The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16

Naturally long ride, such as that
from Worcester to Boston, or that
which we afterward took from Boston
to New Bedford, is. firing, as any day
thatlis Rassed in the open air, amid new
and continuously changing scenes is
certain to be; but neither of us ever
Experienced more than a comfortable
degree of fatigue, if you can under
stand what that means
iOf course the mind got tired with re-
.ceivinS so many new impressions
through eyes and ears and the spas
modic clash and clang of the gongs
and bells. the shake and rattle of the
car, and the more or less abrupt stops
BECAME tiresome to an extent. But the
annoyance resulting from such causes
was much less than might be supposed,
especially when our route lay through
sweet green fields and country lanes,
as 1t. did for the greater part of the
way on our excursion to Marblehead
and Salem. $s
All that the stranger in Boston has
to do when he wants to go somewhere
electrically. is to take up his position
in ScQllay square and wait; If he has
the patience to walt long, enough, his
car is bound to come along eventually.
We waited on Scollay square, and our
car came along eventually II WAS q
Chelsea car. The conductor, an ola
man in shabby uniform that cried
aloud for a thorough cleansing and
brushing. He was so busy chewing to-
bacco between his miserable little
black teeth that he had no time to
answer our deferential questions as to
being in the right car, but bundled us
in and started the car up with q vicious
/. pull at the. bell strap. Later, as we
were passing under the shadow of Bun
aker Hill monument, he relieved himself
q sfT El1iSs Chew, and thenceforth until
3 we parted with him in Chelsea, he was
moree scordial to his passengers, and
6 more tolerahlel In his personal manners.
A man of hist age should have been able
stoa obtain, some more suitable and less
texactine, occupation, and company
like the Lynn and Boston Street Rail
gfwaas &C Company should be able to en-
gage more efficient servants-so we
g thoug ht.A-5 t8,tr
5 81 Iphere is no pleasure in riding through
7ThArIestown. Such another collection
slofsa 1ra bbit hutches, so devoid of any
q saving grace Of Individuality or asso-
citation or beauty9er dignity is hardly
tospe found in the state. The miserable
little wooden tenements in their doWdy
trabs and yellows huddle about the
grave nobly-serious shaft of Bunker
Hfll monument like so many hideous
: fungie of ignorance and superstition
overlapping the fair ideals and lofty
examples of the earlier generations. In
comparison with Charlestown, sleepy
gold Chelsea is respectability incarnate
. AZ. AL q those Niddlesex towns suffer
from locations at arms length from
: Boston over long bridges and beside the
sunlovely mud flats and oozy reaches.
4: May these atwo causes not lie at the
th0ttornfy of that lack of success which
seems to pursue Everett, Maiden,
seSomeryille and Chelsea, while wealth
land prosperity, are the lot of such
! towns sass zBrookline, Milton and the
. ~ @BtoHs2
4ts Perhaps you know more about Lynn
ssthans we dido do il is not an attrac-
! tive city ito the tourist. and as place
sef fpesidence- it ranks with Lowell, Fall
5qyIaiver. gHaverhill and the other manu-
3cfaetupiflg centres of the state. Better
ia SlralkY old farm house on a starved
. r8cre. of eQrnmon,g far from public Ii
i sbEaries and, ice cream parlors, with
6elTty = the district school and one church
tc go to, whose every man is his own
carpenter and every woman her own
dressrpaker, and clothes that are 20
years old are snew-better this than to
be obliged TO live the life Of the poor
inst hose NOISY haHnts of vulgar com
mercialism. 1t is better to think of the
pretty fields, the valley titled farms
ara fl{e'vast fields of squash vines that
] ING saw between Lynn and Swampscott