Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-11

little triangular enclosure of Monu-
ment Square rest Ladd and Whitney,
the first northern men to be slain in
the fratricidal war.
OF those who have taken the car 10
Harvard square, Cambridge, many VIII
board it again and go to WATERFOWL
where the United States arsenal, as
interesting for its present activity as
for historic "reminiscences, invites IN
spection. The navy yard at Charles
town. needless to say, Will welcome
thousands upon thousands, all eager 10
look upon Old Ironsides as she lies at
anchor, reposing in serene old age.
Furthermore. many visitor, anxious
to inform himself of present progress
in matters naval, will be likely to find
his way out through the subway to the
Dudley street terminal of the Boston
elevated and thence to Quincy Point on
the southern shore of Boston harboTkz
where one of the greatest shipyards
on the Atlantic coast has lately come
into dangerous existence. Here he
may see the battleships New Jersey
and Rhode Island, rapidly rounding
into completion on the site where in
revolutionary times the clippers were
built that first carried American COM
merce into the China seas.
Besides the trolley-tripping to his
toric spots the visitors will find that
the attractions of modern Boston give
it fully as good right to be called a
summer resort city as New York. Bos-
ton is far more comfortable place to
live in now than it was when the G.
A. R. was here fourteen years ago. In
that time the great metropolitan park
system, the most complete of its kind
in the United States, has been de-
veloped. Engineering skill has taken
advantage of the superb natural fea-
lures of the surrounding hills and the
island-dotted harbor by evolving a
comprehensive series of urban, marine
and rural parks, connected by boule-
wards and parkways. Almost every
one of the surface car lines takes the
stranger to some member of the ag-
gregation of parks. IT, for example,
one boards car at the Sullivan square
terminal bound for Medford one
reaches at Medford square a quick
approach to the Middlesex Fells, res
ervation of waving forests, broad lakes
and bounding cascades which has fortu-
nately been saved in all its ruggedness
for the outdoor uses Of the populace.
If one goes southwark to Jamaica Plain
or Forest Hills, at the terminus of
either of these lines one is close to the
Arnold arboretum the unique mu-
scum of living trees, maintained by
joint cooperation of Harvard univer-
sity and the city of Boston. In gen
eral attractiveness no park surpasses
this, and in scientific interest it stands
first.
Again, perhaps the G. A. R. visitor,
standing in the station of the subway
at Park street, takes the elevated line
out to Dudley street, Roxbury, and
there boards one of the Great Blue
Hill cars. In 40 minutes he is at the foot
of the highest elevation of land on the
Atlantic coast anywhere between Maine
and Mexico, a miniature Appalachian
mountain inviting climb to the sum-
nit, whence the whole of eastern Mas
sachusetts may be seen in panorama.
About the base of this Blue Hill
stretches wild reservation, the larg-
est civic park in America, comprising
more than 5000 acres of lake and
woodland, and reaching with its con-
nections to the harbor at Quincy Shore.
But above all it is the bounding sea
which will appeal to visitors, especial
ly those from inland cities. The salt
water constitutes Boston's especial
claim to be a great summer resort.
Thanks to the wise foresight of the
Metropolitan park commission, a series
of model marine reservations has been
established. Nearly every stranger in
Boston during the G. A. R. encamp-
ment will discover the attractions of
Marine park, South Boston, easily
reached in few minutes ride by one
of the trolley lines. Here is the famous
Head house, with its connecting pier.
Here are the park commissions boats
to rent for a sail or row down the har-
DoA, anu mere Is luS Il street DdJnlQg
beach, where bathing in salt water.
without bathing suits, is open to those
who enjoy the invigorating plunge.
More distant is Nantasket, reached by
a line of steamers and perpetually
swept by sea breezes, and to the north
ward Revere beach, long arc of sand
terminating in the Point of Pines.
which has been set apart as a public
park, with unsurpassed opportunities
for surf bathing.
Then up and own the coast are de-
lightful towns, such as Salem to the
northward and Plymouth to the south.
redolent of the stored past and pos
sessed of present charms. So many
of these are there that the brief tima
of the encampment can profitably
extended. The railroad lines ha
made very advantageous rates.
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