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THE LOCAL EDITOR IN boston
Boston, Mass. Sept. 20. 1918.

After few very strenuous days in
New York, we came over to Boston
Saturday, making the trip by water.
1t is a very lovely trip on the Metro
politan Steamship Line. We came
over on the magnificent steamer, the
Bunker Hill, leaving New York at 5
o'clock in the afternoon, and reaching
Boston at o'clock the next morning.
The late afternoon ride out of the
wonderful New York harbor, under
the Brooklyn bridge and the several
other wonderful suspension bridges
up the East river, through Long Is
land Sound, the afternoon sunset
sparkling across the waters, bathing
in beautiful radiance the coast in the
distance, is very lovely. 1t is an ideal
way Of travelling between the two
great cities, each so entirely different
The trip over on the boat was one
Of the very pleasing episodes of our
vacation.
On all sides one is struck with the
differences in Boston and New York.
Here there is not that eternal hurry,
hurry, hurry and hustle, "get out of
my way," and the ceaseless rush,
rush, rush of New York. There is
more dignity, stability and self sure
ness about Boston, and the contrast,
which is so marked, is greatly in Bos-
tons favor. There are no tremen-
dously tall office buildings and I'M
wieldly, ungainly, gaudy hotels here.
There is an ordinance in Boston pro-
hibiting the erection of very tall
buildings. Just the height allowed
we did not ascertain, but it is in ac-
cordance with the width Of the
street. After the ordinance was
passed one of the large hotels here,
the Westminster, l believe, was
found to be one story too high, and
the owners were compelled to tear
it down one story, the city paying
the company an indemnity of $110,-
900. The Copley Plaza is Boston's
newest hotel, and is very beautiful,
occupying an entire block, but only
nine or ten stories in height.
Sunday we were the guests of Flor
ida friends for. an automobile trip of
nearly an hundred miles. Leaving
Boston at eleven o'clock, we drove to
Sudbury, passing through Brookline,
and many other attractive suburbs,
(Which are not really suburbs, after
all, as each is a separate municipal
ity, and is small sized city in ITSELF.
At Sudbury, 221a miles away, we had
dinner at the Wayside Inn, very
quaint and charming old inn, over 225
years old, and made famous by Long
fellow in his Tales of Wayside
Inn The inn is just as it originally
was, or as nearly so as it was posi-
bic to preserve it. There is Longfel-
lows room, General LaFayette's
room, which was left just as it was
when occupied by this famous "gen-
tleman of France" Parsons room.
Howe's room, and the ancient bar
room, kitchen and dance hall, with it's
old fashioned spinnet, etc.
After dinner we drove to Wellesley
College, going all through its magnifi-
cent grounds. 1t is a wonderfully
beautiful place, and Wellesley girls
are certainly to be envied; such
wonderful place to spend the four
most important years of their lives,
and such a splendid institution to Sc
cure their education. All through the
grounds the girls were strolling. and
in different ways spending a quiet,
restful, lovely Sunday afternoon.
From Wellesley, through suburb
after suburb, including Waltham (of
Waltham watch fame), we drove to
wonderfully historic old Concord,
where, on April 10, ITS, at the old
North Bridge, took place the first en-
gagement of our revolutionary war.
The British were repulsed by the
Minute Men," and retreated across
the bridge in great disorder. On each
side of the bridge, spanning the river,
which is very narrow, are monuments
one marking the spot where fought
and fell the British, and on the other
the statue of the Concord Minute
Men" Over the graves of the Brit
ish soldiers, marked with a brass tab
let, is the following inscription:
They came three thousand miles
and died,
To keep the past upon its throne;
Unheard beyond the ocean tide,
Their English mother made her
moan"
At Concord, also, we saw Lake
Walden, the home of the melancholy