The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-21
GL|DDEN TOURISTS
IN PRETTY COUNTRY
Race Course for 1910 Will
Lead Over Historic
Kentucky Roads.
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND
GREEN ROLLING HILLS
French King Spent Day in
BardstOwn, Washington,
Mapping Out Trip.

When the Glidden tourists hit tho
Kentucky trail next June they will en-
ter a section rich in historic data.
Nelson county, Ky, is famed the
world over for its whisky. and Bards.
town is the county seat. II is safe
gamble that of the 10000 900 persons
in the United States, few outside of
Kentucky, know that here lies the body
of Lieutenant John Fitch of the New
Jersey volunteers of the Continental
army That does not signify much, but
when YOU add that Fitch had a steam
boat plying the waters of the Delaware
river, seventeen years before Fulton
started up the Hudson in the Claremont,
one takes notice
1t was In q little pool, near the pres
ent bridge over the creek which sep
arates Bardstown from Federal hill, that
Fitch tried the model of his steam en-
CINE. The one and half-stpricd brick
house, where he lived, stone S throw
from the pool is still standing and oc-
cupied by a negro family. His grave
is unkept in a cemetery where the pigs
and cattle roam, in the rear of the
Hotel Newman. which was built III
years ago, About a year ago the
Daughters of the Confedcracy placed
simple marker at the head OF the
grave. They are now trying TO raise
money for suitable monument.
The grave of Fitch was discovered in
peculiar manner. Some individual
was delving through the old records of
the courthouse and found a transfer of
Fjtch's realty to the landlord of the
hotel in consideration of his keep for
the balance of his life, pint of corn
liquor day and burial lot, which was
specified as so many feet from the Jail,
north and south from the cornerstone
The JAIL by the way, is still in use.
Rowan Family.
Federal hill was in the hands Of a
caretaker. when the Mitchell Ranger
party, which is taking n preliminary
spin over the Glidden route, drove up
the broad roadway to the old colonial
door, where the Rowan family for over
century and quarter have welcomed
their guests. A white haired old negro
came forward, doffing his hat, and ask
ing: ''How can | serve the young
massas?n
The house is a huge affair of red
brick two.storied and basement, with
the huge, flattopped chimneys one only
finds in the south and New England |
IT stands on a knoll, commanding a su-
perb sweep of the valley, and its drive
way is fanked with rows Of noble oaks. |
II was here that Stephen Collins Foster.
who was visiting the Rowans in 1857,
wrote the score and words of "My Old |
Kentucky Home which brought him
immortal fame, and which has become
the, cradle song of that great state
1T is rather touching thing that
statue of Foster has been placed in the
new capital at Frankfort, which was
paid for almost wholly by the school
children OF kentucky, in sums ranging
from penny TO a dollar.
The guide, Jim, who ''was raised on
Massa Jim Wilson, place, sah. sixty
years ago. led the Mitchell Ranger
Rowans, where they sleep in the sccur-
itv of a life well spent for God coun-
Try, family and friends. Ii is in one
corner of the park, and the inscriptions
on the headstones and monuments show
how. much country and state owe this
distinguished Kentucky family.
As the Mitchell Ranger party re-
turned to the house, OF jim waved his
arm toward the woods. mile TO the
west, saving: 'lYou gcmmen' all see
that wood lot9 Well, sab, when l was
boy befo the wah, Massa Jack an
ems there all day long. Now the fool
law come and spoil gemmcn' Is pleas
ure. Decd it does, sah Why over
yonder, IN that there barn, YOU all can
see, 'see got some of the fines game
birds, The old darky shook his
head, sadly, then breathed, eyes, san,
times is done changed a heap since
the wah. -
Bardstown Glories.
ended. In 1876, the then Louis Phil
IIIppe, later. to become Louis Xxx OF
france, spent day in Bardstown. He
wanted TO see the west and George
Washington mapped out his itinerary
for him. The future king of France,
beng devout Catholic attended mass
and was amazed TO see Indians taking
part in the service.
When he returned TO Europe to marry
the daughter OF Francis |, tho first king
of the two Sicilies, he told his pros.
pective father-in-law of the work of the
church IN the wilderness of the new re.
public This so impressed Francis that
he sent the struggling chapel, now st.
Joseph s cathedral, some priceless works
of art There is "The Crucifixion, ,;
by Van Bree, over the altar In the
chancel are two Van DYKES. one of st.
Peter, the other of st, Mark. Next the
former painting is "The Coronation, :"
by by Murillo; on the opposite wall hangs
he MartyTdom Of st. Bartholomew
by Rubens. There are other great works
OF the masters in this white, wooden
cathedral nesting in the Kentucky hills,
but those mentioned arc the best. ;
:, When Louis Philippe became king of :
France, as Louis Xxx, he remembered
the work of the good fathers, and sent
Y huge cathedral clock, which to this
day still marks the fight of timo in
the tall, white spirc.
~ 10 ohif snort run 10 Lexington,
where are. located some OF the greatest
breeding farms in the world August
Belmont s Belle Mead. and that of Mad
den, the wizard 1t may be that the
Gliddenites will make Louisville via
Lexington on this account. Both the
Lexington and Louisville pixies are fine
macadam affairs, we'll kept up The TOLL
gates are frequent. and the bar is al
ways down. The country is rolling.
and the valleys should delight the eve.
for the panorama is shifting CONSTANTLY
disclosing new beauties.
Brush III Bad Condition.