Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-12

streets. The story is told that a par
simonious doctor from New Hamp-
shire, calling on DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, remarked that sightseeing
was interesting for those who could
afford it. We'll" retorted the witty
poet. IF you have five cents in your
pocket, you viii see a large part of
American history by taking a car over
at the corner"
Today, such is the perfection of the
rapid transit facilities, it is possible
to see much more in less time. In
hardly more than half an hour, by
dsins the L." the visitor gets some
thing like a bird's-eye view of the
whole historical city. Starting from
one Of the stations in the subway the
tourist, travelling southwark, reaches
at the Dover street 81" station the
point to which the British lines extend.
ed during the siege of 1775. Along
upper Washington street the 81" road
runs on the land known a century
ago as The Neck-the narrow strand
that then Joined Boston to Roxbury.
The Northampton street station which
was half way between the British and
Amrican lines, and which on certain
days-this was before the Washingto-
nian temperance movement swept the
country-was crowded first with the
officers of the king and then with the
embattiing farmers from Roxbury.
AS the train swings around to the
west to make the loop at the Dudley
street terminal the passengers see the
old burying ground of the Dudleys and
other notables of earliest times. AMI
as the loop is almost completed a look
up the hill to the west reveals the
yellow form of the ancient meeting
house occupying the site of the chapel
built by John Eliot, the apostle of the
Indians. Thence by taking a South
Station train the tourist is carried
back past Dover street and around to
the eastern water front. Here are
passed in succession Griffin's wharf. at
which the historical tea party took
place; the T Wharf fishing fleet, for
many years one of the most interest
ing speetacles of its kind in the world;
Constitution Wharf, where the famous
frigate Old Ironsides was built; and,
as the train sweeps around by Copp's
hill terrace, on the top Of the hill.
there appears the belfry from which
were hung the lanterns signalling to
Revere, expectant across the Charles,
the things that the British were about
to start for Concord by water.
So, too, the surface cars along lines
radiating outward IN every direction
from tie stations in the subway, give
easy access to every place of histor-
ical interest in territory now peopled
by upwards of two million inhabitants
to the heights in south Boston.
which Washington fortified ami from
which he watched the evacuation of
the city; to RoXbury, the home
General Warren, the hero of Bur
hill; to West Roxbury, where Brook
farm is hardly less delightfully."- pictur-
esque today than when Hawthorne
and Margaret Fuller dreamed trans
cenlentalism there; to Dorchester. the
nome OF the Dudleys, who gave gov
ernor to Boston in provincial times; to
Medford where the Royal house pre-
serves some of the most entertaining
relies of the colonial period; to Cam
bridge. Arlington and beyond, along
the line taken by the British troops to
Lexington and Concord. Not only the
spots made famous in the military an
nails of the nation, but the many liter
airy shrines of the greater city are all
accessible to the trolley-tTipper-t
homes of Lowell. Emerson and Long
fellow, distant Ponkapog and nearby
Louisburg Square; the Boston house
of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
and the wild less scene, low a pop-
ular picnic und, of Thoreau's melo-
dramatic wi travail from the world
In the sunni months the local public
travels eHte. ivcly on Saturday litter,
moons and Sundays and Boston is
filled all the time with strangers do
ing the sights in the most economical
and pleasantest way.