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‘The shot heard round the world.” 
The Concord river, which flows 
placidly under the bridge towards the 
Merrimac at Lowell, is a celebrated 
canoe stream. Hawthorne and Tho- 
reau were frequent visitors here, and 
Thoreau’s “‘ Concord River” is known 
to all interested in American litera- 
ture. 
Thoreau’s hut was on the shore of 
Walden pond, a mile or so from town, 
and on its shores a cairn of rocks, 
which is gradually increased by the 
contributions of the visitors, now 
stands on its site. 
As we return from the battlefield, 
we observe in detail the Old Manse, 
where Hawthorne wrote his ‘‘Mosses.” 
This house was also occupied at 
one time by Emerson, and his ‘ Na- 
ture’’ was written here. 
Any good-natured townsman will 
set you on the road to the Authors’ 
houses, when you arrive at the square. 
The Concord Antiquarian society con- 
tains much of interest, and is open 
from 1 till 5 p.m., except Sundays. 
The Emerson house is some dis- 
tance along at the junction of the 
road to Cambridge. His study was 
the room on the right, and in the 
house many literary men of America 
were constant visitors. 
The Concord School of Philosophy 
was held in the little Hillside chapel, 
which stands next to the Alcott house, 
or Orchard house. “ Little Women”’ 
came into the world here, and Louisa 
Alcott and her talented tamily took 
part in the social life of the town. 
Next to the Orchard house is the 
“Wayside,” in which the Alcotts 
lived prior to their occupancy next 
door. Hawthorne spent the last days 
of his life here, and ‘ Tanglewood 
Tales’”’ was written in the room at the 
right of the entrance. On the ridge 
behind the writer was accustomed to 
stroll, deep in thought, when crystal- 
izing the nucleus of a new writing. 
The path worn by his steps is still 
visible. 
Behind the ridge, to our left, the 
minute-men hurried towards Lexing- 
ton in their attempt to cut off the 
British retreat. The next house to 
the Wayside is also of interest. It is 
the Bull place, the birthplace of the 
celebrated Concord grape, originated 
by the late Ephraim Bull. 
Returning to the centre we note 
the tablet at the Unitarian church. 
We may also spend an interesting 
hour at the Concord library. 
The Concord fare is twenty cents 
each way, or forty cents in all, from 
any place on the Boston Elevated 
system. 
New sofa pillow covers, new doilys 
and tray cloths at the Old Corner 
Store. 2 
Guests on the Velthra. 
A delightful day, a delightful party, 
and a delightful sail in a delightful 
yacht best expresses the feelings of the 
merry party of Manchester men who 
were the guests of Captain William 
Welden and the officers of the Velthra, 
S. Parker Bremer’s trim yacht, on a 
sail down the coast from Manchester 
to the Isle of Shoals, Tuesday of this 
week. 
It is Mr. Bremer’s custom each 
year just before the Velthra goes out 
of commission, to turn the boat over 
to the genial captain and officers to 
take their Manchester friends for a 
day’s outing. And a jolly good time 
they always have, too. 
This was none the less true Tues- 
day. The day was ideal and every 
one of the twenty-eight guests enjoyed 
themselves to the fullest. The party 
were guests of Capt. Welden, Chief 
Engineer Frank Keene, Assistant 
Engineer Austin Eldridgeand Steward 
Benjamin Chase. 
Launches conveyed the guests from 
the town wharf and from the Manches- 
ter yacht club to the Velthra, and the 
party started from the harbor about 
9.30. The sail down the coast was a 
decidedly peasant one, and the anchor 
was dropped off Star Island a few 
minutes before noon. 
Steward Chase had a very palatable 
spread ready at that time, which in- 
cluded fish chowder, broiled lobster 
and many ‘“ fixins.” 
It was four o’clock when the Velthra 
dropped anchor in Manchester harbor 
again, the captain taking his guests to 
Gloucester on the way home fora few 
minutes. A graphophone furnished 
music for the pleasure of the party 
during the trip. 
The guests on board were: B.S. 
Bullock, Samuel Knight, Dr. G. W. 
Blaisdell, Dr. R. 7. Glendening, 
Frank G. Cheever, Frank K. Hooker, 
Samuel S. Peabody, E. P. Stanley, E. 
S. Knight, Oliver T. Roberts, Louis 
O. Lations, E. L. Edmands, Jacob W. 
Lee, Isaac M. Marshall, Wm. J. 
Lethbridge, Timothy L. White, John 
Allen, George D. Haskell, Kredi 
Merrill, Frank Crombie, Sam’! L. 
Wheaton, Rev. W. H. Ashley, Lyman 
W. Floyd, P. H. Boyle, Alfred C: 
Needham and James Hoare. 
New Train Schedule. 
The fall arrangement of train ser- 
vice on the Gloucester branch goes 
into effect a week from next Monday, 
October 10. In all probability there 
will be no change from the present 
schedule, with the possible exception 
of the trains for Boston about noon, 
and the 8 o'clock train down the 
branch. There will be many changes 
in the Beverly service. 
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