The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-04
4 KANSAS COUNTRY GIRL IN BOSTON.

terday morning. My first view of Bos-
ton from the cars, was of a vast area of
roof stumped with chimnies, interspers-
ed with domes and spires. We passed |
the harbor, a naked forest of masts. |
Taking hack at the depot, / saw only |
damp, dirty brick alleys, gradually i'm |
proving IN appearance as we assembled /
to the upper part of the city. After dim
ner, sat in Mrs. Goodwin's room
little while. She said that the streets of
Boston were very irregular; that it was
almost impossible for strangers to find
their way; that the people were very
cold and reserved that she had no ac-
quaintances except her boarders and re-
latives; that she had attended church
for five years and actually knew but one
lady in the congregation. A few of
the men she knew through her husband.
Though Boston seemed thus impreg-
nable, l was not discouraged. I was
going to rest day or two, and then try
kind letter of introduction Mr.. Silver
had given me to his friends. This morn
ing 1 thought it was my first duty to
gather up the remainder of my expert
tences at the seashore. They were too
precious to be lost: how l went to see
the beach in a storm with Mr.. Sewal
that wild spot at Cape Pond, where the
Good Tcmplars held their picnic; my
drive of twelve miles around Cape Ann !;
my visit to the cotton factory, and all
of my little adventures at Salem.
After breakfast l thought, just for ex-
ercise, would walk around the square,
first taking the precaution to write
down the number and street of my
boarding place for fear of getting lost.
Mrs. Goodwin directed me to go up on
the hill, turn to the right, follow Beacon
street till came to the Common, and just
beyond the Public Garden. To me the
first of these names suggested fiat of
dry grass with few scattered trees,
and the second patch of four-o'clocks,
hOllyhocks, peoples, institutions and
shrubbery, surrounded by a picket fence
and crossed by straight gravel walks.
With my eyes OIL the monotonous brick
wall and pavements, L climbed the hill.
} Where this street ended and was cross
/ ed by Beacon street, turned to the
t right and followed it short distance,
= when suddenly my eyes were opened
: by the grounds of that magnificent
: building, the new State House, with its
: great yellow dome, fiuted columns, the
: statues of Webster and Horace Mann, i'll
= the yard.
just opposite, lay the Common. ]
| thought it very Wncommon. l was per-
: fectly delighted, and when came to
I the Garden l resolved that / would net
l sit down another hour while l was i'll
the city. Journal and ocean beaches
, might go to the winds Iwould do moth
ing but see Boston. Now come back
. with me to the entrance. There, right
in the heart of the city, you meet such
an unexpected vision; more than TWEEN
, ty acres of beautiful green grass, traced
with broad, curved walks, smooth as q
, sanded floor, these over-arched with
large graceful eIms more than hundred
years old. 1t was but eight o'clock
and yet there was a scattered panorama
of human beings IN every avenue, and
nearly every seat was occupied by ladies
or gentlemen, reading the morning pa
pers, resting, talking or smoking.
l The whole Common, including the
open ball ground and the garden, was
an oblong of forty-two acres, enclosed
, by an open iron fence, and bordered on
one side by Beacon Row, some of the
i. finest residences of Boston, and on the
opposite by fremont street, one of the
principal business streets, with its
= double track of railway, through which
!, poured such an unbroken current OF
street cars that the din sounded like the
pouring of Niagara.
4 Two days later. l was going to tell
!, you about the old apple women that
e looked like huge baskets going about OIL
two legs; about the pond, the hill, the
enclosure of deer, the old graveyard
= and then that beautiful garden with its
: winding walks, and grass, and flowers
+ and pools, and fountains, and walks
5 and grass and flowers, and crooked
pond with its bridge, boats and swans
q and then more walks, and grass and
h flowers, and statuary and fountains
5 and the green house, but 1 am sure yoT
will be glad l did not have time tc
t do it.
y Before tea l went out again and walk
:. ed until ] thought / should have to buy
4 a pair of cork legs to get home on; saw
II beautiful public buildings of stone, gran
tie and white marble. Yesterday Wis
t tied Bunker Hill, the Library, and
: heard the great organ at Music Hall.
= The Monument stands on grassy
2 hill. It is built of smooth granite
S is thirty feet square at the base, fifteen
n at the top, and two hundred and twenty
: feet high. At the bottom, 1 should
! think the walls were five feet thick. In
(. the center of the monument is hollow
a cylinder of stone, around which, anC
Z reaching to the outer wall, winds 6
: : stone stairway of about three hundred
). steps. The stairway is lighted by gas
and an occasional loop-hole. 1 begar
! to think was climbing the Tower O.
\ Babel before reached the top. Here
K we have a fine view of Boston and it.
t vicinity out to the 'EWhite Mountains.
To-day 1 should have gone to Noun
al Auburn, but it rained. took wall
n down on Charles street, and taking of
n H. Il,