Milford chronicle., 1925-09-04

guess what they were saying was all
right, but all we could understand
was paul Revere" and a cry pen
MES, ladies, pennies" at which eV-
erybody emptied their purses of cop
pers.We also got into parade or re-
ligious ceremony of some kind, with
brass band, regalias and everything,
and carrying a life-sized statute Of
The Christ, with white streamers Of
ribbons from the halo, with paper
money of different denominations
pinned all over the ribbons.
We asked our college student
guide if he had staged it for our ben
eft. On this trip all the historical
places were visited, and then came
the Navy Yard and inspection Of the
old ship Constitution" or Old Iron
sides, which was in forty battles
and never knew defeat.
Monday I made another trip which
took in other parts of Boston, Cam
bridge and Brookline. In the latter
there is great wealth and you are
told, that every tenth person is a
millionaire; Il would like to be num-
Der ten, instead Of, as is, number
one,) for just a little while.
Most interesting was the twenty
minute stop at Agassiz Museum OF
Howard University, where we see
beautiful collections of glass flowers
which were made by Belgian IA
ther and son, Leopold and Rudolph
BIaschka. It is marvellous; flowers,
grass and ferns of every kind re-
produced in the most minute detail,
color and form, roots and all OF
glass. 1 audably doubted that the
sprays were made of glass, thinking
that they could have been dipped in
some kind of solutiOn-but the at
tendant said But, No, Madam, they
are handmade of glass;" etc.
1 will just run by LOngfellows
home and all the other places, for
I am due to leave Boston for Ply
mouth, which is the next most in
teresting stop in Massachusetts,
where the countless numbers of the
Mayflower Ancestors landed-(no,
not mine, for they stepped first on
the stone along the Christiana IN
Delaware).
That old 1920 Rock rather disap-
pointed me as to its size; but, l
guess a lot of it has been Clipped
off, before they built the granite and
iron monument around it. Anyway 1t
marks the spot where those brave
pioneers landed in America. A visit
to the hilltop cemetery showed
where the oldest slabs are being pro-
tected from the weather, by bending
a wide piece of tin or copper over
the edges; for time and the weather
is making inroads by decay on the
old markers.
The road we are to follow now
takes us toward Old Cape Cod. First
we cross the Sea Level Canal owned
by the United State Government to
reach Sycamore.
The Government took over and re-
built this canal, which connects
Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay, at
a cost of S12,O00,0OO. There are no
locks in this canal, as the tides ebb
and flow freely; we saw two New
York boats passing through.
That night we passed at f1yannlS
and the next day we arrived at the
"toe-of-the-boot" of the Cape Cod
Peninsula, where the quaint old
summer resort of Provincetown nes-
ties. It was the site of the Pilgrims
second landing. It is certainly an in
teresting old place. Here are the
numerous low, squatty houses,
which are homes Of the old deep sea
Captains who have retired from duty
many years ago.
The sand dunes are pictures which
impress the visitor; built by the
winds and shifting sands into fan
tastic forms, with the rolling ocean
as a sky line and the never ceasing
flocks of sea gulls, it is worth the
trip alone to look upon.