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24 THE SUN, AITIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 27, 1908. 1 How Roland Park Was Founded And Developed 1 I ments in the park is taken care of by a special tax provided for in the deed of sale, which, generally speaking, Is based Ion the number of square feet in a resident's lot. It is guaranted not to exceed 20 cents a hundred square feet per anuuni. No business bouses are permitted in Roland Tark except In the block reserved for that purpose.

This block is at the terminus of the St. Paul Boulevard and Roland Park car lines, and Just below It Is the fire-engine house. Near by are the garage and stable. There are here a drug store, conducted by Dr. George W.

Trultt; green and fancy grocery, conducted by the Jordan Stabler Company, and a bake shop and confectionery, conducted by Carl Hein-muller. The physicians In Roland Tark are Drs. Samuel CheNv, L. Gibson Porter. Henry Cassidy, W.

II. Fcddeman, C. L. Thudl-cum and Butler Grimes. The park has police protection from Baltimore county and from an efficient private squad of the finest.

There are two schools for children In IP THIS IS THE FOURTH of series of occasional articles dealing with the suburban towns surrounding Baltimore, with especial reference, to their little-known history. Later articles will be devoted to Relay, Catonsville, Lutherville, Arlington, Mount "Winans, Brooklyn, Curtis Bay, Canton, High-landtown, "Waverly, Hampden, Forest Park, Powhatan, Carroll, "Wbodberry, Calverton, Sudbrook, Pikesville and father old and new towns within and beyond the present city boundary. Mount "Washington, Govans and Sparrows Point have been discussed in recent issues. The Baltimore A Typical Roland Park Road. of Kansas City, Mo.

Kessler laid out plat No. 1, which contains about 120 acres, and his work furnished the theme for Blithe landscape architecture done thereafter. Roads were constructed, sidewalks were laid, a sanitary system of sewerage was built under the direction of the designer. Col. George E.

Waring and water and electric lighting plants were begun. Two little houses down by Cold Spring lane that marred the beauty of the prospective park thereabouts were moved back bodily some distance from the property line of Roland 'Uark. They are the Roland Park School for Girls, an Institution financed by residents of the park, of which Mists Bertha Chapman is principal, and the county public school, of which Mrs. Laura P. Tood is principal.

Its Beautiful Homes. The prevailing types of architecture In Roland Park, according to Secretary Marchant, are English, Flemish, Queen Anne, Colonial and mission. In the last few yeara the mission type has become exceedingly popular. Whatever may be the charm of Roland Park from the Inside. Its great charm to the casual visitor, who simply looks on, lies in its serene, curving, shaded drives, its spacious lawns, with houses set back retiringly from the road, and Its delightful.

Ivy-covered walls. These things are the bits that the visitor carries away in his mind. A good Illustration of the wide-awake methods of the Roland Tark Company, which prosperity has not been able to- make slothful, lies In the way it is grading Its new property along its new University Tarkway, as the new boulevard is called. There Is a large hill here, which the company wished to shift around a bit and level down so that neighbors on It could live comfortably together. It tackled the proposition with the old-time plan of negroes, carts, muh8 and shovels.

Then It saw that it was up against a larger proposition than it had bargained for. To continue work in this way would have meant an expenditure of money that would hnve The Roland Park Vauxhall, formerly owned by O. OT. Lee. The McCormick tract, formerly owned by John P.

McCormick. The Garrett tract, formerly owned by John Garrett. Paradise, formerly owned by the late Eobert Tomer. The Birckhead tract, formerly owned by Lennox Bircknead. The Whitridse tract, formerly owned by Dr.

William Whitridge. The Dulin property, owned by the heirs of the Dulin estate. And there are various Very small tracts not included In this list. In The Early Days. The Hiram Woods estate, which comprises a great part of the present Roland Park, was about 200 acres in extent, and It lay just at about the middle of the present park.

The mansion house of the estate is still standing and is occupied and owned now by Mrs. Catherine B. Turner. It la at the corner of Woodlawn and Upland roads. The Heuisler house, not far away, is said to be made of stone from the old Woods greenhouse.

Before the Woodses acquired the property It had belonged to the Ca-prons, and before that to the Fendalls. Mrs. Charles H. Baker, one of the oldest residents in the neighborhood of Roland Park, spoke of the land upon which the park stands now, before it was developed, as follows last week: "There used to be a large grove of chestnut trees on the top of the hill here" (her house is situated, by the way, near Cross Keys, on the western outskirts of the park), "and there were patches of huckleberry and blackberry bushes. Set back in the trees was the Woods house.

We always called it the Capron house, because the Caprons had owned it a long time, and the edge of the estate ran beyond where the Ridgewood road is now. "The children of the neighborhood used to go up there and gather chestnuts, and it. was a favorite picnic ground. Chestnut trees, huckleberry and blackberry bushes, and a gravel pit that's all Roland Park used to be. Clymer Whyte's house is built on the Bite of the gravel pit." Continuing her reminiscences, Mrs.

Baker said: "Where the Roland Park spring house is now there used to be a great natural spring known far and wide in the lo- where even a prospective Roland Parker THE most fashionable and, undoubtedly, the most pretentious suburb of Baltimore is Roland Park. The mad, mad rush to get to Roland Park in the last few years has been appalling. Stand on the new St. Patil Street Boulevard and you can actually almost count the families struggling by, with their family chattels piled in vans, on their way to the suburb, and the wishes of those people who don't live there and would like to live there whiz by you like Rosaetti's new souls going into heaven. If you were to ask many of the citizens of Baltimore where they would like to live if they.

didn't live where they do live now, they would reply Roland Park. With English Capital. The development of Roland Park has been phenomenal. Not a generation ago It was a majestic and rather disorderly stretch of orchard forest and meadow land. Now it Is a beautiful, tidy, ultra-civilized and altogether attractive residence district.

No doubt the founders of the place had ambitious and hopefully far-reaching schemes, but they 'could hardly have fore-Been, even In their most inspired moments, that these would materialize so delightfully. They started their project bravely on large capital, borrowed for the moBt part from foreign sources, and it grew and grew like Jonah's gourd. Two of the founders have gotten out of the company, with largo fortunes safely stowed away. One of the founders remains, the present president cf the company. The Roland Park Company was organized in July, 1891, and it was financed largely by Englishmen.

It had a capital of $1,000,000. The three men who conceived and got up the company were Charles H. Grasty, now best known through his various newspaper enterprises; William Edmunds and Edward II. Bouton. These gentlemen saw that the city was building north.

Mount Washington was then just in the noonday of its favor as a fashionable suburb, and they say that the tides of polite society were sweeping toward it. They saw a magnificent tract of wooded land on a spine of hill by Jones falls, and they say that the Lands Trust Company of England was feeling around this country for a good investment, through Its agents, Jarvis Conklin, of Kansas City, Mo. They saw all these things, and then they mixed them together. Many Estates Bought. The property first purchased by the com- pany aggregated 550 acres, and it was obtained in several sections.

From Hiram Woods, father of Dr. Hiram Woods, of Park avenue, it purchased the largest part of its holdings, comprised in the estata of Woodlawn. From the Penningtons it obtained Oakland, another large strip, and from the Maynadlers, Hepburn. The ground lay between Jones' falls and Stony Run, and it had an elevation of about 400 feet. Since then the Roland Park Company has purchased additional tracts of ground that bring its holdings up to date to about 750 acres.

The ground purchased in the last few years is that lying principally to the southeast along the new boulevard. Roland Park, altogether, is made up today of the following tracts of land: Woodlawn, formerly owned by the late TTlrarri Woods. formerly owned and occupied by the late Mrs. Emily Harper Pennington. Armat, owned by the Misses Armat.

Poplar Hill, owned try James Edward Ward. Hepburn, formerly owned by J. T. Maynadler. The Hull tract, formerly owned by O.

J. Hull. Roland Park Was Orchard Land And Countryside Twenty Country Club. Country Club and the Roland Park Woman's Club. Although organized in Roland Park, the Baltimore Country Club Is practically the property of Baltimore as its membership is largely made tip of Baltimoreans.

It is one of the foremost organizations of its kind in the State. It has a membership of 2,200. It occupies about 135 acres of land, 30 acres of which it owns outright and the rest of which it rents from the Roland Park Company for a golf course. It owns Its club buildings and bowling alleys, which, together, cost nearly $125,000. Probably no country club in America has a more beautiful situation.

Seated at the top of a high hill overlooklug the Jones' Falls Valley, it can be seen for a long distance, and Its windows afford a glorious view. This exalted station serves a practical as well as an aesthetic purpose, as the members have constructed from the clubhouse to the foot of the hill the only toboggan slide In the South, and upon this they disport themselves during the winter. The only trouble with the toboggan slide is that It is so long. After you have got to the bottom only a matter of a few delightful seconds after you have started from the top -you have to trudge back to' the top again, a matter of a great deal more time. This disproportion of descent and ascent has rather dulled the fine' edge of pleasure in the sport to Baltimoreans, to whom it is rather unfamiliar anyhow.

During the summer the club conducts many tennis tournaments, and the State tennis tourneys have been held on its courts in the last two years. The Roland Park Woman's Club is, as its name implies, an association of ladies. The president is Mrs, E. W. Davison, who lives on the Hawthorn road, in Roland Park.

How It Is Governed. Roland Tark is not incorporated. Its government is taken charge of by the Roland Park Company, assisted by advisory committees from the three plats. There is also the Civic League, which is a federation of all the residents. The ofilcers of the Civic League are Dr.

Henry P. Hynson, president, and Dr. T. C. Foote, secretary.

The maintenance of public improve- Years Ago only one arm, the other being of wood', with an Iron hook In lieu of a hand, he waB, nevertheless, an industrious, capable and reliable out-of-door man. The first Impulse was to dub him "Cap'n Cuttle," after the naval hero In "Dombey and Son," who was similarly endowed with an iron hook, but Mr. Knapp's own individuality was too marked to admit of the nickname. He took a lively interest in the work committed to his care, never waiting to be summoned. "I just thought you needed he would remark as he appeared pith the lawn mower.

How he deftly manipulated lawn mower, wheelbarrow, pruning knife, rake and spade with one hand and his hook was a marvel to see. Another noteworthy character was "Char, ley" Goodman, the watchman of the park. He appeared the picture of good nature, smiling and rotund, but was credited with having slain more than one man in his chequered career as saloonkeper and ward-heeler in Baltimore city. He had at least on one occasion been on trial for his life. On account of these he was a tremondous hero to the small boys of the park, who were all devoted to him.

He seemed fond of children and animals. A sick dog had his sympathy and care at once. The citizens congratulated themselves that as he would le sure to immediately recognize any "crook," -owing to his previous familiar acquaintance with that ilk, that he was a most efficient guard-Ian of their property. As far as I know ne fully Justified their confidence in him. and as I said before, they only bite in self-fense.

All a person needs to do is to make a sure stroke with a stick or a cane, which he should have In his hand when the snake makes 'the fatal leap fatal to it If the stroke with the stick Is sure fatal to the man if he loses his nerve and wits and allows the snake to land." To show his utter contempt for the rattlesnake Mr. Oldfield picked up a large one by the tail, which he saw sunning Itself on the ledge of a rock, and, using It as a whip, cracked Its head off. HIS LIFELONG STUDY. Mr. Oldfield has been interested In the study of snakes since boyhood.

When quite young he horrified his whole family by cabbaging nearly all of his mother's empty preserving jars and filling them with snakes. Later on, while his father was away from home, he caught a number of different varieties of snakes and tied them to stakes about the place. On the return of the father there was a wholesale' slaughter of snakes, while the son was treated to the bastinado. This, however, did not lessen his interest in the reptiles. Charity As It Is.

CHARITY," said Health Commls-I sioner Darlington, of New York, "were really as fine and serviceable as we Incline to think It is, disease would almost disappear." He shook his head and smiled. "Too much of our charity," he said, "resembles that of the Norwalk woman. A tramp, on a gray and freezing day, presented himself at her back door. he said, 'my feet are nearly froze." He pointed to his shoes, a tangle of string and strips of leather and holes, through which his bare feet showed. 'Have you got an old pair of boots you could give me, "The woman, after rummaging In her closet, returned to the tramp and said feelingly: "Poor fellow, I know you must suffer terribly without shoes this bitter weather.

I have none to fit you, but here is a pair of my late husband's skates you can have. Art Above Weather. IN A GALLERY there hangs a large canvas in an imposing frame The painting shows a waterfall In one of the States famous for startllngnatural scenery. The picture has occupied its present place for several years. "Does It belong here?" asked a visltar of the man In charge.

"No more than the others you see." "Seems to nie it should be In the Capitol of the State where this scenery is," said the visitor. "It was painted for the State," replied the man in charge, "but when it was submitted to the art committee they refused to accept It." "What was. the objection?" "You see the sky is overcast. The ar Business Block. cality around here as Rock Spring.

It was a solid stream of water, as big around as my arm, that shot out of the rock five feet from the ground. "There used to be a picnic ground around here and some of the water was used by residents in Cross Keys. Then the Roland Park Company built its spring house. Cross Keys Is Older. Long before Roland Park thought of coming into existence the village of Cross Keys, which skirts the Jones' falls base of the eminence upon which the park is built, and is now given over chiefly to darkles, was living in a quiet, uninspiring fashion.

Just when Cross Keys began nobody knows. It got Its name in the comparatively recent times of the Civil War period from a tavern which bore as a sign two huge wooden keys crossed. Probably the village sprang up colncidently with Mount Washington (Washingtonvllle it was called then) and other little communities In the Jones Falls Valley, simply because it was near pure water and had good pasture land. The Cross Keys tavern was before 1850 by two brothers, John and Will Mather, and John Mather's wife. It was for many years one of the most popular hostelries on the Falls road, and the little community of houses nestling by It benefited by its trade.

The old sign of the inn has long since vanished, but the inn house still remains. It is that big square stone structure that can be seen in the" middle of the village from the windows of the Mount Washington cars passing it. The proprietors of the place have been many. One of the brothers, the one who was married, died. The surviving brother married the widow and then he died, too.

Then the widow ran the place for herself a while. Later she married George Washington, and they were the last owners of the famous ola place Mr. and Mrs. George Washington. George Washington was an English coachman whom McDonald, who ownedy at one time, the Guilford estate, brought from England to look after his horses.

The Baker Family. The Cross Keys of the present is owned principally by the Bakers, the Gills and the Spathes. The Bakers own from Cold Spring Lane, the commencement of the p.anion on many weary journeys we had become accustomed, being missed from his accustomed stool, inquiry was made of his successor as to his fate. "Gone on the swing," was the dark reply. We dared ask no more.

Was he hanged for crimes against the company? There Is a phrase "to swing for it." Did he take a holiday, to "have his swing" Or was it some form- of punishment peculiar to horse-car drivers? The riddle is still unsolved. The route Merryman's lane was one of maiy curves and steep grades, passing quite a bit of wild scenery in the narrow valley now spanned by the Cedar avenue bridge of the United Railways. "The Old Man's Home." The cars went up Remington avenue, past the Wyeth mansion and the Marine Hospital, high on its slopes of verdure, trim and well kept. In fine weather the convalescents, were seen on the grounds, doubtless enjoying the peace of this quiet haven. Once we were amused by hearing a woman on the car explaining to another, her guest and a stranger in these parts "This is the1 Old Man's Home." "Indeed, why are there so many buildings?" asked the friend, "They divide them according to their ages, so they will be more congenial," was the ready and confident reply.

By rows of houses occupied by the operatives of the shops and factories of Wood-berry, around a curve by the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church, another by the themselves and that the meat will be fresh and well-preserved. "The average man is also mistaken," continued Mr. Oldfield, "in that he believes that these venomous snakes He in wait Park Company has expended about It has planted many trees, hedges and shrubbery. It has laid about 50,000 feet of water mains, constructed about 60,000 feet of sewers, built about 50,000 feet of roadway, constructed about 100,000 feet of gutters and about 100,000 feet of sidewalks. The property owners have accomplished a great deal in beautifying the place by the planting of trees, shrubbery and formal gardens.

A Good Water Supply. "The water supply is from artesian wells, drilled to a depth ranging from 180 feet to 500 feet. In addition to electricity for lighting there is city gas throughout the entire property for cooking and lighting purposes. "The present population of Roland Fark Is about 2,000. There are at present about 400 houses, which cost $3,500,000.

There is at present Invested In homes in Roland Park between $4,500,000 and $5,000,000. "The company has thrown around the property a few well-chosen restrictions which tend to regulate the use of the property and preserve it for strictly residential purposes. In some sections of the park houses are permitted which cost as low as $2,000 each. In the greater portion of the park, however, no residence is permitted which costs less than $5,000. The plans of all buildings must be approved by the company.

A regular building line is also maintained. "In the newer section of the park no stables are permitted. To provide for this there are apartment stables, In which one may rent single stalls or apartments, which provide space for two horses. In each Instance carriage space is provided, as well as storage space for feed, and in the case of apartments sleeping rooms for the coachman. "There is also a public garage, in which residents may store their Churches And Clubs.

The churches in Roland Park are: St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. Dr. T. C.

Foote, rector; the Presbyterian Church, Rev. John W. Douglas, pastor, and the Methodist Church, Rev. W. V.

Mallalieu, pastor. There- are two clubs the Baltimore and jackets full, they could hardly walk, and flight was impossible Mr. Woods sold Woodlawn to the Roland Park Company. Beyond were the homes of Mr. Charles O'Donnell Lee, Mr.

Bonaparte and Mr. Dushane, now all merged in Roland Park. They Drove To Town. The country dwellers generally drove into the city. Mr.

Bonaparte usually drove in twice every day. The ladies and children patronized the narrow-gauge road, as the Maryland and Pennsylvania was called then. This route was subject to so many misadventures that it was nicknamed the "Narrow-Escape Road." The western side of Roland Park was then a beautiful piece of woodland, and the Rock Spring had been celebrated for over a hundred years. Just above Harvest road, where Mr. Charles H.

Grasty's house now stands, was the site of the Harper house, burned in the seventies. Many of the fine 6hade trees planted by Mr. Harper still flourish, and In the old days daffodils, jonquils and the dainty flowers of the "Star of Bethlehem" nestled in the long grass In the springtime survivals of the flower gardens of the burned mansion. The fine brick avenue, which was the approach to this house from the Falls road, is one of the attractions of this part of Roland Park. Well known to the early denizens oftthe park was Mr.

Knapp. Although he had "If a man will only hold his nerve," concluded Mr. Oldfield, "when face to face with a rattlesnake or copperhead, there Is no reason why we should be bitten. "Snakes by instinct are afraid of man, village, up to Ridgewood road and back to the Gill holdings, which are in the mid-: die of the village. The Gills own a strip right back of their home on Ridgewood road.

Spathe, a German, who lives farther UP the Falls road, owns all the rest, and is the principal landholder. Some of the residents in the village own--their own homes, but their number is not large. The oldest family in Cross Keys is the Baker family. The principal members of it are Charles H. Baker, widow of Charles H.

Baker, founder of the Cold Spring dairy; Davis Baker, present proprietor and manager of the dairy his father established; a Miss Baker, who lives with her mother on Cold Spring lane, and Parker Baker, the attorney, who lives in another of the family houses on the Falls road. Mrs. Baker's father, Samuel Davis, was the Davis who opened the Bare Hill copper mines at Mount Washington. He was an associate of the first Jesse Tyson in many enterprises. On the south side of Cross Keys, east of the car tracks, is a large bare hill on whose top is the Roland Park water tower.

This stretch has never been developed, though the land all around it has been built up and innumerable offers have been made to its owners for it by real estate men. It Is owned by the Carroll estate. The Oldest Inhabitant. Hard by the Carroll stretch, just back of the water tower, lives old Aunt Lucy Hoe, probably the oldest inhabitant in the Roland Park district. Lucy Hoe is a ne-gress who served the Feridall family for many years.

The Fendalls owned Woodlawn before the Caprons, who owned it before the Woods, who owned It before the Roland Park Company. She is very old. She has quite a valuable stretch of property, which her husband bought for a song many years ago and upon which she now lives a peaceful old age. As soon as It had acquired its property the Roland Park Company started to work with great energy. It began to lay off the southeastern end of the tract it had bought, which is the first quarter of the eastern half of the Roland Park of today.

The first landscape architect employed by the company, was George E. Kessler, Lutheran Church, then up the steep grade of Roland avenue to Merryman's lane. During the greater part of the year the horse were largely patronized by schoolboys and girls going in to the city schools. Among these at one time a solitary colored youth attracted attention. He carried a copy of Harkness' Latin Grammar open at the first declesion of nouns.

Regularly he slept in his corner and the book became more and more soiled and tattered. Finally he ceased to appear. Probably the volume was worn out. Anxious women who pored over shopping lists and surreptitiously counted their' money a few old men, probably retired from active life, but who went into see what was going on and, like Mr. Turvey-drop, to "show themselves about town," and many others bound on business or pleasure filled up the contingent of passengers.

Now and then, but very rarely a tipsy man would come out under the zealous supervision of the driver. One of these, being severely reminded to sit still and keepquiet, as there were ladies present, was quite insulted by this hint. "I know ladies on car I 'predate ladies," he stammered, making an abortive effort to doff his battered hat I love all ladies 'predate all ladies." Ante-Park Days. He fell into a doze in- the corner where the driver had placed him then, waking and finding the driver's watchful eye upon him, he began again in a deeply injured tone, "What look at me for? I. 'predate ladies." Then, affecting nonchalance, he began to sing "I'm a Veteran on the Walls A Snake Hunt in the seeking whom they may poison, and that they can leap many feet.

"In truth they only bite when they feel that they are likely to be tread upon, and then they can only reach a little more than park, with the permission (paid for) of the owners. The new property was beat Into shape. The roads were laid out nicely and Roy-croftic. Then in 1893, when there was something to be shown instead of a bare hilltop a good view, the Roland Park Company invited visitors to come gut and began its phenomenal sales. How The Park Grew.

The development of the park subsequent to the laying out of plat No. 1 is recent history. Plats 2 and 3 were developed after plat 1 in due order. The Olmsted brothers, of Brookline, were the landscape architects. Plats 2 and 3, it may be mentioned, lie wholly west of Roland avenue.

Plat 1 Is to the east. The lots in the last two plats were laid out with frontages of 100 feet each. Those In plat 1 were laid out in 50-foot widths, although many o'f the purchasers bought two or three lots at a time. In 1903 the stock controlled by the Lands Trust Company of England was bought out by Messrs. Edward H.

Bouton and George Miller, and the company was reorganized. The officers who serve at present were elected at that time. They are: Edward H. Bouton, president; George Miller, vice-president; Robert J. W.

Hamill, second vice-president, and Richard W. Marchant, secretary. The first two ofHcers are the largest stockholders. Mr. Miller is also largely interested in the Garage Amusement Company, which introduced roller skating to its vogue in Baltimore.

In answer to a request last week Secretary Marchant gave the following interesting "In developing its property the Roland of Zlon." Being sternly silenced, he relapsed into slumber. Beyond Merryman's lane Roland avenue was built up with several large summer cottages, and St. Mary's Orphanage, at Cold-spring lane, was quite in the country. On the eastern side of what is now Roland Park Mr. Hiram Woods had a beautiful country home, called Woodlawn.

Before Mr. Woods' time there were two farms in this vicinity Medfleld, the home of the Prentiss family, a large stone house on the west side of Falls road, still standing in a state of dilapidation and recently bought, with Its surrounding fields, by a This was once the seat of hospitable and abundant life. The Fendall property lay to the east of Roland Park. The homestead, a large, old-fashioned frame building, was pulled down by the Roland Park Company, which bought It from the, Fendall family. One of the largest and finest black walnut trees ever seen grew on the lawn and was said to have grown from a nut planted by a Fendall dame more than a century ago.

Woodlawn was beautifully laid out and planted. There were two entrances, each with a porter's lodge one on Roland avenue, the other on the east of the grounds. Extensive orchards of fruit trees added to the attractions, but the ravages of the Woodbexry boys were a drawback to the pleasure of the owners. On one occasion the ladies came suddenly on a band of marauders small boys who had filled their clothing with stolen apples. Tying strings around their legs, even their trousers were utilized as bags shoes Howard Cou nty Wilds.

half their length. They can only utilize their muscles so as to muster strength for the leap when they are curled up. They never bite when stretched out full length or In the act of running. Hunters Who Chaise Venomous Snakes would not touch them. (.

So It thought awhile, and as the result of its cogitations decided to adopt a Western method of doing things that a certain Mr. Walzl, an engineer, suggested to it. And now It is shifting hills by water power. Washing Away A Hill. This plan of engineering, by which the city of Washington, in the State of Washington, -has been built, is an application of placer mining.

Immense streams of water are directed against the hill that Is to be leveled, and the stream of water, dirt and stones thus formed Is carried awny In flumes and redeposlted, so leveling and grading goes on simultaneously. To make the matter clearer, the Roland Park Company, by means of Its hydraulic apparatus and Mr. Walzl, Is cutting awny a hill at one point and laying it down at another. It is removing an eminence and filling a hollow at the same time. The old method of shifting the hill by hand and mule power would have C06t a whole lot of money, besides taking a grent deal longer time.

There has been found valuable sand and gravel 1n the Roland Park hill. By screening the stream of water that comes from the sluices the company has been able to secure enough sand and gravel to pay, by the sale of this, for the entire cost of its hydraulic operations. The St. Paul Street Boulevard, which is now to rejoice in the name of University Parkway (a suitable compliment to the Johns Hopkins), Is another lnstan.ee of the company's business foresight. The boulevard was a necessary thing.

The residents wanted1 it. The company saw thi and purchased the lard upon which the thing could be built. Then It took up a subscription among Its wealthy residents and announced to the city that It was ready to build the road. It built the road, the car company placed tracks on It, over which the new boulevard cys were started last October, and tho ptirk has one more great outlet Tho company owns the property along the boule-vard and is building some very pretty homes thereon. A Successful Suburb: Roland Park is a singularly good example of one good idea gone straleha to th mark.

Its originators planned It as a first- class BUbucb. They built for the future and she, kind lady, accepted their suit. The first plans were far-sightedly made and all that has come after has been simply an amplification of them. tist put in a gathering storm like an lm- i pending calamity. The art committee said 1 it was a reflection on the reputation of tljo State that a storm such as Is represented was unknown in that latitude." "Couldn't the artist put in another sky, one that accorded with the State's reputation for sunshine?" "I suppose he could, but he refused, ne said that the rumpus kicked up by the art committee warranted the storm effect on the canvas and he refused to budge.

He sent it here and here it remains." A Queer Occupation. FOR more than a week the man had been out of work. One Monday night, however, when be came back to the I lodging house he reported good luck. "What are you going to do?" asked his friend. "Break eggs," was the reply.

"I've got a position in a cake and cracker factory. They have people in those concerns who do nothing but crack eggs. They begin it at 8 o'clock In the morning and keep it up till 6 at night. In that time, they tell mo, a man who has become an expert can break 9,000 eggs, or an average of 1,000 an hoar. I And he doesn't smash them all at one clip, either.

He tackles them singly and disposes of them in groups of five. That is, in order to avoid any accident with overripe eggs, five of them are broken I Into a bowl and then added to the general stock." "Great heavens!" ejaculated his friend. "What a monotonous grind. How much do you get for It?" "One dollar a day to start with," said the lucky, man. "When I get up to the mark I'll get $1.50." i Then He Wilted.

ADAM BEDE, of Minnesota, the humorist of the House, whose humor still bubbles, despite the fact that he was elected to stay at home, tells the following on a friend of his who travels for a carpet firm i "My friend," said Bede, "Is of a saving turn of mind, and he recently had to make a long Journey with two trunks. Arriving at the railroad station he approached a stranger standing on the platform and 1 said: 'Are you going to Chicago on this i train "'I am," 5 "Have you any 'Well, friend, you can do me a favor and it won't cost you a cent. I've got two good-sized trunks here, and they always make me pay excess for one. You can get one checked on your ticket and save me some money." 'Yes, but I haven't any ticket 'But you said you were going on thla 'So I am. I'm the Br Frances M.

Btjtlee. IN the eighties the Daft electric cars, from Huntingdon avenue to Merry-man's lane, were still running. The line was about to be converted into the ordinary horse-car railway and was out of repair. When the dweller in the suburbs came Into the city on the electric cars, which consisted of a motor car trailing a passenger car, he was never sure of the manner of his return. Frequently the cars were taken off for a day or so and passengers conveyed In large omnibuses.

The horse cars, which took the place of the electric line, were of the "bobtail" variety and were generally drawn by two mules. The driver also acted as conductor and the fare was deposited in the "Slawson box" under his watchful eye. The cars went from Huntingdon avenue and Oak street three times an hour. There was a single track, with switches when the cars passed each other. The Suspicious Driver.

The driver was exposed to the heat of summer and the cold of winter and generally seemed to be embittered by his hard lot and diflicult dutlesf and to have but little confidence in human nature. As a rule, he was watchful, suspicious and inclined to sarcasm in his speech. One used to keep the stump of a well-worn broom by him and prod the mules with it at intervals They were liable to sudden disappearances. One individual, to whom as a com- break the back of a snake, as their vertebra are very brittle. Then the reptile is at your mercy." HE BREAKS THEIR BACKS.

After disabling a snake the hunters congregate about their prey and make a careful study of its anatomy and leading characteristics. By teasing the snake all the poison of the sack located under Its mouth, is emptied from the fangs. These are needlelike and are used with great rapidity In the snake's efforts to reach its enemy. A few days ago Mr. Oldfield caught a large copperhead, and more than a tea-spoonful of brown fluid Issued from the fangs, filling Its mouth after Its head had been cut off.

"In a few minutes," said Mr. Oldfield, "a number of flies had pounced upon it and mopped it up with apparent relish. I looked on with great interest, expecting a wholesale suicide of flies. To my surprise, they ate their fill and went off rejoicing, to tell their fellows of the feast. Truly what is poison to man Is food for flies." Mr.

Oldfield contends that the so-called rattles attached to rattlesnakes, one of which is grown every year after the third, are not instruments by which the noise peculiar to the snake Is made. According to him he has caught copperhead snakes and on teasing them they have made the identical noise, despite the fact that they are devoid of rattles. He thinks the noise is made by the tales of the snakes in quick vibration. NOT A NATURE FAKER. "I know that President Roosevelt and others will call me a nature faker," said Mr.

Oldfield. "This is a perplexing question and I would like some light thrown on it. Let us discuss it without prejudice or passion, and in an intelligent manner. Assertion is valueless without proof. "Before I am convinced that I am wrong those holding contrary views, no matter how many, will have to show me that I am in error.

I am thoroughly convinced that there is a wrong impression about the matter, due to the lack of Investigation. "Few there are who have had the nerve to study the rattlesnake at close range. The caged variety is as unlike those which run amuck in the hills and mountains as the bear in confinement is different from his brother in the jungle. The one has lost its personality and chief instincts through long imprisonment, and its acts are no criterion of what its brother can or will do. "It is true," said Mr.

Oldfield in answer to a question, "that the meat of the snakes is white and appetizing. My enthusiasm, however, has never carried me to the point where I can taste it. I would rather eat crow." Continuing, Mr. Oldfield said "In the event some of our New York friends who are looking for a novel menu wish some of the meat I will supply them enough for a feed at nominal cost. "It is true that the snake makes a desperate effort to bite itself when it finds it is at the mercy of its hereditary enemy man.

Yet I will see that none of them poison Baltimore NOW that the hunting season is in full blast, thousands of game sports can be seen daily scouring the country in all directions in search of the fleet-footed "cotton-tail," the elusive quail and the speckled pheasant. Few there are who have not experienced the delights of tramping through fields, forests, brambles and briars after game of some sort. While this game, in most instances, is not worth the shells explodedand the ers return home empty-handed and hungry, still the fresh air and vigorous exercise amply compensate them for the time and energy expended. In the hunting of the common forms of game there is an element of sameness and the annual indulgence and repetition of the sport has become monotonous to some of the more strenuous of the clan in Baltimore, so that they have longed for something in the same line which promised more excitement. SNAKES IX OLD HOWARD.

Recently a band of these disgruntled hunters has been formed. They have tabooed the ordinary forms of game and now spend their time in search of copperhead snakes, which sport affords both an element of danger and extreme excitement. Clarence H. Oldfield, one of the inspectors at the Custom House, is the moving spirit in the new organization. His chief lieutenants are Leonard Walters and Harry Hundley, the latter a nephew of Rev.

Robert S. Copeland, pastor of the Church of the Ascension. Mr. Oldfield lives In Howard county, near Ellicott city. The hills of Howard are said to abound in rattlesnakes and their kindred the copperhead.

Every few days this band of hunters congregates at the home "of Mr. OldfieW starts forth on the perilous hunt. Armed with leggins, limber switches and pronged sticks they amble forth. In a short while they are in the region of the snakes and now all is scrutiny, suspense and alertness. At this season of the year, in the mornings, the snakes are a little stiff from the cold and are to be found among the corded wood or in hollow logs.

But these hunters will not take a mean advantage of a snake, so they wait until the sun is high in the heavens and the snakes 'have become limbered up before they go on the hunt. According to Mr. Oldfield, alertness minimizes the danger. Many times, he says, he has seen snakes curled up in the act of striking, but with stole calmness he has allowed them to make their leap and has then disjointed them with a well-aimed blow of his switch. "I have broken the backs of scores ef them," said Mr.

Oldfield a few days ago. "It requires only the slightest stroke to 1 5.