The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-18
SEEN ROM
CAR WINDOW
Glimpse of New England Life
Between New York
and Boston.
ROUTE IS HISTORIC ONE.
Spots Ric1l3in Association Gather
Around Traveller at
Every Step. I,

Especial correspondence OF The Times
Dispatch)
NEW YORK Sept. IL Perhaps the
most surprising fact regarding the trolley
trip between New York ana Boston is
that SO many people are taking II, these
autumn days. The Journey
via the line OF peoples automobiles is be-
coming popular and much frequented.
One starts over the route of 25i miles
feeling very much like the traveller who
was the first that ever burst into an un-
known sea only TO discover on the first
day out that apparently all the world s
n trolley. True the line between the
two cities Is not even yet an unbroken
4one-as seemingly 1t should be between
the two largest centres OF population on
the western continent. There is still
little gap Of six and one-haf miles In
Connecticut to the north Of New Haven
where one must take the train, hire u
carriage or go 1t afoot. Yet despite this
little interruption in the glorious zip, the
4trolley-tripper is everywhere. Each car
going In either direction seems TO have
at least a through passenger Or two;
young men from inland cities speeding to
the metropolis as q part of their vaca-
ton ; New Workers. working their way to
Boston and the New England coast by
a route that gives them an unexcellcd
opportunity really to see a bit Of the
country going along: specialized women
from BIOS ton travelling In twos and threes,
guide DO oks in hand, studying local geog-
raphy with loving 6conscientiousness as
they fare forward:
The Best Route.
Beyond question, the best way to take
this journey is from New " rk ca stward,
and one can hardly see how the western
or southern visitor in the metropolis can:
more profita blygex his eastern trip
than BY making the progression by trolley
along Long Island Sound to New Haven,
thence up to Hartford past the rich to-
sbacco lands Of the Connecticut to SPRING
field and so on through the hily region
of central Massachusetts to Worcester
and Boston. 1t Is the ideal way to see
southern New England, Little incidents
ali along the route inevitably leave their
impress ofarcmemhraice; the news boys
of New Haven, more persistent than the
railway station flies lin other cities; the
.wlld-eyed 4 trippers looking out for
Cheshire cats In the elm shaded village
of Cheshire, where the break in the line
occurs; .the pictures barefooted Italian
woman in the square a New Britain,
wheeling her bambino In Thoroughly
.up-to-date ba by carriage, bought no doubt
on the instalment plan; the amusing
names of places such@a: the Avon t'arK s
at Stratford and the sWavcrly House Kept
by Walter Scott; the hot buttered POE,
corn bought 9 + a cripple at Enneid any
munched all *the way through the beau-
etiful stretch of green street m Long :
meadow; the drawing conversation OF Ct
$.sUncle 1Iiram," an old man encoun tered
In Palmer, who admitted he could not
for the life of him see why folks ssh ouia
want to travel such distances by trolley
when there were the steam cars to take
I, n
cident assumes interest when from the
vantage of the front seat of the rapidly
NOV rg8 ca one feels constantlytthe SWISH |
or the autumn lair3and wonders regarding
every motel n.the town ahead Whether ~
holds out the promise Of a square meal.
Then there is everywhere the local nus
tory, a bore ITO read up in dry DUST
compilations, but a JOY when pprehe nded
on the spot From the Bronx onward 70
Boston the tourist has hard work 70
gather IN the wealth OF history tha mat lles
on every side Along the ancient pos..
road which connected New 8 ! ork anu
BOSTON in colonial and revolutionary days
5nra}t ha almost mum berlessS relics of George
Washington's celebrated New England
tour. made In 17s9-a trip that has maze
more houses famous than any other 1T le,
tourney ever taken by an American. !! IN
fact, you may make up your MIND Whlle ;
travelling through Connecticut, that every
other old house you encounter asAei ~ Su
the first President. who. truth TO tell,
must have preserved the English habitof
eating a five meals a day and must have
been AFFLICTED with something like the
Sleeping sickness Of Uganda. And the
hest OF 1t is, that from the point of view
Of patriotic Americans all these Washing
ton cases are authentic. as. for exam pie,
the ancient Havland Inn at Rye. opened
In 1881 under the landlordship OF Peter
Brown and given n good advertisement
Nv the Father Of his country who wrote
in his diary under the date OF October
is, 1880 that Mrs. Havlland keeps
ye~y neat and decent Inn" The property
has lately been acquired by a number of
residents of Rye who will no doubt make
Of it5a local historical museum for the
preservation of relics. j5i
. And so along the whole route. There
are grey structures at Norwalk. spared