Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-09-03
Trip to Cape Ann,
Editorial Correspondence.
OCEAN VIEW HOUSE, I
August 30. 1875.

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things are always acceptable, especially
in hot weather and that you will mos
likely talk about them if you talk at all
, so here is word about Ann and hel
9 cape.
| said hot" weather, but it has moi
been hot here, at least during the few
days have so delightfully."- spent here
unless we except an hour or two among
the coast rocks allow tide, hunting shells,
and then it did broil, but it was soon ov-
err, and you can constantly battle in the
cool, soothing sea breeze, and yet see
by the papers of to-day, that Sunday in
Maine and other places is pronounced
the hottest day of the season.
To one accustomed to close and busy
inland life, the relaxation of few days
here, Git ought to be weeks) is not merely
pleasant but grandly delightful. And
here again it is so much easier to preach
than to practice, AS for instance, who
of those that have suffered the imprison-
ment of ten, twenty or more years of
close attention to business, would not
advise all such to start for Cape Ann,
and yet how few will practice their own
theory?
AIMS cape is so large that you won't
observe it much without close inspection,
and as the reader may want to know of
the attractions, we say that the real at
fractions cannot be put on paper, or if
they are Swallowed, you will call them
glowing terms" in response to which
we only say it is glowing place
| For Bellows Falls and vicinity take
the morning train on the Cheshire rail
road, and you will be promptly "snap-
| ped to Fitchburg in about two hours.
| This line is so much quicker than for
merly that you hardly have time for a
chat with Conductor Putney who has
become genial veteran on this line. In
the same car you will pass over the
Fitchburg railway, and landing in the
Fitchburg depot at Boston you have
made the trip from Bellows Falls in only
about four hours. Here you have but
a few steps over to the Eastern railroad
depot, where you may make immediate
train connection for Pigeon Cove, (your
destination in Rockport, or if you
choose to spend an hour or two in Bos-
ton you can take 215 afternoon train,
or if you choose half day in Boston
there is still another train for the same
place that day.
On this line | shall not stop to talk of
Salem and her witchcraft, Lynn and her
shoes or Gloucester and her fight with
the devil and his angels nearly two hun
| dred years ago. especially since you
can find much of this in September Har-
per-but bring you at once to the Pigeon
Cove House and the Ocean View House
They are both under one management,
but domicil in the latter if you can !;
this was our luck, usually good on such
occasions, extraordinarily SO on this
The view from the Ocean House is SUI
perbly grand, only to be surpassed by
an ocean sunrise Our coast friends
may smile but they don't half appreciate
it. 1t by no means surpasses the gran
deur Of the terrific thunder storm, so
fortunately caught by the Vermont edi-
torial party on Mansfield in June, but
equal to it in an opposite manner. For
several mornings ! enjoyed this enter
tainment, as fairy as the thousand and
one Arabian Nights stories of Schehera-
zade, who saved her life by relating them
at just about this hour every morning.
The sun rises about thirty feet F." be-
fore it shines, and during this time it is
much enlarged from the ordinary view
looking like a huge orange, as you plain
ly see both ends and all sides but the
east. One morning when about half out
of the water it was plainly eclipsed by a
passing ship, which happened to be at
sea the proper distance to secure the
effect.
Here you can enjoy the Swedenborgi-
an faith of following your delights.
1 ~.
Stroll about the coasts, fishing or hunt
ing shells, or sit upon rocks watching
the tidal waves, every one of which will
give you different picture. Sunday
night at shutdown / counted ten parties
of four to ten persons each, at various
points among the rock seats. These
rocks are curiosity. They are blocks
and look as if they had been shaped and
placed there by human skill Chapin's
Bridge is point of interest. This little
bridge we believe was built this season.
1t carries you out to point of rocks
where you can safely remain during high
tide, though the chances are quite as
good as you will desire, to feel the spray.
The permanent attraction of this
place may well be inferred from the fact
that Rev. DIR. E. III. Chaplin of New
York, (whose splendid lectures in Bel