Smyrna times., 1892-09-07
The Annual Outing of the Delaware
Editors.
INIF 10 BOSTON, NEWPORT, PORTLAND
WHITE MOUNTAINS. ETC

INIF 10 BOSTON, NEWPORT, PORTLAND
WHITE MOUNTAINS, ETC,
On the appointed day, Friday. Ang-
| ust 10Th, the Peninsula Press Asso,iso
ClOni including many persons outside
VINO went merely as representatives
numbering Io altogether, left the Read
ing depot, 9TH and Green streets Phil
adeIphla, en- route for Boston. The
route taken was comparatively nau,
having been opened about two montbs
since. 1t Is made up of several svs,
TENS, and claims to be the sbortast
me between Philadelphia and Bos.
ton' me train, with special cars at.
tached, left at 10 A. NJ, and was soon
hylng along at rapid rate in a north.
ernly direction through a beautiful
country rich in products and dairv
larms. AT South Bethlehem we took a
enthusiastically direction bv the boan.
IlIuI towns of Easton and Phillinshmrg
over the Poughkeepsie Bridge. which,
pears the name of the route.
1hls was one of the interesting fea.
lures OF our trip. This famous 6ridoa
Whlch spans the American Rhine ia
awe inspiring in all its conceDtiona
ana as we slowly assembled this at q
helght OF 2l2 feet, a most beautiful view
OF the winding course of the Hudson
banked on either side bv the we'll
known palisades and highlands This
bridge Is GIGS feet long lover a n,jIo
anu d quarterl and is built of iron and
soild masonry, displaying the greatest
skill IN mechanical engineering. Here
olrd's-eye view of POughkeeDsie was
taKen. AT distance, the noted Vassar
College was seen, and near us East.
mans Business College.
we wasted no time but were soon
passing successfully the towns ~
canaan and Wlnsted, DETECTING a little
southward to Hartford, over the rnsb.
lug waters of the Connections river
through Williamantic and Pntnonn
until about 1870 P. NJ, we were enter'
ing the busting city of Boston. Tbo |
rlde was most pleasant one while Of |
Che same um5 tlresome. 1t seemed tn |
several of our party that everv station
ought TO be pie station" and if not
hungry expression of DISAPPOINTMENT
could be seen in the faces of soma of
the Eastern Shore editors.
The country was exceedingly beor
.Liul' Cne greater part being diversified
WIN nilis, mountains and valleys. with
occasionally water fall passing from
some gorgeous Tavine. For a short
Instance the Delaware river was fol.
OWed through a magnificent country
WIN the lowering mountains on one
'ide ana the rapids of the Delaware on
ne other. The chief products seemed
o oe TOBACCO, buckwheat and potatoes
Vhlle any number of dairy farms conId
De seen. mo 'Ouiu
boston, known as the "Hubn of this
country, is one of our most comnIioa
Gu cues, being exceedinglyaconfusing
stranger. As one of our nort9
ala, You can get in any oar in RoS.
Oh ana rest assured it will bring von
acK at our rendezVOus-the Ameri.
an house." 1t is full of"blindu etreats
lany of which are very narrow. Somo
ou %oulu thlnk a good sized man {
" oulu sCretch MS arms to either side /
Te the most prosperous business b
laces' while there are MANY small t
reefs, at the same time there are b
ANY large and handsome ones. of a
men commonwealth Avenue is the b
uest ana most famous. Through the L
'ntre OF 1t runs park, while on each d
de are wide drive ways. 5,
Two Gays were spent in Boston. and o
seemed that nothing of special inter c.
It was left undone by our nartv d
aneuil Hall, known to every school d
~ aud girl as the "Cradle of Libertv.n CT
e old State House, where the British
oopsswere quartered in 1878, and in m
ont OF which the elearances of the e.
nous Stamp-Act were burned. the is
"a south Church Meeting House pt
mere stirring patriotism was disnlaved. II
lrlst Church. Salem st., where PauI er
'Vere hung out his signals to warn off id
approach ofthe British trooDs at bS
'xlngton tie scene of the Boston De
assaore Philip Brooks handsome Il,
urch the Massachusetts Institute of us
the Museum: the barhor M
d the Boston Herald Office fat njJ
ghtl to see the Sunday edition turnod ia,
, &c, &c, all of which were w;s;.eJ ~,
In great interest by the party. m,
WISH TO the different grave yards of frC
1iden times" was another plaoe
.icn occupied the attention of some of
Sne party: On the top of Conns in,
Il so noted in the Revolutionary War or,
ne site OF an old grave yard. Among oe,
IllustVioqs dead buried here. are air
Huud HART, the builder of the an
s9te Constitution" the parents of or,
u revere, the body of the man who are
open the tea chests and threw them the
'rooard, and the Reverend Doctors we
rease, Cotton, and Samuel MatheTs
o, In their day were men of blgb der
lnetion aud scholars. An iron fence psr
o9ses the tomb of the Mathers and 55
shs slP9 y the following insOrip.
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