The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-01-27
A MARYLAND PILGRIMAGE
IN FEBRUARY GEOGRAPHIC
Important Role BY State In Ev-
Olution of Nation Described
by DR.. GrosyenOr, Editor


The National Geographic Society is
a non-commercial, cooperative organ
ization, with headquarters in Wash
ington, D. C. It's official publication,
The National Geographic Magazine, in
its February issue, which went to its
subscribers Friday, contains as its
leading article "a Maryland Pilgrim
age" by Gilbert Grosvenor, LID,
Lit. D., president of the Society.
This article is accompanied by IS
illustrations, including a duotone SER
les of beautiful pictures and wall
map of Maryland, Delaware and the
District Of Columbia, making d COM
prenensive teXtual-map- Photographic
survey of the Old Line State and its
environs.
Among the local views reproduced
in the magazine is full page view of
Deep Greek Valley, photographed
from the top of Paugh's Hill, three
miles south of Oakland, show
ing in the distance a portion of the
artificial lake built recently by the
Youghiogheny Hydro Electric Corpo-
ration; a view of Muddy Greek Falls,
near Oakland; Casselman river bridge
near Grantsville near the spot where
Braddock's Inflated army crossed the
streamon its march against the French
and Indians at Fort DuQuesne, and a
view of the National Highway near
Keyser's Ridge with the snow at that
point piled ten or twelve feet deep
which had been removed from the
roadway by tractor-plows and other
means to afford traffic passage east
and west over this important thor
oughfare.
The publication of this article with
its accompanying map and illustra-
tons, will carry to the 1,150,000 mem
bers Of the Society, representing ev-
cry civilized nation, colony, island and
mandatory in the world, the story of
the Old Line States hallowed shrines,
the part it played in the development
Of popular government in America,
and its diversified and thriving indus
tries of today.
Activities of Women Shown.
In his article, DR.. Grosvenor has de-
eor;loJ 4I,o ;n,por+o,+ ,.o1o ,,lo1-oJ nv,
the State in the evolution of the ma
ton, including the activities of Amer
ica's first woman suffragist and the
drawing in the State of one of the
earliest women juries.
The illustrations in the Maryland
article are the cream of thousands
taken in a thorough Photographic sur
vey Of the State.
DR.. Grosvenor has a country home
at "Wild Acres" in Montgomery coun-
ty, which is a bird paradise, holding
Audubon Society and U. S. Biological
Survey records for the greatest num-
Der of land birds nesting in one acre
adjacent to any house in the United
States.
As president of the National Geo.
graphic Society, DR.. Grosvenor has de-
veloped that organization to the larg-
est scientific and educational body in
the world. 1t is solely supported by
the dues of its members, which dues
enable it not only to publish its world
famous National Geographic Maya
zine, but also to send forth numerous
exploration and scientific expeditions
and to carry on its extensive educa-
tional work
Because the National Geographic
Magazine is more frequently bound
than any other periodical, and its
Volumes are to be found in practi-
cally all public libraries in America,
and in reference libraries all over the
world, the Maryland article is assured
a permanent place in thousands of Ii
braries and tens of thousands of the
homes of the nation and world.
The Maryland, Delaware and Dis
trict of Columbia map represents the
most recent issue of some 13,625,00
wall maps in color distributed among
the society's members, in addition to
numerous sketch maps which accom-
| pany articles in the National Geo
! graphic Magazine.