Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-08-25

the town of Quincy is one which the
traveller or tourist finds of great in
terest. We were in the town on thu
dav of the terrible railway disaster,
which occurred last Tuesday. The
scene was about 'one-fourth mile dis
tant from the depot, and in the heart
of the business part of the town. We
saw the wreck and the place of the
slaughter, but the dead and dying
had been removed.
In Dedham we visited several
points of historical interest, notable
among which is the old Fairbanks
residence, built in 1886 = sixteen
years after the landing of the Pill
grims. 1t is building covering the
area of common dwelling house, but
is composed of several additions set
in jogs and projections, this way
and that, making altogether a curl
Gus affair. 1t is low-posted, has
small windows, a hip roof, and is
entirely unlike, within aud without,
anything of a modern age. The old
structure is so badly weather beaten
that the clapboards and boarding are
literally worn through in some places.
This curious old house would have
strange tales to tell of the olden
times if it could recount what has oc-
Cured about it in the two hundred
and ffty-four years since it was
built. Just across the way is a mod
ern built summer residence, erected
without stint of expense by some rich
city nabob who has put thousands of
dollars into it. The contrast between
| the two buildings we'll marks the diff
ference between the ages when they
were erected. Standing near by Is
an aged oak tree more than six feet
in diameter at chopping distance from
the ground with limbs reaching out,
| perhaps fifty feet, in either direction.
The old residence mentioned above
has been owned and occupied by
some member of the Fairbanks fami-
ly since its erection. We understood
from citizen that the Fairbankses of
Caledonia county were descendants
| of the families who had lived in the
old house. At present an old unmar-
ried lady of the family occupies the
house; she is reputed to be the last
of the family living in that vicinity.
To see city people at this season
of the year it is necessary to go to
the sea shore, where hundreds 60 out
to find a cool, grassy, pleasant, beau
tiful spot to pass the hot weeks of
midsummer. We came to this place
and are trespassing on the generosi-
ty of friends for few days. The
neck of land which juts out into the
sea is part of the town of Quincy
An electric railway is built down here
from the old village to afford conve-
nience to the large number of cot
tagers who dwell here and the visit
ors who frequent the place. The
summer houses built here are pleas
ant and substantial, and many fami-
lies spend several months of the sea
son here To the eastward is an in
land bay, nearly surrounded by
Hough's Neck on the north and west
and by the peninsula of Hull on th'
south and east. Two miles to thC
southeast is the noted Nantasket
with it's sea beach and its hotels, 81
popular in Boston vicinities. A mile
to the east is the 'sPemberton, q fin
summer hotel resort, where the three
to five dollar a day people spent
time and money rapidly. A marrow
gauge railway pushes away rount
through the neck of the peninsula
to Pemberton, and large steamer
are running to and from Boston al
most every hour. Here also are hun
dreds of smaller sailing craft rangin
up from the small dory and the bah
steamer, yachts and sloops, to re
spectacle schooners, which run bac
to Quincy, Weymouth, and the grea
Bradley Fertilizer mandatory acros
, the bay. Here are boating clu
houses, dance halls, bathing places
booths where cool temperance drink
and clam chowder are dispensed
o hotels, tents, almost everything tha
one might expect or wish to SET
! The traditional old ''captain' VIII
h is found at every sea watering plaC
4 has his fishing schooner, and he stano
ready to sail you across the bay
out into the raging waters of til
h open ocean for the modest sum
. one dollar an hour. We engage
sCapt. Joe'' to take US out for
(, sail. We took ours inside the ba.
% having once had an experience, NJ
. altogether pleasant, out on the ocea
billows. The afternoon was pleasal
, and the sail agreeable. The daug
= ter flirted and joked with the captai
- while the rest of US were watchir
the passing boats and viewing Il
! islands and water scenes abo
o US. At the sea cottage are Unc
e John and his amiable wife, bo
over eighty years of age; the daug
- ter. an invalid from an injury receiv
- at the Roslindale railroad accident,
= granddaughter, Mamie her husban
,s a bright business man of twent
eight years, who finds employme
- in Boston, and the bright-eyed lit
a John of two years, who entertai
20 the three older generations and max