The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-07-20
Pres. MANCUN Tells
OF HIS TRIP EAST

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In response to request for a. brie1
report of my visit to Boston, / will
contribute few paragraphs. Ones
chief problem in task of this kind
is to keep the report within the neces-
sary limits.
BY making inquiry one learns te
it is roih1ng unusual for people te
go to Boston. Before leaving, asked
several Pottineau people if they had
been tneIe. Of the first four ir,-n
asked, all four or one hundred percent
of them had been to Boston. In some
cases, they had been there more than
once. ~. ~ -t' ~ -
1t is always a great treat to see
Niagara Falls, and especially - If
| ter one as not seen it for nInpc,
of years. This was my first revisit,
having made my first visit there sew
enteen years ago. I secured several
good kodak pictures of the Falls. The
\ Michigan Central train stops five
minutes to view the Falls at Falls
View, Ontario. 1t is a splendid point
from which to get comprehensive
impression.
| It was raining in New York City.
Several complaints on the. weather
were heard there. It rained on thirty
of the thirty days of June this year.
The weather was similar in Boston.
1t rained about half the time during
my stay. During June, it had rained
on twenty days. The rain came
straight down. They suggest the ex-
preston, "Good old-fashioned sizzle-
sozzle." New Englanders often apollo
glze for their weather. There was
something of this in the New England
writer's expression, when speaking of
June, "Now, if ever, come perfect
days."
In Boston and environs there are
historic and literary shrines almost
without end to which Americans by
thousands make pilgrimage. 1t would
be wonderful boon to every school
room If the teacher could have trav-
elled widely as part Of his prepara-
ton for teaching any of his subjects,
but more especially history, literature
and geography.
When one walks about Boston Com
mon and reflects upon all that has
transpired there, he will begin to re-
alize as never before what we of the
present day owe to those who laid
the foundations of our democracy.
Boston Common is right in the heart
of Old Boston and has been preserved
religiously by that city against all
pressure to use parts of it for COM
mercial buildings.
1t was most interesting to atterd
lecture on early history delivered by
Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard in
Old South Church. Benjamin Frank
Inns parents attended this church.
Benjamin was born on Sunday morn
ing and that same afternoon was car
ried to the church by his father for
baptism. Old North Church where the
lights We're hsa4assssst ~ signal p .PaulReEere
Zone if by land, two il by sea" is a.
part of the city now occupied by the
Italians. The house of Paul Revere is
near this church. Across the bay in
Charlestown is Bunker Hill monument
and in the U. S. Navy Yards, Old
Ironsides. We were required to leave
out kodaks at the Navy Yards en-
trance and so it was not possible to
get a picture of this famous old fight
ing ship.
Lexington Common, where the bat
tie of Lexington was fought is beau
tiful little triangle of lawn, cannon,
statuary, tablets, etc. Just across the
street is a nice looking house now
used as the Masonic Lodge building
by the Lexington Masons. The first
normal school in America was opened
in this building. The residence of John
Hancock, He of the mighty signature"
is a five-minutes walk from this
building. The route taken by Paul Re-
we're on his famous midnight ride is
now a hard-surfaced road through a
well-kept, beautiful country. 1t is in
spring to stand on the historic Con-
cord bridge referred to thus by Long
fellow: ..
"By the rude bridge that arched the
flood, -'o
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers
stood, " O. " 4
And fired the shot heard round the
world." = . p -. w.
T At this battle two of the British
dead were left lying on the grass and
We're later buried by the Americans.
A tablet marks their resting place and
bears this generous tribute:
''They came three thousand miles and
died W. - -: 4
To keep the past upon its thrones;
Unheard across the ocean tide
Their English mother made her
moan. ~
Tt is impossible to do more than.
mention the homes of Lohgfellow,
Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, etc. Of
LongfelloW's three daughters, Grace
Alice, Laughing Allegra, and Edith
with golden hair" referred to in his
t"The Children's Hour, only Grace
Alice survives. The day we looked at
the house, she was sitting in a rock
er on the porch. The house where Dex-
ter Pratt, the village blacksmith
lived still stands and there is a tab
let marking the site of the three re-
ferred to in the poem beginning,
Under q spreading chestnut tree" !"
I secured first class picture Of this
tablet. 1T was interesting to note some
Of the people living IN the neighbor-
hood were unable to direct q stranger
to this site. One man insisted on de
recting me to q house Of the village
blacksmith. The sssnithys under 81
spreading chestnut tree did not stand
where the blacksmith lived. But It
was not far away and neither resi-
dence or srnithy are far from the
Longfellow house.
Boston Is great school center. ~
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