Connecticut western news., 1907-08-01
SALISBURY IS A
 PRETTY HAMLET
CHIMES SCARED THE YORKER

Dodging Autos-Forefathers Planted
 Trees s- The Monument-The An
 cient and the Modern Some lncon-
 gruities The Old Hotel - Grand
 .Eother's Rocker-The Library.
 Although the summer boarder season has opened in Salisbury, it is not open as wide as it has been in some of the years that have passed into history. Notwithstanding this the " White Hart Inn" ;" is filled and the "Maple Shade Hotel' is accommodating 8 goodly num- Der, while many city people are breath ing pure Salisbury air, eating pure Sails bury provender, drinking undiluted Sal isbury milk and fighting adult Sails bury mosquitos in various farm houses.
 It's amusing to watch these city folks just after they get off the cars. The other day nervous Yorker left the station platform just as the chimes in the library building were striking twen- ty-nine or thirty minutes past twelve. At the first tap of the bell he dropped his dress suit case, jumped from under his hat and when he landed had cleared the sidewalk and was sitting with his back against a Keep off the grass !" sign. He felt disconcerted enough and explained his acrobatic feat by saying that he forgot he was out in the country and thought he was about to be run down by trolley car when he heard the bell. And they fly for the tall timber to get out of the way of fancied auto mobile when they hear somebody's gaso- line engine spatting away, or the croak of an adult bull frog or the quack of a duck, believing a benzine gig is about to lay them low. But they can't be blamed for this, because lots of us who live here for four and third dozen weeks in the year have become so used to dodging these big red streaks that fly through town at 8 going -after-the doctor pace a dozen times day that even the sudden blast on a fish horn will cause us to break into run for some other spot, it matters not where.
 These folks like to come to Salisbury, because they want quiet, still they want to be where they can have good railroad accommodations, they want to be away from the noise and confusion and still be where they can twist telephone crank or send telegram if the spirit so moves, they want place where they can get a crack at some mighty fine scenery where they can board few weeks without placing a mortgage on their brown stone fronts to pay the bill and Salisbury an- swers the requirements.
 When they go home this fall they will give graphic descriptions of this burg. They will tell their friends, who stayed at home, that it is beautiful spot, a viii lage where the forefathers set out plenty of naples and elms along the streets and sidewalks in the long ago and where the scions of these worthy sires have the good sense to let them stand and impart beauty and provide shade, where the citizens are so loyal. patriotic and appre- ciative that they have erected hand some and substantial monument to the memory of the brave boys from Sails bury town who gave their lives in the various battles of the Civil war that there might be no segregation of the states. The monument bears the in- scription: ITO her loyal sons who fought for the Union, Salisbury erects this me- morial." Surmounting the memorial stands Liberty, with barred arms holding aloft the shield. She has stood here since 1891. May the next century find her still standing, sentinel-like and just as dignified and imposing as she appears to-day.
 These folks might also tell their friends and acquaintances that Salisbury is a place where people own lawn mowers and use them, where, in an attempt to modernize houses of the olden time con- struction, some of the people have de- stroyed the charm of antiquity which these structures possessed and have failed in their efforts to blend the an cient and the modern into harmonious whole, the result in some instances being decided incongruity.
 A reminder of the customs of the past is the old-time sign post at the White Hart Inn, to which is attached the hori- zontal wooden arm supporting the old fashioned sign which sways to and fro in the breeze and bears the representa- tion of white hart. Further down the street the old village hotel or tavern still stands. In the olden days it was hos telry famous and well known by those who travelled by stage coach. Although remodeled for residential purposes, it stil