The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-06
.NlllO)gT[,A4lBEEs IN NEW ENGLAND
Where Nanysof the Prominent Authors and
Actors Will Pass Their Summer
5 Vacation. o

f'AASAS Assuy VI Suo 4IUuuouV AUGuOk1 anu
Actors Will Pass Their Summer
a Vacation.
The Homes Of a Number Of the Leading Writers
In Pleasant New England
Towns.
BOSTON,, Special Correspondence, June 49,
Vacation time is now full upon US, and already
the residents Of tho sultry- aired city are rap
idly becoming s'birds Of passage" and are flock
ing to tho seashore and mountains as fast as
social and business engagements permit, to OBJ
tain IN invlgorating breath Of cool, fresh air
and q sun-browned .compledon-Dame Ma
lures token Of heslth-that even Whittier's
barefoot boy with cheek Of tan" would envy.
The first to go, usually, are our men and wom-
en- OF note-personages who desire to escape
as soon as possible from the constant and tire
some gaze Of the ever inquisitive and expect
ant publin, to some spot where the pleasures
OF private life may be enjoyed and where the
tired frame and brain may be rested and
strengthened for another seasons work. But
where are they going and where have they
gone? Whittier has left this city, where he
passed the winter, and has gone to his old
home At Amesbury, Mass, where he will re-
main until the LIST of July. The poet loves this
old-fashioned house in which he has passed so
many OF his years, and does not leave it until
compelled to by the hot weather. The house
is an ancient structure, painted white with
green blinds, and partly covered in
small flower garden in front of q few bushes.
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closet-like library, which, to stranger is
quite curious place. It is furnished with
old-fashioned carpets and furniture, dating al
most 100 years back. There is small table.
IN front Of which is large armchair-the
poets favorite seat There is picture Of
Whittier's mother on the wall, besides mod
erate-sized book case, in which are the poets
complete works and few works Of ancient
authors badly worn by use. There is but one
window, and that looks out upon the side Of his
neighbours house, not very picturesque or
romantic view. Whittier invariable spends
his vacation somewhere in New Hampshire,
either along the shores Of Lake Winnipiseogee
or up on the sides of the mountains. Ore Of
the mountains near Madison has been named
in his honor, and he has written many of his
charming poems in compliment of the magnif-
cent scenery to be viewed from their submits.
Last year he stopped for . few weeks at the
Asquam house, Holderness, N H., and has
engaged rooms there again this year.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor Of the Allan
TIC, has already settled down in his pictur-
esque. seaside home at Deer Cove, Kings
Beach, Lynn. In winter the author of From
Ponkapog to Pesth, lives on aristocratic Mount
Vernon street, at the West end, next door to
Charles Francis Adams, ST., but moves to the
peachas soon as hot weather makes it's appear
ance. Until within few years, Mr.. Aldrich
has spent his summers at Ponkapog, the place
scriptlon in his book. Mr.. Aldrich still owns
an old house in this rural village, aud may
later on spend some OF his time there It is
quite near Canton and may be called part Of
that town, which is some eight or ten miles
from Boston. 1t is two miles distant from the
railroad station, and is easiest reached by the
tumble down stage connecting. The house is
. quaint, two-story bnildng, built at the be-
ginning OF the present century, and is partially
screened from the road by cherry trees and by
hedge OF arbor vita. Back of tho house the
grounds fall away to stream and an old mill
pond, on which stands deserted and decaying
mill, which was used during the late war for
the weaving Of soldiers cardigans. Along
the margin of the stream, which, after
wandering around the grounds, finds it's
way ont in the great Neponset meadows. and so
to the ocean, great quantities of water crosses
and curious wild flowers grow. the cowslip and
the FLETCHER plant among them. Mr.. Aldrich's
nearest neighbor is- Henry l. Pierce, the
mayor OF Boston, who gave his entire official
salary to the public library Of that city,.
SOME FEMALE NoTABLEs.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is one of Mr..
Bailey's literary neighbors, occupying Camp
Cottage, Ocean street, Kings Beach, Lynn.
This brilliant authorizes leaves her ''den'' in
Washington and goes to the sea shore with her
husband aud two children, Vivian and Lionel,
very shortly. As summer approaches each year.
the author Of Fair Barbarian and That Lass O.
Lowries longs to escape from the close quar-
tiers of Washington, with it's tiresome frivoli-
ties, and go to the cottage by the broad Allan
Grating air and regain her wasted strength. In
Washington she lives in three-story brown
front house on street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets. Her cottage at Kings
Beach is of the ordinary style of summer cot
tages, prethiy painted without and decorated
within. It is said that Mrs. Burne,twill begin
upon new novel while summering on the sea-
shore
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.has her summer home
at Manchestor-by- the-Sea- It's a two.story
brown cottage, with doors and windows open
terror decoration exhibits The artistic handiwork
of the author. The parlor is a long; narrow
room, tinted with delicate green shade. In
other rooms Of the house the same taste has
directed that one should be rose-pink. an
other robin's.egg blue, another the, deGcate
shades Of buff and brown, while another glo-
ries in the native colors of the wood. 1t is in
this house, filled with pictures. brio -brac,
and love tokens from friends, that the author
OF Gates Ajar and The Story of Avis lives dur
ing the hot weather, breathing the saline breath
Of the ocean, whose wavelets break calmly on
summer's day upon the charming stretch Of
beach which greets the peaceful eye.
j. T. Trowbridge lives in neat, brown
house, two and half stories high. in Arlington,
Mass, both summer and winter. Arlington
seen from she side and rear windows Of the he
house, ahording charming view: drawing
room furnished with elegance and taste ,occu-
pies the front half Of the house,
which is large dining room
Bunker Hill monument and Charleston can be
seen, with good part Of the old Hub itself.
From the southeast window OF the authors
study, Mount Auburn, the city of the dead,
Cambridge observatory. the hillsof Brighton
and Brookline form an interesting prospect.
IT is at this quiet and beautiful place that the
author lives contentedly, writing at his. leis-
ure, and enjoying life at all times.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford and. her. hus-
band, Mr.. r S. Spofford, have a beautiful
summer home on Deer island. in the Merrimac
river, just at the edge of Newburyport They
have just returned from a visit to Miss Booth,
the editor Of Harper's Bazaar, in New York, and
have settled down for the summer. The house
itself is one of those rambling, spacious farm
houses, built to last almost as long az the
island itself. In its earlier days it was used as
tavern, and many tankard Of cider has been
drank BY jovial parties within its walls. 1t
has been remodeled somewhat. and now
stands in quiet, half-stately grace The
staircase is broad and quantity construct
ed, and above it is open clear through the
house. giving grand opportunities for the cir
culation OF the fresh country air. Below. too,
it is wide and coDl and offers , delicious re-
wide hall is the parlor. not particularly at
tractive i'm an artistic sense. but cheerful and
homelike. This is the most frequented room
Of the house, and whore visitors arc enter
tanned,