Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-07
a Trip 10 the Sea.

Edthy RtH7and HeraId:- While tbe
dnell-r+ ty thr .oa are many Of them r.
cr,pting among the hills and mountains
ufnur Vermont home, some of US from
.N,, hill have, r,p,bled down by the Fes-
yg.rr j. philosophy no less than pleasure
nllp,I,h in rlis interchange o. scene
a,l air. " Variety" it is said, "1s the
>2tuc Of life" ana travel affords uaeful
and plea-uut variety.
But though there was variety, there
w.e little pleasure in our ride from Rut-
lapd to Boston, in the heat and Smoka
and dust oftho crowded and ill-ventilated
cars which came laundering down the
mountain from Healdville, as thouUo the
engineer or engine itself were mad with
somebody on board, and meant to hor us
all down the precipice of destruction to-
gother. There was a eerse Of relief when
we arrived at Bellows Falls, and felt our
selves once more riding in safety. Never
in an experience of twenty years had We
seen the road 20 dusty and the cars 80
dirty
We looked for news boy all the wy
from Rutland to Boston, searching the
depots at Bellows Falls and Fitchburg in
vain for newsstand. One passenger
had found a Boston Herald at Bellows
Falls. but, with this exception, there were
no books or papers to be seen on the train.
Ola Boston has familiar and home
like look, but the old Brattle street
church has received its denth warrant.
Modern innovation has commenced its
demolition, and it is rumored that this
famous landmark of tn q olden time is to
give place to a new hotel. The season at
the theatres is just opening with great
blowing of triumphs and flourish Of new
characters and plays.
Out of Boston hundred branching
railways were throbbing with their full
laden trains of annual pilgrims on their
way to their several Meccas. All along
Buzzard's Bay there are small villages and
quiet old towns from which the glory of
the whale fisheries has departed for ever ;
but where each hotel and private board-
ing-house is made alive once more, and
the summer hours fly swiftly and mer-
rily away amid the round of boating,
fishing, sea-beathing and other vacation
sports. Retired sea captains sport their
fast sailing yachts, and talk rs earnestly
OF their fine points as do some Of our
Vermont boys of their fast trotting colts.
The great attraction is at Martha s
Vineyard, where magical city of sum-
mer cottages and bewitching charms has
sprung up, Aladdin-like, on the skirts of
the annual Methodist camp meeting. The
place combines many natural as well as
artificial attractions, prominent among
which are the immediate presence and
view Of the open sea, with its fresh, brao.
ing breezes, and its troop of white winged
ships and steaming palaces passing to and
fro between us and some far away foreign
shore Then there are the cunningly de.
yised and model little cottages, so various
"uu unique III thelf uesighs, EXTENDING
every way among the orchards of scrubby
oaks. The rich and the poor dwell here
in beauty together. People of all reli.
gious persuasions, and of meme at all, live
here 1t is miniature city, as delight
tnl to the eye as castles of promise to the
Imagination.
Newport is more magnificent, extensive
and costly, but Oak Bluffs is more charm
ing, and the most popular summer resort
on the New England coast. 1t is reached
BY steamers from New Bedford twice &
DAY, the passage requiring about two
hours, and leading through narrow pas,
In the rocks of Elizabeth Islands, called