The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1903-09-26
From the Paoli Und. News.
AN OUTING IN KENTUCKY.

AN OUTING IN KENTUCKY.
AS requested, I hand you sketch
of recent outing of myself and
| family in Kentucky, including trip
up Kentucky river and to Cumber-
land Gap. On the 18th ult., we left
Louisville at o'cock p. IN. on the
! steamer Falls City," for Carroll
ton, KY, 81 miles up the Ohio. and
from thence up the. kentucky river,
to Valley View, l75 miles from the
mouth of the river, and the head of
navigation making the round trip
from Louisville, nearly 800 miles.
There were about $50 persons on
the boat, including parties from
Louisville, Shelbyville, Taylors-
Vile and other points in Kentucky,
indianapolis. Columbia, Madison,
Vevay, New Albany, Paoli, and
other points in Indiana, and Paris,
Illinois. 1t was a crowd of ladies
and conference.-the rowdy element
being noticeably absent, and if there
was one of the crowd who did not
thoroughly enjoy the entire trip,
that fact was not made known. On
account of the crowd, we were
somewhat cramped for room, but
we found the officials of the boat
throughout so gentlemanly, clever
and obliging that these little dis
comforts were overlooked and for
gotten. To DR.. Lawrence, Superin-
tendept of the line, Captain VOL
verton, Clerks Edmonson and
Doyle, and. especially so to Captain
Wolverton, we are under obligations
for courtesies shown us.
had seen and crossed the Ken
tueky river at various points, from
it's headwaters in the mountains, to
it's mouth, but not until this trip did
/ have any conception of its scenic
beauties-fiowing rs it does through
deep glens, narrow can (y)Ons and
picturesque gorges, overlooked by
castellated and cavernOus rocks,
and a rich vegetation of almost
tropical luxuriance. The scenic
beauties of the route are indescrib-
able and must be seen to be under
stood and enjoyed. 1t is claimed
that they far excel those seen upon
the Majestic Hudson. They are
certainly sufficient to satisfy the
most eXactlng critic. There are
many points of commanding inter.
est along the route-too many to at
tempt to notice all, SO / will con-
| fine myself to the few, and chief
among them. next to the canyon
scenery between Frankfort and
Valley View, are the locks and
dams, eight in number, completed,
| in the erection of which, for the
improvement of the navigation of
the river, the u. S. Government
has, already, expended about two
millions Of dollars, and is now en-
gagged in building two more, by
means of which boats will be en-
! abled to reach Beattyville, 26l miles
from the mouth of the river. The
raising of the boat while ascending,
and lowering 1t while descending,
the river, by means of these locks
and dams, was always an interest
ing event to old and young alike.
Frankfort, the capital of Ken
lucky, is a quaint old city of some
$4,000 Inhabitants, surrounded by
towering hills that overlook the
city and river, and on Ole of the
highest of which is situated the
cemetery, in which Daniel Boone
and other celebrities are buried.
Here, also, is seen the monument
! erected TO tile memory or Ken
tucky's soldiers in the Mexican
war, which called forth the noble
poem. 1.-THE Bivouac of the Dead, -
by Col. O'Hara, a Kentucky officer.
The old State Capitol building is
another point of interest. AS
stood in the street fronting it, /
was carried back in memory to a
time forty-seven years ago 1856,
when, as a boy of twelve, in COM
pany with my valued friend, Mr..
Moses f. Ham, now resident of
Paoli, sat aStride Of horse in
almost the same spot ] then stood,
and viewed the same old building
unchanged, except as the wear and
tear Of time has added to it's veneer
able appearance. The Capital Ho-
tel, the scene of the sanguinary bat
tie in which Col. Dave ColsOn
figured and in which three men
lost their lives, is another point OF
interest. But the most gruesome
Of all il the spot in the State House
yard, where Senator Goebel was
so foully murdered-the window, in
the Secretary of States Office, from
which the cowardly shot was fired
the spot where he fell, and the
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