, 1904-12-07
CURRENT
COMMENT
A TRIP TO ST. LOUIS
A Hurried Glimpse of the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition

A journey of 200 miles from Ph1la-
delphia to St. Louis and back again in
just one week and in the meantime get
any adequate idea of the great Worlds
Fair i'm the Missouri metropolis does
pot allow of a great amount of time to
be spent in any one place. The writer
left Wildwood at 7.20 on Wednesday
morning, November %. We took pas
sage over the Baltimore and Ohio
r abroad, known as the Royal Blue
Philadelphia, at 1887 p. m. We went
flying we the smooth roadbed with a
stop at Chester, Pa, and at Whining
ton, Del, then over the great high
bridge across the S%usquehanna river,
at Havre de Grace, Md. Baltimore,
the sixth largest city in the United
States, with a population of 5l0, 1000,
was reached at three o'clock. Passing
through the tunnel under the city,
with a short stop at Camden station,
we were soon spinning on toward the
"a Dltdi Guy vi III SlCaO COulltly.
What a disappointment it was to find
that the railroad passed through such
a forbidding part of Washington, a
city of $50, 900 population. Having
been this far south before we
had pictured in our minds eye that
certainly a little glimpse of the gram
deur of the city would be obtainable
from the car window. The train only
passed through the suburbs and after
a change of cars and conductors we
were soon speeding westward through
the hills of Maryland. Darkness v
took us soon after leaving Washington
and we were denied a glimpse of the
mountainous portions of Maryland
and West Virginia on the going trip.
Our fellow passengers in the car, many
of whom were bound for st. Louis,
proved to be agreeable company during
the long, dreary night. A young Jap
who was a good conversationalist and
well informed, was especially enter
tanning during the early hours of the
night. Daylight found us at Cincin-
natl, a city of 1926, 900 population and
the second largest city in Ohio. Here
a change of cars vas made. After the
change here and while sitting in the
car waiting for the train to start our
attention was attracted to the large
quantities of oysters which had come
through by eX press from Baltimore and
which were being transferred from the
a for Cincinnati and points west
ward. The oysters had been opened
and were shipped in kits, similar to
the wooden vessels used In shipping
mackerel. There seemed to be a whole
carload of these oysters, which were
labeled 'Pride of Baltimore Leav-
ing Cincinnati about eight O'Clock
Thanksgiving morning we passed
along the Ohio river for an hour or so.
At this point this river forms the
boundary line between the states of
Ohio and Kentucky and can say we
have seen the Blue Grass state if we
haven't been in it. The ride through
southern Indiana and Illinois revealed
a pleasant rolling country and in the
vicinity of White river the scenery was
quite pretty. AT Vincennes, Indiana,
we crossed the Wabash river and
entered Illinois. This town contains
glass factories and other industrial es-
IF is ono of tho cu,o1
cities typical of southern Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, having small one
story houses and lacking in attractive
ness in every way. Our Jersey towns
are far superior to it in the grade of