Milford chronicle., 1908-09-04
Our Trip Down East.

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the Steamer from Boston. The late
storm had left behind it a very nasty
roll and as the steamer took a
course almost parallel with the dir
ection of the waves-yOu can i'm
agine the results. The steamer IS
about 3 the size of the Fall River
steamers from New YOrk-yet It IS
about twice the size of the largest
boats running from Baltimore up
the Rappahannock. The boat
simply "wallowed not pitched
but wallowed from Cape Cod to off
Portland harbor-and for the first
time in my life, and after sea trips
of near three weeks duration on
coastwise boats along the Atlantic
and Gulf of Mexico, l was COMPEL
ed to give up a first-class supper to
the fish off the New England coast.
Marshall fell victim as soon as
we struct Cape Cod, and wisely
turned into his berth-clothes and
all, and remained there until we
reached the smooth water Of Port
land had to feed the fishes just the
same.
think we have struck an ideal
time for our trip, but it is very cool.
When we left the muddy and awful
condition of Market street in Phila-
delphia, we left behind all that was
really bad in our route over which
we have travelled. The ride TO
New York and transfer to the Fall
River boat was a pleasure. The
view of New York harbOr, down
the Hudson river, around Cover
nors Island-where the government
is dredging and retaining land
which will make that island more
than double its former size, and the
finest military post in the eastern
part of the United States, was a
delight to me-whO had not seen !
it in ten years. The sail up the
East River, between the great cities
of New York and Brooklyn-under
the huge bridges connecting and |
those building, and witnessing the
miles of new buildings, factories,
stores, and wharves which have
sprung upin twenty-five years since
I passed between them, was pan
Drama OfinstructiOn and a reminder
that this great country. the United |
States of Ams RIGA, is keeping stride
at home with its great leaps and
bounds Of progress in the world
as a world power.
1t is not a matter of wonder, in
view of these home Developments
that we are building the greatest
canal on earth-at Panama. That
we are reaching out to the Pacific
Ocean and building up possessions
of a New Empire in the PHILIPPINES.
This is the greatest nation on
earth to-day as a civilizing influence
and the cause for it is plain to be
seen when we travel among our
people at home viewing their in
their forests turned into
streets lined with homes-where
thousands Of children play about
the mills and the doorways Of
homes.
1t widens, deepens and renews
our views Of life to 60 abroad from
our home among our own people
We note how the people have
changed. In New York the Italian {
has supplanted the Irish as labor {
ers intact they predominant every
where you so as the force for doing {
The work for America. The negro t
has lost his place entirely in the t
1orth-and only the brightest and L
pest of them are holding their own; F
1t least this is the conclusion that Il
We have reached after a superficial v
5iew OF the situation, and we be- v
ieve it will be even more marked v
II the future. The negro will have c
o work out his own salvation-by t.
lard, practical experience. The
White race has helped him until it o
las reached the limit, and he must N
vail himself of the opportunities fe
xactly the same as the white i'm N
migrants who come to America. al
But am way off from my vaca- lie
alton trip and its pleasures. al
The sail on up through what was b,
nee "Hell Gate, and the scores C
islands dotting the western end ST
t Long Island Sound. is beauti- H
ii dream of a summers evening. qI
he shores Respondent with sum tn
Ter homes such as Kings and po- pr
.ntates of former centuries would lii
ave marveled to have been able to tn
Ossess. The wide waters dotted
it'll pleasure craft. and the steamer co
commerce made life setting for CHI
~ crowned with a magnificent or
inset. 1t is one of those pictures
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