The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13

years; some of the buildings on
some of the thoroughfarss in the
heart of the business section are
more than 100 years old.
On Lexington street. within
stones throw of the principal retail
shopping district of the CITY, opposite
the fine and imposing Courthouse and
surrounded by huge Office buildings
may be seen a row of structures that
were the dwellings of Baltimore's
best people in days when that portion
of the city was way up town" and
beyond were farms and woodlands.
These structures are now occupied as
office buildings, but the fronts are as
they were originally.
So it is all over the original site of
the city, one may find structures of
historic note and interest. There is
on Holiday street the building which
was the first City Hall and in which
gas was used as an illuminant for the
first time in the United States Close
by in the famous Holiday Street
Theater in which most of the men
and women who are famed in the
annals of stageland acted. Not far
distant arises a true relic of early
days-a shot tower, round, massive
and stretching upward 23412 feet. 1t
was erected in 1928, and the corner
stone was laid by Charles Carroll, OF
Carrollton, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. Not
only was it then the tallest building
in this country, but, for height, pretty
we'll holds its own today
All through what is now known as
old Town" one may run across build
ings about which there is more OF
less historic charm. On the tip OF
Locust Point, reached by trolley, is
famous Fort McHenry. This fort will
always be an object Of interest, for
there the Stars and Stripes will wave
from a pole standing almost in the
exact spot as it did when Francis
Scott Key, the American who had
been detained on a British battleship
on September 18th, 1914 beheld it
still waving after the smoke of a bonn
bardment had cleared away and
wrote the immortal Star Spangled
Banner.
The old fort is pretty much the
same as it was that night One may
wander about the parapets and gaze
across the Patapsco river and see the
modern Notifications that now guarc
the approaches by water.
Just across the river, and below
Fort Carroll, which was erected un
der the supervision of General Rober
r. Lee, when he was an officer in the
United States army, one may see
Sparrow's Point which Is the plant o
the Maryland Steel Company. BY troll
ley one may also visit this steIe
works and shipbuilding yard and Sc,
for ones self complete city unde
the control of a corporation.
At this great plant, which covers
more than 200 acres, there is one o
the largest rail-rolling mills in tn,
country while in the ship yard Their
are now building two great collier
for the Navy and a fleet of steam
ships.
Thirty miles down the Chesapeake
Bay-two and half hours by steam
er or an hour by trolley-there is, a
Annapolis, the magnificent S1O,OOO,OO
naval academy-the school for the fu
ture officers of the naVy-while in tn
old town itself are many points o
historical interest. There are in Ar
napolis some of the finest types o
Colonial architecture eXtant, some o
the buildings being erected of bricl
brought from England in the days be
fore the Revolution.
Washington, the capital, is blu
forty-five miles distant and can b.
reached by either train or trolley
The Blue Ridge mountains with it,
many famed summer resorts is within
few hours ride over fairly gooc
roads for automobiling. while the
Gettysburg battlefield is near enough
that one may go up on an excursion
train in the morning, see the field and
return at night.