The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-20
TRAVELLING BY TROLLEY
THREE HUNDRED MILES
Trip from New Haven to Portland, Maine,
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 15, by trolley for Cheshire, your cor respondent and his friend with their wives (only one each), everybody car rying a suitcase or grip, beside um- brellas and wraps, for we were off for an outing of several weeks and deter mined to do the stunt of trolleying from home to Maine.
 As many of our friends have already taken the trip through Plainville, New Britain, Hartford and Springfield, we will not dwell upon that, but advise those who have not rode through the beautiful elm shaded and park-like streets of the villages between Hart ford and Springfield to do so.
 Our first night was spent at Worces- ter, close rival of New Haven in population, but outstriping us in its businesslike appearance. From Wor- cester to Boston we might have gone very quickly and directly by the Bos- ton Air Line, but we chose to deviate from Marlborough, across through Hudson, and thence to Concord where we spent couple of hours visiting the points of historic interest.
 From Concord through Lexington to Cambridge and Boston we follow Mas sachusetts avenue, and for large part of this ride are traversing the route of Paul Revere's celebrated ride
 Our second night was spent at the Paul Revere tavern in Lexington, en- abling us to visit the house where Paul Revere reused John Hancock.
 This house has been preserved and is used as a museum of relics. The various points of the fight between the British and the Minute Men are marked by monuments, the statue of the Minute Man being very appropri- ate and . fine work of art. The quar- tet spent several days visiting the re- sorts in and around Boston.
 Starting from Scollay square on the electric car for Salem we pass through Lynn with it's immense electrical and shoe manufacturing concerns.
 At Salem we halt for visit to one of the most complete museums we have ever seen, It is filled with arti- cles from the least known parts of the world, so arranged as to give one a very good idea of the peoples, their habits, customs, clothes, utensils, bus mess and homes, each country being arranged and classified so that stu dents can study them to advantage. Our trip is Q -as-you-please af- fair, stopping for meals or lodgings as we feel inclined. We have no schedule, and enjoy the ride through the vil-- lage streets, and across the fields.
 Down East" the people do not refer to "trolleys," but to "electrics." And to ride through northeastern Massa- chusetts is quite different from Con- necticut, being for many miles through pine woods, and even the rocks having different appearance.
 In northern Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine we also note the evidences of severe winters in the arrangement of the houses. and barns, being universally connected so that the occupants can care for their stock without shoveling paths.
 Between Newburyport, Mass, where we rested for one night, and Popts- mouth, N. H., the electric road runs through various shore resorts, some, being of very unattractive and unde- sirable nature, and others, like Rye Beach, most inviting.
 ,t ,f4 x.;1 o1o ural breakwater where the stones have been heaped up in q great ridge for miles; then across a trestle about two miles long, and along sandy beach, say, five miles in length, partly in Massachusetts and partly in New Hampshire.
 The writer sat astride the stone separating the two states, as he also did the stone on the boundary between Connecticut and Massa chusetts.
 The surf beating on these beaches and rolling in under the trestle, with the fishermen in boats and the craft on the ocean, make this parJ of the ride very interesting.
 At Portsmouth we take the ferryboat across the Piscataqua river to Kittery, Me, getting a good view of the city as we cross, also of the navy yard on the Kittery side. The ride along the beaches at York, Me, and thence through Biddeford where we spent an. other night was varied by the pine groves and the well kept farms. Leav- ing Biddeford we are almost immedi