Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24

100000 fasteners saw the Legion
parade.
See Historic Bunker Hill.
From Boston, on the fourth day,
we journeyed out to the Bunker Hill
monument and also Lexington and
Concord over the route ridden years
ago by Paul Revere. At Lexington
we saw the spot from which the shot
was fired "heard around the world,
at Concord the famous bridge that
marks the flood, and the graves
and memorials erected in honor of
those who died there. We also saw
the scene of the Boston tea party, the
old North Church and other points
of interest. We then drove on through
the Peekskill and Catskill mountains
of Sleepy Hollow fame, on down along
the Hudson and into New York city.
That evening we ferried across to
Staten Island, past the Statue of
Liberty, which is always an inspir-
ing sight at night.
Mrs. Barker has a brother living
there, a captain in our shore guard
defenses. He was kind enough to
take off two days and show us points
of interest in New York city and the
Worlds Fair, all of which was inter-
esting, as well as a trip out to La
Guardia airfield where we got passes
to go through strato-liner which
one of her cousins pilots across the
continent.
Washington, d. c., Interesting.
A couple days of this and we left
for Washington, D. c., where l have
three sisters living, and Mrs. Barker
two brothers, SO this was hard place
to get away from, and we spent two
days there sightseeing. That city
certainly has many places of interest,
such as the Congressional Library,
the Botanical Gardens, National Mu-
scum and Art Galleries, the National
Capitol, with both the Senate and
House in session, Washington Monu-
ment, the Lincoln and Jefferson
Memorials, Franciscan Cathedral,
Christ's Church, etc.
We also drove out to Mt. Vernon,
WaShington's old home on the Po-
tomac, over in Virginia. Here we
saw how the people lived in the days
of Washington right down to the
minutest detail. Going into details
would make this report too lengthy
At Beautiful Arlington Cemetery.
Coming back from Mt Vernon we
drove through Arlington Cemetery
past the rows upon rows of graves,
marked by their marble slabs where
the soldier dead of our nation lie
buried; on up to the white marble
memorial at Arlington in front of
which are row upon row of white
marble benches, and behind which,
surrounded by a wide expanse of
white marble walks, is the tomb of
the unknown soldier.
The tomb of the unknown soldier
overlooking the Potomac and part of
Washington is beautiful scene. It
was raining as 1 stood there and
towards evening, the lights were be-
ing turned on. AS / stood there a
club-footed Legionnaire, wearing the
insignia of the 32nd division of World
war fame limped up to me and re-
marked, "The d. fools are about
to do it again.. Somehow or other
l knew exactly what he meant. His
sentiments expressed all that needs
to be said. That was a scene and
incident 1 will never forget.
Civil War Battlefelds.
From Washington we drove on
down through Maryland, where, at
Frederick, we had an opportunity to
see Barbara Frietchie's old home
From there on down through the coal
mining towns of Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Here for a distance of 100 miles the
coal smoke was so thick that it was
hard to breathe, and here we saw
some of the battlefelds of the Civil
war, Antietam among others.
Then on through Ohio to Logans-
port, Indiana, where my wife has a
sister living. Here we spent night,
having detoured off the road to 60
down to Elwood in order to see Wen
dell Wilkes old home town, which,
by the way, is typical farmer town.
The natives certainly use a broad
Hoosier dialect. What with their
'disaways', pathways" and yours
aways", we had lot of fun asking
directions just to hear them talk.
Industrial Centers Booming.
From there on home, stopping off
one night at the famous Wisconsin
Dells. Insofar as the east is con-
cerned, the farms down there have
either been left idle or allowed to
deteriorate. Land better than ours
can be had within a stones throw of
New York city itself. AS we'll as all
of the other large industrial centers.
The cities and towns are booming
on account of war industries. The
relief load down there staggers the
imagination. Racial intolerance and
racial animosities are flourishing at
high peak. l was assured by people
of good intelligence who have lived
in,