The New England magazine (1907) (14773546971)

Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ins. Farthereast, in the Connecticut valley, some finetobacco-fields are seen. A little is grown asfar north as the Vermont line. But this isa specialty, interesting but bulking smallin the total of farm products. On our wayhome we get off at Worcester. There wefind the handsomest city hall in New Eng-land, if perhaps we except the little master-piece given to Fairhaven by Henry H.Rogers. And it was built within the ap-propriation, too, says Mayor Duggan. InWorcester the Heart of the Common-wealth and the States second city, we findmanufactures almost if not quite as variedas in Bridgeport, Conn. The Northern Mill Cities Our next journey out of Boston will benorthward. We pass Lexington and Con-cord, where the Minute-men whipped thered regulars and where in later years thepoet Emerson fired the shot heard round ;;the world; but we do not stop there, since !;our concern is with the affairs of this day. IWe stop at Lawrence, which reminds us of ; jManchester in New Hampshire, with its J
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4i6 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE low, shabby business blocks, its dusty,ill-kept streets, its general air of an over-grown village, or of a young city so desper-ately busy making money that it has notime to be tidy. The Merrimac River islined with huge textile mills for a mile, itseems, on either side. A new worsted mill,the largest in the world, wre are told, rearsits huge brick bulk upon the site where,years ago, a cotton-mill collapsed and borehundreds down in wreck and death. Westand at noon and watch the army pour outof the mill gates. Down half a dozen streetsthey come, most of them women, a few chil-dren, many bare-armed young men — notlaggard, but stamped with the quality ofpatience. Lawrence empties her sewageand her mill-drainage into the river. A fewmiles above, Lowell does likewise. Fartherup, Nashua and Manchester also emptytheir sewage and mill-drainage into theMerrimac. Each in turn takes its water-supply from the river. Farther down theriver Haverhill empties her sewage into