Show A 4 f NEARBY AND f YONDER t i by T T M L ajo t 11 of T the golden bridge N 1873 the pennsylvania railroad 1 built a 13 span single track bridge across the susquehanna river at havre de grace maryland in ID iiii the rall rail road built a u double truck track bridge to rei place the lie old one and offered to pre sent the original bridge to the coun ties which it connects as a highway bridge since it Is on one of the main routes between philadelphia and wash strange to say the counties turned U up P thelt noses so to speak and declined to it accept the gift the railroad then offered tile the bridge to a group ot citizens of these two counties who accepted it promptly had a romantic vi vision sivil put up each as a working fund and began to operate it as a toll bridge auto traffie developed by leaps and bounds and the owners made money hand over fist from 1910 to 1923 it Is said to have netted them more inore than having been nicknamed the golden bridge in the state stale road commission purchased the structure under legis authority for foe XO and enn con linued the tolls until it was paid tor for and improvements were added the old span was narrow two trucks not pass to overcome this handicap aud and double Ms its capacity the annual traffic having grown to about vehicles on an ingenious plan was worked out whereby another dec deck k was anchored to co the superstructure now all northbound north bound truffle traffic moves via the upper deck and all southbound south bound traffic via the lower or original deck and the tolls have been cancelled 0 Is 0 the worlds greatest organ in and exhibited B BUILT at the st louis worlds fair in 1901 1004 where it 11 was played by the great org organists anisis of the world this main mammoth moth instrument was subsequently disman tied and remained mule in a st louis warehouse for several years and then one day its parts were loaded into thirteen box cars and it was treated to a ride to philadelphia where ll it was enlarged by SO 80 per cent and installed in a great court in the center of tile the largest building in the world devoted to retail merchandising izing Now every levery week day the passing throngs are privileged to enjoy the melody which penis peals forth from that which Is surd said to be both the largest and finest if it la is not the very latest improved musical instrument on earth this king of instruments has five manuals stops slops and a forest of pipes to be edict exact ranging in length from three fourths of an inch to upwards of 37 feet feel weighs pounds un and including its several blowers of more than horse borse power capable of supplying approximately 2100 cubic feet of air per nil minute nute occupies a space of cubic feet the largest pipe Is of wood 32 feet ion long weighs 1735 i pounds and sall said two men carl can crawl through it side by side on their hands and knees tile the instrument Is played from two consoles one for ordinary playing and the other for mechanical leal playing needless to say the oi organ gan Is majestic its music sup sukpil pil 0 ot 0 statuary hall s HALL so called Is a great creat semicircular high room ith a 9 grecian theater effect in our national capitol in washington Fort norl y used by the alie house of depre sein seti athes lathes its walls have echoed the voices of 0 webster We lisier clay lay calhoun and other personages famous in congress in their time ll it was set aside in 1864 as a national nai ional statuary hall to which each state stale contribute a statu of of two of its most distinguished oil zens maryland Is typified ty pilled by diaries charles car roll a signer of the declaration of independence leperi deme massachusetts by sam sain net uc adams alio ho helped pio Plon imite jote taw m new york by geoage vilwon its first go governor velnor and ienn sylan la by robert fulton tile the first In inventor to practically apply s steam amer iiii pr virginia by george washing tin lull in the military costume of the revolution unit robert EL 15 le lee e who commanded the army of north vir glela finla luring during the file civil war in the ant form farni of the confederate service st se qubia a Chein kee indian halfbreed half breed after whom the big trees of california are said to have been named who do di ve loped a written and printed tar luo midge tor for his trifle represents okla horna mia chile that great woman fran casc ces E W illard tile the flounder of tile he woin DS hristian itan union yin tyni s Illin illinois robed to in tile the buckskin of pioneer lays days sam houston was president of the lie republic of texas when annexed by the united states depicts tile lone one star state space prohibits mention of till all suffice u say the entire ensemble Is no an imposing gI of images of the nations characters of their tiny day all and generation wi E 1929 1029 western newspaper union |