The mirror., 1923-03-29
AN AUTO TRIP
By Mr.. C.. K. K.

OHltSO OtdtCS COlltdluS 50 HuCu VI ulS-
torical value as does that portion of Mas
sachusetts known as the North Shore Dis
trict. Beginning at Nantasket Beach and
swinging westward to Greater Boston,
then along the shores of the Atlantic,
through Lynn, Salem and Gloucester, to
Lands End beyond the village of Rock
port, one is passing over points of his
torical interest that bring to mind the
early struggles of our peoples to obtain
the right to be an independent nation.
OF similar interest are certain points
along the district called the South Shore,
but the greatest interest centers on that
called the North Shore. The principal
point of interest on the South Shore is the
village of Plymouth, where the Pilgrim
Fathers first landed, and where the rock
upon which they disembarked is to be
seen, protected by an iron grill from SOU
venir hunters.
Greater Boston, with its suburbs of
Charlestown, Sommerville, Cambridge,
Brookline, ETC., of course possesses the
largest number of points of interest. Here
was enacted the most momentous epochs
in our war for freedom. High in the air
towers the Bunker Hill monument, an
obelisk of granite, within which is
spiral stairway of 29S steps to lookout
room near the top, from which a view
is obtained of nearly all of Boston,
Charlestown, and other points. A bronze
plate on mammouth store building marks
the spot where stood Grifin's wharf,
from which the Indians embarked for the
British ships where the tea was thrown
overheard to make the greatest pot of
tea the world has ever known. One can
stand on the spot where these vessels were
anchored, as the docks have been built
over the ground they were anchored upon.
Across the Charles river lies Charles
town, with the U. S. navy yard. Here is
one of the largest dry docks our govern
ment operates. Here may be seen our
fighting ships, from the small destroyers
to the big battleships. Here, also, one
may on certain days visit that old-fash-
ioned but historical ship the Constitution,
a point one should not miss.
Cambridge, with its colleges, lies close
by, and it is only short distance to Lex
ington, where the shot was fired, that was
heard the world around, and where the
first blood was shed for our freedom.
On the Charlestown side of the river
Paul Revere, hero of the poem, "Paul
Reveres Ride" stood waiting for the en-
barkation of the British troops, and from
which he made his famous alarm-spread-
ing ride. The poem does not credit his
partner who also rode in an opposite di-
rection, but the state history records it.
His name has slipped my memory so 7
cannot give it here.
Driving along the smooth paved boue-
ward to the north one passes through
Chelsea, Revere, and Saugus, where the
first -four mill in the colony was erected,
to Lynn. At Lynn, in the museum, is the
first piece of casting made in the United
States, cast-iron tea kettle. Not having
great harbor like several of the coast
cities Lynn never carried on the maritime
commerce of the others. Her great in
dustries are represented by mammoth
shoe factories and the great electrical
goods plant of the General Electric Com
pany. She does not lack in other points
of interest historical as well as modern.
Her harbor is protected by three mile
stretch of land terminating in rocky hill
called Nahant, scene of an Indian legend.
From Lynn one has the choice of two
boulevards to Salem, one going direct
there, the other following the shoreline
and bringing one to Marblehead. When
Salem was put under the Embargo Act,
or as it was then known as the O-grab-
me Act, the wharf owners of Marblehead