Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-13
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TUESDAY. JULY 10. 1858.
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this country, and these hills. Perhaps nowhere
else does man so unreservedly acknowledge his
insignifcance. 1t is needless, perhaps, to inform
your readers that editors and reporters with, per-
haps, here and there aSailroad man, are, almost
uniformly, modest, and remarkably unassuming
Renee, they will not be surprised to learn that
among the party now domiciliated at this com.
Portable merchandising nearly an hundred
of the industrial classes to which have alluded
not man is to be found who does not readily
admit that the contemplation of these mountains
somewhat modihes his previous ideas of self-im'
portance.
Having thus given precedence to the noun.
tains, passing remark concerning the party
now visiting there will not he out of place.
Joseph A. Gilmore, ESQ.,, Superintendent OF
the Concord Railroad, who is also President OF
the company owning two OF the best mountain
hostelries, and being furthermore. sort of hui
man steam engine, with patent safety valves, and
an extra hose power recently conceived the huge
idea Of extending to the editorial fraternity gen
eral invitation to visit these regions and, under
standing the general debility Of the editorial ex
chequer, perfected a very humane arrangement to
''put the party through" Accordingly, on We'd
nesday, the 7th inst, some hundred or so of Sc
date and well behaved gentlemen avaied them.
selves Of the opportunity to note the admirable
management OF the Concord Railroad, and at
Concord Of the company of its enterprisng Su-
peTiptendent, who there, in conjunction with
Mr.. Coffin, the polite and prosident Passenger
Agent Of the Boston, Concord, and Montreal
Railroad, took charge of the crowd, and on arrlv-
al Of the first upward train proceeded over the
Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad to Wells
River, and thence over the White Mountain Road
to Litteton. A brief stop at hQuincy Station"
Enabled the party to view the beautiful residence
OF Josiah Quincy, ESQ.,, President of the B. G.
and NJ. Railroad and also afforded that gentle
man an opportunity to join the party, whose
numbers had been previously augmented by the
addition of several political gentlemen of note at
Concord. Among the latter were Senators Hale
aud Clark of New Hampshire, and Wilson Of
Mass, the Secretary of State, President of the
Senate, Speaker Of the House, State Treasurer,
and Judge Clark and others of New Hampshire.
George Stark, Esq, Superintendent Of the
Boston and LOWELL George W. Bentley, Esq. Su-
perinteuoent Of the Worcester and Nashua, P.
81. M. Andrews, Esq, Superintendent of the
Norwich and Worcester, and other railroad gen.
tlemen, were also present.
Among the editorial fraternity, the New York
Courier and Enquirer had its representative, and
also the Irt6ems, in the. person of A. S. Hll'
Esq, our former townsman.a Boston sent Hale
OF the Advertiser, Dix of the Journal Bailey of
the Herald, Wetherel or the Courier, Clapp of
the Gazette, Pangborn Of the atlas and Bee, and
Guild Of the Trave1ier. Lowell was represented
BY Varney Of the Vor Popui, Goodwin of the
NesCs, and Cook of the Courier. From Salem
Pease Of the Observer, Palirey of the Register,
and Loring Of the Peoples Advocate. From
Observation-Disclosures of the Ballot, Alexander
Of the Gazette, and Brewster of the Journal.
Nashua parted with her Beard il the person of
his Honor the Mayor. Manchester presented
goodly show, with Clark Of the M5rTor, Goodale
Of the american, and Campbell of the Democrat.
Oencord turned out'her Fogg Of the Democrat,
Merriam of the Patriot, and Maciarland of the
Salesman Mr.. Merrill of the Lawrence Anleri-e
can, and Whitney of the Courier, MIR. Frothing-
ham Of the HaYeThill Gazette, Mr. Stedman Of
the Norwich Aurora, Coffin of the Philadelphia
Ledger, and other gentlemen connected with the
press, were also Of the party, although your cor
respondent failed to possess himself of their
names.
At about IL P. NJ. Of the 7th the party reached
the Crawford House, after an agreeable stage
ride OF twenty two miles from Littleton. Supper,
good beds, and polite attendance, enabled them
10 rise this morning in capital condition to dis
cuss the mountain trout lowland steaks. fresh
eggs, and other substantials spread in abundance
by Mr.. Gibbs; and after a breakfast, to which
every man (dyspeptcs incuded) did entire lust.
ice, to mount and make ready for the summit
Of Mount Washington, the gray-headed father of
the countless hills. About half of the number
mounted horses at the Crawford, performing the
entire ascent on horseback The other moiety.
less wise, or more ambitious, took the new car
rage road in wagons, to Crystal Spring House at
it termination, thence to foot it to to the Sum-
NIT. Among these luckless Wights was your
correspondent, who avails himself of this Oppor-
tunity to ask publicly and categorically of the
gentleman Of the Crystal Spring House koW that
''nile and half, (Which be smilingly alleged was
the distance to the "Tip Top House, acas meas
wedg lfthe answer be vertically !" the Aepon-
ent is content but, if otherwise, ne signs for
Jaunt OF dozen Irish miles a dead level, and
ponders over the number of lineal feet which go
to make up mountain mile It is more than
suspected that the gentlemen who made and
signed the certificate of that survey went up in
balloon since it is certain that had he gone up
as we did, he would not, on descending, have had
wind enough lett to have told such story. The
scene (speaking only Of human nature,j at the
Tip Top House Preached about 100 P. M was
rich one, especially regarding pedestrians
Many gentlemen, so soon as the house rose in
view, quietly subsiding, sat down upon rocks
sharp enough TO serve skeweTs, without being
at all conscious that they were not occupying
"essy chairs" Whittier faces were never exhib-
tied by exhausted editors, P.h-e-w! was gener-
ally the first audible sound, and s'water" dixie
him Of the Scriptural parched tongue) the second.
Next came discussion as to the actual distance,
and the Munehausenish propensity of our inform
ant at the Spring. Half an hours rest, and a
dinner, for which there was no lack of appetite,
soop restored strength and desire to reap the re-
WaTQ OF their tOll IN the magnlncent panorama
unfolded to the eye. The atmosphere, although
not clear, waa more than ordinarily SO, on the
mountain top. An hundred miles off might be
seen the shadowy horizon, but neither Monad-
mock nor Katahdin were visible. The sea off
Portland, the sight Of which delights so many
visitors, was hidden by the haze. but far and near,
everywhere doomed up above the waving sea OF
evergreen tree tops in the yallies beneath legons
of the everlasting hills, standing like giant bat
talions Of deathless sentences whom nature had
appointed to-guard the pigmy world below.
80 massive, yet SO shadOwy, SO ethereal,
As to belong 70 Heaven rather than TO Earth "
But TO ADLER pens than mine must be assigned
the task Of description--a task which might well
employ the Hottest powers. Suffice il to say that
the view from this rugged pinnacle repays, a
thousand fold, the toll Of reaching il. Hours and
even days might be remuneratiyely spent in
watching the ever varying scene. As the chang
ing shadows play tluliy over the smiling faces of
the valleys far beneath, New England, in living
map, unfolds her beautiful extent "a the watchful
eye Of the spectator; while up the mountain
sides, creep, ever, so silent and dreamily, the
multform shadows of the fitting Clouds mar.
shaling themselves ia shape of countless hosts,
as though giant army trOd the painless sleeps,
20 win the battlemented towers which guard their
craggy peaks. Peaceful yillages dot the distant
plains, their tallest spires scarcely perceptible.
their largest buildings the merest specks in the
landscape while in the sunlight, sparkling like
molten silver, CLEAN the crystal waters Of shin
ing lakelets, formed by the streams which course
the sides Of a thousand hills.
An hour spent In the contemplation Of these
glores, and preparation for the descent became
general. With the exception Of fall, which
rather painfully bruised the hand Of Hon. John
". Hale, no accident occurred to mar the davis
enjoyment, The foot otthe mountain was reach
ed by $50 p. NJ, where this conclusion was gen
orally arrived 9t, viz to recommend TO all tour
ists--And especially "stout gentlemen''--desirinp