Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-12-28
wADE's TRIP

with carrying charges unpaid, and was
deposited on the wharf in Boston
where it reposed 10 years. 1t was 50
heavy and the roads were so poor that
it was impossible to transport it so
miles to Pelham, in the early years,
and later the storage charges had rene
dered it out of reach of Pelham people,
so Old North Church of Boston ac-
quired it, and it was hanging in the
belfry there, when the sexton climbed
to the topmost window, with lanternz
IN hand, to signal at midnight, the
approach Of the British feet, and start
off the steed and Pau Revere on the.
opposite shore where he waited by
moon light to warn the country folk
far and near.
Before leaving Pelham we felt the
need of refreShment and appealed to
the rs dollar grocery, for we had de-
ciphered on an old sign board the
words Refreshments and gasoline, =
but there was nothing doing. They
did not have even a glass of milk, but
thought we could get some of that
mild beverage at the other house
diagonally across the roads. We tried
there but were obliged to content our
selves with clear cold water only, from
deep we'll dug in Colonial days. Thus
having talked with every living hui
man and the dog, we blessed the re-
mains of once prosperous town and
departed, by longer, but better road,
for Enfield by way of Shutesbury and
Greenwich.
On the following Say: as we jour
neyed through Ware on our way back
| to Springfield we were on a highway
that had no parallel and no possible
detour and they were concreting the
same from the center line thereof to
one curb distance of a mile in leagth,
and the way was crooked and narrow
and no auto might meet and pass an
other successfully in that section; but
there stood a guard at this end of the
one track section and he had been
holding back the traffic for long line
of autos coming toward us while we
waited, and perceived that the lest
car along handed flag to the guard,
which he Immediately handed to me as
we were in the last auto Of the watt
ing line, and he said give this to the
guard at the other end of the section.
Now / allowed that he had reposcd
reckless confidence in me, for if / had
forgotten to deliver that flag as or
dered, the guard would have held back
! the traefic the rest of that day, and
i remarked that had seen a similar
instance, in another state, only they
had telephone booth for the guard
at each end Of the section.
Now, on a certain day we packed
all our belongings and jouneyed
southwark out Of Springfield on the
east side of the Connecticut River,
for we had wandered in that vicinity
! twelve days, and had seen much that
pleased us. The powerful Connecticut
River turning wheels of industry we
had learned to respect and even love
though the people of Massachusetts
| had damned it at every little town
and large. We had headed south but
/ half an hour when we passed Shaker
vile and | talked with a native who
i had heard of. Wisconsin and who volun-
teered the remark that his neighbor
had a valuable Holstein bull from
I Wisconsin and he congratulated me
that lived in such a great dairy state,
and he had respect for the great west,
though he had never lived there, BY
which token / knew that had passed
out of Massachusetts. He answered
my questions and said, "No, there are
no Shakers in Shalserville. They were
not self perpetuating, and nothing now
remains but the name"
Now the river that had been rapid
and powerful in Massachusetts has
suddenly become wide and sluggish
and flowed through flat and fertile
/ valley, where the natives claim that
the best of Massachusetts washed
down into Connecticut thousands OF
years ago, and | believed them and
argued not, for we had seen "sPToat
Hand" plenty. But the river is not
clean and sweet, for the tide from old
ocean reaches even to the northern
/ quarter of the state. | love laad
where vegetation thrives and barns
are large, and sleek cattle Craze and
/ ruminate contentedly. The hinged
! barn boards suggested that we were
| in a tobacco country, and it was even
so for we saw a cabbage planting ma
i chine at work and were informed that
lit was setting in Tor out) tobacco
plants. We were not at South Wind
] sor, for the numerous towns march
in close order-sort Of snake dance
THE hands of one reaching even to
the shoulders Of the next, and the
whole strung on a suburban railway
/ parallel with the river. There was
/ lust room enough for splendid farm
/ between the street and the river. We
tarried d day and night at the home
of Ollcott King for his wife and my
| wife are cousins, and they made
feast for US in the palace Of the King,
and invited the Haydens and the Hales
i - 1.I,o,.r,ea oo4feinG and we all