Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . bells, and anchors. If wewalk along a little farther we shall come to the first musicstore in America. It was here as early as 1794, for in thatyear there was the following advertisement in the Mary-land Journal: Musical Repository, Market-Street, nearGay-Street, Baltimore. J. CARR, Music Im-porter, LATELY FROM LoNDON, Respect-fully informs the public that he has openeda Store entirely in the Musical line, and hasfor SALE, Finger and barrel organs, doubleand single keyd harpsichords, piano forteand common guitars. The shop-keepers live in th
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . bells, and anchors. If wewalk along a little farther we shall come to the first musicstore in America. It was here as early as 1794, for in thatyear there was the following advertisement in the Mary-land Journal: Musical Repository, Market-Street, nearGay-Street, Baltimore. J. CARR, Music Im-porter, LATELY FROM LoNDON, Respect-fully informs the public that he has openeda Store entirely in the Musical line, and hasfor SALE, Finger and barrel organs, doubleand single keyd harpsichords, piano forteand common guitars. The shop-keepers live in the houses over their stores. Instead of telegraph polesalong the streets we seetrees. There are no elec-tric cars with their clang-ing bells, not even horse-cars. People ride in carri-ages or on horse-back, butmost of them walk. Anautomobile would havebeen to them the eighthwonder of the world. Butwe do see gaslights. Balti-more was the first city in theUnited States to manufac-ture gas for public piNKNEY But thc qulet was soon 198. BALTIMORE TOWN to be disturbed. On the Fourth of July, 1828, therewas a vast crowd of people gathered together in Balti-more. They had come to take part in a great was the laying of the corner-stone of the Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, thenmore than ninety years old. The road ran from Bal-timore to Ellicotts cars were drawn byhorses at first. Twoyears later a locomotivebuilt by Peter Cooperran over the roadPeople were astonishedbecause it ran so fast, fif-teen miles an hour! Not many years laterthe first electric telegraphline in America was built,between Baltimore andWashington. This marksthe end of the old quietand the beginning of themodern city. But the change did nottake place all at once. There was still much of the oldtime peacefulness. And the city always proved adelight to visitors. Several Englishwomen have writtenabout their visits to Baltimore at that time. They say
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