Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-02-01
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Notes of Travel by a Tourist.
SPRINGFIELD MASS.
(fOucflieI.)

The government grounds of about
twenty acres are cle@a laid out
with Winding roads with
the finest shade trees. IL close
ly shaven and look like Wilton arpet.-
The buildings Of the Armory. score at
laast in number, are strong. neat. brick
structures, with no sp cal beaut., lu i'm
posing on account of their size.
One is utterly amazed and confounded
by the number and intricacy of the engines
and machines. extending in quadruple rows
entirely through these shops, from 100 te
200 feet in length. Note only are the masket;
made here. i'll every one of the hundreds o.
operations. but even the tools and machine,
themselves are fabricated upon the ground
From the commencement to the completion
of one mushet, it passes through nearly five
hundred different processes. Every part
of the tircarm however minute, even the
little screw or pin, has Il regulation size,
and i, mnltely inspected. If a single one
is spoiled, or fails to conform exactly tt
this regulation size, it is rejected, and mus
be paid for by the workman.
In one room. were some 200 musictS
rifles and carbines which had been return
ed from the war. some with stocks shatter
ed by rife balls. some with barrels oXplod
cd and all exhibiting signs of the hsries
service.
We passed to the Arsenal proper, large
building devoted wholly 10 the stacking o
the completed muskcts.
In the entire buiiding are about 100000
OF these, arranged in scrricd columns, will
ai,lc- betwccn, and 50 perfectly adjusted
about two inches apart, that. standing a
one end ofthe room. you can lool, through
its entire length between the parallel bar
rels-the rings. bands. screws, locks an,
triggers not varying IL hairs breadth from
the right lines. 1t Was easy to appreclat
the suggestion TO the poetic mind of long
fellow, uf an immense orgaR with its teI
thousand, of pipes, and we Instantly rc
called the closing lines Of his beauiilli
poem:
"Down the dark future through long gener;
| tonS,
The echoing sounds grow fainter and the
cease:
And like bell with solemn, sweet vibration,
hear once more the voice of Christ sa
Peace.
Peace--aud no longer from its brazen poi
tails.
The blast Of wars great organ shakes th
skies,
But beautiful ms songs of the immortal
Ihr hnly M Indies Gf iuNp nriSf-'
We next made the ascent of Mt. l!olyokC
You ride in your carriage to within 600 fee
of the summit and then you take a diilerel
kiUd ofcarria@c. Imagine railroad trac
which seems to your eye perpendicular
You must step into Il little ear with tw
seats and be drawn up that steep by
steam engine nj the top. The rope is
two-and Il hall-ncll cable. You are sa'
the ascent is perpendicular, but the ma
at the foot assures you that it is nowhcr
quite forty five degrees. The length {
the inclined plane is 500 feet. The perpei
dicular height actually risen is 3G5 fee
You enter the car Four is all it will cal
ry. You feel very much like making You
viii. Iou are inclined to speal, to som
one for decent burial. The man at I'll
bottom pull, bell wire. \ whistle at Il
top responds, and youar suddenly whiske
} upwards. while your heart and stomac
have decided tendency downward. fo
give an anxious and appalled, glance
i the rope. You imagine that ii is going
break expressly on your account. q
feel as the man did, who was being draw
up a coal shaft thousand feet cep. l-ool
ing up, he saw the threads Of the rope cha
ing against the rock, and slowly unwin
inc. Said he ncrvously to the miner WI
i was with him. .IIow often do you chang
: the ropes on this inachinc?' About one
c year" said the man, land If this OF
$ lasts until we get up. we are gong TO p
on new one.n However the cable at NJ
Holyoke has no idea of breaking. SO kee
no good heart You are nearly up. Iher
sound as YOU were three minutes ago, ste
out and regale yourself with the sight.
is perhaps second only to Mt. Deser
More than twenty of the surrounding v
laues are visible. There too, is Mt NJ
: nadnock in New Hampshire rhere.ls Gre
il lock in Mass, There are catskills in \.
5numberlcss other minor ranges and peak
: The broad Connecticut lies at your 1e
like II great silver serpent, sluggish
crawling ont to sea. The view is main