Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
TOURING BY TROLLEY
delightful Rides That Can Be
Taken in New England.
PEOPLE READY TO TALK
Casual Remarks Easily Lead Into Con-
versatlon.
THE INFORMATION OBTAINABLE
Gradual Invasion of the Adirondacks,
for Years an Unknown Country
Called John Browns Tract
THE INFORMATION oBTAINABLE
RY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.

land on q trolley car You can make the
Journey from New York to Boston that
way. and for pleasure and comfort 1t is
next to an automobile. From Springfield
electric lines radiate in every direction and
reach almost all of the little villages and
resorts. In the Berkshire Hills the trolley
rides are particularly agreeable, and there
are connections all the way from Great
Harrington in the South to Remington. Vt.
The cars run usually al intervals of half an
hour. They are open summer cars, with
comfortable seats and make a speed of
about twenty miles an hour which is not
too fast to he disaGTeeable or dangerous,
and about four times the speed of an ordi-
nary Nair Of horses and carriage in this
hilly country. When npnntime comes you
can drop off for your luncheon, and at
night YOU can stop at one of the Who-e-
some Berkshire hotels until morning. when
the journey may he renewed. \ hundred
miles q day is enough, particularly II you
stop off here and there to visit the churches
and cemeteries md other historic places
and wander about the beautiful old villages.
The line from Remington has been eN-
tended to Troy, and from there you can go
TO Saratoga, which gives altogether quite
as extensive tour as any one would want
TO make covering one of the most pictur-
csuue and delightful parts of the country,
and several of our most famous summer re-
sortS-Great Harrington. Stockbridge, Lee.
Dalton. Williamstown and Bennington
There ere good hotels everywhere and by
buying a local ticket on the steam railway
you can send your trunk on in advance
Delightful Trolley Rides.
The trolley trip from Pttstield to Great
harrington is one of the finest in the world.
The track follows the Housatonic river
nearly all the way, and you can get good
idea of Lenox, Stockbridge and other ia
nous resorts. Going north, the track also
follows the river, and the cars take you
through some of the most thriving manu-
featuring towns of Massachusetts, with so
many diversified industries that traveller
who is not accustomed to such things may
find a great deal that Is instructive as we'll
as interesting Every village has its fac
tory and they make almost everything that
a human being need
Then you can cross over to Greenfield in
the Connecticut valley, and take trolley
down through Northampton to Springfield
and Hartford, visiting Windsor, Old Had
ley, Amherst, Smith and Mount Holyoke
colleges. and a score of other villages with
many historic associations. From Hartford
the trolley lines radate to every corner OF
Connecticut.
Worcester. Mass is another center of ra-
diatlon. and from there you can go by troll
ley TO Boston, New hampshire, Rhode Is
land, and to almost every community in
that part of the state. From Boston the
lines run up and down the coast as far as
Portland,
Cape Cod, taking In Plymouth, Quincy,
bingham and many other interesting
places.
The most delightful feature of the jour
ney is the entertaining conversation and
amiable inuuisitiveness of the people you
meet on the cars. The Yankee. rule,
wants to know who he's talking to. but Is
willing to tell all about himself and his
neighbors and give you the history and
incidents associated with every house along
the line. There is no respecting of per
sons. and keen sense of humor brings
out the comic side of all events and In
cidents While an automobile is great in
stitution for summer travel, ii is exclusive
and your society is limited to one or two
other passengers. They are apt to get tired
Of you and you are pretty sure to exhaust
your topics of conversation before the day
is half over. which is a drawback, while he
who takes the trolley can change his seat
and his company any time he likes and Is
reasonably certain to open a fountain OF
fresh Information in every man or woman
he gets acquainted with. The ice is easily
broken. The people are very responsive.
a few casual questions Will start a con-
versatlon and in a few minutes the inror-
nation bureau will be running full blast.
] have met some queer people on
these trips and have obtained some valu-
able information. as well as curious stories
of human nature as developed among the
Yankee race.
Introducing Standard Time.
The other day a gentleman gave me an
Interesting account of the determined man
ner in which the natives up here fought the
introduction of standard time. which they
considered unwarranted and blasphe-
nous infringement upon the sacred laws
of nature. Lucius futile is president and
general manager of the Boston and Maine
Railroad Company, which practically con-
trolls all OF the transportation lines of New
England and his name has been signed to
all OF the printed orders that are posted in
q lysI = a.lN -tGl-
meuts and announcements In the news
papers: hence the Boston and Maine has
been known as "Lucius Tuttles railroad"
and that gentleman has been held person.
ally responsible for everything that has
happened along its lines.
Fifteen OF eighteen years ago when the
railway companies Of the United States
adopted standard time, Mr.. Tuttle made the
usual announcement and requested the Sc
leCtmeu of the different villages along the
Boston and Maine railroad 10 adopt it. In
many cases they did promptly, but in
others the proposition stirred up lively
controversy and revolt against what was
considered an invasion of private rights as
well as the laws Of nature. Few public
questions ever excited much discussion,
and In hundreds of towns from Bar Harbor
10 Springfield the inhabitants held public
meetings and passed resolutions declaring
thar they would never accept LuCus Tut
ties time in place Of that which God had
given them.
Long Litigation Over Calf
On another trolley ride fellow passenger
pointed out TO me a beautiful old white
farmhouse overshadowed by group of
stately ems which was the birthplace and
the lifelong homo of one Capt. Eben Harris,
who left an estate of more than 81 900 o 0
in equal parts for his three chi!dren-two
daughters and one son-made them joint
executors of the property and admonished
them to be generous toward one another
in division. They managed to divide vari-
Gus blocks OF real estate without the slight
est objection, and the stocks and bonds
that found in the old gentleman's
tin box were allotted amcably. Several
large farms. a granite quarry, bank and
numerous mortgages were easily disposed
and the brother and married sister were
perfectly willing that the elder sister, who
was II maiden lady OF fifty years or So
should remain in poss assion of the home
stead and all ii contained with the horses
and carriages and other appurtenances that
lad been used by their father. The trouble
did not begin until the two sisters quarre!ed
over calt-a little white heifer that was
not worth SO. and but had been pet in
the family for only a few months.
The calf was born in March. Capt. Harris