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Listeners lying on the ground. 
Reminiscence holds full sway 
On this gala festal day. 
Proudly now we hear them tell 
Of the town they love so well; 
How the city people gay, 
Love to come and love to stay 
Here beside the glorious sea, 
Rich in woodland drives so free. 
For a moment hushed are all 
At the assembly master’s call, 
As he calls and numbers o’er 
Names well known now gone before 
Into realms whose shadow falls 
_ Darkly o’er our joyous halls. 
So the day begun in joy 
Ends in peace without alloy; 
When, as sinks the setting sun, 
And the day its course has run, 
Hear we now the words of cheer, 
Come again another year. 
Sela A. 
MANCHESTER, July 27, 1904. 
TROLLEY TOURS. 
No. 2—Beverly and Salem to York Beach. 
BY CHESTER F. STILES. 
The passengers for York Beach 
should make an early start and leave 
the transfer in Beverly at 8 in the 
morning. The Gloucester car is taken 
to the junction for Ipswich at Crooked 
Lane Hill. The passenger now leaves 
the B. & N. and changes to the George- 
town, Rowley and Ipswich cars, which 
takes one over hill and dale, past the 
beautiful meadow land of the Ipswich 
river, with the sand dunes of Plum 
Island on the ocean's edge. 
At Dummer academy the line forks 
for Haverhill. We continue on our 
car to Newburyport, a place of much 
interest to the tourist. Lord Timothy 
Dexter’s house still remains, although 
the wooden statues which surmounted 
the fence are gone. The Wolfe tavern 
is passed in the car, and the tourist 
should by all means visit the Old 
South church, with its celebrated 
whispering gallery. 
Newburyport, like Salem, was at one 
time celebrated for its shipping. The 
excursionist may journey from here 
through Joppa and its quaint shanties 
to Plum Island, a land of sand swept 
by ocean breezes. Salisbury beach 
is the corresponding beach on the 
north of the Merrimac. This is a 
resort, famous as the 
scene of Whittier’s ‘‘Tent on the 
Beach.” 
The ride from Newburyport takes 
one over the Merrimac into Salisbury. 
Here the tourist should note the 
quaint church clock, the inscription, 
“ Gift Memorial,’ taking the place of 
the usual Roman figures. Just be- 
yond, a close watch will show the 
boundary post between New Hamp- 
shire and Massachusetts. 
Smithtown is the first in New 
Hampshire, and isa part of Seabrook. 
We connect here with the massive 
cars of the New Hampshire Traction 
Co., long, eight-wheelers, with double 
deck running boards. We take the 
Hampton Beach car, and hold our hats 
as we go out on to the Hampton mead- 
ows. A breeze seems to blow here 
always. We look south over Salis- 
bury Beach, and pass upon a huge 
bridge so solid that the cars whiz by 
with unabated speed. After a mile 
of bridge we land at Hampton Beach. 
If time allows, take a breathing spell 
here. 
The next car takes us past the cot- 
tages to the shadow of Bvoar’s Head, 
a bold bluff marking the north of the 
beach. Portsmouth Junction marks 
the town line between Hampton and 
North Hampton, and our next car 
goes through to Portsmouth. The 
Isles of Shoals loom up from the 
ocean, and may be reached via steamer 
from Portsmouth. 
‘The beautiful estates of Rye claim 
our attention till we arrive in Ports- 
mouth. The trolley tourist may make 
this point his terminus, the time con- 
sumed being usually five or six hours 
from Salem to Portsmouth. The 
return should then be made via Exe- 
ter, there stopping over an hour to 
view the academy grounds. The car 
from Exeter returns to Hampton 
Beach, where we may return via our 
previous route. 
The York Beach passenger will 
need three hours additional for the 
trolley trip thence. The ferry leaves 
Portsmouth half-hourly for Kittery, 
connecting with the Portsmouth, 
Dover and York Street Railway. 
The trolleys operate in a Joop; the 
cars follow the Piscataqua to Eliot 
and thence across to York Village 
and Beach, returning via Kittery and 
Kittery Point or the reverse. Dover, 
South Berwick and Salmon Falls may 
also be reached from Portsmouth, and 
the New Hampshire Co, lines from 
Dover reach northward to Rochester, 
N.H. 
The fare from Beverly to Ports- 
mouth and return is $1.30. Return- 
ing via Exeter would be 20 cents 
additional. The round trip from 
Portsmouth to York Beach adds 0 
cents. It is possible to make York 
Beach and return by the straight 
route in 13 hours, but this means 
no stop-overs by the wayside. Far 
more enjoyable would be a night at 
the beach, or Portsmouth, leaving 
the return for the morrow. The 
railroads now building on the Maine 
coast will soon complete the link 
towards Portland, from which Lewis- 
ton, Brunswick and Bath are accessi- 
ble by trolley. 
“Teddie’s’’ acceptance was charac- 
teristic. Deeds and not promises 
count; past achievements are worth 
more than promises. 
PEARY AND THE POLE. 
BY Wie S. GCoTRUSSELE, 
(Copyrighted, 1904.] 
Ever since that day in 860 when 
Naddord, the Norwegian pirate, turn- 
ed his high prowed galley to the North 
and discovered Iceland, various inter- 
ests have sent expeditions in quest of 
the Pole. Vhe Dutch whalers built 
up a profitable industry in the Spitz- 
bergen waters, yielding to Holland an 
annual revenue of $1,250,000. The 
possibilities dormant in Oriental trade 
led the commercial nations of Europe 
to seek a shorter passage to Cathay, 
and there were sent forth in swift suc- 
cession many expeditions in search of 
the ‘‘Northwest”’ or “Northeast Pas- 
sage.” 
They proved the impossibility of 
such a route for commercial purposes 
and the scientific application of steam 
and electricity made such a route un- 
necessary. The loss of the Franklin 
party brought prominently before the 
public two ideas, viz.: The import- 
ance of accurate information concern- 
ing Ultima Thule, and the cost of 
obtaining such information. In view 
of the grand results accomplished by 
such heroes of the ice as Parry, Payer, 
Kane, Nansen, Greeley and Peary, 
the cost from a scientific view is of 
minor consideraion. 
With the announcement of each 
expedition the laymanasks, “Ofwhat 
value is the expenditure of so much 
money and so many lives?’ Now 
that Peary contemplates another ex- 
pedition, the question is raised again. 
Proof of the value of such work is no 
longer demanded by the scientist, but 
the layman still doubts. In the 
thought of Nansen: Solongas there 
isa spot on earth unexplored, it is 
man's duty to solve the mystery. 
When the labor has been wrought, 
the sacrifice made and the object ac- 
complished, the critic and the scoffer 
accept the results and civilization 
profits thereby. Few expeditions 
have entered the field with the single 
object of reaching that point where 
there is no more north, no east and 
no west, where a step in any direction 
must be south, and yet it has been 
the cherished thought of many a lead- 
er inthis land of perpetual snow and 
grinding, chaotic floes. 
In the long search to solve the fate 
of Franklin, true scientific work was 
begun. The Northeast Passage was 
proved to exist and M’Clure actually 
made the passage. The northern 
shore of Arctic America was mapped 
and the great archipelago with its 
multitude of straits, sounds and is- 
lands correctly charted. The orth 
Magnetic Pole was located, an achieve- 
ment of prime importance. 
