The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-07-21
A TRIP TO BOSTON.
Lexington and Bunker Hill as They
Appear Now-Ancient Build
ings and Old Scenes.
Where Emerson and Alcott Lived and
the Scene of Paul Revere's
Famous Midnight Ride.
BOSTON, July IL, 1898,

DEAR UNION: Since leaving home
three weeks ago to-day we have been
in perfect maelstrom OF visiting and
sightseeing, so that, truly, not one
moment has been ours for writing
more than an occasional hurried line
to our Immediate friends. With per-
feet weather, friends constantly plan
ming for our enjoyment and ready to
go any and everywhere with US at a
moments notice and amid such host
of attractions as only the ''Hub" and
its suburbs can furnish, it may be
readily imagined how the days have
flown.
Our journey hither, via the $500"
lines, was an uneventful one but we
made some very pleasant acquain-
tances who helped materially to while
away the time. One of these was
Mrs. W. V. B. Knox,--"New Hamp-
shire" Knox as she has been known
through her writings-a cousin OF
Frances Willard, and herself an &C.
tive worker in the W. G. T. U. She
and her husband are, connected with
the Red River Valley university of
Wahpeton N. D.
We took a day OFF, at Montreal
which we spent in sightseeing. TAX
ing carriage we visited all the
cathedrals and other points of interest
and wound up the mountain side to
Prospect Point where an enchanting
view OF the quaint old city, the island
studded river and an expanse of hill
and meadow, limited only by the dis
tant Vermont mountains, may be OBJ
tanned. The view is in many respects
similar to that from Lookout noun
tain in Chattanooga, and hardly second
to it in point of beauty.
In the afternoon we went out to
Lachine and boarding the steamer, ex-
perienced the delights of shooting the
rapids. The trip, while not so SEEM
ingly perilous as we had imagined it
would be, was yet very exciting and
elici5ed many little gasps, half of tor
ror,. half delight, from the feminine
portion of the crowd.
We took the evening train for Bos-
ton and awoke in the early morning to
find ourselves passing through the foot
hills of the beautiful New Hampshire
mountains, along the shores of the
famed Winnipiseogee lake, it's waters
teeming with pleasure crafts, it's
wooded banks showing glimpses of
vine embowered cottages, and NAM
moth hotels; by emerald slopes rich
with clover, where snow-white farm
houses peeped out through the green
OF orchards; through the cities of Man.
chester, Lowell and Nashua, bristling
with manufactures, and at $40 A. M.
we steamed into the Union station,
Boston, where we found friends await
ing US.
And now, after enjoying the delights
OF day at Nantasasket, going by
electrics through Dorchester, Nepon-
set, Quincy, where the quaint homes
of the two Adams stand side by side,
and Hingham, with it's ancient church,
called the ''Old Ship and said to be
the Oldest in New England, and re-
turning by boat through the islands
and by the forts of Boston harbor: an
other day at Salem Willows where we
saw them raising the Inflated boat,
victim OF the Beverly disaster on the
Fourth, and at Marblehead with it's
promontories overlooking the most
picturesque of harbors; after countless
drives, through Cambridge, with it's
college buildings, it's authors homes
and it's Washington Elm; through
Middlesex Falls, the widest and most
picturesque of regions, all the prin-
cipal parks and beaches and through
the beautiful suburbs of this wonderful
city; there is so much to be seen,
months would hardly suffice for it all.
We had planned trip down the har-
Dor to Plymouth to-day, but, it rains, a
regular nor easter" and we are
housed for the first time.
Yesterday we spent among the bat
tie fields and the historic homes of
Concord and Lexington. Starting
from Boston at 1917 A. M. on the ac-
commodation train we stopped at many
little wayside towns, reaching Lexing-
ton at II o'clock. The battlefield is
but short walk from the depot and
the first object of interest to greet the
tourist is a monument surmounted by
an open bible marking the site of the
first Westinghouse. Near it is tree
planted by Gen. Grant in 1875.
A boulder marks the line of the
minute-men on that memorable 10Th
OF April, inscribed with the words of
their leader, Captain Parker:
STAND YOUR GROUND
DON'T FIRE UNLESS FIRED UPON,
BUT IF THEY MEAN TO HAVE AwAR
LET IT BEGIN HERE.
An Uncovered monument erected in
1899 to the brave men who fell hears