The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-17
From. the Transcript
Wy Morning There.

by MRS. l.. s. GOODWIN.
"Buried ut Lone Mountain!" In the ear
" days of California to how many patient
waiting souls was waited afar this most
melancholy refrain. Even now. when her
chief port has become a substantial city,
with all tie accessories of civilized life to
offer those on whom the gold fever has
seized in its hardly less remorseless form
of trad. and speculation, multltudes Of
vain dreamers continually pass in at the
Golden Gate, to pass out in little while
by the gate of death; and beyond noun
in and wave are widowed hearts left with
no hope so dear as that of one going pill.
grimage to the spot where their dust re-
poses. The world has no cemetery like
that of San Francisco, for being populated
from all nations on me globe; its history
is on its tombstones. The thoughtful Wis
itor feels himself III the streets of petrfied
Babel
One morning last July, so early the
nightly fog of the town, like its gray cloak
ed police, fingered on the beat, / set out
from the Occidental to visit, for friend
at the east, one of the many strangers
graves. Thus l was a representative of
widowhood, and my two companions were
"widows indeed" though having expe-
renced the sad comfort of hearing the dy-
ing farewell and keeping vigil over the long
sleep-unlike the other, whom telegram
in place of the weekly letter, had separated
as by a'sword thrust from the illusions Of
life, while at their brightest and dearest.
"Bring her the smallest token-even some
grains of sand. which should help to locate
Williams grave" had been the commss-
ion, waking prolonged and sorrowful I'M
Aarf To soma i,,ht loto of ciuhf
seeing amid natures rarest domains.
Gradually we pass out of the business
section into one of the suburban and sub.
tropical elegance in houses and gardens !;
thence, where toy-size cottages of every
conceivable style of picturesque pre,tiness
alternate with wilderness spaces blooming
like the rose-strange shrubs spiked all
over with bright hues embodied in dust like
Juno in cloud, from adjacent sandhills,
moved about by the winds In no bad per.
sonaton of kings, bishops and pawns in O
lively game of chess. 1t is a game of life
and of death, we'll betting and instructive,
which we leave still unfinished to enter that
division of the cemetery consecrated-witl
or without the consent of Philadelphia-by
the name of Laurel HILL The three other
lots formerly united in one, and still COM
pretended in the general name Of Lone
Mountain, belong respectively to the Free
masons, the Odd Fellows and Noman Cath
olics, all of whom, like so many sects push
ing their individual interests, vie with one
another in costly identifying of these sis.
ter cities of the dead, which, long before
the years would seem to expect it of them
are likely to rival Mt. Auburn and Green.
wood.
The superintendent, with unadulteratet
polteness, received us in his Office, a cheer
full little white building, in grand relief tt
such similar structures as not emerged from
the shadow of skull and cross bones. Su
perb flowers bloomed au naturel without
and in vases within, from which my priv
LEGGED friend helped me to some unrivalle'
rosebuds and carnations, while profferinl
my request for me, set down apart with
sudden sense of being engaged IN it'll
hopeful undertaking. As if in this unor
ganized far country there were an indie,
finger to every six feet of earth covering
unit of the great mass of men who her
had died unknown!
"He died how long since?'
"Rather more than two years." ! answer
ed, most mechanically.
The superintendent closed one book an
opened another, running over the ponder
GUS pages.
"Charles Moore, New York." with hi
finger on the record.
shook my head. However, it was a
near what l was in search of as might b
expected. The finger ran on, turned
couple Of leaves, paused again.
William Moore, Massachusetts, age twer
ty-nine."
rose quickly and crossed the room I
repeat the reading for myself. A minui
after a man, with card bearing name an
number, was assigned us as guide, whol
we followed up an incline, where the ARA
of wild fl DIVERS seemed ready to assume I'll
work of adjoining the place, releasing the
cultivated sisters to do duty in more III
genial climes. From the swelling plantea
soon reached is magnificent view of eli
and bay to the north and east; to the soui
rise still the same brown hills mantled
haze, waiting their destiny with the gene
atoms to come, as these now subjected
mans convenience or necessity have waite
lone through the ages.
The sweeping glance returns TO the guit
who has halted and is scanning the groun
too intent to reply to the inquiry wheth
he cannot find what we seek. In a sma
accidental space thrown between an ire
paling and the path appear, side by sid
three graves, as of near kindred; the slice
ers are brothers only-after common HI
manity-in the circumstances of the oil
event which happens to all. Referrir
once more to his card, the man pointed
the middle mound, and said, "That's
ma'am," then Immediately retired
Fully five minutes / stood speeches
gazing down at what struck me as the me
desolate grave in America. 1t lay comm
as have said, and marked only by sta
at head and foot, like the two right al
left of it; skeleton vine, many -joint
and angular, stiff and black under 4
drought of summer as iron wire, straggl
thickly over it. However appropriate
resting place for one who had fallen su
denly by the wayside, ! shall be pardon
for asking myself, as / stood there, VIII
description but must be q wound in q so
place? The deceased had not known; n
sorrow was for the living, myself include
when / must help mourner to view
that grave untouched since fashioned
the sections shovel two and quarter yea
ago. Better leave Imagination to clothe
nakedness with at least the springing grass
of the East, which on these vagrant san
obtain no foothold. l turned involuntar
to gather into the picture some of the brigl
err hues of the surroundings. Above, q
giant lots, having all the accessories of
in iron, marble, bronze, with flowers evei
where had for the asking; below, a !,
cultivated expanse. broken by q thickeI