The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

Hundreds of friends here and elsewhere
will be interested in a communication
from Miss Mamie d. Davis, who for
score of years was a beloved teacher in
the public schools of Birmingham. Her
final services as an educator were in the
capacity of principal of the Lakeview
school. She is an invalid now and with
relatives in Tennessee where, her letter
states, she lies and reviews the beautiful
past" past so full of high aims and
noble service, must truly be good to look
back upon. But her musings lately have
been of vacation spent in the lands of
Evangeline-a pleasure that has come to
several in this city. The water trip from
Savannah was marked by the usual pleas
ant incidents of a few days at sea-watch-
ing the ever-varying tints of the waves,
and counting the sails around the rim of
the great bowl, the sudden rise of a dozen
or more flying fish as they darted sud
denly from the water and few little
way like a flock of sparrows, only to
drop suddenly into the water, or the por-
poises which appeared to be racing with
the big boat, swimming along with all
their might, then leaping high into the
air spouting out streams of water as they
rise, then diving into the ocean and in
sudden tinidity, darting aside to disap-
pear.
Upon reaching New York" said Miss
Davis, "our first care was to secure our
staterooms on the Fall River boat then
having checked our baggage we went over
to Brooklyn to visit a relative We took
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to the foot of the bridge on the New
York side. There one of the ubiquitous,
ever kind policemen, told us in answer
to our inquiry, Just to walk through the
park and it would take us to the pier,
where we would find our steamer, the
Puritan.
"The Puritan is fine vessel, beautiful
1y finished and furnished, but was crowd
ed almost beyond belief We reached Fall
River in the early morning and were
soon in the heart of the Hub We went
to the old Revue hotel the home of the
Prince of Wales late Edward VII, when
he. young man, was in Boston. His
room in all its old time furnishings is
kept intact, lest we forget
The streets, the houses, everything in
nial days. We ate one meal With Paul
Revere looking down benignly upon us;
we went to Faneuil Hall, and there looked
with patriotic pride upon the busts and
portraits of the men who did so much
for us. Coming out we craned our neck
and looked until we found the grasshopper
weather-vane on the roof. This gilded
grasshopper, with glass eyes, was wrought
1n provincial days by Deacon Shem
Drawne. In imitation of one on the Royal
Exchange in London. The teachers from
north, south, east and west, so crowded
and jammed Boston that we postponed
our sightseeing there and took passage
on the Olivette for Halifax. Skirting the
Bay of Fundy we reached Halifax after
very rough trip of about "a hours.
I'VE found a quaint old English town,
strongly fortified with a garrison of 1000
men. The people are very proud of their
town clock, put up by the father of the
late Queen Victoria when he was govern
or of Nova Scotia.
1.-THE great event of the week In Hall
fax is viewing the soldiers at church in
the garrison chapel. The people assemble
and stand on the square until the troops
march down from the citadel and are
seated in the building. Then the citizens