Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-21
Honolulu, Sept, 1905.

time to time, by the others.
Honolulu, Sept, 1905.
Editor The Evening World:
Dear Sir II remember with pleasure
promise made prior to my departure
from Martinsburg 70 send you few
letters of travel which may be of inter
est to our mutual friends and the en-
tire body OF readers of your valued
paper. In redeeming this promise /
shall strive to find amid the vast array
which present itself to the observation
of the traveller, points of general in
terest and present them to the magma
tion rather than the eve of the reader.
Perhaps the simplest manner of ac-
complishing this purpose is to. follow
the course of travel and make such
observations as, from time to time.
arise.
Between Martinsburg and Pittsburg
the taveler sees mountains, small rivers,
and towns with various classes of
population; between Pittsburg and
Chicago, large farms with small
houses and barns and level stretches
of land, improved and unimproved I:
from Chicago west is the lands of
magnificent distances. This cocn-
try has about it an air of immensely, the
cities al appearance of newness, and
the people think in the former and act
with the latter. About everything,
whether il be money making or plea.
sure seeking, there is an undisguised
spirit of earDestness. This sometimes
takes advantage of the desire
common to most men TO get things as
easily as possible, and turns them from,
developing the natural resources of
the land to the less ardous task of ex-
plotting those who do. For this req.
son we have what may justly be called
parasitic cities. That is. cities whose
population live off of Others and care
for no other. thing than to exact as
much as possible from every stranger.
amy ASRhAH bhO dc bI61E DICy
and catch him, legitimately if he can,
with guile If they must. Their
honest industries are dishonesty con-
ducted when he is to be entrapped.
They advertise sights not worth see-
ing. meals not worth estinn, and
Speak of their natural resources which.
after all, are nothing more than the
unatural vsporings OF their agents.
One place at which we stopped,
although located 1900 miles from
either ocean and dependent for its
water supply upon little streams
flowing from the SLOWLY melting ice
beds upon the mountains about, adj
yertises better fish dinners than are to
be had In Baltimore, and fresh oysters
in the month of August. 1t is SAD
that much of the progress Of this city
is due to the enterprise Of few citi.
zens who moved there from Hagers.
rewhl The number OF rlaees of this
character is Surprisingly large. though
/ think there is an error in .crediting
their genius too literally to the people
Of the east.
4 The realiv great things of the west
are those With which man has had
little 'te do. Hours were snent in
tbassirg through the most sublime ex-
hibitions of nature. Beyond Colorado
Springs, on the Denver q Rio Grande
railroad, is the Royal Gorge. This
NAV well be called the cathedral Of
nature its architect not man, but God
it's spires fingers of living stone tower
ing up 20 where their SUBMITS are
lost in an indescribable mingling with
pure blue of tire heavens; its walls,
red sandstone and mountain granite
its mosaics, mica and gold quartz set
into bed rock with a touch more
skillful the" nat of any man; It's
g.