Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-18
Boston Traveller Advises Wear
lily Waiting Brothers.
More Of Spring to the Acre and TO ths
Minute in Vermont Than
Anywhere Else In
World.
tFrom the Boston Trnnecrip..)

the midst of last Fridays snowstorin. and
found it in full measure-in radiant
warmth and life. 1t was not the first
time that he has seen the weather warm
mp as he went northward. Tho American
climate has its little tricky OF that sort
Montreal and Ottawa have had a better
spring this year than Boston: in fact. IL
their spring had been az all different from
ours, II must have been better. Last
Friday noon, when the Nomad embarked
on a train on the southern Division" $50
called because It runs to the North Bos-
ton WIS under deep and dismal pail OF
snow. Winchester, Wilmington, Blllerica,
Lowell-they werc all snow enWrapped-
fields, pastures, all wfntry- white, trees
burdened with snow. The Nomad be-
gan to think that the magic of Spring to
the northward" did not work. Nashua:
there was stop there; the train moved
on out of the station. you looked out OF
the car window-and not a flake Of snow
anywhere In sight; fields quite green.
and slow rain making them greener
every minute; northward, northward and
spring coming at last!
All the way up the Merriinac the green
ness seemed to increase, and even IN the
long climb over the hills from the Mer-
r1Inac 10 the Connecticut, green things
cleaned along the track, and there was
no snow except in spots on the high hills.
or kearsarge. proud in his ASSURANCE Of
undisputed possession OF his ancient
name. one had but a peep. for the rain
was still falling. and the clouds wrapped
the mountains summit. but we saw broad
stretches Of snow on his upper reaches.
and the same as to ('aryiQpn
But Vermont on Saturday and Sunday!
There was spring indeed. and such a
sweep and fill of 1t as one had seen moth
ing OF in Massa chusetts For that mat
ter, in Vermont there is always more Of
spring to the acre, more Of spring TO the
minute, than anywhere else in the world.
because the fat soil makes the blossoms
bigger than elsewhere. and the hills and
lodges provide sheltered thermal belt.
where the warmth and the flowers come
on In splendor even when snowbanks are
close by, and the rich variety OF timber
affords the proper conditions for every
lovely thing that grows.
In Vermont, Yesterday and SATURDAY.,
the children were bringing in handfula
OF trailing arbutus, some Of the SPRAYS OF
which were as pink as roses, with masses
flowers were Of size which would he ir-
credible in our leaner meadows; hepaticas
white. pink and blue; and clusters ~
ceruiean innocents from the pastures
What sheets and sheets of bloodroots
along the bank even by the roadside! And
those Vermont hepaticas are unrivalle 4
even In New England. Imagine flow
er which on the same bank. in the same
I ~, te lie
heavenly blue. and pink which started
out, perhaps. to he blue, but changed Its
mind half way and achieved a wonderful
| rosy tint which retains just a mantle
memory, An exquisite dream. OF the blus
which It started out to he The srads =
tions OF color In these Vermont hepaticas.
Joined with their size, make them such
decoration Of the spring up there as We
cannot hope for in our more barren Mas
sachusetts soil.
In Vermont, too, the life of the people
suggested spring a great deal more than
ours ever can. The spring work on the
farms is in fnll tide. The men ploughinS
on the meadows are in their shirtsleeves
The upturned earth makes spring smell.
So do the brush and chips burning uD
around the house. The children are bare
headed. lightly dressed. free. and their
faces are sweaty with their Joyous play
! Here is a pasture where the cows are
turned ont. and they are eating the freshly
sprouting Young grass az IL it we're straw
berries and cream at 30 cents a plate
In the thickets along the brook the cat =
kins are big and fat on the native willows.
and the white willows are at least a.
green as they are down-country THEY
blossoms make the elns a great mass OF
yellow-green, and the red naples are a
cloud Of car1nine, The tubbling song
OF the flocks of red-winged blackbirds IN
the alder thickets Is the same thing in
music that tho red naples are in color.
Butterflies and various spangled and gild
ed insects float through the air, which -
OF such warmth that It is more like SUM
iner than like spring. And yet Moosilauks
looms above the Oxbow meadows white
with snow. and so does Lafayette. On
the nearer Vermont hills there are also
stretches OF snow. But the valley IL q
dream of vernal softnesr and g1owingress.
/ Northward from Boston in driving
snowstornL and this was what the Nomad
found Hereafter, when Boston people
are tired OF waiting for the spring, he Will
advise them to take the first train for
Vermont.
Boston transacts a larger proportion Of
It's regular business on this eidewa lk-ths
Nomad will wager--than any other large
city In the country. The reason Is plain
virtually all Boston is down town every
day for Its business; tho downtown sec
ton is peculiarly concentrated, and every
body is out on the same restricted area
Of streets. II you 60 out YOU meet .
dozen people YOU know. and IL there II
anything pending, YOU stop and discuss
| it on tho sidewalk II saves a visit and
telephone call Looking down on Wash
ington street from this window. YOU can
see three or four personal or business tlta-
! logues going on at any time. II contri-
6utes to congestion. but it saves individ-
ual time. School street is probably worse
in that regard than any other street for
Parker's and Young's ARE close by. and
the little street is an avenue down toward
the postoffice and the financial and Of
flce-buildng section. II Is possible that
this variety Of sidewalk conference should
be restricted n little. for tho general con-
venience. Yet It IL hard to say how that
could be accomplished. When tho side
walk is narrow, It is a public inconven-
fence to have it completely blocked up by
men who are making some kind of a
gentleman's agreement affecting the price
of stocks or the participation Of New
England capital In project for organic
/ ing the sand-lime brick resources of tha
Republic of Bolivia. However, the con-
stitution guarantees the right OF public