Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

cheerful women, and serene, sturdy men;
| set in the midst of fruitful fields and rejoic-
ing in their faith.
And I said if there's peace to be found on
| the earth
The heart of the humble may look for It
| here!
| On leaving Pittsfeld by the eastern roads
take the drive under the East mountains
down to Lee. You pass at first the man.
sions of wealthy city people who have built
themselves goodly houses for the summer
| days on hillsides where the view both to
south and north is fine enough to entrance
| landscape painter; then you turn into mar
row country road that before long takes you
right between the mountains foot and the
lovely little Housatonic river; on your left
woods and rocks sharply ascend, on your
right are tiny meadows green with dark
reeds or golden with swamp grasses, made
still more brilliant by tall lilies that faunt
bells of crimson and gold on the very edge
OF that loveliest gliding water that now
makes the air fresh with sparkling ripples,
and then calms into still broad reaches,
where the royal osmunda fringes its banks,
and tranquil pond lilies open ivory cups to
salute the sun. Or you may turn to the
left down this road, half way between Pitts
field and Lenox, and climb the wild gorge
of ''Tory's Glen" where the steep road
winds upward by the edge of frantic brook
that sparkles and leaps and laughs far be-
low, while about you may cluster the odor-
Gus garlands of clematis, and frail fragrant
sweetbriar tempts and torments you with
pink shell-like blossoms and most cruel
thorns.
The Greatness OF Lenox.
hava caid hut liffIa about o,,r hao
drives; they are numerous enough to last
all through >the summer and as various as
drives can be. The outskirts of the city
are adorned with country seats increasing
In number every year, and our streets are
gay with equipages OF all sorts, and resound
with the bugles of the four-in-hands coming
in from LenoX, or traversing the country
on long excursions. For Lenox, beautiful
Lenox, is our next neighbor, and its gaiety
and fashion adorn our streets in their brief
season and fill our more rustic population
with startling ideas of wealth and its results.
If we have certain advantages over rural
Lenox in our advanced improvements, such
as the asphalt pavements, the convenient
horse cars that thread the city and bring us
to various points of interest, our electric
lights, our frequent railway communica-
t1ons with other cites, our abundant supply
OF water, our fire department with its eff
cient signals and prompt service, our Cot
tage Hospital, well christened ''The House
Of Mercy our shops, our library, our
broad, level streets, yet Leno1 has
her lofty seclusion, her air of society,
her sfour hundred of which to boast. But
there are horses and carriages at Pittsield
belonging to the owners of our mansions
that can compete with those of Lenox, and
summer visitors from the great city bring
their own retinues to dazzle rustic eyes.
We are refreshed now and then with the
gorgeous aspect of carriages made for ease
and luxury, horses with curbed necks
caparisoned with chinking chains as if they
were dangerous beasts wagging their we'll
clipped tails like o superior species of dog,
and bedecked with plated harnesses, while
high above them sit coachman and footman
who inevitably suggest to the observer that
they must be melted anew every day and
Poured Into Their Doe-Skin
breeches, so perfect is the fit of those i'm
maculate garments, while there is not the
variation of hairs breadth in the width of
their upright and shining collars or the
length of their stiff coat-tails. These
menials always darken their own grandeur
with such an expression of sulky pompous-
ness that it excites in the breast of ordinary
mortals sort of pitying awe, and silent
wonder as to what the people they own
venture to call them. Is it anything less
than "Colonel," or at least Captain ?'' To
behold their expectancy and state explains
to the thoughtful mind why so many girls
run away with the family coachman; women
do so like to be condescended to that these
lofty beings must be irresistibly attractive
to modern girlhood.
And another attraction is added for GER
tain class of guests, those who bring their
religion with them as some do, and like to
worship with their own sect We have
seven differing forms of worship here, and
nine churches. Three Congregational, two
Roman Catholic, one Episcopal, one Luth-
eran, one Unitarian, and one "Second Ad-
vent" houses of worship, besides French
Protestant service in the chapel of the First
Church, offer hospitalities to all strangers
We have not, it is true, the equivoeal e1-
citements of near "campmeetiDg" to offer
our guests; in Berkshire things are done
"decently and in ORDER
From PittsfieId to. o.Leno1.
But it would be unfair to the heart of
Berkshire to celebrate the charms of only
one side of that organ. Lenox is the COM
plement of Pittsfeld or vice versa There !
are three ways to arrive there from Pitts |
field, one that passes the old Holmes place |
(now in the possession of New York lady, |
VINO Keeps Ine lovely SlOuHuS III exquisite
order) and then wandering up the hill goes |
past the house that was once the home of |
Herman Melville, the author of "Typec,"
"Omoo" and other wild tropical romances; |
further on you turn sharply to the left and |
follow pretty country drive, up hill and |
down past farmhouses, lime kiln, bab- /
bling brook, and at last come out on the !
road from Lenox to the railway station, |
broad and well-traveled. Or you leave our |
town by long, elm-shaded, lovely South |
street, and passing the High School cross the |
railway on high bridge and come by
Broad Hall the residence of the Morewood |
family, just in front of tiny, but picturesque
Lake, which is hidden deep
in trees from the passer's eye.
The house has the reputation Of suggest
ing to DR.. Holmes the Judges mansion in
'sElsie Venner," but as South Mountain,
also supposed to be the "Ledge" of the
story, is many rods away on the other side
Of the road, and has no sort of capacity for
sliding down onto anything, much less
Broad Hall, these ideas of the public seem
20 have less foundation than most such
legends. This way to Lenox is direct and
lusty, for it is the thoroughfare of all busi-
hess and most of the pleasure driving; it is
llso hilly and not always smooth, but you
'orget and forgive all the troubles of the
way if you are wise enough to turn to the
light before reaching LenOI Church and en-
ering private gateway make long round
through the woods till you reach the other