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place a place of health, contentmeut aud prosperity; houses not built 

 of frame or browu red brick, but of pure white Romanesque blocks 

 made from the kaolin beds along the Blue Mountains as well as those 

 of the South Mountain; sidewalks of white chalcedony, quarried 

 from the archean hills; curb stones of greenish white potsdam sand 

 stones of iMont Alto; paved streets and country roads from cream- 

 colored vitrified brick manufactured near Richmond furnace, and 

 north and south of Shippensburg; imblic buildings and churches of 

 the pink tint and grayish white stone northwest of Mercersburg; 

 emplojanent in innumerable establishments resulting from develop- 

 ment of sands, and clays, aud earths, and rocks, and other minerals, 

 only a few of which have been indicated; young ladies and young 

 men also employed, the former in etching and engraving Bohemian 

 glasses, and polishing and fitting lenses, and doing other skilled 

 work which only the deft and gentle fingers can do; and the latter 

 in rolling plate glasses, etching and hand cutting flint glass, and 

 kindred work, all from the material from your own delectable hills 

 and mountains. Middle aged men managing or watching the auto- 

 matic machinery of mills and factories run by electrical power gen- 

 erated from your own streams, and the middle-aged women super- 

 tending the homes where electricity does the cradle rocking, the 

 churning, the washing, the sewing machine running, aye, the heat- 

 ing and cooking, as well as the lighting, and household drudgery is 

 known no more, for the Conedogwinet, the Little Antietam, the 

 Conococheague, and Back creek and Cove creek, by turning of tur- 

 bine wheels are all merrily helping to make home happy, and Frank- 

 lin county one of the most desirable spots for mankind on earth. 



"Electric Fountains and Liquid Air. 



''Then for outdoor adornment, amusement and recreation the elec- 

 tric fountain in the yard, and in every public square of every town 

 and hamlet; family motors propelled by electricity, or compressed 

 or liquified air of best home-made brand; a series of fairy-like lakes 

 where are now rumbling streams; the shores flower-embroidered by 

 day, brilliantly illuminated with many colored lights at night, and 

 electric launches flitting here and there, with merriment, music 

 and innocent laughter; hill and mountain sides dazzlingly bright 

 with arc, incandescent and helium lights; valleys in early evening 

 shining with brightness and social cheer; passenger or freight trains 

 moving even more rapidly and safely than now, with no noise, no 

 flying cinder, no smoke, for all such motive power is either electric or 

 by liquid or compressed air, or denatured alcohol; rents lower, in 

 exceptional cases of new comers — all others owning their own homes 

 — because taxes and all living expenses are less, and wages are 

 higher than ever before. And through every phase of human life in 

 Franklin county, because her people have taken advantage of what 

 Nature has given them, and with the change for the better, most of 

 the sorrows and sighings have forever flown away." 



The CHAIRMAN: What action shall be taken on this report? 



On motion, duly seconded, it was agreed to receive the same and 

 ^ file it for publication with the rest of the proceedings. 



MR. McHENRY: I would like to ofl'er the following resolution: 



