The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-24
ALL SETTLED IN ENGLAND.
Geo. c. Cassie Writes Back That He
Likes the Country.

George q. Cassie, who recently left
Barre FOR England, writes 70 John Jones
and William Aiears that be is comfort.
ably settled near the famous Rugby
school and that he Is eontented His
letter Is as follows.
Park House, West Haddon, Rugby,
June l2 1908.
Messrs John Jones and VIM, Mears;
Dear Sirs promised you beginning
Of February that ! would write from
England when settled down You know
III was very cold weather about that
time, 40 degrees below zero one morning,
and stormed and bowed SO the trains
couldn't 20, and We came pretty near
missing our boat at New York On
board the boat we were soon passing
down the harbur, Brooklyn bridge, the
Statue 81 Liberty, and sandy Hook
faded from sight, and the big Lusitania
had struck her track and was going,
The huge vessel, over one.seyenth mile
long, over 5000 people on board. steady,
and the British flag hoisted, made me
think of Thomas Campbell, who years
ago wrote "Ye Mariners Of England.
II Is pleasure to cross the Atlantic
nowadays on these modern boats in
summer or winter After the first day
or two out ii was quite warm and inI
little over Ave days we were coasting
Ireland. at Queenstown we stopped 10
let mails of, and listened for the Bells
Of shandon," but it was past midnight
and presume the descendants Of Father
prouty and Eugene Sullivan had gone
to sleep
Two hundred and twenty-eight miles
from there we soiourned I'd Cumberland,
looked over the Black Coombs and the
Duddon, where Wordsworth used to sing
and Commission lake ia the mountains,
waere John Ruskin lived and died. Cum
berlard, Westmoreland, and tile north
part Of Lancashire ii an extremely noun
famous country, most beautiful in sum.
mer, and is called The lake district Of
England.
Away back about 50 years before
Christ, Great Britain was inhabited BY
the ancient Rritons, and the Romans
came over and invaded England and
drove the natives into the mountainous
regions Of Cornwall, Wales and the lake
district and kept the best part for them
selves The ancient Rrit0ns lind lots
of wars with the Romans, however. and
although not equipped as the Romans
were, they had some good generals, one
Of which was Cassiner Zone Of my fore
fathers) who fought SO stubborn that
Caesar ordered him sent with hls family
10 Rome and upon seeing him ordered
his freeiUm ID live in Rome. The 10.
mans kept control Of England for four
or five hundred years when they With
drew. but they did lots of good They
learned the English how to make pot
terg, roads. and gave them religion.
There are many of these Roman roads
to-day, they are mostly straight and
were originally very rough,
After the Romans left, there were 9th
cr wariike people from Europe who
came The Danes, Saxons, Normans, etc.
land finally after each giving the other
coed licking, They aft settled down
together and are getting along finely
now, but in some villages in England
you can still see the old European Gus
toms. iii Lancashire The Flemish weag
ers still chatter round with boots with
wooden soles and again some village
makes YOU think Of Dutch settlement.
Just the same, sou can see the connec-
tion Of England with New England. If
| stop and watch man here hitching
onto log, he does II Just as they would
III Warren,
That part Of England west Of a line
from Marlborough Head TO South Devon
Is mostly q hilly o. mountainous country
with lots Of mines, coal, iron, slate, stone,
etc, and HAS rainfall of from 40 lid
To 100 inches iii the lake district. That
part Of England OH the east Of that line |
is mostly fich agricultural country
with manufactures ii the cities and vii |
lagos and the rainfall ii only about n
inches Id THE midlands, barely enough |
for vegetation were It not for the fact
that the soil holds water very web.
was over at Warwick looking round |
and had a look at the old castle. Yoa |
know in the Farmers club in Barre we
had very strict rule that no member
should pull down fences unless he was
prepared to build 4 better one To take
its plaea. Since my travels in Warwick, /
would advise no change in that rule
It is a fine old place, Warwick, and
bennington is very modern fashion.
able summer resort having extensive
baths.
Rugby is a great railroad center and /
famous for schools enclose you a
picture Of Rugby school You viii notice
the windows seem small, but presume |
they stun them same as we used to tur.
keys III d dark room before Thanksaiv-
ing. Rugby owes much to Thomas
Hughes, author Of Tom Browns School
Day. Hughes went to school there aud I
didn't do Just right, but as Raymond
Deimer said about the baby, there was
sorne good white streaks about him and
he turned out all right and Rugby f.
members him with a fine monument.
was down by London once or twice.
It is IS miles from here. one and a half
hours ride, q fine city and easy enough
to get along in. Il IS world Of itself
and must have taken good while to
build it, but when you get on the cars
you are out Of it before you know it.
] don't see why they don't build more Of