
THE BLACK BASS OF THE P POTOMAC.
The Potomac River for the past
thirty years has been well known for
its splendid black bass fishing, but few
anglers have ever known how this
gamey fish became habitue Of this
historical stream.
In 1854 Mr.. shriver, of Wheeling,
thinking the Potomac River admir-
ably suited for the cultivation of the
black bass, together with two or three
other gentlemen, brought small lot
of twenty or thirty black bass in
live box, in the water tank of q Balti-
more & Ohio locomotive, from Wheel
ing, W. Va, and put them into the
Potomac River at Cumberland, and
from this small beginning the famous
river and It's many large tributaries,
among them the Seneca, Shenandoah,
Cherry Greek, Sleepy Greek, Great
and Little Oacapon, Patterson Greek,
South and North Branches OF the Po-
tomac, became known to all of the
anglers of America. Mr.. Bhriver in
letter to a friend In 1850 said: 1.-THE
enterprise or experiment was con-
templated by me long before the COM
pletion of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road to the Ohio River and Wheeling,
but no satisfactory mode of transport
tation presented Itself to my mind
until after the completion of the great
work Of 1868 and in the following year
! made my first trip, although ! made
several trips afterwards In the same
year, carrying with me my fret lot of
fish in large perforated tin bucket,
and which l made to ft the water
tank attached to the locomotive, which
was supplied with fresh water at reg
ular water stations along the line of
the road, and thereby succeeded well
In keeping the fish, which were young,
small, fresh and sound, having been