New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
"TroiieyiSafion" of Nes0-Enefond.
Week Spelled Disappointment to Visitor
TO His Birth place.

in college you couldn't get any further in by
trolley, going out toward Concord, than Airing
ton Heights. two or three miles north OF the
university grounds From Arlington Heights
starting at noon, you walked out over the old
road the British tramped in sc to quiet. his
toric Lexington. the town Of few stores and
many memories and then you could tramp one
way TO Concord. and dine in the Old inn where
Pitcairn stirred his brandy. or. directly north
you could go Up through a green New England
interyale, now walking in the woods, now
tramTinS through the open with blackberry and
raspberry vines climbing over the dusty stone
walls on either hand. fields and pastures
stretching away 10 the blue western hills. a
great farmhouse and mouse Colored barn each
mile for company. and finally the white steep.es
Of Bedford of TO the left before you pulled up
the long ascent and plodded into Billerica at
dusk
THE QUIET OF BTLLERICA.
"BiIerica. dear old town, clustered about its
little common on the hilltop, its side streets
wandering Of into the woods or the Concord
River meadows. from the sunset windows q ITS
square old houses the daily glimpses Of far Mo
nadnock blue and stil beautiful II Is only
six miles from Lowell. and twenty from Boston;
Yet only two trains day used 10 pull up from
the latter city to The little station at the foot Of
pie life and the arstocratic charm Of old families
behind the blinds OF those fine old houses. Dis
tant cousins Of mine lived behind the blinds Of
one Of these houses. two maidens Of fifty sum-
r1ers. or more. it may be. kind. prim. gentle.
whose vocabulary knew not the word leg-meu
walked on limbs for them. And sometimes they
gave Us dinner when We had tramped through
the glorious June landscape up from Cam
bridge. and lavender scented beds 10 sleep in.
And sometimes We dined at the little hotel
richly for others whose parentage had initiated
thern in New England secrets knew that hotel
also.
but all that is TO more A writer in The
Boston Transcript once exclaimed that there
amt 10 trollsys out o. ScoIlay Square TO 81
honey, he viii not le able much longer 10 say
So There IS a line 10 Bnlerica already. Low
ELI read the signs on these great trolley cars.
as big. nearly as a Pullman, that pull out OF
SeoIlay Square every half hour and crash at
axfress speed. footing terrible whistle, crowd
ing on an airbrake TO save accidents, running
On rails as heavy as d steam road right through
quiet B.Ilerica. on 10 the City q Looms And
this is not the worst The ike runs 10 Billerica
through Lexington and tiny. rural Bedford. At
Lexington too. il FORKS. and one line goes out
TO Concord.
1t would be easy fo- the British TO get back to
Boston. now Il would o. easy for a gaping
poTulaee To ride past Emersan's door and watch
MIN .u his garden But il would be impossible
Tor Hawthorne 20 write a House Of thu Seven
Gables. for the noise and gable; and il would
be impossible for Thoreau TO escape from the
world. Putting = trolley line through Concord
and Lexington is just as bad IS remodelling
the old South Meeting House into an office
building or making a baseball field Of the sacred
in,Ioslre CA Bunker Hin
THE TROLLEY INVASION
And BIle-ioa! Three trolley lines converge
now in its square, TWO weeks ago I was there.
The old maiden ladies, older now and grayer,
live In the back Of their house, with M0nadnock.
They don't speak Of the trolley; it is a forbid
den subject. as II some relative had committed
the deadly sin and must never more be men
toned Every half hour, by the common. the
glazing monsters Of cars come in and wait a
moment FOR other cars, before tearing down the
once peaceful country roads. The passengers-2
cheaD lot-shout and sing and cast peanut
shells on the grass. Babies squaM Girls sit
e-rfrlled by their escorts arms. on the back
seat are caIow youths smoking cigarettes and
making loud remarks to exhibit their smart
ness. The hotel i no more. There is. in its
place a cheap waiting ROOM boasting q fly
covered soda fountain. had candy and cheap to-
fs..o The Rev. Minot J. Savage, Of New
1r-l sitting al the window Of his country
homo Pr, the common. can be half hourly re
minded Of The Bowcry. I wonder how he likes
it2 Bah
Get your breath joshua get your breath.