Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-09-19
Rul'ul Press.
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A NEW YORK

5paof H~gsBANDMAS:
II 10 4 New Yorker cramped in between
hrck walls, a trip into the country is not
4 luxu-y but a necessity. So when a
8uxiry and a necessity can be combined one
#No9Id lie foolish not to accept of it. SO
Thought your correspondent recently as he
stepped on board Il New England bound
RYfraj,l. The engine with its long train slow
Hy dragged its length out OF the Grand Cen
5ral depot. whirled along Under the arcllcd
sbbiidges, made y two mile plunge through
Ae tunnel. and passing or through Harlem
Mint the other New York suburbs, crossed
Rshe Harlem river, snufed the country air
Isfd dashed along between farms and among
Rangry Villas, leaped the boundary into
Ronncctic,.t, and was fairly on it's wav. 4
Deayy fog hung over the sound and spread
Hi thick canopy Gro our track. Finding
Ahe nit CT tie car close, and being invited
Ay the notice Oh the door, Ut is dangerous
10 stand on the PLATFORM" [ soon found
Myself on the back platform Of the rear car.
M
SIlst at this iancture a tive mile stretch of
Awn grade was reached; with 4 snort the
Ngine plunged forward, dragging the long
Nain after il, seeming determined to double
AZ present rate Of thirty miles an hour. The
NE appeared to close in and swallow I'D the
1NFack but a few rods behind. On and on
M q few moments more, and then, as If tir-
apgs Of its sport, the brakes grated on the
Wheels, the train staggered, steadied itself
snd cane to q full stop, as if to atone for It's
8id iury. Soon we We're on our way again,
|KneSsing the beautiful seaport towns OF Nor
|NAik, Bridgeport and others, until at last,
Mterng the suburbs of a town and looking
long rows of the old -mnnarehs OF
New England. we knew we had reached
M city OF Elms." Here changing our
curse to the northward, a ride Of q few
mneS brought us to our destination, the
Mlsiialng little New England town OF
DNFliheton. A warm welcome awaited us.
aa 8 truly pleasant evening was passed
n ~ old friends. At length when we re-
~ 10 rest, with the rain pattering on the
ae9f, now our thoughts were carried back
N our boyhood days. The mighty rushing
NJ from which we had parted but a few
39ofS before, with its roar and rattle. where
III strong crowd down the weak, and the
3En fide over the poor, was forgotten, and,
aeo0si inns was not our old homestead, vet
M were SO heartily welcomed rs we gath
around this old New England hearth
SB,a'e' hlat our heart was ready to cry out
R'ol'e again from a foreign shore"
II ne dawn OF day nshera In the Sabbath.
IN we Worshipped here where our Puritan
@E'eis aad Worshipped before us. The day
saoSil'g' as the busy factories and mills
- up their black smoke, we were at
- 70 their interiors and sought to find
q &o''e Of the mysterious workings OF THIS
s-''slea labof-aaying machinery, which
~ aaps, at a single blow or the revolving
"'eel, accomplished the work that be-
II. ""' required hours Of hard labor. An
n 's.s'pa 70 ennmerate the articles here man
iii s'leo' would be quite as impossible. az
IL 'ea' oinnlns to contain il. A rolling
n : aefe located, rolling OUT its hundreds
IA = " iron each day. 1t was a sight OF
81 s. so'l'ilion interest TO watch the forces.
. "ss, the furnaces roarin and cleatnino