The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-07-08
In Historic Places.

The Democratic Editors Association OF
Maryland have Just returned from de.
| lightful excursion to Richmond, Virginia
Owing to unavoidable hindrances to
many of the members, the company was
small; but those who were privileged to
go found an agreeable company, and
every detail of the carefully worked-out
itinerary was followed with pleasure and
profit to all the participants.
When the boat set out from Pier IS,
Light street, Baltimore, President J. NJ.
STREET., of the Hartford Democrat, and
ladies: Acting Secretary John W. Avirctt,
of the Cumberland Times, wife and
daughter; Mr.. William J. Price, of the
Centrevile Observer; McSsrs Baughman,
of Frederick. and Hamilton. of Hagers-
town; Rev K. A. CaStleman, representa-.
tive by courtesy If the .Egis and Intelli-
gencer, and Master r. Allen Castlemau
assembled in the cabin of tine good steam
CT Charlotte, OF the York River line BY
the courteous care of Travelling Passcn-
ger Agent MacDaniel, of the Chesapeake
Steamboat Company, who, with Mr..
Mckay, accompanied the party, tickets
and staterooms were promptly secured.
After pleasant hour i'll social converse
on the deck, merry party sat down to
a well-servcd supper, which was quite up
to the high standard for which this
steamboat line is Justly celebrated. Here,
as throughout the trip, Messrs. Baugh-
man and Hamilton, the junior members
tE. so Z kept things lively with their
wit and jollity.
Under Il cloudless sky and a full moon,
and with delightful breeze. the evening
DcSSe1 all tOn utIick1y At dawn we
were entering the York River, upon
whose classic shores are many points OF
lntercst-notabiy Yorktown, With Its
coninlein"rative monument.
we iandeu at west foint where the
morning tram OF the southern Railway
was IN waiting ana by J.lo a. M. kich-
ilond was Ieachcd: I'm route Inc nome OF
Martina tNustis! "ashin2tnil' the nattier
held OF Seven lneS ana other points OF
COLONIAL ana more recent interest were
pointed out.
At the station IN Nlcnnrond Mr. FRED
crlcE W. BAKER 1Ht'heriy OF the -t.sis.
now managing, eaitor Oh the southern
Churchnan OF that city, was prompt 10
greet ana Wcicome us WITH outstretcheu
hand,
The morning, under the guidance OF Mr..
Baker ana his sister-in-laW, MISS w hittie;
was spent Ill VISITS to the 0apitoi anu
state l;iDrary' iiciuultS acail upon "oN-
ernor Montague, VINO extended most
cotulai Weicoiiie.
After lunch the party boarded aspeciai
electric car ana personally conducted
saw the Seven flneS ana other Dattle-
helds; old st. John ChuTch' where rat
rick Henry made his famous speech; the
equestrian statue or Robert +: Lee. the
new Confederate Soldiers ana Sailors
monument on libby Hlll, and other
points OF interest IN aud about the city
Sunday afternoon visit was pad to
the famous hollywood Cemetery, hne
stretch OF wooded hills overlooking the
James RIVER a pleasing feature OF which
was many me haEHoha trees Just co'h-
ing INTO bloom Among the graves OF
ll,ooo Confederate soialers rises q mas
slve pyramid OF huge unrnortared stone,
the sides about % :eet III length, the per,
pendicular apparently 100 leet. ana all
covered Ger with c!inSlng Virginia creep
era vcrltable earn.
Here too, are buried l'res!dents Monroe
and Tyler. as well as ireSident Jefferson
Davis, and tbs Confederate Generals "A.
=. Hill. Pickett, General and twice Gov
ernor William Extra Billy Smith, and
General l.. b. Stuart, as well as Com
modorc Maury.
Every step Is OF interest, every turn OF
expectation.
On Monday, we lett the venerable, yet
vigorous, city aboard the steamer Old
Point Comfort tor sail down the James
to Old Point. AJourney OF more absorb
ing interest could scarce be imagined.
From the Point, some ten miles below
Richmond, where the turDld stream, RED
with the clay OF amherst ana Appomat-
toX, Nelson and buckingham, Fluvanna
and Powhatan swirls through the Dutch
Gap Canal to where at Newport News
its five miles of blue waters merge into
Hampton Roads, is always in sight some
point of historic interest either from aSsQ-
| Citations of Colonial times, or of the fierce
conflict of Civil War.
Atkins Landing, Curtis Neck (ancestrai
seats OF the RandolphSl, Malvern Hill,
Shirley (home of the Carriers, City Point,
| Berkeley estate of the IIarrisonsl
| MISSIONER (manor of the Byrds), Wcya.
noke, Upper and Lower Brandon (also
seats of the Harrisons(, Jamestown, the
early and only. with its ruined church,
tower, fragments Of other walls and its
ancient tomhstuneS, the whole property
now happilv hv Gift of Mrs. Louis J.
| Barney, in possession of the association
for the preservation of Virginia antiqui,
ties, are part of the muster roll. And
at last, rising superb and strong in vigor.
Gus youth, Newport News, with its great
coal piers and elevator and its vast
shipyard filed with war vessels in various
stages of construction, all silhouetted
against the Eastern sky as the daylight
begins to fade, brings one hack to the