The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-01
munity OF Dartmouth College, and cstab.
lish social relations with the faculty and

respect TO finances people who arc well
bred and educated, and 0thgood repute,
intermingle on terms Of !perfect social
equality. Money does not count for any.
thing like Us much Us It does in tho West
and South. This results Of course in part
from their Older. and mora settled state OF
society, but mucl, is likewise due to2the
character Of the ideason such matters that
have descended to them from their puri.
tan ancestry.
NEW ENGLAND CULTURE.
There is q love OF education and OF
literature that I think Is almost distinc.
tive in New England as compared with
people Of the same means and leisure
elsewhere in the country. You may re.
call what said upon this point In speak.
ing OF the summer school for languages ut
Burlington, Vt. Old Mr.. Forsyth used to
say to me in Wheeling that n love for
fishing, when you once become really en-
amored OF 1t, was n pleasure that never
deserted You In old age. Much tr,,er is it
Of the pleasures OF learning. And it is
this value set on learning that has sup.
planted an undue estimate Of wealth
among these people. Tho whole air OF
New England seems to be stimulating in n
literary way.
This letter, as you see, while dated at
Springfield, on the lower Connecticut, Is
largely devoted to the scenes have left
behind me IN the upper part OF the valley.
stopped Off here for day or so to see
something OF this part Of New England,
and among other things the United States
Armory located here, where Lieutenant
Colonel A. K. Burlington, a graduate OF
West Point from the Wheeling district, Is
In command. Unfortunately for me the
Colonel happens to be ont OF the city Just
at this particular time, but through the
courtesy ofihis representative / have seen
much to interest and instruct me in tho
famous, government works here. One OF
the most charming views I have enjoyed
since leaving Burlington WAS from the top
Of the Arsenal building. The picturesque
Connecticut and its rich and romantic
valley is seen to its greatest advantage as
1t gracefully flows, broad and deep, to the
eastward OF this beautiful city, while the
city itself, shaded proiusely with clms and
naples, is like picture set in emerald
green. These New England Gins are only
exceeded in the majesty Of their shape and
shade by the grand live oaks OF the South.
VALLEY OF THE CONNECTICUT.
This grand valley OF the Connecticut is
OF course famous portion OF New Eng
land. Its lands are exceptionally pro-
ductive. They tell me almst incredible
things OF the crops they raise. But after
hearing OF seventy bushels OF shelled
corn to the acre on the rocky soil reclaim
ed to agriculture in upper New Hamp-
shire, and fifty bushels OF oats, and two
and one-half tons OF hay, I am prepared
for great things in this lower valley OF the
Connecticut. The trip down here from
White River Junction was past such
important towns rs Windsor, Bellows
Falls, Brattleboro, Northampton and IIo-
lyokc, and | know not how many villages
and hamlcts, saving nothing OF the thick
succession OF farm houses and OF country
factories OF one kind and another.
I could take up at least short letter
with an account OF the ''ogying" interest
along the Connecticut, and another letter
with the various great water powers con-
strlctcd at different points. There is an
engineering work OF mammoth Character
in progress Just below Hanover, upon
which millions will be spent before it is
completed, that felt would like to write
mp for your columns ii space permitted.
One gets at least an inklins Of the great
wealth and enterprise OF New England by
4 trip down this rich and tliickly settled
valley. A.w.c.