The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-05
NEW ENGLAND'S
MANY DELIGHTS
TOUR THROUGH A ROMANTIC couN.
TRY TAKEN BY A PARTY or
WEST VIRGIELANS.
Historic Places visited ana Hospitabl.
People Met ny the Auto
mobiists.

To the Editor Of the Intelligence.
slR:-Like the honklng OF wild geese
from their highways through the skies
came one evening I'm August last the
welcome call OF two automobiles from
West virginia with banners flying
lney turned in at our drive and drew up
az door where the latch-string Is
always out for West Virginia friSnds
blood Is thicker than water and Virginia
~ away an open seame at 1856 Pelham
mat only people riding IN Fords wore
pastrs; 80 when Pierce Arrow and
ca out q crowd In the regalia OF Henry
F.. We were hardly certain who we had
% our hands. But anything worn by
hSehng friends that evening was as
was sizzling. the taties frying. the table
rbT'ad TOT "a hungry crowd while well
come bcamed from the face OF every
MEMBER y the household including
Echo. the bull pup
Two days the Packard and Pierce tar
Iltd el our door, then with two fortu-
nate additions from 155 Pelham Road a.
guests. the cruise was renewed thai
lftmiscd TO terminate farthest north al
a5Dunt NashlnEton. But the best laid
There's Providence that ahapee on r
ends though hcw them a. we will I..t
me not anticipate the thrills Of the story.
rom New Rochelle we struck off by
roads that had been the paths 81 tn
doheran Indians and the trails of the
, I'M ,,'i.t Georse W when red men and
20 coats were sometimes an embarrass-
ment 60 travellers in these parts. This
country fairly drips with romance. Leo
zen gave his name Co Pelham road Lord
Drake is rcrurfu bers,I h., DTaL- s,t 49, =
View Rochelle 81 monument to fhc
memory or Hugucnots driven from no
Wheeling has Ita trIditions 0T NrGiii-
i.'N reap Huu luutnu massacre Near
mere Anne Richardson was murdered hy.
inotaus. ana laracl Putnam fought hoarr
and Irifishtre and lied from rcd coats
IN horseback over q beotiinE cIiff Eut
utnAfu hts rival in memorials a. we
I.uld whom rolling through the sleepy
,d town 90 SomCra. where the first cic-
nhAnt ever Co visit America BE- rrr1ern-
n'fyd t} monument end Inn. Beet - an
In that dreamy uttle hamlet dating from
pro. Revolutionary times. rtiIf uTve..d
~ locomotive or trolley. we fourT iu i
houHo as oid aq the nation. a West Nir-
..n'f irrIinr ag we fingered about n
.'."f .I"N nur' haunted hF Alexander
il.ini on and E'z.q ON the old knocker
rDFHfh'y nffnd b. MADAME TumaI Aaron
Burr ur Andre tHs British Sos ugf
FhDHfF ~ Che past were forgotten in the
pr .n,. uf ihD lady HlH dispensed apple
Nft ua hiprcd roof among The NAPLES
M ttlNF good BIC t0 sumcrs with ita
u. .'fic past ana drIirhtful present W.
in"k our nirht toward fbe Connecticut
river. passing fhruuEH Tanburt .I had
rru"Hu. and waterbury. whore VIftHss.
itrlIiuEiou rifles end other munitions I'D
dollar be BE- the dollar ~ the Ameri-sg
~ m IN. NI.irH 49, che shades Oft nIEhf
N.I IeI.nF faat We found OURSELVES
river m New England. SHAKING the 'duat
p. Hhft ord and Springfield from lur
r...t.f-. NinE iof shelter in some
l.rnf frIl on their knees and then ION an
re nee. we decided to larry Tor
RI niEsi nf.r thr foot ~ NE Tom on
Nf ODE crowd fUHE Iu fHr urrftnfI.r-