Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-10-24
In Old Virginia.


An academy of several hundred stu
dents. drawn from number Of States,
and ii college of considerable patronage
are furnishing institutions-so success
full. indeed. as to inci.r wonder why a
school like the Frostburg State Normal,
coufeSscdly good is not similarly at
traciive. One authority accounts for 1t
i'll the difference between the C0Ud't'o"%
of educational anagemeut-without
stating the nature of those conditions.
An instance was cited, however, of the
loss this year of one of Maryland's best
superintendent, now in Front Royal
school, and who took with him another
excellent tutor.
Whatever the difference III Condi-
tions" be 1t should be removed. Mary
land is undoubtedly able as any State to
provide for both high private and
public education.
A marked difference in the cost of
real estate is also noticeable. Any $500
lot recently sold on "Eckhart Flat" is
far sup rior to one the JOURNAL saw on
Manor avenue which recently sold for
$500.
\ number of good old-time friends
greeted the JOURNAL with gladstone
welcome-almost "too numerous to men
ton, but next day the great paper fell
in with a pupil, now a statesman, r0
rant, To- Harri>ouburg to deliver an adj
dress in the interest of Bryan and Hay.
democratic nominees for President and
Congress. His name is Henry II. Down
ing, once bright boy i'll school, now il
strong, able man.
At Strasburg another pupil of the
JOURNAL shook hands with his school,
mate, Henry Not only so-he was
there in his big "Rambler' automobile
to whisk the great paper Is miles over
the solid, smooth macadam of the Valley
Pike to his palatial home in Winchester.
His name is Scott II. Hansbrough, preSi-
dent of the Shenandoah Valley National
Bank and of several other big inStitu-
tions, and director i'll over dozen
others. If each held weekly meeting
he would have to leave home about
three times Il day.
The JOURNAL became qui'e well ac
quainted with Winchester during the
war; hence, it was genuine pleasure to
review many scenes now historic of that
crucial period.
Mr.. Hansbrough lives on Braddo@k'
street, noting which the JOURNAL told
him if Winchester would continue build
ing along that line the street would cX
tend to and through southeast Frost
burg and beyond. He was influential i'll
securing IA site for the new S63,O)O
Federal Building on Braddock street
opposite the new "IIandley" library Il
beautiful granite structure going Mp
under his supervision as trustee.
Another friend Of the olden time seen
in Winchester was Rev john p. Hyde,
first chaplain of the 10th Virginia Regi
ment, G. 5. \. In a rafting fight on
the Rappahannocll river in 1862 ii shell
knocked the chaplain off his horse. At
his request Col. S. b. Gibbons detailed
the JOURNAL-then in the future tense,
to help him off the field. Although
awkwardly maneuvred, the good chap
lain has always held the piece of strategy
which removed him from the zOhe of
danger to better than hospital accommo-
datiOnS III Staunton as one which estab-
ter in life already beneticently useful.
He was preparing to leave home for
Charlottesville to take his part as Grand
Chaplain in the 2lst annual reunion of
Confederate Veterans and Sons, due on
Tuesday.
Monday morning MI. Hansbrough and
his son, Garland NJ, again put the
"Rambler" in commission to carry the
JOURNAL to Martinsburg, % miles dis
tant Over an ideal highway and at
safety speed the run was made in about
an hour.
Saying good bye, the JOURNAL told
him he was "too good" but he demur-
red. He said "there is only one super
lative degree to goodness, and that none
have reached-no, not one.
Anyway, after reaching home from
experiences so delightful it seemed
tough to have to get down to this
same old prOsaic work again.