The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-06
SEVENTY NINE YEARS AGO
Tweuty-four Days Making Journey from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg Over
Turnpike.
NOW MADE IN FOURTEEN HOURS.


a long time. There are several
persons living in McConnellsburs'
who are more than seventy-nine
years of age, and we are sure
that any one who sees them on
the street from time to time, en-
cages with them in conversation:
or observes their general manner
of life, would not suspect that any
one of those folks thought he was
old. People are only old, you
know, when they begin to think
they are old-when they begin to
withdraw themselves from the
society of those who are younger,
advertise the fact by their every
action, and show that they are
only waiting around for some
friendly undertaken to remove
them from the scenes of activity
and usefulness.
But when we measure seventy
nine years by what has been &C
complished IN that time In the
way of inventions and discoveries
that add to the comfort and pleas
ure of the people-then 1t seems
like long time. The homes in
our rural ommunltles are now
connected by the telephone, so
that when the days work has
been conclu ded, supper eaten,
and the heavy shoes give place to
the comfortable slipper, the farm
er steps to the phone, calls up his
neighbor, and exchanges the 10
cal happenings, attends to little
items of business, all of which
would consume hours of valuable
time, If 1t were not for the tele.
phone.
If a trip is to be made, the ev-
press train, the trolley, or the au'
tomobile Is at hand to whirl him
along, snd instead of spending
twentyfour days in making the
trip between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, he may make 1t over
the very same road in almost hall
that number of hours, and the
journey, instead of beng full o.
hardships, privation and peril, Is
one continuous round of pleasure
Through the courtesy of j. M
Murdock, of Johnstown, and o.
our townsman, J. Kendall John
ston, we have been furnished witt
the diary of ]. Aspinall, wh'
made the journey from Philadel-
phia to Pittsburg during thu
month OF January, 1881. Oul
neighbor, William Stoner wal
living IN this town when Mr.. AS.
pinall went through here on tn
journey mentioned; although, tn
former did not remain here lonl
enough TO form lasting aequaini
anceship with all the people iivlnI
here at that time, and Mr.. Stone
does not remember distinctly tn
event
The following account OF Nj
Asplnall's journey Is taken fror
hls diary, and reads as follows:
January 3rd. This morning 9
8 O'Clock we went on board th
Packet for Philadelphia. Th
river being frozen up, we wsr
Obliged 10 90 70 New Brpnswic
which - ss miles B. W. OF Nc
York, From thence 10 the stag
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thence Ia tho Packet 70 Phiisda
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