The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-23
A SINGULAR TOWN.
It Has Not Preacher, Lawyer, Nor q
Doctor

A township, enc edge Of which reach.
es within four miles Of Pittsburg's city
line, and whose fertile farms are as
sessed at more than half q million dol
lars, and yet has not q church, nor
minister, not a doctor, not an attor.
ney. not q saloon or spsak-easy, 10 now
about to lose for the third time its bit
Of railroad. This 10 Snowden.
There Is probably not another town
ship east Of the Mississippi River sim.
Z 1ilarly conditioned. The new Baltimore
and Ohio tunnel at White Hall will 90
change the course of the Wheeling Di.
vision that 1t will be at Wilson's Sta
ton. True, the line will follow down
the bank Of Lickrun, the dividing line
between Jefferson and Snowdsn Town.
ships, but the residents of the town.
ship do not consider that after the tun.
mel is opened next spring they will have
a railroad at all. At present the rail-
road running over the hill at White
Hall and down past Curry's Station
takes In a generous part Of the town
ship, but this track will be abandoned
when the line is run through the tun-
mel now being constructed.
Fifteen years ago the rails were lift
cd from the Pittsburg Southern tracks
which traversed the township from END
to end; later the CHARTERS and Youghi.
ogheny Road was graded through the
township from edge to edge yet for
some reason the rails were never laid,
These two long scars have never healed
properly in the minds of the sturdy far
plers, and now comes the third indiRni.
ty, the removal of the tracks Of the
Baltimore and Ohio from the best part
Of the township
Matters were not always so, however.
There was a time when Snowden
Township had several churches, az fine
aS those found in any country districti
she had ministers galore, too, and half
q dozen physicians. to say nothing of
Q few attorneys She also had a saloon
or two, and 1t IL rumored that there
were some speak-sasies, but this ru.
NOR is unconfirmed. What may seem
strange is the fact that the churches
built in old Snowden Township are still
standing; the old physicians still prao.
tice from their old stands; the minis
This abandoned roadbed will make
the third unseemly scar on the surface
Of one Of the finest farming regions and
one Of the most densely populated
townships in Western Pennsylvania.
tiers yet live in the parsonages as of
old, and attorneys come to the city
daily from this old section. but none
Of them call Snowden Township home,
as they did with pride some Is years
ago.-Pittsburg Times.
Architect Vanx's Busy Ghost.
Do spirits play pranks with living
people? Here is one incident that
seems to indicate that they do. Not
long ago Stuyvesant Fish asked Fran
els T. Bacon, the architect, to remodel
a summer house for him. 1t Is an old
home on the Hudson, called Glen
Clyffe. 1t is situated on a plat of
green hillside just opposite West
Point. Mr.. Fish and Mr.. Bacon went
over the drawings together in the lat
ter's Chicago office Glen Clyffe is
brick house, with stone trimmings,
with a wide veranda running around
1t. It is in Italian renaissance and was
built in 1857 by an architect named
Vaux, now dead. The front of the
house is four stories, and the back
three, owing to its location on hill
slope.
Mr.. BdCOu pTOmlSeu u HOuSIHiI6
the house, and put the plans away in
his desk. Within an hour George
Powers, Industrial commissioner, came
in.
IT say, Bacon" he remarked, can
you take time to remodel on old house
for a friend of mine-Ben Price, at
Oxford, Miss. ?"
EYES," said the architect. And when
the plans of the Mississippi house were
produced, Bacon rubbed his eyes.
Queer" he said, reaching for Presi-
dent Fish's plans. They were alike in
every Standardization renaissance,
brick, with stone trimmings, situated
on a~knoll, four stories front and
three rear. One is located on the Hud-
son. the other 1000 miles away in a
little Mississippi town. One was built
in 1857; the other in 1859. Both sets
of drawings were signed &c. Vaux."
rhe question is, What does the de-
xased vaux wanti Is it a ghost'C
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