What to see in America . atrain of passenger cars. On rainy days horses will be at-tached. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, which MatthiasBaldwin founded, have become the largest establishment oftheir kind in the world. January 1, 1839, an all-rail line was opened from Camdento Jersey City by which the railroad company declared itwas possible to go from Philadelphia to New York in sixor seven hours with almost as much comfort as the travelercould have at his own fireside, whereas the journey had for-merly required eleven to twenty hours, and had been madeat the expense of great discomfort and eve
What to see in America . atrain of passenger cars. On rainy days horses will be at-tached. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, which MatthiasBaldwin founded, have become the largest establishment oftheir kind in the world. January 1, 1839, an all-rail line was opened from Camdento Jersey City by which the railroad company declared itwas possible to go from Philadelphia to New York in sixor seven hours with almost as much comfort as the travelercould have at his own fireside, whereas the journey had for-merly required eleven to twenty hours, and had been madeat the expense of great discomfort and even hazard of the forenoon of New Years Day Philadelphia has itsINIummers Parade. You may then see marching up BroadStreet gorgeous company following gorgeous company in a dis-tinctly feudal demon-stration chiefly par-ticipated in bymechanics, laborers,and small shopkeep-ers. Men freely spendthe savings of a yearto make a show inthese vying and un-believably berigged Broad Street, Philadelphia Companies. For hours. Pennsylvania 117 the paraders march ordance, with music blaringand feet tapping time. Ten miles west of Phila-delphia is Bryn Mawrwith its famous collegefounded by a Quaker forthe advanced educationof women, and opened forstudents in 1885. Thename is Welsh for greathill. About fifteen milesfarther on is Valley Forge,where Washington withhis army of 10,000 menwent into camp on De-cember 19, 1777, and re-mained until the nextJune. In midwinter more than one third of the men were unfit for duty on accountof sickness or lack of food and clothing. The camp groundhas been bought by the state. Washingtons headquarters,a substantial stone house built in 1757, has been preserved,and several log cabins and bake ovens such as were used bythe army have been reproduced. A score of miles to thewest, at Pottstown, is a wonderful group of Ringing Rocks,which give forth a musical sound when struck. Near Read-ing, which is somewhat farther up the Susquehanna, DanielBoone was bor
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