Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-10-19
WApE.s TRIP
(contjnued from Last Week.

iCclQCnCc UOLtIDB u IUAtdQElHtlld a lew
hours before leaving for New York.
Going due north about 35 miles over
the sTuxedo Trail'' we came to New
Hope on the Delaware River, where
we crossed into Lambersville on the
New Jersey side bidding adieu the sec
ond time to Pennsylvania. Continu-
ing northeast about rs miles we came
to New York State line at Suffern, a
nice little town on Fred Underwood's
railroad, and incidentally on the Ram
apo River and we had been driving for
an hour along the foot hills of the
Ramapo mountains, late in the after
noon of the longest day of the year,
with the mountains between us and the
setting sun; and the river on our right
disappearing and then reappearing,
sometimes far below us, and some-
times near by. At seven o'clock just
as the sun had set for the third time
within an hour we pulled off little
toward the bank and stood there while
we ate our supper. Undoubtedly there
were beautiful farms across the river
but if so they were obscured by tim
Der along both banks. We had passed
within rs miles of New York city dur
ing the afternoon but its attractive
power did not swerve us from Gur
course. 1t was Saturday and we were,
scheduled to spend Sunday in a quiet
country home up in "York State. AS
We resumed our journey we passed
beyond the mountain range and saw
the sun set for the fourth time that
day.
We reached Monroe after dark and
then had five miles to go, over
strange road out to the farm home of
Carydon 7. Purdy, prominent New
York Structural Engineer We had
driven 100 miles over route more
thicl1ly studded with small cities and
villages then anything we had seen
before, yet, am thankful to say, there
were no cities on the route large
enough to have the responsibility Of
the up keep of their own streets. AS
a rule the state and county roads are
so much better than the streets of
cities ranging from 5000 to 10000 pop
ulation, that the tourist gets chill or
something, dowrs his spinal column and
wonders what small cities are incor-
porated for anyway. They seldom
mark the route, or trail markings, and
you have to irquire the way out Of
town. Meme of them fail to put up
signs eautioning you to keep within
the speed limit: "Drive slow and see
our town drive fast and see our jail",
"School, drive slow" "drive Slow and
in Massachusetts "Drive slowly,
Danger, school ahead" Danger, look
out for the children, Danger, school
house, children cross here" We rested
on the sabbath day for we were to
take in New York City, Monday and
Tuesday. Some job with its 100000
inhabitants.
Mr.. Purdy is not "birthright" cou-
sin or brother of mine; but we roomed
together in our Freshman year in col
lege, and we had previously taught
school in the same county "up state"
In fact it was he who contributed a
very necessary item in my education:
He made me believe that any able
bodied boy who had finished high
school could go through college if he
waited to. He had self assurance
enough for both of us.
Up It ssat time / had always sup
posed that tw,' plus two Squ.lled ious::
but | have learned since then that TIC
plus two, plus e vieion, equals four to
the nth power and that he who
would ever acquire worth while things
in life, must first get vision. Cary
don and | started business in Chicago
as partners; and named my first son
after him. For many years / have
feared that Purdy was making Bust
ness his God, and that such a god
was making a slave Of him. So it was
with the greatest pleasure chat found
him retired to a $50 acre farm, and
inclined to just visit. He took me all
over the farm-wherever it was pos
sible to drive with horse and buggy,
and / begged that / might drive for
the horse was much younger than the
farm and perfectly safe and equipped
with self starter and everything and
used oats instead of gasoline. And
took into my hands two leather straps
that reached from the headlights to
the dash board. and 10, these lines
reached way back in my memory to
the days of my youth, when the world
did not move so fast but that horse
could keep up.
The old homestead is q hundred
years old and stands we'll up on the
mountains Che called them hillsl where
one gets splendid view over valleys
and hills wanting nothing except a
lake or a river to make it surpass the
view from Washington's Mt. Vernon
home.
The home is on terrace where
they see the sun rise on schedule time
and set soon after noon in the win
ter time. They said we could climb
up the rocks and eventually get to a
spring from which the home gets its
supply of clean, cold water under pres
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