The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-11-11

could barely make out John Green,
whether it had final "e'' or not we
could not tell, and the date of his
death and age could not be read, al
though we thought we could make
out June II, 1881. By the side of
this old stone was another, not quite
SO badly worn, which bore the in
scription, Mary Greene, died May
"A, 1929, aged SO years. From
this we learned that our ancestors
did undoubtedly spell the name like
General Greene did at one time, and
there seems to be hardly any doubt
whatever that General Greene is my
at-great-grandfather, as | figure ;
it out.
Our train was due to leave
Waynesburg at 11:2O SO we did not
nave time to investigate any more,
especially as we had told Mrs. Glad
den we would see her again before
we left. | almost forgot to mention
that her daughter was there, the one
| that is about mothers age. Louise
is her name, / believe. We only had
few minutes to talk to them and
they were SO sorry to see us go that
| my conscience has hurt me ever since
to think that we did not plan to
stay longer in Waynesburg. Before
we left | took their picture and will
try to send you one when we get
them printed. On our way to the
train | took two different views of
| the Greene county court house and
4 the statue of General Greene which
still surmounts it's top. We were
| sorry to leave Waynesburg 1t is a
pretty little town of about 5000.
The streets are nicely paved and ev-
erything is we'll kept l suppose
grandma would not recognize it as
the town she knew some forty years
ago.
We got back to Pittsburg about
half past one in the afternoon, got a
room at down town hotel, and
spent the remainder of the day in
looking around the stores. By acct
dent, late in the evening, we found
ourselves at the foot of the bridge
spanning the Monongahela river,
and noticed the incline on the other
side. which Eva has already men
/ toned. We crossed the bridge to get
a closer view of this remarkable
means of travel necessitated by the
billy character of Pittsburg. This
incline is simply a track laid up the
side of the rocky cliff upon which
(; both freight and passenger cars are
| drawn by immense cables The per-
| pendicular height to which these cars
are drawn is $40 feet, and the in
cline of the track is just about IS
degrees. The freight cars used are
so large that two teams and wagons
can drive on one car side by side.
and be carried to the top. The pas
senger cars will seat twenty or twen-
ty-five passengers very comfortably.
The fare is five cents, and for wag-
on and team, twenty-five cents. Eva
did not want to 'go up" at first but
a lady who lived in Pittsburg came
along and noticing the hayseed on
our clothes kindly explained every
thing to us, and coaxed us to try it.
The sensation is about like riding on
the Ferris wheel When we got to
the top we found ourselves on a
broad drive which extends for miles
along the Monongahela at the top of
this immense bluff. Here it is pos
sible to see almost the entire city of
Pittsburg and Allegheny, but it was
almost dark and the smoke made
matters worse, SO we could not see
VERY much, just enough to make US
realize what a magnificent view we
might have had if we had come earl
Ter in the day and to give us one
other regret at leaving Pittsburg, for
our train was to leave at daylight
the next morning and we knew we
should not have another opportunity
to climb this height and see what we
knew must be one of the sights of
Pittsburg. In speaking of the hilly
character of Pittsburg our friend
above mentioned told us that Pitts
: burg is built on seven hundred hills,
} and after tramping over it for week
: we mentally agreed that there must
: be at least that many.
) We started for ST. Louis Thursday
morning, the 21st. Our train had
: come from New York and was an
: hour ana half late, but this only
| gave us a better opportunity to see
} the country. The country in western
: Pennsylvania, the little strip of West
: Virginia which we touched and the
: eastern part of Ohio is very rough
Some idea of this may be had when
4 we say that we passed through nine
t tunnels within sixty-five or seventy
miles of Pittsburg. There seems to
be very little farming done in this
? section, nothing but small patches
| here and there, but everywhere the
t huge oil derricks rear themselves
l and one is reminded of the source OF
| this part Of our country's wealth
: Some of these wells produce both OF
2 and gas. We mad our first exper
: fence with natural gas in Pittsburg
! our room being both heated anc
y lighted with it. We enjoyed ou1
e ride across Ohio very much the more
e SO because l remembered that m!
i father was born in that great state
K There is much beautiful country tt
h be seen from the car window, ant
the towns seem to be prosperous ant
t we'll kept. About half past four il
e the afternoon we reached Indianapo
e lis, where we decided to stop a few
f hours to visit Eva's cousin whom sh'
t had never seen. She met us at tn,
h station and l think Eva recognized
h her nv Some sort of instinct 7 haf