. Rural resorts and summer retreats along the line of the Cumberland valley railroad, including picnic parks and pleasure places . Capitalcity with its palatial residences, shaded streets and situated and most conspicuous is the mosque-likedome of the Capitol building, surrounded by the spires ofmany churches; hard by, the obelisk Monument in honor ofthe dead soldiers of the late war rears its head only to beoutdone in its lofty aspirations by the Stand Pipe of thecity water works, which rises like a slender light-house bythe rivers side. Across the river, nigh at hand, leadi
. Rural resorts and summer retreats along the line of the Cumberland valley railroad, including picnic parks and pleasure places . Capitalcity with its palatial residences, shaded streets and situated and most conspicuous is the mosque-likedome of the Capitol building, surrounded by the spires ofmany churches; hard by, the obelisk Monument in honor ofthe dead soldiers of the late war rears its head only to beoutdone in its lofty aspirations by the Stand Pipe of thecity water works, which rises like a slender light-house bythe rivers side. Across the river, nigh at hand, leadingfrom the principal street of the city, runs the old foot andwagon bridge constructed in 1817. To the right along theshore disappearing in the distance extends that famoussystem of Iron Works, headed by Paxton and Lochiel,and including the Pennsylvania Steel Works, marking theirindustry by a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, thelurid brightness of Mhich blends with the moonlight on theriver like the flashes of the aurora of the North with th(>summer twilight. Gazing upon the scene which the day (7) 1 I/ ■ 1/. 9 discloses here it is hard to believe that scarcely a centuryand a half ago all that city was a howling wilderness withno habitation of civilized being, save one, to break themonotony of the rivers wild border; but so it was, andthere in that little enclosure plainly visible on your left asyou leave the eastern shore to cross the bridge lies buriedthe builder and owner of that habitation, John Harris, thepioneer settler of this region. Though enclosed with ironfence, no stately monument marks his grave, and no token,save only the broken, decayed, and tottering trunk of aonce noble tree that was bearing blossoms when Penn landed,and is j^reserved now only because it once served as thestake to which unfriendly Indians bound and would haveburned save for timely aid, the living body of the bravesettler who now slee^js at its base. The story is as familiaras a
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