Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-20
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John NJ. Hcnt"m Gives His Impressions of
the Elite East.

John NJ. Hcnton Give. His Impressions of
the Elite East.
John Henton, formerly a resident of
this county, in IA private letter to Y
friend in this city. gives an interesting
account of recent visit to Boston, New
Haven and other eastern cities, from
which we are permitted To excerpt the
following:
AS told you in my last letter, went
to New Haven. Finding that l would
be delayed a week in securing the infor
nation desired, decided to spend the
week at Boston. | had received letter
from Mrs. White. formerly Miss Nellie
Connor) asking me to come and see
them. When called on them she said
that was to come to their house and
make it my home all the time was at
Boston. She and Ed planned in every
way that it should be a nice week. She
had been to scarcely any of the places
in and around Boston and as he did
not have time to go they planned that
she and should "do" the place to-
gether. We had most delightful
week. am the first one of her friends
who have been to see them and she
seemed to SO very much appreciate the
occasion in her happy, impulsive way.
Her home is one of those large, roomy,
old New England homesteads we read
about and is nicely furnished and we'll
kept. 1t is fourteen miles out from
Boston but with the electric cars by
the door, and the steam cars only a
short distance away, though the former
extend into the city, the latter make
the quicker and better way, and fur
nish a one-cent-per-mile rate with
trains every half hour in the morning
and evening, it is hardly noticeable that
they are out of the city.
These New England towns are curl
osity and Holbrook is II fair sample.
For the greater part it has but one
street and that is about four miles
long. Throughout it's entire length
is an electric car line and water main.
1 think it is almost as straight ~ as
the road from Hot Springs to Cascade.
Nearly all of the houses have large
yards, many having beautiful lawns,
and many also an orchard. COW pasture,
etc, back of the house. Nearly all are
fresh, we'll kept places, giving the i'm
preston of comfortable, happy homes.
In speaking of Boston and vicinity
when use the term picturesque" l
am we'll aware that am quoting. but
that adjective is so we'll justified, in
deed falls short of conveying an
adequate idea of the general
beauty and attractiveness here pre-
sented. One OF these is in the COM
mingling of the forest trees, for there
is far more of the natural forest than
would be expected. The land is so
stony and the soil so very poor that to
clear and bring under cultivation is
very expensive. A building place for
Il house or factory is all that will justify
the expense. All lands not actually in
use are covered with IL growth of native
trees. These trees, while many varie-
ties are seen, consist largely of pine and
cedar, oak, maple and elm. Thus, with
the perpetual evergreen of the former
is mingled all the hues, tints and
shades brought by the spring. summer
and autumn changes of the latter.
Rocky knolls and salt marshes; ridges
and valleys, the Blue Hills near by and
the White mountains in the distance.
the waters of the bay and city of the
crookedest streets in America streets
which commence nowhere and go no.
where and quit as suddenly as they
begin; streets, some of which you can
look to the end of and not look very
far either, aud others you will have to
look many times to see from one end to
the other of, for, however good your
eyesight, every time you looked two or
three squares they have no "blocl1s" in
Boston) you would have to move up to
a new point of observation before YOU
could see further: places of historic
interest bringing Il thrill of patriotic
pride, unalloyed by sectionalism, to
every American; IL bridge, the old West
Boston bridge, than which none in
America will be longer celebrated in
song because of the genius of Long
fellow and Lowell, thus enshrining it,:
the homes near by where these men
lived and worked homes lacking in
beauty as compared with nearly all of
those around them but possessing an
interest which no expenditure of
money could give to any place un-
associated with genius; and again near
by, the cemetery where..:these men lie
buried, along with nearly all of Boston's
great dead a cemetery so beautiful
that it is called the ''Garden" cemetery.
All these, and SO much more, make
Boston picturesque to degree, and in