Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
ON PLYMOUTH ROCK.
Bill Nye Stands Where the Pilgrims
Stood and Thinks Thoughts.
SOME EFFECTS OF PURITANISM,
Expert Criticism of Some Art Works Con-
corning the Mayfower.
THE WAYS OF THE YOUNG BANK CLERK
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsrAroH.,

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH.I
PLYMOUTH, MASS, Aug 13.-Here on
this historic ground the Pilgrims first
landed on the shores of the New World.
Here began the colony which has grown,
under the blessings of heaven, to be a pros
porous and self-supporting nation. Ply
mouth, since the landing of the Pilgrims,
has grown to be quite place. Business
has picked up and trade is more active. In
those two centuries and half what changes
have been wrought Houses have been
built, stones which interfered with farming
have been picked up and placed on some
other mans farm, trees have been cut down,
meeting houses have been built and the I'M
provement is noticeable everywhere.
If the growth of Plymouth has been so
great in $50 years, what may we not expect
in 1000 years? New goods will be put
into the stores, no doubt, new cars put on
the railroad, and new fresh air into the
cars, real estate will advance to unheard-of
prices and farms will many of them be re-
sodded at great expense. Looking back
now upon the broad and liberal platform
upon which the Pilgrim Parents erected
their altar for the worship of Colonial
God, I am not surprised that they sue
ceeded
SOMEWHAT AsCETIo IN CHARACTER
1t is true that they were in some respects
severe. They allowed themselves few
methods of relaxation aside from the con-
temptation of superheated hell for those
who disagreed with them. They even de-
MED themselves the pleasures of a prayer
rug, preferring to suffer certain depriva-
tions publicly in order to get good notices.
The Pilgrim was queer mixture of iron
indurance, patient industry and pious pig
headedness. I saw yesterday the pond at
Cohasset wherein these devout men
drowned their witches, and the public
square in which they burned them also.
Will not the generations of 200 years hence
possibly see where we, too, have been over
Jealous, hidebound and intolerant? Of
course we joke the pilgrim now regarding
his mistaken zeal in burning old people by
means of green birch wood, which is poor
fuel and apt to spoil the best Job of roasting
that we can imagine, but supposing that
your eagle eye had discovered that your
own mother showed signs of being witch.
Most anybody would resent the burning of
his mother, if she had been a kind and
obedient mother. suppose that there can
be nothing more painful than to stand by
and see ones mother burned at the stake.
Especially is this the case if one should re-
sent it and write piece regarding it, and
then either find it marked Communicated"
or thrown out altogether.
CAN SHOOT DEER THERE YET
The result has been in Massachusetts, I
believe, that in the past 100 years there has
been more iberality than almost anywhere
elsa sort of reaction from the spirit
which led to the use of the baked old lady
where now the baked bean is found to be far
superior.
Plymouth is beautifully situated $50 also
is Scituate) and in summer is very popu-
lar place for the fannel-covered health
seeker of the bargain counter, as well as the
overworked but purse proud newspaper
man. You would hardly believe that the
fishing and hunting were still good around
Plymouth after the growth of 25O years, but
they are said to be so, and within the past
ten years at least 200 deer have been killed
within few miles of where the Pilgrims
landed. That shows that Plymouth has
been quiet town. See what Chicago has
done in one-ffth of that time, and without
Dragging over 1t either. No matter what
Chicago does she is never boastful. Chi
cago lets her work show for ITSELF That is
what Chicago sees most to admi re and ap-
plaud in herself Attached to Plym outh is