Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-11
SIGHT SEEING FOR
c. A. R. VISITORS
INTERESTING POINTS ROUND
ABOUT BOSTON.
REACHED BY THE TROLLEY
How Modern Transit Facilities Make
Easy the Entertainment of Vast
Host-old Boston and New Await
the Coming of the Veterans
Tickets Good Till September 80.


Boston, Aug S.-The national en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic which will be opened in this
city August Is bids fair to bring such
throng of sightseers as even a COM
)nunity accustomed to large conven-
lions has seldom seen. The spec
tacular events Of encampment week,
with the great river carnival on the
Charles at Waltnam, the naval parade
which the secretary of the navy has ar
ranged and the automobile run out to
Lexington and Concord together with
other special features, will make this
no doubt the most memorable of re-
cent gatherings of the veterans of the
northern armies. Just how many peo-
pie will be drawn to Boston by the fes-
tivities nobody can predict, but at any
rate the figures will lie record-break-
ing and will emphasize the claim which
has often been made that Boston as a
convention city has advantages over al
most any other in the United States.
The historic associations that cluster
about it are at all times a great draw
ing card, and especially so when the
railroads are Offering reduced fares on
account of gathering. Antiquity is,
in fact, one of the most valuable as
sets of the New England metropolis
one that fills hotels, makes trade for
shops and department stores and traf-
fic for the transportation companies.
Take away the scenes of revolutionary
struggles and a serious blow would
be dealt to the business interests of the
city.
A point that should be made regard
ing the comfort of the average visitor
and Of course there will be thousands
of these in attendance besides the
Union veterans-is that most ample
preparations have been made for their
entertainment not only by the commit
tee of arrangements of the G. A. r. but
pany and others affected. Many peO-
pie who have been accustomed to think
of Boston as city with queer, tortuous
streets, one in which the stranger
easily loses his way, will express sur
prise at the completeness of the sys-
tenn of street car transportation COM
prising subways, elevated lines and
surface lines with which the Boston
Elevated Railway company serves
practically the entire district of the
greater Boston.
The vast crowds who cannot take the
automobile trip to Concord and Lexing-
ton will discover the ease with which
they can board the peoples automo-
biles and visit the historic scenes in
most comfortable fashion. When the
National Educational association was
here little over year ago, bringing
$4,000 school teachers to the city, one
of the utilities of the community which
seemed generally to impress them most
was the transit system.
This is an important consideration
with the average visitor who wants in
his brief stay to take in as many Of the
sights as possible. Both ancient and
mod ern Boston appeal strongly to PEG
pie from other cities, the historic and
literary undoubtedly holding the first
place in popular interest and affection,
though some of the present-day
achievements crowd them hard for pop
ularity. On such an occas ion as the
G. A. R. reunion the localities made
famous by military and naval exploits
will naturally have the first CALL and
the cars of the elevated line running
from the central district of the city
across the Charles river into Charles
town will be thronged with strangers
anxious to visit or revisit Bunker Hill
monument And along the same route
by way of the great Sullivan Square
terminal, the largest street railway sta
ton in the world, the sightseers will
fare. taking the long trolley cars which
go tipping out through Arlington with
its soldiers monument, along the
famous old highway on which Lord
Percy's troops retreated that fateful
evening of April 10. ITS, into historic
Lexington common where Kitson's min
uteman stands guard over one of the
most beautiful green's IN New Eng
land; thence, still on the famous route,
to Concord and the scenes of the fight
by the rude bridge. No other way of
approach to Concord is half so salts
factory as that by trolley.
All the other famous historical spots
about the hub viii receive due atten-
ton from the eager sightseers: the pic
turesque old powder house in Somer-
vile. where shot was made for the
revolutionary army; the sacred mem
orial hall of Harvard university, where
are inscribed the deeds of sons of the
great alma mater who went forth to
fight Cor what they believed to be
right in 81; the old residence a Gen
Banks at waltham. soon, if plans ma
turing come to pass. to be converted
into a great war museum. Rarhaps
some heroes with special enthusiasm