Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-30

vile is a mecca when the Kentucky
Derby is run at Churchill Downs.
Where Baseball Bats Are Made.
At the Louisville Slugger factory,
baseball bats for many of the ia
NOUS players are hand-turned by
skilled workmen. The second
growth ash comes to the factory in
rough billets. These billets are
rounded and laid on racks to sea-
son for II months before they are
made into bats. Because ball play
ers are particular about the weight
and balance of their bats, each step
in the shaping of the sluggers re-
quires the utmost care. Special or
ders are prepared by hand workers.
From Louisville it is a pleasant
trip to Frankfort, the hill-encircled
capital of Kentucky. The old State
house, now museum, is an archi-
tectural gem of pure Greek design.
Within it is a self-supporting circu-
lar stairway, one of the few remain
ing. The new Statehouse is splen-
did structure, with magnificent ro-
tunda under the vaulted dome.
1t is strangely fitting that Daniel
Boone is buried in the cemetery
overlooking the capital of the state
he helped win from the wilderness.
From the path around his tomb one
looks down to the broad valley of
the beautiful Kentucky river.
The heart Of the Blue Grass is the
home of the. thoroughbred. To one
who has striven futilely, baffled by
crab grass, to encourage lawn,
the sight of those bluegrass pas
lures brings mixed feelings. One
does not feel outraged to see splen-
did horses browsing on such lawns,
but one is hard put to escape taking
affront at cows and sheep feeding
on the velvety carpets.
Horses in the Blue Grass are
monarchs of the earth. On some of
the famous farms the huge circular
stables house quarter-mile exercise
tracks foored with tanbark.
The thoroughbred is nurtured
more carefully than a baby-show
contender. A few hours after he is
born he is fitted with halter, that
he may become used to the equip
ment. He is permitted out of doors
only when conditions are exactly
right. If he scratches his silky
skin, he is plastered with antiseptic
and put in hospital. He drinks
only from his own special bucket
and his diet would be the despair
of French chef.
The owner of one farm cut by
highway has a tunnel under the
road through which his thorough
breds may be led without danger
from passing automobiles.
There is a thrill in visiting the
stable that housed Man-o'-War,
Golden Broom, Crusader, and Mars.
Lexington Is Charming.
In itself Lexington has wealth
of charm as well as historic inter-
est. The University of Kentucky is
there, its mellow old buildings scat
tered over a shady campus. In the
study room at the College of Engi-
neering, heavy tables, with tops
fashioned of thick sections of ven
cradle sycamore tree that once
grew on the campus, are treasured
relics covered with carved names
Of alumni.
Another fine educational institu-
ton in Lexington is Pennsylvania
college, the first school for higher
education west of the Alleghenies.
There Jefferson Davis and Henry
Clay were once students. The Ii
brary of this school contains thou
sands of volumes so rare that schol-
ars from all over the world come to
consult them.
Ashland, restored home of Hen
ry Clay, stands on the outskirts of
the city. On the walk behind the
house the magnetic orator and
statesman used to pace back and
forth planning his speeches.
Through the perfect green of the
Blue Grass country you may drive
to High Bridge, where a railroad
bridge BIT feet above the water
spans the Kentucky. Crossing the
river on ferry, you approach old
Shakertown, once the home Of a
strange sect who believed in cell
bacy and the coming of the millen-
mum.
Another place of interest in a
swing south Of Lexington is the old
fort at Harrodsburg, where George
Rogers Clark planned his cam
paigns. The fort has been restored
and is open as museum.
Old Centre college at Danville at
tracts you because of the heroic vic
tories of the praying Colonels"
football team.
At Berea college you see the re-
markable results of vocational ed
ucation brought to mountain whites.
One cannot escape a feeling of hui
mility at sight of the industry of
these students.