Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1921, Page 56

The Story of Harrisonburg, in Virginia’s Beautiful Shenandoah Valley ARRISONBURG, Va., should be1tS chair car. food ig to be had and, is always interesting company want to talk horse X hunting. horse show, cat- almost any other sub- our way passes through a re- bred for the classed as one of the neighbor | on"'hq cities of Washington, for al-| though it is quite distant in | terms of time as we moderns count | 1 it Is near as we. the speed minutes and split seconds. 0 us in terms of mile marvels of the world, estimate such things. There is much about Harrison- ‘burg which you do not know and much that you should know if you would broaden your knowledge of your coun- try. and there are many th will surprise you if you hav gs which literature, music, thrills are in your own home town Harrisonburg is the capital of one of the rich and progressive regions of America. It is a region which strikes all travelers with the beauty of its scenery, the fertility of its farms variety of its products and the lence of ‘its roads. You have mo far enough in the Shenandoah valley to cbserve these thin but there is & great deal of worthy information con- cerning Harrisonburg and thesc scetion: of the valley of Virginia. the Blue Ridge | and the Alleghanies tributory to it which you have not collected Harrisonburg is a big little city, and ]! taking its population into account it isjis in some ways the biggest small City inihousands pass by w the United States. In many lines of i dustry, in bank deposits and resources the character of its public buildi the number and architecture of its churches. | ¥ the charm of its homes. the smartn of its shops, the civic spirit of the peo- ple, its press, its hotel accommodations, its ‘city government, its police, fire, JOHN W. MORRISON, MAYOR OF HARRISONBURG. ter and sewer service. and all the other ! things which one considers in cal ing the quality of a city, Harrisonburg is given high rating. x % x * ARRISONBURG is 145 miles south- west of Washington Ly way of the Southern railway. but Harrison- burgers and their trade reach all the north. west and south United Sta without the aid of Washington. A Harrisonburger conneets with great east and wes} railroad systems and | the net of Southern railroads by tak- ing_train to Staunton, Natural Bridge or Roanoke. At these points he takes train for Lynchburg., Richmond or Norfolk, Cincinnati, St. Louwis. San Francisco, Atlanta, Jacksonville or| Key West. At Lynchburg and Roa- noke he can buy transportation for himself and his products to any part of the world. . The Harrisonburger | connects with transcontinental rail- ‘way systems and the northern and eastern rail lines by taking a train and traveling 2 few miles north—or down the valley—to Winchester and then to Harpers Ferry or Shenandoah Junction, where he comes upon the main line of the Baltimore and Ohi or from Shenandoah Junction b means of the Norfolk and Western h can pass north to Hagerstown, Cham bersburg or York and out into the| vast world that lies bevond the bor- ders of Maryland and Pennsyivania You can go to Harrisonburg by way of Harpers Ferry and thence north up the valley of Virzinia through Charles Town, Winchester and Strasburg, or you can go from Wash- ington to Shenandoah Junction and up the valley by way of Charles Town, Berryville, Riverton, Luray Cavern: and Elkton. The usual route to Har- risonburg by rail from Washington is over the Southern by way of Manas- sas. This involves no change of car: Though the distance is only 145 miles jt is a six-hour trip, but there are | reasons for this. Fifty miles of the way from Tho oughfare to Strasburg lies through the Blue Ridge mountains. At Stras- burg Junction the line turns north. and if your idea is that that part of the Shenandoah valley is flat, you must revise that though The country, or the “floor of the valle s decidedly and often wonderful hilly, and the line of the old Manassa Gap railroad. now the Hurrisonburs branch of the Southern. was when cdts and fills were mads men working with pick and shov and the “spoil” moved Ly horse and| cart. and when rock formations w cut through by hand-driven drills and | common jowder. Again. the trains from Washington to Harrisonbure serve a large number of fair town and pretty villages, and to cach of these towns wide sections of fertile, active country and many non-railrox towns are appendant H stops are made. After passing nassas vou will stop at Wellington. | covaring jowland ¢ Gainesville, Haymarkef, Thorouzh- | o o fare, Broad Run. The Plains, Belvoirdl and Marshall. Rectortown Markham, Linden. Hap Front oy Waterlick Timbervi ville and then Though it isa long e a hard one, for eve ard if vou orchards or fine beef c anywhere else in th and vou pass through part of srowing rej eatest apple-growing s it is the districts of a fecling | that all enterprise, enlightenment, art. vie, excitement and | Boston, Providence, 'n which puts 3 ew York. Ph Wilmington. Baltimore Was throughout half of the trainloads the shipload ple products- Shenandoah cider, vinegar and jel- £0 all over the world vou had never thought of that. | ¥ sou get bevond the Blue Ridge in Washington au- ists to ent of Virginia ¢ of Leesburg, Lee highway cse mountains. which w t smooth the way Harrisonburg. shorter between not only shorten. b Washington t Virginia, ry and in the That road will open up a new world: in the Blue Ridge henandoah v {American hassenger in operation part of the country the flight Washington Harrisonburg be spread a unsurpassed. Washington henandoah gap. down which a se creek. flow gon road and the rail- ridges and green rolling the North horses and tractor plows were in the !T : Bank of Harrisonby stal- | business, April thenceforth the Shenandoah ! ham shirts and big straw hats wart, well-fed men with brown f and proper hand in the picture. rivers have ripped through the Blue ([acutive pailiaer | chairman of the Doard {ert, president; J and vice president, Fast-running d Western railroad, Red-roofed inia and west- Pennsylvania nd silos make improssion many of these are romantic in orth fork. your course lies nt homes and big gardens mountains named Po | Harnshe Massanutten viee president viewed from vous passing Stras- Ma: sanutten ins appear as their whole sistunt cashiers €. . Harnsherg | tan ir. L. L.« spring, C. K. Long, W v I N. Haas. A. H | Joseph . Myer: John 1. Harnsberger. of window | burg one sees quarries four miles warehouse freight tra in their imp omotives hissing tience to be off and aloni run_a main road and Crossroads. Fountains in this sky- of Harrisonburg. formerly the I settlements <9 I ple's Bank, we wooden railroad ing set upright and and its paint s 3 brings to mind carly railroad days in Then you come union station of brick and stone. and substant weatherstrin rasburg Junction el which comes from Harpers Ferry [Cunningham. viee president: J.0 O of Charles Town and Winchester. Then your course turns to the south left-hand Ma North fork to the new Reory keep on the sanutten ridge Shenandoah. which course along the bas In falr weather tne blue and clear on or other trams and o Thaase W. H. Cunningham. W. B Dutrow, J. It oy H Weave herd. W. J. Kaylor, J. O. Stickley, T J. Martin., D. L. Huffman, J. E M {ler a_serpentine of that rage s buses and jitneys stand near the sta- Alleghanies No horsedrawn vehics: | Everything You chaose 3 are rushed through busy times congested tion platform. rounded hilis while Massanutten, with a remarkably level jwith asph; Iment with grani |lines of automobiles, jostling crowds of shoppers, g formed police. tire plugs, street hoxes and o courthouse the retail shop and bugine of the city, square with s office dis- trees and sup and the courthouse is a nohl It is the successor o two court- houses, and was built in 1566- W. Wayland, professor of history al this glanc hotel, in this ¢ @iuse “Riteh” I clerking there. m: [ he is an old W Jora. 1tia full = an_author of numerou on American history. in Rockingham Harrisonburg Sent, writes: A stre with Berl ltime with D On Octobar 15 the corner stone of 1he present_ aplendid courthouse was lald dress of the oveasion being made | . an_eminent son of Rockin ling wax formally epen year, the address on that occuxion ¥ Senator John W. bonrd of county supervisrs, under whose thority the courthouse was built, was co every w firm, with Mike Levy gang, he offered him the freedom the house. Joe Yokeley, the head waiter, in his tuxedo suit, showed | Him to the head of the table and Fu- rope est w L. Dretert, E. Carpenter and (. wax_superinten ir was contractor le to the suj fthe bill of. fare BRATHWAITE. o ingt the sky Jandscape and names of the stays with holding up and sta mmonw calth’s Blue Ridge and lastorney, Alleghenies the big flelds k wheat alrcady high and “head- ficlds of brown and nk Black- supervisors, (ot would be a credit to the Broadw; squad, the Market street squad in ing out”; great harrowing and | tor, Capt. John On three corners opposite the court- tops and sides mountains, symmetric and cach of the stone buildings a bank building, place to tell of the tion of Rockingham coun budge, whereupon I let him fto the mayor's office. The John W. Morrison, practicing lawyer | Harrisonburg !banks in the county E Harrisonburg [ Sources of the Harrisonburg Al the rounded hills and theee of which | outcroppings k and heavy | Harrisonhurg banks are $5,100,000. HE Star Man, in His Series of Articles on the Towns Neig Visits Progressive Town Along the Famous Valley Pike—Industries and Vari- ous Other Business Activities of Harrisonburg—A Wide-awake Chamber of Com- merce—Water Supply From a Mountain—Cheap Electricity and Power—School System and County and City Officials. ; of Was[;i;lgton. L i e s HARRISONBURG HIGH SCHOOL., e resources of 11 6L The offieer L. Dech- Ccashier L. T. Flick . Dunmore, assistant cashiers dircctors are J. 12 Beard, J. W. -n, . 1. Coffman, W. L. Dechert Myers, M. L. Mauzy, C. H. Rol . JMSnell. George E. Sipe. Jlett and Thomas 1. Yager. sources of the Rockingham ink_of Harrisonburg are The ofhc 1,545,924 nd C. H. Mauzy Long. J. MH. The resources of the National Bank its st publish atement, $LOTLAMLG0. The offi Reherd, prosident: W, of flour and | New machinory the k. | com- | od as ad of feed of feed for pouitry gentleman conned mill enjoy and in cent The qual- A the mill} on The officers of the Harrisonburg Cofrman the | M one of the spocializes of this Nour has e stockholder; | doseph. v Harrisonli b employing the | & | i twenty-five : milling compant Miiling and stockhoiders, rmers : all ther count: stock of £150,00 the | south and the Har 1 Ezg Compit tHalderman & Bro 643,000 £00.- 50,000 pounds of 000 dozen exes and ice plants—the ! Harri- | The camy are two large Tocwner Brothers and S factory—which A1l over 1he ank's | 1y with « combine A nerehants w Shenandoah v tignous mountain regions risonburg Cham a daily ey r of Com- in- plants as follows: in centering industrial largest poultry Fuited States A o T. Martz: | the building ef 2.0 irhir. John T. Harris, J. .|\ Tohn 11, Hoover, J. R. Lupton, | b r W Grattan | sy . Duke, William Elkton with the | e AL | Hamaker and T. N. Thompson. s Star man made | is kley, vice president: Thomas P prosilint cashicr, rd and S, J. Prichard shicrs The nt Elias Drunk, J rhoeffer. S. 1. Hoover, and Thomas P A glance at the husy streets g t blocks. sidewalks of ¢ curbs, moving show windows. 18 with high-heeled Just the same asx it is on 5th tnut street, Charles strect and Connecticut ave- nd everywhere else—and after The Star man went to his s the Kavianaugh, be- ou 1ty reeall Riteh, but ashington Loy, not yet me is R. Ritch- hefore going into the ho- s he lived here on Calvert wrked for a long time Sane and for u loncer Kaufman When The ar man told Ritch that he ate lunch in Steve's pluce with Talty, and Cross of the Kaufman Wallace Luchs, Jurdette, Frank Depro and the whOI«’: ¥ not ins ek, and 1dherg Jopnson. in white duck. the old- Ner and tip collector in the alley. brought him everything on and then some. uni- | tter: in Harrisonburg was on the chief of | sand from Alexandria. this s W. pumped from the Potomac ri x vears | risonburg’s wa ar | gravity from springs on North Moun- his | tain annually fn_antomobiles. Ms in all directions, and sammer o department. His name is He is sixty 5 serving his department friends st A. Brathw. Has nn elevation healthfulness mast unkuown and its de e youngest ot night and | tions on the water: nswers every alarm, * ok kK ASHE next encounter was with the chief of police, Frank L. Dovel | pmiarce: rting the lines of | wheel traflic and letting lines of pe- destrians eross the main are three other policemen—John R.|state in rly and Robert !in poultr Morrison, tall strong fellows who | produce; bushels of wheat, over 1 els of corn and 50,000 ton: reet. Ther Lo an, William C. I’hilly, or the Washington police de- rtment. Then T was held up by the geant, W. R. Bowman. who his and he showed me nd graduate of (Georgetown in the s of ‘1L This s, which organizi ion by t industrial city. The other city rs are: Treasurer, H. A. Sprin- attorney, Jotn Paul: city Dr. Howard Armstrong; ard Swank: city engin- eer, W. Myers; superintendent of public work John F. Noll; assessor, R. Lee Woodson; sergeant, W. R. Howman: councilmen, R. Lee Allen, W. M. Joseph, . Reilly, R. V. Slater, . 3 Spiro, 1. J. Will, H. 8. Whitmor A. Zigler. The committees of the council are the committe and sa s on light. finance. police water, streets and alms- house. All public utilities are owned by the city There is a municipal electric light and power plant on the doah river, twelve miles e wh st of the « current 15 generated and for domestic and industrial pur- poses at the lowest rate in the United States, The water supply comes by wravity from mountain springs west of the city. There is a well laid out sewer system and a recently erected SEWARR disposal plant of the most approved pattern. The main thor- oughfares are pav The Harrisonburg Chamber of Com- merce has issued a folder from which the following extracts are made: Tocated in the heart of the I us in peace and At healthtul uni The state. 1t i productive oty seat of R liversitied a i fou Gt 6,000 u vers large 4 owning thefr own' ho and pr <: no paupers Gy, yer (e Afatels most progressiy Al hrving municipality. 1t s the lowest ux any municipality in’ Virginia, 6 cents on $100, yet its bonded indebtedness is Comparatively ‘sinall Has & school system pronounced b educy tonal expertx to he the standard for Virginia T¢ is the shoppiug center of four counties lustrious, intelligent and a popula majority white, all thri Tional sounges | follow a few facts relating to | Rockingha rrisonburg was or- analysis s veurs aso. c-five charter members, three | Will bring 1.250.00 cight | the mointains the Harrisonburg built its first munici- of them volun- ' pal hydroclectric plant in 190, La cost of $100,000. but this plant has mbination wagon, one auto been scrapped and machinery of the hook- | latest_pattern instalied. 1f The Star sricultural | N5 members, | produced in_abundance griculture, in live s more than 1,000,000 and-ladder wagon ¥i fiber hose. and sheep. shipments will v he was in plain clothes ! 25.000 in hose | for power at nd one trum- hour for th a trumpe: a first prize twice | The $3,000 prize nd in order to w other | compan, nna. Then | mills producing yearly syor tsiof manufacturing enterpris Perhaps the olde CHIE 1CE DOV ty, 4 two- company owns its propr v hrick and coment b sleeping quariers for one of its truck alarms. day or cd promptiy vers sn that e an a licutenant first enginecr sk driver chief pipeman, and chicf hosem < heen ealled on for Stanunt en miles awav: Dav- and other townsand hamlets far bevond the limits of Harris Ker an annu woek. But it always leave b 1 vaca 1 1i £ ion o o inst the hn K. No. dent of publi rks. Th tem was hegun in 189 0 foet of = ht miles of s rock without facts from J superir wer- w | ax W y. there are ¢ blasted throu Al assessment erty the sewe AL pro cars. A curious thing 1y br its fltering the last six at the er is delivered b and comes to the city rate of 700000 lana and no habita never cloudy and e of The city is now lavinz pi allons ¢ last ehemical which aily from . at a of man has the ficures right. the cit of 'the [ sells electricity for lighting at 7 cents _Association per kilowatt hour for and the largest company in the as: and 3 it over i eents per kilowatt hour for all 00 kilowatts, It sells electricity 41 nis per kilowart kilowatts and L eentz 1 Sur ever Mghting its ziraets the c furnishes free light to its schools dustrial plant is L L term | I5in St = Houck Tann and he served two terms as president of the Harrisonburg Chaml i rof Com- | its push | and zeal has made Harrisonburg a plant cov- | pany of Philadelphia mploys an ers two city biocks, seople and of leather. interesting Newtown establish- | ments is the tor Company. of 100 men, has ¥ roll of $75 holding from 60 to 24,000 incubators thrbughout the | interesting risonburg through chamber of comme s 2 branch of | Lancaster, P'a., and Hizh it the city when need, The mill employ dumore ave or the man- shirts for the The Harrisonburg pl a plant in Harrisonburg ufacture of work bing trade. chamber of opened in May, 1917, production and 1,000 dozen shir! goods are Baltimore, shinped by rail or truck. made and returned distribution The pay roll of (I E Harrisonburg Milling Company of Harrisonburg s erates the largest and flour mills in vs that it op- best equipped the Shenandoah best wheat section of the of Virginia BOCKINGHAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE. and hospital short in_the business di mar schools scuior high of the hoard of cducation are P & institutions for 1t ing of white women for the professin of teaching. The school at Harr) sonburg, the second to he estab in the Virgin school stude The second story ix fitted up as a | latter ! clubroom and | Auue 1 Dwger Jolm Wa Johmaton, chemistrs and physics. Mary e Eina NN twenty-five | unt Jacksen, twentyv-tive | Aposite dircetion: Time | Rind aufcient men to stand guard | | | [F"HE Star man got some interesting i i 3t | L awith!| v | Harnslwrg o {kine. AL, nst abutting | al | he ity has spent $75.000 in| | and the 1own of Hatrisonburg was es- | tablished in May, 1780, and named for Thomas Harrison, on whose land it RO(‘KI | was surw tint 1 {ham count {should consult Dr. John W {Cross Keys was na being ver. Har- at the wallons a day. There . the water is it 100 per cent pure. | more pag { Pr 500 kilowatts Harrisonburg has drop-letter boxesar ervals AlOnR it streots and t there are six feries daily da < are three Qv posimaster 4 1 assistautl post- master WO, Chandis Harrisonburg has a complete publy sehnol system comprehending Kine schoolx, Rram hoschool and The membirs eTRATLONS, pr 3 h pitger. chairman it Lineweavar rk. and W L Dechert. The su- perintendant is W H Ketster, who tonk office in 1894 and i« rounding og: his tw seventh vesr of serviee \\‘vhun he came to the Harrisonbufy scho were seven teach {ana = When State Normal Schonl wi d At Harrisonburg. in 1908 rrangement was made that the chy stem be used as A training schodl for the voung ladies who are 1o &o out to teach, and this plan is in use The state of Virginia operates four exclusive train- “hed 4+ system of normal for women, was opened 1o t= in September, 1908, In the ven years i hus_given instructios to 5600 persons, T30 of whom have gone out as full praduates. and man hundreds have gat tific cers of & are teachers' cor rades The of i of the schoo es of var Duke. precident: Walter 4 Gif Henry | A Converse, registear eoretars to fhe facul brarian. Nar P trace A Motulr the dining hai Fhomas 1 Firohang: Mamie K. Meers T Sprinkal trea-urer tarsy to the presdent and postmistross and clerk Alma Reiter. s The members of the faculty are Samuel Page Duke. AR A M. president Waslard A B0 1D ity nd sncind seionees Elzabeth Tendleton Ciove wwi AR Enginh and French: Natalie La iter’ 1L X mathematios dames Chapma and bgions: Margarer Vane | Lavin and pine music: Buth 10, expresson: Mars Loujse § . edncation and director of kinder Fiances Taatwl Mackes. manual arte fror. piato. ordan and sehoc 5 cre Moody, TS home ser Taymond Carlsie Dingledine. B8 matics and physics: Ethel Sp. Lgraply. Grarge Warren wlewc. e I M. biology and agri ture. Katherine Miner Huthony. B. 8. cdue i and director of the training sehool: Jenes H Converse AL WD mathemation. Wal ter Jobn Gifford. AR A M. Pho D, edoea tion: Mre James Chapman Johnston, A. B phiy <ical cdu Conrad Travie Logan, A. B Mo RS Mamio It Grace Briote Ph. D, Wilson, cconomics: Lotta cx: Anne Virginia prarian; Mrs. N. D. Ha wie: Miss Elisabetn in: Mrs. 8 L. Hialock, piasn. * x % x GHAM county was created in 1778 out of Augusta county. Tragpe, vi ved and platted. If you are rested in the history of Rocking- and Harrisonburg _you Way- land’s work on those subjects. All the |information is there. The county and lvity are rich in those events and [names which make up what we calN [ history The battle of Cross Keys was fought labout three miles south of Harrison- |burg on June K. 1N {where the brav and the spot Turner Ashby fell. tn an engagement two days before Croas Keys. ix marked by a monument. Lut Dr. Wayland tell it: “On the evening of June 6. 1862, Gens Turner Ashby was xhot and killed waile leading an infantry charge igainst the Pennsylvania Bucktails The piace of hix death, now marked by a monument, ix about two miles south of Harrisonburz. Gen. Thomas L. Kane, commanding the Bucktails, a brother of the famous arctic explorer, Elisha Kent Kane, was captured; and iat the same time in a cavalry fight Inear at hand. Ashby’s men, led by Munford. captured Sir Percy Wynd- ham, whose highest ambition was to capture Ashby. Ashby's body lay next day in the house of Dr. George W Kemper. Port Republic. wrapped in the Confederate flag. Col. O'Ferrall says that at evening the flag and bier were webwith the tears of strong men The next day. Sunday. June R, while sing fought. the taken to Charlottesville and hody w buried. The Rockingham Memorial Hospital ahlished October 1, 1912, is one of the important institutions of the city. It is a well planned and well admin- istererd hospital at present. but an addition. nearing complefion. will double the capacity. A murses' hoi has been purchased within the past three years. The officers of the hospital are: J. Wilton. president: T. N. Haas, vice president; C. G. Price, secretary and treasurer; J. H. Hoover, J. H. Rue . S. Sellers, V. W. Zirkle, busi-4 ness manager: M. H. Myers, Dr. C. E. v | Conrad, William Dean. W H. Cun- 4 ningham, J Reherd, S. B. Martz and Miss Phyllis Nelson, superintend- ent. Harrisonburg has its daily newspa- Iper. the Daily News-Record, and it lives up to the name. It is & hand- somely made-up paper of eight or carrying the Associated # ss service and faithfully covering its local field. Its average daily cir- culation for the year ended March 31, 1821, was 7.089." The Star man did not call at the office, but next time he will drop in After looking the great little city of Harrisonburg over The Star man went {back to the hotel. The orchestra in the Fountain was playing, ice cream sodas were disappearing. feet were twinkling in the dance and “Ritch” |the hotel clerk, introduced me around land a mood many of us one-stepped. tepped, trotted and toddled vers, gently. They were all extremely pretty and mighty good dancers.