Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-18
Letter From st. Louis.
ST. LoUIs, Mo. July 4th, 1874


with which this city this year eel
ebrates at once the national birthday
and the completion of the great work
it hopes may be as much benefit 10
it, / feel like spending quiet houi
in writing, but shall not attempt to
tell of to-day-will leave that to 9
filter pen only saying. one may well
wonder at the crowd that for four
long hours watched the moving train
They filled the sidewalks as have
seen the town hall filed near the door
after q lecture or social gathering is
over, when every one is trying to gel
out, and no one can turn or move
save with the press. But this was to
day not over little space only, like
that. 1t was from the buildings
across sidewalks, and even to the
street car tracks in the street, say sc
feet on both sides while the police had
no easy task to keep clear the cross
ings, and the crowd at times from
crossing the rails to the space in use
by the procession. Beside this every
window was full of faces. 1t was in
fact q four story crowd, for the build
ings in the central squares commonly
are four stories high, and five dollars
window was paid as rent to-day, by
many. This for mile and you will
not wonder that l heard the remark,
"See the people where do all the
folks come ftom?"
After few weeks Of this hot wealth
er and city life, with its hurry and
hustle, especially after such day as
this, one is rested by even thinking Of
the country with its green fields, quiet
and fresh as they looked in May, when
last saw them. During the first
days Of that month the trees became
in southern Iowa and northern Mis-.
souri fairly leaved out, save few late
varieties, prominent among which was
the one callei red-bud. At that time
it looked like fire in the woods il
seen among other trees. 1t was
thickly covered with buds or blows
resembling the little separate parts Of
lilac blow, only of a'brighter color
as deep crimson as nature produces
The effect when the rising sun is seer
through one Of these treesi is beautiful
and so is the tree at any time JUDGED
1t seems to grow no larger than oul
lever wood.
Another tree found here but not al
home is the honey locust, and as some
others of our citizens may know az
little of it rs did while at home, i
may be pardonable to say that thu
stranger first notices it as tree thai
has fur. Often they are covered
the trunk and longer limbs-especial
ly in every fork, quite as thickly rs
hoe is covered with bristles, onl,
these brlstles do not lay in any on,
direction; they start in punches
point every way, cross each other, ar
complete network, and their beaut,
is that every bristle equ ais in length
and excels in strength and finenes
of point those spires which give oul
thorn brush its name. The tire
grows large and resembles an appl
tree; but it is needless to say boy
would not steal apples that nigh
grow upon it, nor would they adj
many to their collections of bird
eggs from nests built in the hone,
locust. At Cincinnati, tired and hun
cry, late one evening, riding in stree
car Sd crowded as scarcely to allo,
standing roo n, my ticket got badly
mixed with handful of these prickl,
things. Tile conductors look, as h
sought to get the needful pasteboal
and nothing else, and remarks q
passengers after he was done, wer
some return for my hard days work.
or all rly tip across Missouri, an
of all l saw there, nothing is NOR
strongly impressed upon my memor.
than the homesick Sunday, (Ma.
10th) spent ut Il. q L. junction, no
that that was strange place or motto
able in any way save as a dull littl
village but after some weeks anon
friends this was the first Sabbat
among strangers, with little prospec
Of rest or pleasure for many month
to come. TO sec, as there was at tia
time, dandeions, buttcrcups and blu
violets in bloom together, was a sui
prise to me. AT that time wiute
wheat was about six or eight inche
high; now it has been harvested