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Detailed map of the continental United States and portions of Canada and Mexico indicating drainage, international and state boundaries, cities and towns, forts, canals, stage roads, railroads, and proposed railroads.
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Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
Crossing the Andes in 1905 fey Winding Trails Near Their Southern End Special Correspondence of Tile Journal Mendoza Argentina October 15 1005 in this part of South America as farther north the Andean system comprises three distiuct chains the en tire mountain belt having an average width of 250 miles The easternmost Cordillera is known as the laramillos and the westernmost as the Combre The central cordillera is the highest continuous section of the Andean wall from Panama to Patagonia there be ing only two gaps between Aconcagua and Maypua distance of 100 miles where the crest falls below 19000 feet and both Aconcagua and Tupungato exceed 22000 feet Having climbed the Paramillos range we found ourselves on the summit about two oclock one afternoon at a height of 9000 feet above the sea and about 7000 above Mendoza It was bitterly cold even here the ground covered with snow and a tremendous wind sweeping over the crest but the scenery which had increased in graudeurevery hour re paid a thousand fold the toil of the ascent Mendoza appeared to lie directly at our feet so near that we could count its white houses and trace the shaded streets and
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The Chinese question is treated briefly from the Chinese point of view by Taw Sein Ko in the leading article in The Living Age for March 30 The leading feature of The Living Age for April 0the day before Easter will be a striking and touching Easter story One of These Little Ones by Princess Volkonski translated from the Bussian East does not mean to the Washing tonian what it means to the New Eng lander says W D Lyman in the April Atlantic Anything the ofher side of the Missouri is East to us A new arrival from Massachusetts was once greeted very cordially in my hearing by a lady who had been here some time and who said I came from the East myself Ah said the New England er From what place From Iowa was the unexpected answer In the Easter Number of The Sat urday Evening Post Forrest Crissev tells of the wonderful work of the Interna tional Sundayschool Lesson Series The Central editorial staff is the Ameri can Lesson Committee and it will bold its next meeting in New York on April 17 1101 Twenty million teachers and pupils simultaneously study
The purpose of this map is uncertain; it may have been to identify the rail lines within the corridor between Fredericksburg and Petersburg. Included (as phrased by Sneden) are the Richmond and Danville Railroad, Lynchburg Railroad, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Virginia Central Railroad, and the Richmond Fredericksburg (Railroad). A few key events in the entire war are indicated such as the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.
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A RAILROAD THAT ISSUES ITS OWN NEWSPAPER Of Employees by Employees for Employees Is The Pennsylvania News a Paper With out Politics or Advertisements and No Purpose Except to Tell Whats Doing on the Line By ROBERT B PECK Jhe Pennsylvania News only girl correspondent Miss Mattie Miner interviewing Lord and Lady Mount betten in Union Station Chicago a NEWSPAPER without poltica and without advertising whose private iJa ends are served alraply by service to the community and whose staff seivs rthout payit Bounds visionary enough for i maddest hatters of Gr3enwich Village but ere is such a publication two of them in ftt and they are corporation products The publications are The Pennsylvania giro of the central region of the Pennsyl finia Railroad and The Pennsylvania News i the northwestern region of the same rail md system Directors of the road are to de al this month whether the enterprise is to be stended and a similar paper published by the euployeea of the eastern region which includes Ne York and Philadelphia and has almost nc as many employees as the 60000 In the satra region The clannishnesa of railroad men is some thing that a few months or
JUST A GLIMPSE Of the Early Editorial Writers of Kennebec Valley Storng Characters That Left a Deep Impress Upon Those Who Came Within the Sphere of Their Pow erful Influence Head before the Kennebec Historical Society To give this subject the range ami fulness of detail that it merits would be to furnish material for a good sized volume I shall therefore undertake at this time merely to touch briefly upon the more salient characteristics of a small group of men whose names are prominently identified with the earlier newspaper history of Central Maine and who exerted a power for progress that will extend far beyond the narrow limits of their own day and generation I shall also consider only the work of those writers who attained distinction in the newspaper work of the Kennebec valley prior to the Civil war and shall not undertake to pre serve any chronological order In the very nature of things the best work of the editorial writer is largely of an impersonal character and he so frequently sees the children of his brain adopted and reared as the natural off spring of others that the experience has nothing of novelty for him It
Th Gliclt Reporter Friday J n M 155 TRADE AT HOME SUGGESTIONS CoOperation on the Part of All Citizens Necessary if Browning is to take Full Advantage of Its Potential Possibilities Oil Development Promises Opportunities to Build a Real City In This Central Location MERCHANDISING AND PUBLIC SERVICES It is estimated that a large percentage of the merchandising and services business in the Browning trade area at the present time goes to outside trade centers possibly as much as fifty per cent of the total business That this practice is economically unsound both for the outside buyers and from the standpoint of those who have invested their capital in Browning pay local taxes to support the various governmental activities donate to community projects and extend a helping hand in cases of personal emergency support its churches fraternal and civic organizations and are mutually interested in advancing all manner of community betterment is easily apparent after even a superficial ana lysis of the problem From the buyers standpoint from a purely financial angle it is readily ap parent that the practice of going to distant points for trading purposes is a losing venture As a matter of simple arithmetic it is
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THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION CONVENTION A communication from the Sceretary of the National Association has been received stating that the annual meeting of delegates to the forthcoming Conven sion will be held at the Grand Central Hotel In this city on the morning of November 20 The following are the vamos of the State Associations which have thus far held Conveniions together with the names of their regular de degatos Ver VorkMesre Witler Kelly Dowling Foster Page Maediar wil Jones Caniw 1 and Sheerl Penn vloanisMessts Rorers Havharst Haghes and TWalhach Ne Jersey Messrs n lye Res Thomas Gale and Hilton CommeccticutMes re Hahbell ant Putuam CelifornieF I Durkee Join I Rog rs a young lawyer of Philadelphia and A mewhor of the State Assembly i8 the most promiuent eandidate for President of the Association Newyor on had three Presidents in elght years two of SwERG wore from professional club 1t is nat expected thal over 30 delegates will he preseut at the convoution rep resenting about a dozen States BASEBALL IN ALABAMA The Mutual Clnl of this city played their last come of ball in Montgomery Ala on Friday last with fle Lore Stars of NewOrleans Wolters pitching The stars
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES In the June number of The Maine Central appears Robert Rexdales poem on Maine entitled Motherland with an excellent likeness of the writer The poem was originally delivered before the Maine Club at hieago and its reproduc tion lias a special interest in view of Old Home Week J T Whelpley having recently given affairs in Cuba thorough and careful investigation describes in the July Atlantic Cuba of ToDay and ToMor row showing what the Spanish rule w as w hat the Americans have been and are doing since taking possession and how difficult and delicate is Hie task before u to regenerate and educate the Cuban people and lit them for ultimate Seltgoernment As an exsclmolc unuffttee woman Martha liaker Dunn in the July Atlan tic tells many wholesome and some un palatable truths as to the general mis manmanagenient ol educational ptob lemsthe often dishearti dug treatment of public school teachers andthecon scieneciess demands generally if not universally made upon them The slightly humoroustone which pervades the silicic makes it easy and attractive reading while it is none the less out spoken mid emphatic as to the need of rciitm for many crying evils
There is a photographing machine on a lower floor of Grand Central Station which is a marvel even in this day of mechanical miracles In appearance it resembles the body of a honsom cab You step inside sit insert a qarter in a slot and press a button In just one minute there is delivered to you automatically your photograph already framed For an other nickel a mailing envelope is also furnished The first days of spring have broght a new look to New York Side streets which had been piled high with snow are clean from warm showers Store windows have chang ed from their winter dressing to bright mildweather colors like the clothing of passing pedestrians Cen tral Park has taken on a verdant mantle set with diamondlike lakes And out in the suburbs residents have removed their overcoats too soon done too much raking on their vards have become overheated caught colds and now are taking the modern version of sulphur and mo lasses I recently had occasion to ride the Pere Marquette railrdftd from Grand Rapids Michigan to Chicago and I was much impressed by the dining car service This railroad is owned by the Chesapeake
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