The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-01-26
1000 MILES ON THE RAILROAD
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT FROST.


Perhaps the students and some OF
the other readers of the CITIZEN would
like TO ride with me. from Berea 10
Boston, and think Of the interesting
things along the way.
] left Berea ON Monday noon, Jan.
l0. Coming north ! passed the battle.
field Of Richmond, crossed the Ken
lucky river at Ford, two miles above
the place where Daniel Boone's
fort stood, and came through Win
chester whence line of railroad
(she Chesapeake and Ohio runs east
ward 10 the ocean. and on through
Paris, in Bourbon county, and Gym.
thiana, where fights occurred in the
war, and along the Licking river To
Cincinnati.
Who OF you can tell the meaning
Of the name CINCINNATI
From there l proceeded northeast
erly through Dayton and Springfield
10 Columbus, the capital city of Ohio
and 10 Cleveland on Lake Erie,
where the lake was frozen over as fan
as eye could reach. Thence through
a corner Of Pennsylvania, past Dun
kirk, from which Commodore Perry
sailed 10 capture the British fleet in
the war of 1912. was then in my
own native Empire State of New
York, and passed in the night by the
places where | lived when a boy, and
where some of my ancestors are bur.
led. Past Buffalo, the city of cleo
tricity, and Rochester where they
make microscopes and kodaks, aud
Syracuse, seat Of great University
aud Utica TO Albany, the capital city,
famous for its great men like Dewitt,
Clinton and VIM. II Seward. There
we crossed the Hudson river, and |
awakened as daylight began in west
ern Massachusetts, whence my grand
fathers father emigrated to Western
New York in 1908.
Western Massachusetts is famous
for its Berkshire Hills" We passed
Dalton, home of Berea's friend, Gov
ernor Crane, and Westheld, where
DR.. and Mrs Greenough live, and
Springfield, where DR.. Holland lived,
and Worcester, from which city came
our great engine in the Industrial
building, and 50 on to Boston, "a little
more than | 900 miles from Berea.
Boston is justly famous for its in.
telligence, its patriotism, and its
philanthropy, but it must not be
supposed that all the people here are
true Bostonians. OF course many of
the best people of old Boston have
moved west, and they are now doing
good in other places. But besides
this great many people have come
into Boston who are not of the Bos
ton kind at all. The great majority
are foreigners or the children of for.
eigners. But the true old Boston
people are so wide awake, so gener-
GUS, and so public-spirited that they
turn those foreigners into Yankees
in few years.
Massachusetts, has produced more
inventors, more great preachers, more
great doctors, more great educators,
more great statesmen and more great
men of science than any other State
in the Union. There is plenty of
wickeduess and evil in Massachusetts,
but the difference between this and
some OF her States is that here the
good and wise people are wide awake,
courageous aud determined, and no
matter how great the discourage
ments are they are making things
better and better all the time.
Who of our young people can tell
the story of the landing Of the Pill
grims, the Boston Tea Party, and the
Ride of Paul REVERB