The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-10
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R. B. NeWCOme Writes an In
tG!GStIng Letter From
New York

Daily Panhandle, Amarillo Texas,
Mrs, Ncwcome and I left Amarillo
two weeks ago tonight 70 see the
jamestown exposition and incident
ally take In few other places.
Arrived at st. Louis from Fort Worth
over the Katy flyer, making good con-
nection with our Cincinnati train,
| getting to Cincinnati Tuesday night,
We stopped over there nearly all day
Wednesday, taking the b, n o.
through the mountains OF West Nir-
ginia and Virginia to Washington
city ! wish to state right here of
all the crooked railroads over which
| have travelled The road through the
Alleghaney mountains lover and
under) are first, The scenery, how
ever along the different rivers is
beautiful.
Coming down the X, F, & p. from
Washington to Richmond, Va, we
saw more pretty scenery
Historic Richmond.
Except New York Richmond was
the most interesting Of all the cities
we visited At Washington we felt
lost on the wide avenues, (some of
which must be 500 feet wide) but
we we're choked on the narrow pas
sage ways at Richmond The first
interesting spot was the headquarters
at Washington, an old rock story and
a half building, between modern sky
scrapers, but preserved wonderfully
well, In Washington we saw many
of the things used and worn by Gen.
Washington and wife. They must
have had their belongings scattered
considerably because at Washington
city are so many relics belonging to
the Washington family; at Richmond
in several places; here in Norfolk in
many places, and at every exposition
they are found in pfUYusion
In the capital yard at Richmond is
an immense bronze statue Of Geo.
Washington on his horse mounted
on a granite pedestal probably thirty
feet in the air, and at each corner, at
at the base are life sized statues of
other heroes. In the capital build
ing is standing life size bronze of
him. About three blocks TO the west
Is the old home of jefferson DaT
(now used as state museum
grand two story building with LAT
columns in front. The city hall is
the prettlest of its kind that / have
ever seen, We got permission TO 90
to the top (3O0 feeD, where a good
and full view of the town could be
seen The old confederate who
guided us, explained to us all the
many interesting historic places,
where our forefathers stood, fought
and died, must not forget to say
that innumerable squirrels play in
the capital yard, feeding on the scraps
and crumbs left there by families
and children who go out TO rest and
play under the large shade trees and
on the well mown blue grass. No
driving is allowed inside the yard,
and dogs are not admitted.
A Call at the Exposition.
From Richmond we went to Nor
folk, or the jamestown exposition.
Some one told us before leaving home
that 1t was about like our Dallas
fair. Well, ne had seen only the
amusement features and had never
reached the exposition proper We
were told when we left the cars that
1t was only short distance to the
grounds but after going through
mile Of pike" seeings, we made fur
Their inquiry and was told to take
car which we did and then must have
gone another mile before we had to
part with a half dollar admittance
fee Inside the grounds proper we
saw many rough places that could be
beautified with grass trees or shrub
berry, but the buildings and contents
were about TIC same as at Chicago,
Buffalo, and st, Louis on A smaller
scale, fortunately or unfortunate
ly we both happened to get sick
shortly after we got inside the
grounds so olly remained about two
honrs. or course we got to see some
of the big boats, but | wasn't in n
looking humor Just shcn, and having
seen some Of them before, we went
to Norfolk who're wc exchanged our
tickets for our return trip,
Seeing cities Through Tunnels.
Our original routing was to take a
steamer from Norfolk to New York
on the Atlantic ocean, but as the
berths were all taken on that route
for week ahead, we got time to run
up the Chesapeake bay by boat to
New York, by way OF Baltimore. An
all night run on the boat landed us
at the busy, bustling, smoky city OF
Baltimore, Maryland, We got to