Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-06-30
HAD A GOOD TIME.
Scientists Enjoy Themselves
Hugely Here.

uO Ddch 10 ftitsHHTg at an EaFlY HOuF
This Morning Thought Cheat Cam
yon was Grand Place End Of De-
lightful Outing Brings Fitting Gil
max.
The following article appeared in
the Pittsburg Dispatch this morning
relative to the trip which the party
of scientists under DR.. /. G. White
made to this place over Sunday. The
correspondent was a staff man who
has been with the party during the
entire trip:
The investigation of this section
by the famous party of biologists
which started from Plttsburg last
Tuesday morning is completed As
they stood upon the balcony of the
Canyon Club House at the Cheat riv-
er CANYON, looking over the valley,
which gave view of all Of the form
atoms which for the past week they
have heen studying, it seemed an
ideal elimination OF the tour which
had been so excellently arranged for
them by DR.. |. G. White, of this city
The magnificent scenery seemed to
inspire all of them, and they said
without exception that 1t was the
most interesting and enjoyable trip
which they had yet taken.
Tonight the members have given
up the strenuous labor of scaling
cliffs aud descending into ravines,
which has Tor a week been their
daily programme, and they are as
sembled at the magnificent residence
of DR.. White, "Cherryhurst," enjoy
ing social evening with a number
of the prominent residents of the
city, the guests of the doctor and
his hospitable family. Tomorrow
morning at :55 o'clock they will re-
turn to Pittsburg IN their special
car to take part in the proceedings
of the A. A. A. S.
During the entire stay here they
are being entertained by DR.. White,
who has left nothing undone looking
toward their comfort. After a short
tramp about the hills this morning
carriages were taken for the Cheat
river canyon, seven miles distant,
where lunch was served in the club
house. In this canyon better than at
any other place in the Appalachians
are shown all of the formations of the
section. The Pittsburg coal at the
top, here loses itself in the air just
before Chestnut ridge is reached and
the conglomerate asserts itself, only
to be in turn lost in space. The en-
tire Allegheny series follows in turn,
each showing up at a point further up
the canyon, then the hard Pottsville
formation. The Mauch Chunk red
shale gives way to the hard mountain
limestone and the last to show up is
the deep, hard Pocono formation.
Miss Louise Klein Miller, dean Of
the Lowthrope Horticulture School
for Girls, Groton, Mass, here found a
particular interest in the mountain
limestone, which shows up just be-
low the club house in the bed Of the
canyon. Miss Miller loves the study
of the inter. relationship of the differ
ent sciences and was enthusiastic over
this formation.
'sThis limestone, she said, "is the
same that appears in Southern Indi-
ana and Kentucky, and is that in
which those magnificent caves appear.
1t is also the stone that provides such
great fertilization for the fields there
and produces the great blue grass sec
ton. The products of limestone
section have unusual life-giying quail
ties, and the records Of the United
States army show that the men from
the district in which this stone pre-
dominates are two and half inches
taller than the average. Can bet
ter example of the INTERPOLATION of
the different elements be shown"