What to see in America . and wounding many others. The business section of the city was visited in 1904 by aconflagration that swept over one hundred and fifty acres anddestroyed property to the value of 170,000,000. Yet thecity rose from the ruins with magic swiftness, and in theupbuilding streets were widened, skyscrapers erected, smoothpavements laid where before there had been cobble, andsewers were substituted for cesspools, and for domesticdrainage which had been emptied into the wayside gutters. Baltimore is called the Monumental City on account ofthe number of commemorative structures
What to see in America . and wounding many others. The business section of the city was visited in 1904 by aconflagration that swept over one hundred and fifty acres anddestroyed property to the value of 170,000,000. Yet thecity rose from the ruins with magic swiftness, and in theupbuilding streets were widened, skyscrapers erected, smoothpavements laid where before there had been cobble, andsewers were substituted for cesspools, and for domesticdrainage which had been emptied into the wayside gutters. Baltimore is called the Monumental City on account ofthe number of commemorative structures in its publicsquares. It has the noblest forest park in the United States,a six-hundred-acre tract of ancient woodland known asDruid Hill. In Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard is thegrave of Edgar Allan Poe, who died in the city. Old FortMcHenry is worthy of a visit; and so are the Walters ArtGallery, one of the finest in America, and the big LexingtonMarket, which picturesquely illustrates Southern produce Mandand 135. Oyster Boats in the Lower Potomac and manners. Of all the citys various institutions nonehas brought it more honor than the University and Hospitalwhich bear thename of JohnsHopkins. Hefounded and en-dowed them withwealth amassedas a Baltimoremerchant. The first Am-erican telegraphline was builtfrom Baltimoreto Washington,forty-two miles, in 1844. On the road to Washington, tenmiles from Baltimore, is the town of Relay, so named be-cause here were changed the horses that drew the cars onthe first passenger railway in America. Construction ofthe railway was begun July 4, 1828. The first locomotive used on the Baltimoreand Ohio tracks was theTom Thumb, made byPeter Cooper, who servedas its engineer w^hen itmade a thirty-mile trialtrip to Ellicotts Mills andback to Baltimore, inAugust, 1830. Maryland is almost cuttwo by Chesapeake
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