The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-23
Boston Letter.


six editions OF Ayers almanacs nave
marked the onward stride of human
destiny, since the time, when as chief
chronicer of the tragic affairs at the
"Switch," we regularly appropriated
space in your columns. But in looking
back to those solar-spectrum days, the
intervening space is scarcely noticeable,
and it really seems as though we had
missed but two or three regular issues
of your paper. The idea has occurred
to us of late, to scribble few more
lines for the annoyance of your readers.
A few unfortunates may be deluded
into reading them before they discover
the signature, and should it cause some
of your subscribers to stop their paper,
you ought to be able to stand it for old
friendships sake.
We have visited many places of
interest since we left Lorain county,
and have often been inspired with
desire to write you glowing descrip-
tions of the sights we have seen. But
our time being generally fully Occu-
pied with other matters, you have
escaped.
This present afiliction is due to the
fact that we have had, unexpectedly,
considerable time at our disposal of
late, and so now we are going to tell
you about our trip from New York to
Boston, and visit to the latter city, and
also give you description of an ex-
tended tour through Canada-that is if
you do not suppress publication before
the series is completed. We chanced
to drop into New York on Evacuation
Day, and thus was an eyewitness of
the big parade. 1t was decidedly the
biggest thing OF the kind we ever saw,
and the crowd was quite indiscrlbable.
1t was a perfect jam multiplied by 8.
A Wellington banker wouldn't have
occupied more space in that crowd,
than common Goldfish, and your cor
respondent was absolutely invisible.
After spending ten days in New
York and Brooklyn, we took passage
for Boston in the Steamer Pilgrim, said
to be the largest and most magnificent
steamboat in the world. Leaving pier
2S, North River, we rounded Castle
Garden, steamed under the great East
River Bridge, passed Blackwelps
Island, with its prisons. through the
dangerous He'll Gate, by Wards Island
and its asylums, and Randall's Island
with its houses Of correction. 1t
seemed as though we would never come
to the end Of the mighty city that lined
the rivers shore, but at last we found
ourselves out amidst the deep blue
waters of Long Island Sound. The
afternoon was pleasant, and we re-
mained on deck until the semaphores
began to flash from the distant shores,
and the darkness came and shut off the
view.
Five o'clock In the morning found US
in Fall River, where we disembarked
and took the Old Colony train for
Boston. This road leads through a
country that looks very stony and
barren to Western eyes. The view
from the car window not being
especially interesting in the hazy morn
ing light, we settled ourselves in the
luxurious reclining chair, and, lulled
by the smooth hum Of the train, we
dropped into delightful doze.
The sun was just playing peek-a-boc
with the distant hill.tops, when we ex-
perienced rude awakening. There
was terrific crash, and the mex
instant we we're clinging frantically tc
the remnants of chair several fee
removed from the one we had been occu
pying, while the car seemed to be In
dulging in lively dance Of the tru'
Lancashire style. The hubbub was O.
short duration however, and we hastily
crawled through a demolished window
to see what was the cause of the rum
pus. Two passenger trains had tried
the experiment of running onto thu
same track from the two converginl
branches of the road, and had not sue
ceeded with any great degree Of har
mony. The resulting mishaps wer
more humorous than tragic, as goo'
luck would have it, and in the cours
of an hour, special train came dow
from Boston, and conveyed us into tn
city, where we arrived, but little tn
worse for our shaking up.
After indulging in hearty break
fast we sauntered out to take look q
, tie town. Probably not one of tn
: whole 100000 inhabitants of Boston
knew of the scrutiny their city wa
,, about to undergo that day, or the
! might have put the gay side oGt, an
, thus we would not have seen 18Th
Hub" In her true colors. So we al
impressed with the idea that our opinio
,, is worthy OF candid consideration.
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