. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . oved routes of communication withthe seaboard. To fill this want the National Pike was begun. Properlyspeaking, the Pike ran from Cumberland to Wheeling, since only thatpart of it was built by the Federal government; the part from Cumber-land to Baltimore having been constructed under law by certain Mary-land banks, which found its toils a source of great profit. Its glory hasdeparted, but when coaching days were palmy no other post road in thecountry di
. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . oved routes of communication withthe seaboard. To fill this want the National Pike was begun. Properlyspeaking, the Pike ran from Cumberland to Wheeling, since only thatpart of it was built by the Federal government; the part from Cumber-land to Baltimore having been constructed under law by certain Mary-land banks, which found its toils a source of great profit. Its glory hasdeparted, but when coaching days were palmy no other post road in thecountry did an equal business. The wagons were so numerous, saysHoward Pyle, in an article upon it {Harper s Magazine, November, 1S79), that the leaders of one team had their noses in the trough at the end ofthe next wagon ahead, and the coaches drawn by four or six horsesdashed along at a speed of which a modern limited express might notfeel ashamed. Many are the good stories which cluster about this portion of thatbusy highway! Hagerstown has now about 8,500 people, less thanfive hundred of which are foreign born. If you go there on a Tuesday,. HAGEKSTOVVN. however, you will think the whole 35,000 in Washington county havecome to town. Public Tuesday is an old custom, begun by accident,but now crystallized into a rule of life in that region. It is on that daythat courts of record are open ; that every business man tries to be athome and every countryman makes his errand to town. That is thetime of tax-sales, auctions, hucksterings, cheap shows and everythingthat seeks a crowd. 13 Hagerstown is picturesque, well-built and prosperous, with a strongtendency toward manufacturing. From its homes on the hill, whereProspect street asserts its superiority, a wonderfully pleasing picture ispresented. The town, with its quaint old houses, many of them of log,more of brick, old-fashioned and embowered in foliage, forms a prettyforeground for the wide space of valley which stretches away to themou
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