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Editorially Speaking:..
BACK MOUNTAIN, OR BACK WOODS?
A building program for Lake-Lehman School Dis-
trict is mandatory if two buildings are not to be closed
because of fire hazards.
Pennsylvania Board of Labor and Industry is willing
to close its eyes temporarily to grave deficiencies IF a
building program which will take care of everything is in
the making.
Otherwise, the Lake Township building will
be
slapped shut, and the shop and elementary sections at
Lehman will not be able to open.
The department will take no chances on fire hazards
fox childen.
If the program for eectitintion of present fire haz-
ards begins to roll in earnest, along with a building pro-
gram to relieve pressure of student population, there will
be a stay of execution.
/
Petitions are being circulated to remove Lake Town-
ship from the five-way jointure.
Residents may as well
! Albert Tonkin Jr.
face the unpleasant fact that even if the district were
removed from the jointure, this would not cancel out the
necessity for a building and improvement program. And
such removal would immediately result in drastic reduc-
tion of State reimbursement.
Cancellation of a necessary building program at this
‘time would not only be disastrous because of closing of
school buildings, but would result in greatly increased cost
when the inevitable building must be put up.
. Interchange of the
Education is the solid foundation of any community.
It costs money.
Is Back Mountain to be a synonym for Back Woods?
The New "Miss Universe”
It was heartening to find that a beautiful and state-
ly German girl had been selected as Miss Universe at the
annual Beauty Pageant in Miami.
Heartening, because little by little, nations are burst-
ing their narrow boundaries,
leaving behind them insular
prejudices and convictions, realizing that all nations and
all people are indeed brothers in a world where comrade-
ship and understanding loom ever more important.
Those who remember the first World War will recol-
lect that people of German extraction, no matter how
greatly they had contributed to the American scene, were
hounded out of their employment,
shunned socially,
made to feel that their culture and traditions were an-
athema,
A gentle professor in a leading woman’s college, was
regretfully asked to resign, because his name was clearly
Germanic in origin, and parents, inflamed by hate, con-
sidered him unworthy to teach their growing daughters.
Even the lowly hamburg lost its name and became
Salisbury Steak, a tribute to misplaced zeal and distorted
patriotism.
Those who watched television a few nights ago,
knew that no mistake had been made in selection of “The
most beautiful girl in the world.”” Marlene Schmidt looked
truly regal as she accepted her crown. -
Penna. Highway Department Issues ‘61 Road Map
The 1961 edition of the Pennsyl-
vania road map may be obtained
without charge from the State De-
partment of Highways in Harris-
burg:
A principal feature of the map
is that it shows the approximately
80 route number changes made this
spring throughout the state as part
of a ‘program to simplify, rationalize
and integrate the numbered route
system.
A new feature of the map this
year is a guide to the names of
interchanges along toll-free express
highways as well as along the
Pennsylvania Turnpike. The guide
lists the numbers of the intersect-
ing highways and a code to find
the location on the map. This fea-
‘ture will be of considerable value
to motorists who will use the
super-highway systems this year.
The cover photograph of the map
shows a portion of the City Line
Schuylkill Ex-
Ll
cover photograph shows a view in
Chapman State Park, Warren
County. The Department of High-
ways, Department of Forests and
Waters and the Game Commission
contribute to the cost of producing
the map.
Among the items on the map are
rules of the road, a table of mile-
ages between major communities,
small maps of routes through larger
communities, a [Gettysburg area
map,
and towns, with sites of county
seats; State Police and Department
of Highways offices marked, and a
listing of public recreation areas
and their facilities.
The main read map shows all
major and most secondary roads,
including four-lane divided high-
ways, in yellow, red and blue, a
large proportion of the vast rural
road system, in gray, major water-
ways, all airports, all cities, most
towns and many villages, Roadside
Rest areas and the state forest,
park and historical sites.
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an index of principal cities |-
ONLY
YESTERDAY
Ten and Twenty Years Age
In The Dallas Pest
rr HAPPENED 3{) YEARS Aco:
Arthur Kiefer fell sixteen feet from
a scaffold while working on the
Whipp farm, and was taken to Nes-
bitt Hospital with a broken back,
after being seen by Dr. Sherman
Schooley. Brickel’s ambulance trans-
. | ported Mr. Kiefer.
Rose Patton of Noxen was wed to
of [Forty Fort.
Estimate of cost of construction
of "a link in the highway between
Wyoming Avenue and Luzerne, part
of the Harveys Lake highway, was
$60,000.
Dallas nine took East Dallas 4 to
0, while Shavertown kept up its
winning pace by defeating Beau-
mont.
A Noxen inventor, Willard Jones,
invented a fly screen that would let
flies out, but not in. He was also
the inventor of - non-skid nut used
widely at Payne's (Colliery.
Thomas Rowlands’ place in Fern-
brook was raided by the loeal cons-
tabulary, and moonshine confiscated.
Robert Prynn of Carverton took
as his bride Mabel Zimmerman of
Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Elizabeth Denmon of Beau-
mont was feted on her 70th birth-
day by her family.
Survey of a bridge at Holcomb’s
Grove, gave hope that a new Trucks-
ville-Dallas highway might be i in the
*| making.
Federal agents found Cod
liquor in seven places at Harveys
Lake and Lake Silkworth.
Marie Bond Piatt, 33, of Hunts-
ville, died following surgery.
Raspberries constituted a bumper
crop. Engelman’s Fruit Farm in Nox-
en advertised that they were cheap-
er than in years. Bread was five
cents a loaf, tall cans of evaporated
milk, 3 for 22 cents.
rr uappENED 2{) YEARS Aco:
A memorial scholarship to Amelia
Earhart was founded in California.
Could it be that long ago that the
intrepid flyer was lost somewhere
in the wast Pacific ?
Aluminum was collected for def-
ence, a good haul from the Back
Mountain.
Vern Lacy was interviewed for a
Know-Your-Neighbor column which
said, “He’s been an architect so
long that the Forty Fort community
building and the new wings at
College Miséricordia come from his
drawing board as a matter of
course.”
The new State highway posed
traffic problems at the Y in Trucks-
ville, and Kingston Township was
asked to put special police to guard
the intersection. This was before
there was a blinker light.
WPA funds were beginning to be
cut back, with returning prosperity
and threat of war ever nearer.
Bundles for Britain were being
sought in Dallas.
Draft lottery in ‘Washington loom-
ed ahead. Serial numbers were as-
signed to forty local candidates.
Drawing was to take place as it did
in the fall of 1940, from a bowl in
‘Washington D.C.
Atty. B. B. Lewis was appointed
by Dallas Borough (Council to take
the place of the late Arthur Turner.
Beaver and otter trapping were
forbidden and antlerless deer season
was cancelled for the fall. The great
deer herd was diminishing.
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Brown, descen-
dent of the pioneers, was buried from
her home on Parrish Street, Rev.
Francis Freeman officiating.
Elizabeth Ohlman became the
bride of Willard Neuls at the Harry
Ohlman home.
Janet Louise Thomas was wed to
William 1S. Lee, Jr.
Mrs. Mary E. Kocher, Harveys
Lake native, died at Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs: Alice Waterstripe, 59, died
at her home in Sweet Valley, She
was wife of Rev. E. J. Watetstripe,
local minister.
Clifford T Gay, 65, was buried in
Carverton Cemetery.
Twenty women went back to work
on the WPA Dallas sewing project,
after a two-week shutdown. The
project had been in operation for
five years, with materials supplied
by the Borough at a cost of $50 per
month.
rr nappeneD 1() Years Aco:
Plans for the Labor Day Lehman
Horse-Show were under way, with
Lester B. Squier named as chairman,
assisted by 'Lewis Ide. Show
chairman was Gilbert Tough, with
Herman Thomas, Dave Pugh, H. R.
Bittenbender, and Dyke Brown as-
sisting. Mrs. L. C. Sutton was chair-
man of the Auxiliary, in charge of
dinner.
[Social [Security announced that
household help came under the
plan.
Rev. Roswell Lyon and his fam-
ily expected to sail for Europe for a
vacation.
Customers = of Dallas-Shavertown
Water Co. were asked tq use water
sparingly. The dry spell during the
spring when the water table is usu-
ally replenished, coupled with ex-
tremely dry weather early in July,
was responsible.
Kiwanis and YMCA were complet-
ing plans for a circus in the Back
Mountain.
Pioneer Avenue was resurfaced,
and immediately thereafter, motor-
ists from town, taking what they
considered a short-cut to the Lake,
started speeding along it.
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961
Rambling Around
Bu The Oldtimer —D. A, Waters °
= enn AI ON
With a large volume of ‘poultry
products being sold, it would seem
that poultry raising would be a very
profitable business. However, those
with knowledge of the facts state
that this is not so, particularly for
the small operator.
Recently we encountered an ac-
quaintance who had kept hens as
a main occupation for thirty years.
He had a small place, only about five
acres. He had some small fruit and
planted a garden. His equipment
was up to date as of the time he
started. A good spring was equipped
with a pump to provide an adequate
supply of very good water. ‘He built
a tworstoried laying house, had sep-
arate brooder houses, pullet shelt-
ers, ete.
He maintained a laying flock of
about eight hundred Leghorns at all
times. Each year he bought five
hundred mixed pullets, as baby
chicks in the earlier years, later as
started pullets a few weeks old.
As the young pullets came into
laying season he culled his older
hens to keep the size of his flock
at about eight hundred.
Bggs were sold through two
steady outlets in ‘the metropolitan
New York area, shipped regularly
a few cases at a time to insure
ville expected to train. in physio-
therapy at the Mayo Clinic in Roch-
ester.
League of Women Voters compiled
a list of candidates, with their qual-
ifications, which was published in
the Dallas Post as a community serv-
ice.
Robert Van Horn, of Lake Street
and Harveys Lake, was the subject
of a Know-Your Neighbor column.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cairl, Ceme-
tery Street, celebrated their 60th
Anniversary with a family gather-
ing.
Audrey Kleiner of Kingston be-
came the bride of Preston Sturde-
vant of Huntsville.
Reunions included . Sickler and
Garnett families.
A resuscitator purchased by Lake
Lions for use of the Lake Firemen,
earned its board and keep when used
to restore Red Murphy of Noxen,
who developed a cramp while swim-
ming at the Lake. Fred Swanson
officiated .
Dallas Franklin schools expected
447 elementary pupils.
freshness. One of the outlets gave
him a guaranteed premium price,
the other was an auction paying the
current market for all eggs sub-
mitted, regardless of the number,
so he never lost any due to lack
of market.
All care of the flock. was done
by him personally, no help being
employed. Leghorns are a nervous
breed and he felt this was necessary
to maintain the best production.
Consequently his full time was re-
quired so that any vacation at all
was rare, and then was taken with
misgiving.
Accurate records were kept from
the very first of all expenses and
receipts. Feed and other costs
climbed steadilly over 6 the years.
Income dropped so the spread de-
creased almost annually.
Finally his annual figures showed
that for the entire calendar year
his receipts less expenses left him
for the year of steady and con-
fining work the grand total of one
dollar and fifteen cents ($1.15). He
closed up business as soon as pos-
sible. That year he had to sell out
his laying hens for fifty cents each,
when the year before he paid fifty-
five cents each for them as started
pullets.
In telung another poultryman
about his closing out for the reason
of the small income, his friend said,
“You were lucky. I actually lost
$2000 on my broilers last year.”
Recently we commented in this
column on the professionally unem-
ployed and have since encountered
a still more stratling case. A husky
two-hundred pounder showed up to
work for two weeks in the last half
of May while a regular employee
was on vacation. He said he had
not worked a single day since De-
cember, his only activity being to
report at the established place to
sign up for unemployment benefits.
By the union rules governing his
employment he would have been
entitled to work at least part time
but he had not bothered. He said
he had no car to get around.
This did not sit well with me.
For over forty years I managed to
get around by walking, horse and
buggy, trains, street cars, busses,
and taxicabs. Seems that such
transportation is not good enough
for the younger set.
100Years Ago This Week. int
THE CIVIL WAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Confederates Defeat
Federals at Bull Run
Green Union Forces in Full Rout;
Terror-Stricken Troops Clog Streets
WASHINGTON —July 21—The nation’s capital was stunned
today by the utter defeat of Federal troops by Confederate forces
at Bull Run, a sleepy, gentle creek near Manassas Junction,
some 25 miles southwest of here.
{Dey irs Rivsinek of Lop
It was the first major setback
for Union troops since the war
with the secessionists began.
Washington’s usual Sunday
evening peace was shattered as
panic-stricken units of the routed
forces filled the streets.
“We have lost the day—and it’s
a damned bad loss,” cried one
Union cavalry officer to a crowd
of curious correspondents.
¥ ® TA
EARLY casualty figures were
staggering. First reports put Fed-
eral losses at
2,900 out of some
30,000 engaged.
the neighbor-
hood of 1,800
with some 32,000
on the scene,
Observers re-
port about 500
Union dead and
at least 400 Confederate dead
were seen on the tiny battlefield.
Officials concede that the Un-
jon “missing” figure includes
hundreds of raw, three-month
recruits who simply ran from
the conflict, shedding field packs
and arms as they bolted.
Many of these bedraggled spec-
imens were in sorry evidence
here tonight.
Manassas is a strategic rail
junction considered ‘‘the gateway
to Richmond” by Union leaders.
* PounTR
THE DAY began as a pienie for
scores of Congressmen and other
politicians who went with their
giggling ladies by coach to Manas-
sas to wateh the action.
These well-horsed sightseers,
dripping wet with the bad news,
were among the first to reach
here after the rout.
President Lincoln is reported
to have told one: f‘‘Congratula-
tions; you have beaten the Army
back.”” The chief executive,
crushed by the stampeding of his
troops, reportedly has .ordered a
4
major reorganization of the Army
of the Potomac.
Leaders of this Army are widely
reported to have been reluctant
to mount the attack with their un-
trained units, but local pressure
for a show of strength against
Southern forces has been strong.
* * ¥ :
WHAT HAPPENED?
Answers vary widely in this
chaotic city tonight, but it appears
that Federal troops under Gen.
Irvin McDowell fell back Ymdorl,
McDOWELL
the onslaught of beefed-up Confed-
erate units after
heavy Rebel re-
inforcements ar-
rived at mid-day.
Some 9,000
Southerners led
by Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston
merged with
units of Brig.
: & ‘Gen. . P. .G. T.
JOHNSTON Beauregard,
of Fort Sumter fame, a few hours
before the victory.
McDowell, it was reliably re-
ported, took two days te coax
his amateur army to the scene.
Then he roused them at 2 am.,
groggy and scared, to launch the
ill-fated offensive.
* % *
BATTLEFIELD reports were
strong in praise of one Confed-
erate officer, Col. Thomas J. Jacks
son, whose troops held firm under
a vicious pounding. Brig. Gen.
Barnard Bee rode among his men,
shouting: ‘There stands Jackson,
like a stone wall.”
And the Federal froops will
have something else to remember
—a wild, blood-curdling scream
that the Confederate troops loose
when in bayonet attack. It was
first heard today and has been
dubbed ‘the Rebel yell.”
Gen. Fremont
In New Command
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—July 21—Maj.
Gen. John C. Fremont today took
over command of all Union forces
in the West.
Fremont, who earned the nick-
name “The Pathfinder” in early
Army days as an explorer in the
Western prairies, was the Repub-
lican party’s presidential candi-
date in 1856, winning on the first
convention ballot at the age of 43.
He lost to James Buchanan, 174
electoral votes to 114. He is con-
sidered a strong abolitionist.
Change Top Job
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—July 21
—R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia to-
day was appointed secretary of
state in the Confederate cabinet,
succeeding Robert Toombs of
Georgia. Toombs resigned to be-
come a general in the Confederate
army.
DOLE a 3 80, T 1960, HEGEWISCH
Hick PICTURES:
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LL ARchivES
ARE Sea
Safety Valve .
GOOD INSURANCE
Dear Howard;
I wish to take this opportunity be-
latedly to express my deepest thanks
and gratitude to the Dallas Ambu-
lance Crew, who responded so
quickly on the night of June 30th
at about 11:30 p.m. to take my
wife to the Presbyterian Hospital
in Philadelphia.
In about no time at all a crew
was organized by Don Bulferd with
the following men responding, Bob
Block, John Sheehan and Lance
Jarrett. The trip was made by John
Sheeman and Lance Jarrett as the
drivers.
I cannot give enough praise to
those people who I am sure gave
up their sleep or other activities
they might have been engaged in
when the call was made.
My wife is alive to-day only be-
cause of the promptness an willing-
ness of men like those mentioned
above and a Community with an
unselfish motive and a golden heart
that helps support and maintain an
ambulance on a 24-hour call all year
round.
lance, I doubt if my wife would have
lasted the next 24 hours. I know
what a community -ambulance means.
I had to call on it three times in
a little over two years, twice to
Philadelphia and once to Kingston.
I wish people would realize how
little a $5.00 contribution Is to sup-
port an ambulance and “yet how
big it is when every one gives: A
community ambulance is the best
thing that could be part of any
community. I am glad that I am part
of a community that has one .I hope
I never have to use it but it’s good
to know that it is there when you
need it.
Andrew Kozemchak
Editor’s nete: Having a community
ambulance is like insurance. You
hope you won't need it, but if you do,
there it is. It's worth the annual
donation to have your mind set at
rest. And if you don’t nsed | it, SO
much the better.
MORE ABOUT DOLLS
Safety Valve
This is a ‘waste not, want not”
program, letting the wonderful peop-
le behind our doll and material drive
know what their co-operation and
support has done.
$108.00 was raised on dolls novel-
ties and clothing sets.
One dozen small dolls not sold
will be sent to the children’s home
or a hospital; this by agreement of all
donors for dolls. The ten inch dolls
will be sold before Xmas to pay ex-
penses for material used in quilts,
childrens cloths and doll clothes.
All pieces of wool, cotton cord-
uroy, pique in pieces one-half yard
and over will be used for children’s
clothes for the children’s home.
All small pieces of velvet, heavy
and light weight, will be used for
doll’'s. gowns and crazy quilt bed
spreads.
All small pieces of wool will be
used for Vets lap robes and all pieces
of sheeting and white percales, will
be used for doll quilts.
All strips of material will be pink-
ed, washed, ironed and packed for
cancer bandage workers. We will
continue to accept your dolls in
good re-conditioning shape and are
asking for dolls from the smalest
baby doll jinny and dolls of this
type for models. We have old dolls
of most every size a child will want
clothes for.
Send your nylon stockings to Mrs.
Frank Kuehn, all winter. Let’s keep
her busy!
T would like all the pieces of mat-
erial I can get in plain percale, small
flowers and polka dot dotted swiss.
Animals and figurines or doll
cloth and crepes and oting flan-
nel for pajamas.
I would like satin pieces for dolls
and quilt spread. If you have small
amounts of cotton, Mrs. Williams
can use it for rag dolls with nylon.
Sincerely,
Mys. Arthur Newman
Bell Telephone
Strike Possible
The Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania is faced with the pos-
sibility that 15,400 of its employees
may go on strike when their con-
tracts terminate August 2.
The main area for dispute between
ing department workers and 13,000
production and plant employees is
automation. Since the start of the
year Bell has been using a giant
data processing computer at its Con-
shohocken plant. Bell expects to use
the new computor to bill the entire
Eastern Pennsylvania District.
I. C. Glendinninfi, chief negotiator
for the workers accused Bell of try-
ing “to enjoy eating both ends of the
cake, that is, introducing automa-
tion at an unprecedented rate and
paying the remaining employees the
lowest wage rates.” A company rep-
resentative answered that there is
substantial agreement on wage is-
sues but there are “unresolved dif-
ferences over job slotting of certain
work operations.”
Easter Lily Bears 23
Blossoms In July
An Easter lily, which bloomed
vigorously early in the spring as a
house plant, and was transplanted
outdoors when danger of frost was
past, is now again abundantly in
bloom, with twenty-three flowers,
in the yard of the Ryman home on
If it hadn’t been for the ambu- |
the company and the 2,400 account- |.
‘heavy traffic.
Mt. Airy Road. Ho fhe Sori
Fangs it is ® gases,
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From
“Pillar To Post .
Twenty years ago in the Dallas Post, Hix had her first column
in print. That should call some kind of a celebration, perchance
to the sweet music of the popping of champagne corks, but some-
thing tells me that it will ooze quietly into history, minus cham
pagne, minus anything except the terse comment from head-
quarters that Hix should have been turned out to pasture long ago.
It was a historic occagion. A son, helping get out an issue of
the Dallas Post as a summer project, made a long distance call to
Kingston, and got Mom on the phone.
“Lookit,” he quoth, “I need something for the front page. Got
a big hole here. Write something and bring it out to Dallas, huh?”
It sounded intriguing.
“What kind of a something? literary ? funny? housewifelyish ?”’
I inquired cautiously.
“Aw shucks,” soothed the engaging voice at the other end of
the line, ‘it doesn’t make any difference what you write. It’s just
to fill up space. Any old thing will do.”
And then he added, “Who's going to read it anyhow?”
This seemed a reasonable assumption, and cheered by the
thought that the subject matter need not be literary, or even
readable, I launched happily into ‘a reminiscence of how bathing
suits used to look, proof-read it sketchily, and ran it out to Dallag
in the little blue Oldsmobile.
I've been doing it ever since, month after month, year after
year, and sometimes I wonder where 1 got material for it. But
something always turns up . . . as'it did today when I opened a
bound volume of July 18, 1941, and found the evidence on the front
page. {cs
And in case you want to know flint that bathing suit looked
like, it was bright red with a sailor collar. The chassis was black
stockings hitched to a garment unmentionable in those modest
times, and white bathing shoes and a bandanna finished off the con-
fection. :
But in 1910, that outfit was extremely daring, because it
ended at the knee, whereas all conventional ladies bobbed up and
down at the edge of the water arrayed in blue brilliantine, shin
length, with capacious bloomers peeping from beneath as the little
waves sported around the shins.
How any girl learned to swim is beyond me, but swim we did,
weighted down with surplus yardage, but staying afloat doggedly,
and having ourselves a time. The stockings had a tendency to bag
at the knees, but modesty required that the nether limbs (that’s
the way legs used to be termed) be clad in something completely
nontransparent .. . Born thirty years soon, that’s my sad conclusion.
¥ Barnyard Notes
U.S. Route 11, that great north and south artery stretching
from the gateway to Montreal at Rouse’s Point in the Lake Cham-
plain country to storied New Orleans on, the Gulf of Mexico,
traverses the heartland of American history.
On Saturday morning, our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary,
Myra and I headed the Thunderbird south on ELEVEN along the
placid Susquehanna through country where Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia have contributed their share to the glory of one of
the nation’s great highways.
The tiger lilies now are at their peak, beckoning in endless
line at the roadside as it skirted along the old Pennsylvania Canal
between the river and the lush emerald beauty of the forested foot-
hills of the Blue Ridge on the right. The Pennsylvania Department
of Highways has transplanted many of these native wildflowers,
among them the dainty pink Bouncing Bet and the rich azure Chick-
ory from its nurseries on the West Branch below Lewisburg.
Further down from Carlisle on through Maryland, the lilies and
Chickory would be augmented by colorful stands of old fashioned
hollyhocks in front of every farm home, in ‘the angles made by
split’ rail fences, and in profusion along the hedgerows. And in
Virginia the blazing orange trumpet vine peeped from beneath the
overhanging locusts!
Down through the river towns made famous by Indians and
pre-revolutionary pioneers, we travelled past old Fort Augusta and
crossed the great Shamokin Warrior Path that once led to the Sixth
Nation Country and Niagara in = New York State. A nod to Nor-
thumberland—home of the’ great English scientist Priestly. There
was no time to stop and dream a littlonnd you must dream to
make history come alive!
Another time would have to do for thse and such Pennsyl-
vania places as Carlisle and Chambersburg, famous frontier towns
before the Revolution and steeped in the history of the Gettysburg
campaign and Jub Early’s raid . . . each worthy of a day themselves.
But Saturday we were headed for Harper's Ferry, West Vir-
ginia, the U. S. Arsenal town made famous by the John Brown raid
in 1859.and by the later exploits of Col. Turner Ashby of the Con-
federate cavalry, General Stonewall Jackson and his ‘foot cayairy;
General Phil Sheridan and other greats of the War Between The
States.
This trip was the direct result of a book given us by Joe Mac-
Veigh; “Kathy of Catoctin”, first published in 1886 and recently re-
published by the. Cambridge, Maryland, Press. It, along with “The
Road to Harper's Ferry” by Furnas, and “The Man Who Killed
Lincoln” by Philip VanDoran Stern, are sufficient background to
make any American want to wander over the hillsides! of Harper's
Ferry at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers,
the gateway to the west and on the mainline of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
Harper’s Ferry is reached by leaving Route 11 at Hagerstown,
Maryland, and travelling some twenty miles on Route 65 through
Sharpsburg and the Battlefield at Antietam. Just off the beaten
path thronged by beer can strewing tourists, Sharpsburg and Harp-
er's Ferry are two of the least spoiled historic shrines in America.
Unlike Gettysburg, which is better marked, but spoiled by a com-
mercial and carnival atmosphere, Harper's Ferry and Antietam re-
main much the same as they were before the War. The plain brick
and white clapboard homes with their surrounding flower gardens
were, many of them, there long before the Civil War, and they re-
main much the same today. Even the business places have a mini-
mum of carra glass fronts and have succumbed little to twentieth-
century progress.
Harper's Ferry, which never fully recovered after the destruc-
tion“of its armory and rifle works during the war, is the least
spoiled of the two. Many of its stores and old buildings in the lower
town on the site of the John Brown raid are now owned by the
Federal government and supervised by the National Park Service.
Most of them are vacant—mute guardians of a past when Harper's
Ferry was on the lips of every American!
Today Harper's Ferry is an artist's colony—and a mecca for the
serious student of American history who would worship at a shrine
where he might hear a red bird sing without. the distractions of
Only a few spots in the East compare with it — per-
haps Concord, Mass., and its “rude bridge where the embattled
farmers stood”; possibly the Burnside bridge across the Antietam,
and maybe, the Battery in Charleston, South Carolina.
At the gateway to the Shenandoah Valley, Harper's Ferry was
the site of important events from Colonial times through the Civil
War. Strategically important, it changed hands many times during
the war, and its capture by Stonewall Jackson in 1862 was the
dramatic prelude to the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam
that ended General Robert E. Lee's first Southern Invasion of the
North—an invasion that might have penetrated deep into Pennsyl-
vania and disrupted east and west. railway traffic at Harrisburg.
It was here in 1859 that Col. Robert E. Lee and Lt. JEB Stuart
with 90 Marines from Washington captured John Brown after ten
of his party of nineteen, among them his sons, Oliver and Watson,
had been killed. It was here that John Wilkes Booth and the
slinking Atzerodt, conspirators who killed Lincoln, were among the
Virginia Militia who conducted Brown to Charles Town for trial.
It was here, also, that 11,500 Union soldiers in the Harper's Ferry
garrison under the command of General Dixon S. Miles, surrendered
to Stonewall Jackson as a prelude to Antietam — the largest force
of American troops ever to display the white flag before the sur-
render of Corregidor in World War II.
Harper's Ferry — a name to conjure with; a place to visit now
while it is still unspoiled. Surounded by Maryland, Loudon and
Bolivar Heights — Thomas Jefferson extolling its beauty, in his
Notes on Virginia, “The passage of the Potomac through the Blue
Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature . . . .
the scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic.”
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