The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-04
OVER THE BAY STATE.
Walking Through Massachusetts
from Town to Town.
Old, Rich and Finished Towns.
Popular Industries-The Brevity
of New England REeaIs-Pau-
city OF Conversation.
Especial correspondenes.l


a small portion of Massachusetts,. Taking
it easy from town TO town and village 20
village. Often quite ignorant in the morn
ing where shall bring up at night. Which
state Of mind relieves one of the necessity of
carrying out fixed plan. like to drift
and see where the tide will carry me. Went
from Boston TO Salem by rail. Distance
fifteen miles. Salem museum Of East India
curiosities one Of the most perfect and best
in the world. Sole relic of-SaIem's former
commerce with India. Said commerce
commenced by Capt. Elias Haskett Derby.
Died 1899. Portrait of Derby in museum.
Also Of Nathaniel Bonditch, author Of ''Bon-
ditch's Navigator" Very large brain;
face tapers to point at chin, like wedge.
Salem is very pretty city. Looks sim
she'd" Ditto harbor. Fortunes made long
ago; none leftto be made. Just enough peo-
pie resident TO make a living. Overplus
must leave. Moderate circumstanced young
men must "Go West" go to Boston. or go
TO shoemakfng at Lynn. Possibility that
half OF Salem's unmarried daughters die
old maids Popularity of old, rich and
In ished towns. Discovered that Marble.
head was but four miles from Salem. Street
cars between the two places. Won't there.
Very crooked town. Built in a tangle of
rocks and hills Rocks everywhere. Beauti-
full harbor. Full of rocks. Islands plentiful
Ear and near, large and small Mostly bare
gray rock. Houses planted crooked to avoid
rocks. Area of cid cemetery half rock.
Soil scarce for sepulchral purposes. Fa-
yorable cremation port Few trees
Houses generally front directly on the
ofvr lii
factories down to shops with one or two
workers. In Marblehead everybody talks
shoes or fish. Old fort at entrance of har-
Dor. No guns. Barracks in ruins Thir-
teen notices forbidding the public to go on
the ramparts. Marblehead a monumental
town. Monument In cemetery to forty
three heads of families and twenty-five
boys. Fishermen drowned in gale of Sept. 9,
1916, on the "Grand Banks" Granite shaft
in town to Captain Thomas Mugford, who,
in 1776, with the Franklin of seventy tons
and four four-pounders, captured British
vessel of 800 tons and ten four-pounders
Another monument to soldiers and sailors
Of Marblehead who perished during the Re-
bellion.
Town pumps very numerous, sometimes on
sidewalk. In which case sidewalk runs
over pump, or part of it. Three of the old
time Marblehead ministers buried in a
ruined cemetery. Wives alongside Inscrip.
lions In Latin to ministers; in English to
wives. skull, scythe, hour-glass and cross
bones accompanying
Found lodgings for the night at
clearinghouse. Hotel full Theatrical
Shown to room by handsome
larSr Il, 81
Strolled about till supper time. Could not
6nd the house. Crooked and Incompetent.
;ible streets Found it at last just where
didn't expect Ii. Could find neither land |
ord nor 1andIady, sitting-rooni nor supper. |
Only one wide empty hall PresumabIe |
andlord at last appeared. Told him I |
whom was stopping7 "In this house, of |
.ourse.n Said 'this was two boarding-houses
With one hall" Couldn't tell BIN to which |
louse belonged. Left him to find out.
erssumable landlord disappeared. Called !
or Sarah" Probable satisfactory expia- /
lation by s'Sarah." Supper: hash and hot |
Biscuits Ate through two sets of boarders.
darbleheaders eat fast; rita est 6reUis, and
here's much else TO do besides eat in Mar.
,lehead Average time for Marblehead din
Ter, ten minutes. Man who sits half an hour
& table regarded as an anaconda, though he
onsume but single slice Of bread. Con-
nmption Of viands rated entirely by time one
its at table. Walked from Marblehead to
alem next morning. Then went south
'ound road leading west. Asked a maR
there was going. Told me to Peabody.
lever heard of Peabody. "How large q
lacsg Man said, "'twasn't much of a
lace" Travelled on, assembled hill Saw
We steeples mile away. Peabody. Smart
ustling town. Found there monument to
sysn men of North Denvers killed at the
attic Of Lexington.
Left Peabody to its fate and footed it
orthward. Was told my road led to North
eading, five miles distant. Roads here
lbelled as streets" Travelled on Lowell
rect" past hedges, swamps, fields and farm
ouses for miles. Road to Lowell.
Young man in an empty hay cart invited
le to ride. Seat on the rail, or weather out
gger, of cart. Perilous. Y. NJ. informed
le that was now in the town of West Pea
ody West Peabody not satisfed. Wants to
parate from Peabody. Peabody has gas,
alter, police, fire companies and other city
rivileges. West Peabody, three miles
way in the country, hasn't, but pays taxes
Ierefor. Principal produce of West Pea
,dy Strawberries and onions. Onions diff
1T to raise. Has two special parasites,
id hard to keep free from weeds. One
lshel of onions costs as much labor as
ven bushels of potatoes. Hard country to
re in. Where do the young men gol
ostly to Lynn, to work at the shoe bust
IS. N B. Thirty odd years ago they went
est Is the West filed up? Average Lynn {
.ees.the y. m. said, amounted to about
DO per annum. Had heard of ''cutter" {
10 made 81 per day and of a 'laster" who
ade 81. Remarked that the days of shoe !
alking were over. Meaning, probably, the {
oney making days of shoemaking for
orkers. Drove up at last to a large home {
sad and range of barns. Air of general +
Gathers place" Father was
way, "stumpipg for Butler"
Arrived at North Reading. Struggling !
llage. No hotel. Inquired of the post
aster for lodgings. Told me to go to Mrs.
Iint's, second house from public school.
Tent Mrs. F. not in. Mr.. F. was. Mr..
has no authority on the premises. Could
1t promise to take me in. Must wait for
rs F. Back in half an hour. Waited :
rs. F. IS return. Mrs. F. returned Codul =