Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-09-19
A Pleasant Outing.

brown as a berry and as clipper as ar
admiral of His Majesty's navy. AL
though hard student and devoting
most of his time to the onerous duties
of circuit judgeship, the Judge is a
thoroughly good traveller and was per-
fectly delighted with his trip. To a
reporter of the Evening World the
Judge stated that the real pleasures of
his trip began in New York, where he
happened upon U. S. Fish Commits
sioner Bowers, whom he accompanied
to the summer headquarters of the
Commission at Woods Holl, Mass.
Here the Commissioner and his family
assisted by Mss George Silvers, of
this county, and Mr.. Dunlap, chief
clerk of the Fish Commission, dispensed
the most charming hospitality. For
several days the Judge accompanied
the Commissioner on his official rounds
in this locality and incidentally was
initiated into some of the mysteries of
Isaac Walton's art (of which, by the
way, Mr.. Bowers is past master) in
the waters of Vineyard Sound and
Buzzards' Bay made famous by the
piscatorial feats Of Joseph Jefferson
and Grover Cleveland. The Judge
pronounces the Commissioner not
only the prince of good fellows, but a
veritable archaeological encyclopedia.
From Woods Holl trip was made
by rail to Plymouth. with its wide av-
enues and spreading elms, its museum
and time-worn rock; Boston, with its
Fanueil Hall, its Haymarket Square
and legends of Revolutionary days /;
Cambridge, with its University and
Agassiz Museum, through which trav-
elers were courteously shown by DR..
Woodwork; Salem; Lonn; Manches-
ter-on-the-sea and Gloucester, the
great fish market of the Atlantic coast.
The immense limestone quarries at
Hockland were next visited and in
spected; then Booth Bay came in for
a share of their attention, as there is
to be found the monster lobster pound
containing $4,000 Holsters for market;
and while the travellers yet tarried an
incoming vessel discharged its cargo
of some 5000 more. Seven sardine
plants are also located at Booth Bay,
and expert female packers receive
$l.75 per day for putting those slip
perry little fellows away in oil for our
ten o'clock bits. Castine, a quaint
little sea side resort, was next visited
and its old French fort explored.
Bar Harbor, with its aristocratic air
and beautiful homes, came next in or
der for the inspection, and then, TAX
ing the outside passage" they pro-
ceeded to Portland, the great shipping
center, Longfellow's "City by the Sea. "
Portland is truly remarkable city ;
her wealth, per capita, is only ex-
ceeded by Yonkers; in her public and
private charities she is only surpassed
by Baltimore she has a greater pro-
portion of paved streets to her total
mileage than any other city in Amer
lea; she expends more money on her
internal affairs, and has better elec-
trical equipment for all purposes, than
any city in the United States. Leav-
ing Portland the White Mountains
were next explored and splendid
view of Mt. Washington, 5000 feet
above sea leveD was obtained from
the Fabyans hotel.
Then came Quebec, the city founded
by Champlain in 1908 on the site Of
an Indian village called Stadacona.
The form of Quebec is nearly that Of
a triangle, the Plains Of Abraham
forming the base, and the rivers st.
Lawrence and st. Charles the sides.
1t has population of about 10000.
What is called the upper town is
strongly fortified, containing within
its limits the Citadel of Cape Diamond,
the most formidable fortress in Amer.
lea, and high on the walls Of which is
the following inscription: Here Maj
or General Montgomery fell, Dec. 81,
l775." Among the places of most in-
terest visited were the magnificent
Chateau Frontenac hotel built at a
cost of 81 100000; the Public Garden
containing the handsome monument
erected to the memory of Wolfe and
Montcalm in 1927; the Place d'Armes
containing the Chateau Frontenac, the
Government Offices, the English Ca.
thedral and the old Court t-house the
Esplanade; the Basilica or Roman
Catholic Cathedral founded in 1865
by Bishop Laval; and the new
Parliament and Departmental Build