The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-06-20
LETTER FROM Mr.. U. G. PALMER
On His Way to the Gold Fields of
Nevada.
the Editor OF The Republican:

l left Oakland Monday night, June IL,
on train No. 4, reaching Washington
early Tuesday morning. Washington
with its quarter of million inhabitants
is certainly beautiful city,-the most
beautiful on the American continent, if
not in the world-and today is gem of
exquisite setting clothed in its fresh and
dense mantle of green. 1t really seems
colder than Garrett if that is possible.
One of the stores on the Avenue has
placard over its large display of straw
hats Gear muffs given away with each
straw hat if desired"
The ide.from Washington to Charlotte
Hall of eighty miles began at $50 a. m.
and terminated four hours later-trans-
portation that would be inferior to that
of the Preston Railroad if the latter
would add passenger car to its service.
Charlotte Hall is certainly an ideal
place for a school and the Charlotte
Hall Military Academy with its hundred
bows is training for all time, the visitor
can readily see why Washington was
delighted with the ''cool springs" there
$50 years ago and why the school has
an unbroken record of more than a
hundred years, and numbers among its
graduates many of the most distin-
guished men in our state and nation.
The ride back to Washington in the morn
ing is made on board a train carrying
passengers exclusively and hence the
running time is shortened by about an
hour.
The person who selects train No. 5,
for the run from Washington west
makes no mistake. The distance to
Pittsburg, 302 miles is made with but
three stops to Cumberland and three
more to Pittsburg in 81 hours. Pitts
burg, the smoky city-the greatest
manufacturing city on earth-the dis
trict which originates more freight ton
mage than any other district in the
world. The passenger who leaves
Pittsburg at 1912 D. m. sees but little
of Ohio and Indiana, but arises next
morning to get glimpse Of the pickle
plants in the latter state of Heinze of
Pittsburg II the section in which the
farmers raise cucumbers by the ton, the
same as the farmers Of Garrett raises
hay.
Chicago is reached at $40 a. m, cen
trial time. Chicago's population is fast
nearing the two million work the sec
ond largest city in the new world and
the metropolis of 1900, 900 square miles
of agricultural land, the ike in area
and fertility of which is nowhere to be
found.
This territory is bounded by the Ale
ghenies and the Rockies, the Gulf and
the Peace River in Canada. Some of
the most densely populated sections of
China support an average of 700 pee
pie per square mile. What would be
our population if this vast farm of Uncle
Sans had one half that density of pop
ulation.
Chicago is entertaining two distin-
guished visitors this week, James Bryce,
the British Ambassador, and Mayor
Fitzgerald, of Boston.
Mr., Bryce believes that Chicago is a
most wonderful city and has no parallel
in the modern world, and that it seems
to have future that will completely
eclipse all its past achievements.
To Illustrate in the matter of trans
portation alone, the handling of its
freight and passengers by rail, exclu-
sive OF its steamship traffic, necessitates
arrival and departure of nearly 20O0
trains per day.
At II tonight | leave for Denver via
Omaha, over the Burlington and am
due there, l043 miles distant, at I. 80 a.
m. Saturday. ride of thirty-two and
a-half hours.
The cars in the yards at Chicago look
ed familiar: Fairmont Coal Co. Coal
and Coke R. R.. B. & o., etc. Now
we see scarcely any but D. & R. G.,
U. P, S. P, N. P, ETC., and the sight
of a B. &. o. is like meeting an old
friend.
At Galesburg, ILL.,, change for St.
Louis, Kansas City, St. Paul and Min
neapolis, the passager begins to realize
he is getting well out into the heart of
the great west.
Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska are Uncle
Sans great cornfelds. There are hun
dreds of miles of the richest farm lands
conceivable, gently undulating with
nothing in sight but corn and cattle.
In nature the soil is very similar to Gar
rett gladelands. Last year we raised
80 bushels of corn for every man,
woman and child in the United States,
but weather conditions must soon change
or we will have tremendous shortage
this year-not spear to be seen any
where six inches high and it should be
at least three feet on this date.
The Burlington equipment is superb
and they run ten or more cars on every
train ht1t travalino ic sonoamhof onoa1