Evening star., 1914-08-23

Try Increases as more and more persons
become familiar with the quiet, level
and generally shady way where motor
cars or motor cycles never rush and
pop and honk.
one meets teams of patient and hard-
working mules whose docile manner
proyes how little the mule deserves
his reputation for hostility to man
Watch how faithfully the mule bears
his collar and his cross and then take
off YOUR hat to the mule as pubic
henefactor and as an example In hon
est and earnest toll,
There are many ways of getting on
the tow wpath aud YOU can start at
,ieorsetown if you wish, but the
Rambler followed q lanelike street IN
the village Of Glen Echo-a narrow,
winding way between cottage homes
and flower gardens-which finally
ceased to he q lane and became steep
trail To sets of wooden steps leading
down into the back yard of the lock
house of the Glen Echo lock.
That was Il lock which before the
village or Glen Echo came into being
was called Cabin John lock. and many
of the boatmeu and lockkeepers along
Like nearly all of the lockhous on
this canal IL is of stone. Whitewaslleti.
and stands on the landward side of
the canal This IS the rule. but there
are exceptions between Washington
snd Great Falls. Here there arc shade
trees. fruit trees. flowers and vege-
table gardeu. Around most of the lock
houses flowers grow and these little
Nower gardens generally reflect the
IL 4
daughters.
The 1ochkeeper usually shows his
taste for soil culture in the vegetable
garden. and lock keeper who cares
not for IL bean patch and a corn patch
probably cares more about sitting on
the polished top of rope-worn snub-
hing pest and holding converse with
his freiends. There may be such lock-
keepers on the canal but the Rambler
has not met one.
Under the willows and poplars in
the garden of the Glen Echo lock-
house are green and red batteauX and
canoes turned bottom upward. Some
fishermen were wooiug luck, or daring
luck there. and it would he a very ILL
favored day if YOU could not find
fisherman there. A trail leads from
the towrath across the lowiandS toward
the river. IT beckonS one through
thickets of sycamore and cattails and
if followed would land YOU on Cedar
jsland-an island which is also called
camped there. 1t was Charles Schaffer.
the lockkeeper. who told the Rambler
the names Of the island and gave him
other canal information
y few PAGES along. with tree-ciad
bluffs on the right and a green jungle
on the left, YOU can look down into a
rocky dell and watch and listen to 4
stream that comes from the big hills,
flows under the canal and goes out in
the rushing river. You count this an
unusual view, but in covering the miles
of towpath between this point and
Great Falls YOU will sec many little
streams making their way under the
canal. canal boat comes into view
and you pause to watch the team of
three mules as they pass. laboring in
their collars. yet walking briskly.
You watch the big boat glide by.
making scarcely sound or a ripple
A man is at the helm and you speak
TO him he rides past and You turn
10 follow with your gaze the slow but
surely going boat and You read the
name, "Rdth w" This is novel spec
will no more think of stopping to
watch a canal hoat go by then of
stopping to watch d street car pass.
Five minutes walk beyond the Glen
Echo lock or about a quarter of q
mile at an easy-going pace and you
come to wide spillway which flows
noisily across the towpath, foa1ns down
q rocky course and swirls away
through dark wet woods to the river.
Long thick tlmbers. comfortably wide.
but not extravagantly so, are laid