Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21


restaurant robbers and taxicab ban
ditti. They would be performing
real public service and get all the
be equivalent to an election. No
charge for the suggestion.
Going out of New York on the w. k
Pennsylvania, you run through tun-
mel under the Hudson river. This tun-
mel must be several miles long. May
be a hundred Anyhow it's long and
dark. Finally you emerge on the Jer-
sey side. There is nothing pretty or
interesting to see. Dingy-looking
buildings, smoky railroad yards, fac
tories, cheap homes and burned out
landscape. Even the spires of Prince
ton, reached a little later, fail to give
you thrill-the foreground is so de-
pressing. Low-lying flats and scrubby
trees with a yellowish-weedy vegeta-
ton. Pretty punk countryside COM
pared to the well-kept beauty around
Oxford and Cambridge.
''The Pennsylvania Dutch"
In fact there was nothing to see Of
interest until we reached Philadelphia.
The last CITY we skirted and saw the
numerous fine suburbs for which the
city of Brotherly Love is famous.
An Ohio man on the train tells me
that Philadelphia has the most beau
tiful suburbs of any city in the coun-
| try. I readily believe him.
The next interesting strip of coun-
| try is around Lancaster, Pa. This is
old pennsylvania Dutch" region, and
| the town Mayor Glendower M. Price
named Lancaster, Wis, after. It in
| turn was named after Lancaster, Eng
! land, and the old English city derived
| its name from the Romans, it being
originally an old Roman camp. It
means literally "Lune-Castra," being
| castra or fortress on the river Lune.
| So the name has come down to us.
| There are twenty or so Lancasters
| in the United States but Lancaster,
Pa, is the largest and best known.
Being the granddaddy of all the other
Lancasters this is at it should be.
It is city Of about $4,000, with thriv-
ing industries. The countryside is
farmed by descendants of the old Hes
SLAMS, better known as Pennsylvania
Dutch" The early settlers were the
same Hessians who were sent over
here to fight for King George by their
lord and master the Landgrave Of
Hesse-Darmstadt The old rascal
needed money for dissipation and he
simply sold the poor devils to fight as
mercenaries in an unjust cause be-
cause King George III couldn't get
British to go over seas and do his
dirty work against the Colonials. At
ter the war thousands of these Hes
slams settled down in a free country
and began to develop it. AS every
body knows a German loves the soil.
Loves to make it flourish and grow
fruitful. They have a fine farming
country around Lancaster, Pa, just as
we have fine farming country around
Lancaster, Wis. Similar thrift and
development can be seen wherever a
Pennsylvania Dutchman has set his
stakes.
Famous Horseshoe Bend.
We crossed the Alleghanies in the
dark and missed seeing the famous
Horseshoe Bend" one of the scenic
spots on the system. However, it was
alright with me. | am pretty well fed
up on scenery. Reached Pittsburg, a
hustling village at the junction of the
Monangahela and Allegheny rivers,
about II p. x. Facetiously we will say
that this town is coming rapidly to the
front as a steel center and will soon
catch up with Gary, Ind. Couldn't see
much of it from a car window at the
witching hour, but what we saw looked
alright.
Ohio looked washed out and Tutty.
The state has suffered from the de-
nuding of the natural forests which
existed in quantity when Dad was
boy and ranged the hills hunting the
festive fox. Ohio doesn't rank up with
other states further west as an agri-
cultural region but she has great fac
tory centers. You pass through num-
| Der of these as you cross the state.
Ugly looking towns but apparently
busy and prosperous. Reminds me
good deal of the English Midland
cities.
The same denuded, washed-out ap
pearance applies also to Pennsylvania.
The coal industry has killed off the
beautiful vegetation in the hills and
where once the lordly Indian roamed
in pursuit Of the deer the scrubby
Bulgarian miner now goes with rifle
after robins. The hills are gouged
out and SCARED looking. Too bad.
However, we westerners who want
hard coal can't burn scenery.
Indiana looks about the same as
Ohio only more so. They tell me the
southern part of Indiana is beautiful.
Maybe so, but the northern part isn't.
1 have crossed that section several
times and was always glad when we
passed out of it.
"WOrked-tO- Death" Americans
i We had quite an argument in the
smoking car. An intelligent, pleasant
chap, an Englishman, said we Amer
leans worked too hard and didn't have
| any wholesome enjoyment. Carried
our business worries to bed with us.
I said, yeh, that's why we are so sue
cessful. He said we did everything at
! high speed and what pleasures we had
weren't the wholesome sport type the
English enjoyed.
Privately 1 rather agreed with him.
Openly l disagreed. / took ten men,
all Americans, sitting in the smoker.
The ages ranged from baby of 40,
! Chats mel up to 81. Old 81 was the
youngest and most jovial of the lot.
Where in England" l SEE, "can you
find ten men who will average up
with these ten 'worked-to-death' Amer
| icans?" Each of us admitted having
worked like dogs since were Is years
DID, John Bull dropped his head in
defeat. He either thought we were
hopeless or he was. convinced. Any
how, he shut up.
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