Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1915-10-29

old abandoned Baptist meeting house.
whose winde rs used to make a merry
Jingle whenever stones were SHE'D
through thems that l did not see the
said olde meetynge house, long since
converted into a town meeting house.
Al the eastern end of the pond is a
heet of skitis and a launch A sign
testifies to the good character of the
family in the old Robbins house near.
by. "You can fish here. but not on
Sundays can remember when
that Robbins boy experienced" and /
am glad that the house is etill religious
and observant Of the day OF rest.
Holland reservoir, her second large
body of water, which lies near the
head waters Of the Quinebaug, is now
picturesque, tifly years having soften.
ed the unnatural meeting Of water and
helds. A Mashapaug dog tried to eat
the automobile but he was chained.
To the left OF the Union road, below
Mashapaug, lures sign, "Perfy's
Inn. Road Dangerous. " The mean
ing of the sign was doubtful. Did it
refer to some moral peril lurking in
/ Perry's Inn, or to the dangers Of the
road? Few landlords are so daring as
both to call and 10 warn patrons on
the same sign post. 1T seemed so
much like saving, 81 want your pat.
ronage but you must patronize my
house at your own risk"
But the road was quite innocent ana
there was nothing visible at the inn
more potent than the water in Masha
paug pond and a beverage, which is
advertised by the life size effigy of
youth pointing his finger at you. Mr..
Perry, who appeared to be very busy
man in speetaeles, said he was the sue
cessor of the urbane and garrulous
Major Smith of 80 years ago. Beneath
the balcony of Perry's Inn, which
seems to be supported by the stumps
of trees, is a collection of antique fur
niture, including bed lounge.
Thousands of infant pines have been
planted in Union by the state, by the
Wells family of Southbfidge and
others, making vast forests.
The chauffeur would not take the
Breakneck road. Not that he cared so
much for his neck, but he refused to
risk his car. In Union village
grange picnic had just been "dismis-
sed,n perhaps with the singing OF the
Doxology. Women and girls were in
white and colorful ribbons. The men,
now going to uHhitch their horses,
were in their Sunday black. 1t was
in the cool of the afternoon. In the
shade cast by the mountain had been
tables loaded with frosted cake, coffee
and ice cream and the air smelled
good. In the fore ground two youths,
with mitts, were passing ball with
self conscious air, as if TO be looked at
and admired.
Further on colored family were re
turning from the picnic, two children
in behind and an infant in the lap of
the father and another in the arms of
the mother on the seat of the wagon.
The grange looks like democracy.
To the southwark of Bigelow Hollow
road the automobile came 10 the forks
of the Kinney's Hollow and the Bos-
ton Hollow roads, both leading east at
least eventually.
Although the chauffeur wanted to
see George Hewitt Meyers's show place
on the kinney's Hollow road, he was
afraid of the grades. Two men smok-
ing pipes, who had been working for
the Washington, ID. c., millionaire,
came along in the shadows. "Auto.
mobiles den't take this left hand rondi
do they?'' said the chauffeur, as law
yer leading on witness. "They gen
orally, 10 TACT most always, take the
Kinney's Hollow road in preference to
the other," replied the workman.
"But the gradesw suggested the chauf-
feur. 1.-The grades are easier on the
Kinney Hollow road, replied the con-
fident workman. "Mr. Meyers has
graded them" "But it's further aim
it29 pursued the chauffeur. "No: the
Kinney's Hollow road, they say, is a
couple of miles nearer" said this good
witness. "But the roadoed2 Pretty
rough amt 1T" No, good road ali the
way" said Mr.. Myers's man.
So, no ground being left TO stand on,
or to ride on, the meaning of the warn
ing notice on the sign post was inquir-
ed into. 1t WAS merely formality, a
trihe of warning against contributing
to your own accident.
So there Was nothing to do but take
the Kinney's Hollow road. 1t might
almost as well have been Breakneck,
for the gradients are almost the limit
of engine endurance. A substantial, ii
not IA massive, cement dam in the hol-
low, Lestifies to the wealth of the
W ashington Il MON nature lover, who
has spent thousands in making the as
cents and descents sweet and safer.
Twin story. and-a-half white houses
connected by longish one-story link
with lawn, green rs Oxford orsCam
bridge. look from a western mountain
side upon valley cleared of forest,
and the wooded slopes of Bald Noun