in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, we must turn our attention to
the completion of the trip from New York to Washington. The reader, by
referring to the note at the foot of this column, will there be able to
find in what numbers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE the stages from New York to
Philadelphia were printed. We therefore take up the route from
Philadelphia, the first stage being from Market and Broad streets,
Philadelphia, to Compassville, a distance of forty-five miles. Leaving
City Hall by Broad and Twenty-second streets, proceed to Hamilton,
thence by Twenty-fifth Street to T. A. B. Fountain, thence to
Fifty-second Street, and there run into the Lancaster Pike, which is a
fine road for many miles from Philadelphia. Nine miles out you pass
through Ardmore. Then continuing on the Lancaster Pike a short two
miles, you run through Bryn-Mawr, and four miles further on pass through
Wayne. You should keep to the Lancaster Pike, crossing the railroad at
Eagle. After passing through Devon there is some hilly work until Paoli
is reached. All this time the rider has kept to the Lancaster Pike, but
it would be wiser for him to leave the Pike and bear to the left at a
fork less than a mile out of Paoli and just before reaching the West
Chester Intersection. The route then runs by a straight and fine road
out to Downington, where by a sharp turn to the right you cross the
tracks and again join the Lancaster Pike. The run from Downington to
Coatesville is direct and unmistakable. If the rider desires, he can put
up here for the night. If he is doing 60 to 100 miles in a day, he can
stop here for the noon meal. But it is wiser for both to go on to
Compassville. On leaving the hotel you should run along by the railroad
track almost due north, having crossed the main line at right angles.
The road winds about somewhat, and there are one or two hills out to
Wagontown, but with care and some inquiry there is no difficulty in
getting started on the road which runs quite direct to Compassville,
making a distance of forty-five miles from Philadelphia. Compassville is
a reasonably good place to spend the night, the hotel being clean and
the food good.
The direct route from Philadelphia to Washington leaves the Lancaster
Pike at Paoli, and taking the left fork just beyond that town, runs out
to West Chester, and thence through Sager's Mills, Chad's Ford, Double
Bridge, to Wilmington. This route to Washington is shorter, but for
several reasons the longer route, of which we have above given the first
stage, is far more interesting to the bicycle tourist. In the first
place, the road is better. Then the hills are much less frequent.
Furthermore, the rider passes through much historic territory connected
with the Rebellion, and the field of Gettysburg is easily included; and,
finally, the scenery and the towns through which you pass are far more
interesting.
NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford,
Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New
Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814.
Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No.
818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No.
920. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822.
Philadelphia--Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West
Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in
No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First
Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to
Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth
Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833.
Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to
Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to
New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839.
Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to
Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.
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This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.
Probably most of you have heard of Helen Keller, but I have seen and
talked with her, and to see Helen and hear her sweet voice, which she,
dear child, cannot hear, is to have an experience which you never can
forget. "Come and take a cup of tea with me, and meet Helen Keller,"
wrote my dear friend, and I went.
It was on a winter day, late in the afternoon, when I entered my
friend's drawing-room. I saw, sitting beside her teacher, a fair young
girl, perhaps fifteen years old. Helen is straight and robust. She
carries herself finely, her head held up, her shoulders thrown back. Her
little hands are very white and finely shaped, with tapering fingers,
which are to her what eyes and ears are to us. Helen sees and hears with
those wonderful delicate hands of hers, and everything they tell her is
reflected in an instant on her sweet sensitive face. She has a very
merry laugh, and responds in a moment to the moods of others, whether
they are happy or sorrowful moods. Helen has fair curling hair and a
lovely complexion, and you would select her in any group of girls for
her beauty and air of grace and distinction. Better than looks is, what
her teacher says she possesses, a very sweet, patient, and loving
disposition. You discover this as you watch her, for there is so much
sunshine in her face, and her manners are so gentle and natural. Then,
too, she is very quick to express her thanks for any kindness shown, or
gift presented to her, and at any bit of fun her laugh is like a peal of
silvery bells.
Helen Keller was a baby not two years old when she had the illness which
shut her into darkness and silence for the rest of her life. With sight
gone and hearing gone, it seemed as if a very mournful fate would be
hers. At eight years of age she was deaf, dumb, and blind, and knew no
more than some little docile animal, for nobody had found out how to
waken up her brain, or to enable her to communicate her ideas to her
fellow-creatures.
It was at this period that her father and mother brought their little
girl to Boston, to place her in an institution designed for such
helpless children as she was then. Here she came under the immediate
care of the lady who has ever since been her friend, sister, and
teacher. Miss Sullivan says she had not taught Helen a single week
before she was aware that she had an extraordinary pupil. The child
learned so fast that her progress was amazing. Something of what Helen
has gained you will understand, girls, when I tell you that she reads
beautifully in the raised type the blind spell out with their fingers,
that she writes a clear, fine, strong hand, operates perfectly three
different typewriters, and is now beginning French and German in
addition to her English studies. She writes a very creditable letter in
French, and translates fables and stories with ease.
Her contact with the world is, of course, through touch, and her senses
of smell and taste are acute. She lays her fingers on the lips of the
one speaking to her, and rapidly repeats whatever is said, answering at
once as any other child would, only Helen's answers are usually quicker
and brighter than those of girls of her age. Her teacher talks with her
by means of the mute alphabet, taking Helen's hand in her own, and in
this way Helen "sees" all sorts of things, Miss Sullivan being her
interpreter. When Miss Sullivan is talking to Helen, the latter has a
look of the most genuine attention; her whole face is full of interest.
You forget that she cannot see, so alert and alive are the features.
Every day this dear young girl writes in her journal, and she puts into
this book just the same confidences, and tells it the same happy
stories, which other girls write and tell in their diaries. Helen Keller
is a happy, contented, merry girl. I am glad I know her, and I wish you
all might know her too.
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An Appeal for a School-house.
Come, dear readers of the Table--Ladies, Knights, Patrons, and their
friends--let us make possible the laying of the corner-stone of Good
Will School next spring. The task is not a difficult one. It can be
accomplished in this way:
Get one subscriber to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. Remit the $2 for it for one
year. Attach the accompanying Coupon. Say in your letter that you wish
the 50 cents turned into the Fund. And the thing is done. The Fund is
complete. The corner-stone will be laid. The boys will have an
industrial school-house. The Order will have performed a grand, a
chivalrous deed.
At this holiday-time every person who reads these lines has it within
his or her power to build this school-house. Because, if _you_ get the
one subscriber, the house will be built. If you do not, it will not--not
now. All depends on you.
Go out and ask your friends about it. Ask them to help you get the
subscriber. Your parents and teachers will help you. Ask them to do so.
Set your heart on getting this one subscriber. Go to a Sunday-school or
church committee, a day school, some well-to-do man or woman who has
young persons in the household. Ask the well-to-do neighbor. Relate the
merits of the paper, and show a sample copy and Prospectus. We furnish
them free. Ask us to do so.
But do more than this. Relate the story of Good Will. Tell the person
whom you are asking to subscribe why you want the subscription, and why
you want it now. Tell him or her that Good Will Farm, while in Maine,
takes boys from any part of the country, and is therefore not a local
but a national enterprise. Say that it is a house for an industrial
school that the Order is to build. The Farm is in good hands, and the
school itself will be well conducted. Our task is only to put up the
building, not to conduct the school. Say that during the last few
years--two or three--more than 700 poor boys have applied for admission
to Good Will, and had to be refused it for lack of room. These boys were
deserving. Say further that if you get the subscription the school will
be built, and, by turning a house now used for the school into a
dwelling, more boys can be taken--boys of five, six, and seven years of
age, who are now homeless, may be given homes, school advantages, and a
chance to become useful Christian men.
During the next two weeks will _you_ get this subscription? Talk it
up--and get it. The appeal is not made to the Order. It is made to
_you_. If you do not wish to cut out the coupon, make a pen one nearly
like it, ask us for duplicates, or send on the subscription without a
coupon, simply saying that you got it to help the school, and that you
want 50 cents of the $2 given to the Fund. Be sure to give the
subscription address, and your own name for the Honor Roll.
Come on, dear friends, let us build this school-house.
THIS COUPON
Will be received by the publishers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE as
[Illustration: Fifty Cents]
when accompanied by an order for a NEW subscription to HARPER'S
ROUND TABLE and One Dollar and Fifty Cents. The intent of this
Coupon is to pay you for inducing another person, _not now a
subscriber_, to subscribe for HARPER'S ROUND TABLE for one year.
This Coupon has nothing whatever to do with your own subscription;
that is, with the copy you expect to read next year, it matters not
in whose name it be ordered, and will not be accepted in payment
for any part of it. It is good for its face in the hands of any
person who performs the work indicated, whether said person is a
subscriber or not. HARPER & BROTHERS.
* * * * *
The St. Ives Puzzle Contest.
The St. Ives story excited much interest. To new readers we must explain
that it was a tale of the man who came from St. Ives, related to the
famous person bound for that place. There were four riddles in it, and
the rest of the questions were double meanings of names, chiefly
geographical. On the journey the man of wives said he saw "an island of
Greece that wouldn't hold water"--Poros; and speaking of the character
of his many children, the man said not one was "an island off the
Mexican coast"--Angel.
A great many solvers wrote to ask if a mistake had not been made in
Question No. 2, "because there were not one hundred words in the
paragraph." No mistake was made. The "99th" word is the one preceding
the c--100. Here are the answers:
1, Wake; 2, Be just before you are generous; 3, Fife; 4, Tietar; 5,
Vilaine; 6, Wigtown; 7, Bureau; 8, Poros; 9, Net and Racquet; 10, Fad;
11, There is no wisdom like frankness; 12, Oka; 13. Mercury
(quicksilver); 14, Gull: 15, Yule; 16, Sasa; 17, Angel; 18, Faro and
Fortune; 19, Lard; 20, Book; 21, Clinch; 22, Palm; 23, Box-car.
Of the twenty-three questions in the story, twenty-one were correctly
answered by William C. Thayer, aged 13, Michigan, and Pearl A. Coyle,
aged 13, Pennsylvania. The former missed Nos. 13 and 23, and the latter
Nos. 2 and 23. We divide the $10 prize between them, giving $5 to each.
The other $15 of the $25 offered is divided among other high solvers
thus: Frederic W. Darling and Joslyn Z. Smith, New York (Buffalo); Royal
J. Davis. Indiana; Edward L. Lyon, New York; J. M. Espey and Nora B.
Tucker, Pennsylvania, $2 each; and Ethel Ruth Sherman, New York; Mabel
Josephine Frye, District of Columbia; and Amy Erickson, Wisconsin, $1
each. The money has been forwarded, and reached most of the winners by
Christmas day.
* * * * *
The Quarter is in the Fund.
DEAR KNIGHTS AND LADIES,--I am a great black dog, and I have more
to do with the Round Table Department than you imagine. I have
helped one of your contributors prepare scores of articles for you,
and you have me to thank for their briefness. Whenever a manuscript
threatened to become too long, I would insist on having a door
opened for me, or would beg for a drink of water. So that my wants
might be supplied a long story had to be cut short.
I am a lazy old fellow, but I am as good as I can be, and goodness
means everything with people, and dogs as well. Some little
children who once had a society called "Peacemakers" let me join
their club because I never fight.
I am glad to hear that you are to build an Industrial School for
the Good Will Farm boys, for they have a Band of Mercy, and have
promised to be kind to all dumb animals. This means that when
everything does not go just right in the neat shops you are to fit
up for them, they will not lose their tempers and throw their tools
at any stray cat or dog which happens near. Kind boys will make
kind men; and I think that all the pets that read the ROUND TABLE
ought to raise a fund to help build that school for their mutual
friends. I enclose twenty-five cents for this purpose. If I were a
dog that could perform a great many tricks I would send a larger
amount, but I will leave such an honor to my accomplished brothers.
I suppose the little dogs would consider a dime as their proper
offering; and, by-the-way, what if we adopt that as our standard?
Will all the pets--dogs, kitties, rabbits, lambs, biddies, birds,
ponies--which are interested in boys who are bound to ever protect
them send ten cents for that Good Will School?
I suppose my letter will be published as long as it is the first
from a dumb animal; but the rest of you must not be disappointed if
yours do not appear in print. This magazine is for children, and
they like it too well to give it over to us. However, I should not
be surprised if the most interesting letters should be printed; and
perhaps the pet that writes the most pleasing one will receive a
reward--a pretty collar, it may be. Hoping to see a long list of
"pet names" in the contributors' list for the School Fund, I will
now say
Bow-wow,
BILLY.
BATH, ME.
P. S.--Any pet that wishes boys to keep on abusing them should not
send their dimes.
B.
[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB]
Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
One of our Round Table patrons sends the following formula for a soda
developer, which he says he has used successfully for years:
Hot Water 10 oz.
Sulphite of Soda Crystals 2 "
Sal Soda Crystals 2 "
Bromide Potassium 30 grs.
This will take about twelve hours to dissolve. Keep bottle tightly
corked, and it will keep for two or three years, and be as good as if
not better than when first made. To use, take 5 oz. of cold-water, 1 oz.
of this solution, and 12 grs. of pyrogallic acid. This quantity will
develop four 5 by 8 plates, or half a dozen 4 by 5 plates.
Several of our members have asked for formulas for developing solutions,
and will find the above to give excellent results. In our answers to
queries will be found a formula for hydroquinon and eikonogen developer,
and either of those formulas will give excellent negatives.
SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM F. TOBEY asks when the prizes are to be
announced, and the grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs.
The prizes will be announced as soon after the close of the
competition as the judges are able to examine the pictures. The
grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs is that made by
Eastman & Co., of Rochester, N.Y. They make a bromide paper, called
platino-bromide, which gives beautiful results. The use of bromide
paper is recommended for winter, as by its use one is practically
independent of sunlight.
SIR KNIGHT JOHN BYRNE, of California, asks what is the best camera
for beginners. A hand camera is the best for a beginner, and one
that is fitted for glass plates instead of film. With a hand camera
one can use a tripod, and make time pictures without the complex
swing-back, which is always more or less trouble to a beginner. A
good size is a camera that takes a 4 by 5 picture.
SIR KNIGHT ALISON MARTIN, who sent a collection of fine photographs
to the contest, asks if those pictures which do not take a prize
can be criticised. If Sir Knight Alison could see the quantity of
pictures which have been sent in he would at once see that special
criticism of each picture would involve more time and space than
could be given to the Camera Club Department. After the contest
closes there will be a general criticism or description of the
pictures submitted.
SIR KNIGHT MILTON E. PEASE, of Suffield, Connecticut, wants the
address of some firm where he can get good supplies, and also
wishes the formula for a good developing solution. Sir Knight
Milton will find reliable firms in Boston and New York, any one of
which will send price-list on application. The editor is not
familiar with firms in Springfield, Connecticut, but would advise
sending to some town near Suffield, as the charges are much less
for transportation. A good developing solution is made as follows:
Solution No. 1. Water, 10 oz.; sulphite of soda, 2 oz.; eikonogen,
165 grs.; hydroquinon, 80 grs.; and add enough water to make the
solution up to 8 oz. Solution No. 2. Water, 10 oz.; carbonate of
potassium, 1 oz.; sodium carbonate, 1 oz.; and enough more water to
make the solution up to 16 oz. For developing take 1 oz. of No. 1,
1 oz. of No. 2, and 4 oz. of water.
SIR KNIGHT EDWIN V. GRISWOLD asks what kinds of trays to use for
developing, fixing, and toning. The best developing trays are made
of rubber, but celuloid makes a very good tray. An amber glass tray
is the best for a fixing-tray, as, being so unlike the other trays,
one never mistakes the hypo-tray for any other. A white porcelain
tray is usually chosen for a toning-tray.
A CORRESPONDENT OF ENGLEWOOD, N.J., who does not sign name, asks a
good and cheap way to make a developer. Our correspondent will find
his question answered in the answer to Sir Knight Milton Pease in
this number, and also at the beginning of this column.
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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.
The new U. S. Postage-due stamps are printed in aniline colors, and if
wet the colors run badly. Do not soak any of them, as that would ruin
them. The higher values of these stamps (30 and 50 cents) are still
scarce, as many post-offices had large stocks of the old issue, or of
the lower values (1, 2, 3, 5, and 10) of the current issue.
Proofs and essays of U. S. stamps are advancing in value rapidly. A few
years ago they brought nominal prices only.
Unused U. S. stamps, with the original gum well centred, are worth from
30 per cent. to 50 per cent. more than when gum has been soaked off, or
when not evenly centred.
F. BOGGS.--Write to any of the firms mentioned in our advertising
columns.
E. S. D.--Dealers ask 20c. for the 1835 dime.
J. S. POWELSON.--The 2c. 1869 can be bought for 8c.
RUTH E. CHAMBERLIN.--The 1804 half-cent is quoted at 15c.
GLEN CARTER.--"Helvetia" stamps are those of Switzerland from 1862
to date. They are worth from 1c. to $1 each, according to scarcity.
JOHN H. CAMPBELL.--The last issue of Mexico are the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
10, 12, 15, 20, and 50 centavos; 1, 5, and 10 pesos.
F. WALDRON.--The prices quoted are those _asked_ by dealers, not
the prices paid by dealers for them. Address firms mentioned in our
advertising columns.
R. S. C.--In die A, 1887, 2c. green U. S. envelope the bust points
to the space between the third and fourth "tooth" of the edge. In
die B, the common die, the bust points to space between second and
third "tooth."