The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-11-05

| on Nervous and Heart diseases. AooIeSs
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
train left the depota at promptly II o'clock
and ten minutes later had coiided with
a freight, which was backing into the
yard coming around a curve, two freight
cars were demolished and the engine OF
the passenger was derailed and smashed.
but the engineer having set the brakes
the jar was not sufficient to do further
damage and no one was injured. new
engine was secured, and onward went
the editors no more daunted than if the
Office cat had upset the inkwell, The
trip took them through Indiana and Ohio
where at the little town of Tifflin supper
was served at o'clock From here the
different parties soon retired to the vari-
Gus coops assigned them in the sleepers
and the train entered upon the beautiful
scenery of the ALE shany mountains, the
party a irving at Grafton, West Virginia
early Monday morning. Engines were
changed and the journey continued
through the vast coal fields of West Vir
GINA, up and down the mountains we
went and stopped at 10 O'Clock at Cum
berlsnd, Maryland, where lunch was
served. At Cumberland we got the first
glimpse Of the famous Potomac winding
in and out between the mountains and
rejecting them in all their various shapes
and colors in its quiet waters below.
Here we also met with the old Cumber-
land Washington canal which runs par
allel to the river ali the way from Cum
berland TO the capitol, and was built to
supply Washington and seaport towns
with coal, Cumberland being in the cen
ter of the coal regions and the coal trans
ported from there to Washington in canal
boats. The canal, while largely dis
placed by railroads is still in condition
and canal boats were encountered all
along the line The Baltimore and Ohio
X. r., or M it is generally known, the b.
IL & O., WAS the first road in America and
started to build in 1880, it's progress
through the mountains was vigorously
opposed by the Canal Co. who saw the
danger TO themselves, but the railroad
finally was the victor, and today hauls
from 1900 to 1900 car loads of coal every
day of the year. Over this line the first
cars were haulded by mules and sails but
finally replaced by steam in 1884. The
route of the b. q O. is said to be the
most beautiful for scenery throughout
\ the entire east and as far az the Wiscon
sin Press il concerned they certainly
N found it so. Soon after leaving Cumber
land the party stopped at Harper's Ferry
which the erractic John Brown made
: served ~ Browns fort is gone having
been wrecked on its return from Chicago
n in 1893 and carried off M souvenirs by
the ever hustling natives Of Ohio, but a
= monument and tablets are mounted AT
spot az a tribute to the man that started
the civil war. The old town is ~ quain,
:, a. before the war, not new building
I having been erected in 40 years and the
old ones kept up just ~ they were built
q The house Of Harper, whom the town
/, took its name, still stands and is inhab
tied. Upon entering the town it seemed
~ though we were transported fifty year.
y back in the lands history. The negroe
d still reside in little hints and are quite
and obliging like before the war show
ing none Of their lazy oifensiveness tina,
characterizes them in the north Tn,
- climate also was mild and balmy NJ
frost having touched the thousands Of
c brightly colored flowers that enveloped
" every cottage and farm house At iIar
;, per's Ferry, Virginia, West Virgins
and Maryland touch one on the othel
and the country around there is histori,
/ territory, telling its tales OF the French
4 and Indian, the Revolution and Cvi
il wars, and hardly family in radin
c of 80 miles but has "A relative sleepin,
! under the sod placed there Will
In defence Of his opinion. From here OF
the trip was through the sunny soutl
and landed M mt ! o'clock in the capto
of our country, Washington. Most o