The Republican journal., 1907-05-09
BALTIMORE
THE MONUMENTAL CITY.

Ton ontario began TO CEurn LnS water,
the lines were cast off and the big steam
er moved slowly, stern first, out of the
dock at Norfolk. 1t was fully half an
hour before she was worked around and
headed on her course up Chesapeake
bay. The night was dark and as steam
and small sailing craft were numerous,
some at anchor and others underway,
the searchlight was in constant use.
The wind gradually increased until it
blew gale, causing, as afterwards
learned, much damage to shipping, and
before ten O'Clock snow storm set in
which continued all night. 1t was still
showing when we arrived at Baltimore
in the morning. The itinerary included
a two hours carriage drive about the
city and despite the storm this part of
the program was faithfully carried out.
Seated in closed carriages, with the big
snowtiakes covering the windows, little
could be seen save the lower stories of
the new buildings in the business sec
ton which have replaced those destroy
ed in the big fire a few years ago. In
the residence section but three familiar
objects were seen by the writer-the
Washington monument at the intersec-
ton of Charles and Monument streets,
Peabody Institute, and the church OPP
posite built of green limestone. On a
first visit to Baltimore in 1858 the wri-
ter climbed the stairway to the top of
this monument and recalls attending
at that time an exposition of some kind
IN which machine for knitting stock
lngS was seen in operation. No other
incident of this early visit is recalled.
Ten years later became resident of
the Monumental City and for year
was night editor of the Baltimore Ga
zette, and in the ten years succeeding,
when resident of Washington, d. c.,
came to regard Baltimore as home, in
the fullest acceptation of the word.
The changes wrought in less than
thirty years are many and saddening.
The Baltimore Gazette went out of ex-
istence | know not how many years
ago, and its three proprietors, w. W.
Glenn, Frank Key Howard and w. H.
Carpenter: its business manager, Mr..
Garter: its foreman, Mr.. Griffith and
one of its reporters, Tom" Hooper,
have joined the silent majority. If
TONY" Chambers, another reporter, is
living he is the only survivor besides
myself of those engaged on the paper
in 1862. The founder of the Baltimore
Sun, A, ;. Abel, was then living, and
on his death one of his three sons,
George, had the management of the
paper. seventeen years ago, when a
brief visit was made to Baltimore, the
writer called at the Sun office and re-
newed acquaintance with Mr.. Abel and
also met Mr.. Carpenter, formerly of
the Gazette, and n. E. Foard the night
editor, who | used to see occasionally
at fires and other happenings in the
small hours of the morning, when the
to get out and hustle for the news.
Things are probably differently arrang-
ed now, SO that the night editor is not
called upon to leave his desk. But this
is DEPRESSION. The Sun was housed
i'll what was said to have been the first
iron building erected in this country,
and it was rightly regarded then as a
handsome structure. This with the
other newspaper offices was destroyed
in the recent fire The Sun now occu-
pies modern building constructed for
its use. | had heard of the death of
George Abell and on enquiry at the
business office learned that there was
no one living and connected with the
paper that was employed on it in my
day. The sun building is on Baltimore
street. not far from its former location.
and to give an idea of the sky-scrapers
IN that vicinity l may say that looked
up the address of a friend and found it
was suite 400, Continental building.
The death of so many old friends, and
failure to find those still living, made
this, a farewell visit to Baltimore, a
sad one. The place itself, once so IA
mlllar, has changed beyond recognition.
These "reminiscences have left thelex-
eurslonists in closed carriages, but their
ride terminated at the Camden station
of the B. & o. Formerly the Baltimc re
" Ohio trains from New York were
broken up at the President street sta
ton and the cars hauled singly by
horses through the streets to the Cam
den street station. The PENNSYLVANIA
road about that time constructed a
tunnel under the western part of the
city and ran through trains to Wash.
ington. Then the B. & O. ferried its
trains below the city and the run from
Washington to New York was reduced
from l-2 or hours to six and then tc
five hours. The B. & 0. now has tun
mel, following nearly, we should judge
It's old surface line on which horses
were used, and in taking a special Cal
for Washington we descended long
flight of stairs and boarded the train