The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-10
NEW ENGLAND VISIT
Minnesota Delegates to the National
w. C. T. U. Make an Extended
Historic Pilgrimage.
Life of the Plain People Of the Green
Notwithstanding strug-
gle Against Prohibition.

Dostoh' Inc tnronSS or people ever
coming, ever going, at the great depots.
at the street car terminals at the wharfs
and along the narrow streets makes one
really think she has come to the hub of
the universe" Everybody seems to be In
Boston, everybody seems to be coming
and everybody trying to get away. We
were never so crowded and josted on the
streets of London Paris as in Boston.
All about In the narrow, crowded. dirty
streets we run across the beginnings of
things in our nations history. Here is
the old state house, built in 1913 and the
lion and the unicorn are still there in a
bellicose attitude. Here English sirs and
lords presided over the affairs of the
colony by royal consent. Here John
Adams. James Otis, Quincy, Warren.
Gushing. Hancock and other patriots
made the first opposition to the royal au-
thority. In 1868 British regiment was
ouartered In the building and just in front
in ITO the Boston massacre took place.
From its east window the Declaration Of
independence was read July 1915. and
from the same was read the proclamation
Of peace in 1888. From the balcony,
Washington received the entry Of the
American army after the termination
Of the siege of Boston. This old historic
building was thoroughly repaired In 1881
and placed as nearly as possible in the
original order when occupied in pro-
vincial times. and given into the charge Of
the Bostonian society. which has made
a fine collection Of old paintings and relics
of the colonial period.
On the corner Of Milk and Washington
streets. just opposite the city ticket Of
fee where we get cur tickets for Mime
apofis and our sleeper berths reserved
stands ivy-grown Old South Meeting
House. This building was erected in 1880
and Whitefeld. the celebrated divine,
often preached there. The pulpit was
often used In those days for political pur-
poses, for here Otis, Warren, Hancock
and other patriots addressed the people
in 1853, ITO, 1913 and the fervent young
orator Joseph Warren delivered his ora
ton on the Boston massacre In March,
1775, three months before he was killed at
Bunker Hill. This Old South Meeting
House is so crowded full Of historic in
terest that a committee Of twenty-five
women raised 100000 and paid for the
building and site that it might be pre-
served to posterity. 1t Is now a museum
of relics relating to the history Of early
New England.
Just a few blocks away Is Faneuil Hall,
1.-THE cradle Of liberty" with its famous
old historic paintings. We sat and looked
upon the rostrum and fancied we were lis
tening to Otis, Webster. Sumner Garri-
son. Phillips or Beecher as they, among
other noted orators, have swayed the
multitudes. Then we fancicd another
scene in later years. where Frances E.
Willard, with Lady Henry Somerset and
others, formally founded the World s
Christian Temperance Union Fasi .sf sgs7
= OF course we visited Bunker Htll and
r never tired of gazing, at that matches
white marble statue Of General Warren,
done by Dexter. There Is also fine
brenzs Of Colonel William Prescott in
frontFof the granite obelisk. We visited
old burying grounds and read dates as
early as 1862 and saw the old death heads
carved In the black slate and the quaint
inscriptions Of Here lyes We body OF
Richard Devens" and many others. We
/ visited John Harvard's tomb. and many
4 others, bearing names familiar to our his
! tory. OF course we have enjoyed mod
ern Boston. too. It's magnificent library
churches and art galleries, it's Common
/ wealth avenue and Beacon street, the
( novelty Of taking a street car on earth
: going under the earth and finding our
) selves above the EARTH all within twenty
/? minutes. There was happy day al
Plymouth, a fish dinner. a landing at
Plymouth Rock, a visit to the old buryine
ground and thence to the national monu-
ment to the pilgrims. On the sides we
read the names Of the pilgrims who land
ed in the Mayflower, Of course picking out
our own ancestors with delight, yet gla6
the hardships Of that first rigorous win.
ter are over. While there was no strike
\ in the anthracite coal regions that win.
ter. yet we find the pilgrims suffering
from cold, not SO much from
lack Of fire as the lack O.
walls to- keep the heat rays within warm
ing distance. AS we looked up eighty one
feet into the face Of Faith we could
family realize that the Life" is more
than meat or comfort, or bodily raiment
In Pilgrim hall are many old paintings
chiefly. valuable for their historic inter
i &c.,
belongings of the forefathers, with the
family coats Of arms of the Bradfords
the Winslows, the Aldens, Standish
White, ct al. We see many things tina
belonged to Miles Standish, William, su
sauna and Peregrine White and man!
other family names are repeated here II
writings and possessions.
A quaint old town is Plymouth and WI
fain would stay and dream Of golden days
until the houses are again peopled will
the aristocratic families all made humble
with daily privations and yet strong in TIL
faith Of God, sure they are right, ant
with consciences void of offense. Ye
we must hasten on to other scenes.
Since the convention at Portland W.
- have been separated. each visiting he
own particular corner of New England
made dear by early childhood memories
For me there was a, delightful day through
the White mountains. into the Greer
range, up into the granite hills of Yer
mont. among mine own people," whom
have not seen since way back in Sc
when Minnesota became my adopte
home. There have been two delightfu
: weeks in the sight Of Mansfield noun
tain, the browning peak of the Gree
range. There 1.-The old man of the noun
tains' lies in an eternal solemn silence
Does he ever speak? Oh, yes! H
8 speaks a blessed calm into the soul. H
: bids me Lift up mine eyes unto the hill
from whence cometh my strength TIL
blue autumn haze has filled the eye wit
beauty, the snowy chin tells Of the frost
Of age that are creeping on.
The screech Of the locomotive has no
reached my ears for two weeks. Blessed
sweet, restful stiffness that those mos
nerve weary can best appreciate. Their
have been old-fasioned visits, sewing cir
=. cles, etc. I have sunk to sumber i
: downy feather beds beneath the starr
bedqutlts, in the little spare bedroom Of
- the parlor. I have sat in chairs tina
! have been In the family back to the great
grandfather and date back more than
, hundred years. These kind friends hav
z given me few pieces of great-grand
I mothers china and one old pewter plat
that came from England years and year
ago. There has been one snowstorn
just enough SO we have gathered pan
=. snow and waxed the hot maple sugar jus
= as In the days Of childhood. There hav
been walks In the woods to gather beech
r. nuts, and the fragrant hemlock buds hay
been gathered in punches just as Of yor'
Did you ever chew the yellow birch twie
6. to get the delicious flavor? Yes hav
n done 1t all over again. There has been
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