The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-09-05
High|ights Of An
Auto Tour
BY THE EDITOR
THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT.
On to New York City.

After spending our allotted time in
Washington, we left that highly in
teresting city one morning and drove
a few miles eastward to Annapolis, on
Chesapeake bay. The magnet that drew
us there was the IT, S. naval academy
We drove down through the streets of
Annapolis to the academy, finding a
stone wall blocking our entrance to
the grounds A sentry in uniform
stood guard at gate and as we en-
tered he handed us permit card that
we finally handed back to another
guard as we left the academy through
another far distant gate, on the OPP
posite side of the grounds.
We found our nations school for its
naval officers situated on rolling
ground gently sloping down to the
waters Of the bay and to the rather
large streams on which the academy
handicapped, with an abundance of fine
shade trees adding to the attractiveness
of the setting. Many large buildings
Of stone and brick are provided for
the use Of this important institution
Numerous officers and students in uni
form were seen marching about the
grounds, while others leisurely strolled
around or attended to duties about
ships that were anchored at the docks.
On one hillside. beneath pleasantly
spreading trees. a movie company was
busily engaged in taking scene for
some future picture which apparently
required a setting IN the grounds of
the naval academy Officers in uni
form were stationed lon the drives not
far distant from thefmovie set-up and
guided us away from too close an APP
proach to where the acting was in
progress.
We drove around over the campus
without hindrance and spent a half
hour there and thus got an interesting
but fleeing picture of an institution
whose purpose is to develop and train
a breed Of men who will stand as de-
tenders Of the nation on the oceans of
the world And we believe it is doing
its work well
But we couldn't tarry long at An
napolis and after a brief stop at the
academy sped on our way to Balti-
more. Neither did we care to linger
in that city although had we chosen to
do so we undoubtedly could have
found much of interest there. But
here we did see school building that
bore the name. "McDonoeh School,
1t recalled the story Of John McDon-
ough we had heard in New Orleans
and of which | have written in an earl
Ter article How this man, dis
appointed in love, had turned miser.
had accumulated great fortune and
upon dying had given it to be used for
school purposes, half to Baltimore. the
place Of his birth, and half to New
Orleans, the city of his adoption. M
Through Industrial Centers.
Leaving Baltimore we sped on to-
ward Philadelphia, passing through
Havre de Grace, Elkton, Newark and
Wilmington Here we found ourselves
in the heavy industrial centers of the
east. Nearly every city had its out
standing manufacturing plants. The
cities were packed close together;
highways were wide and crowded with
traffic. At Wilmington we remember
having seen the large powder works
of the Dupont company.
Our route carried us on through
Chester and in short time we found
ourselves in the outskirts of Phila-
delphia We were particularly struck
with the beauty of a residential sec
ton that we traversed as we entered
Philadelphia. However, we missed the
route into the center of the city and
when we stopped to make inquiry we
found that we would have to turn back
some distance This we decided not to
do as New York city was our real OBJ
jective Therefore we passed up any
further stop in Philadelphia and headed
on toward the metropolis OF the United
States. On the way we passed through
Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark and
Jersey City and late in the afternoon
we found ourselves entering New
York city over beautiful George Wash
ington bridge. After feeling our way
down into the city with more or less of
trepidation as we thought of the traf-
fic that we must pass through, we
finally came to our hotel and put up
there for the night The next day we
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