By trolley through eastern New England . of Colonel Rus-sell, situated on the cornerof a road which leads offto Houghtons Pond. TheReservation, with all itsgreat natural beauty, isnow reached. Here one may wander all day in the open, or roam at will throughthe woods. The car runs on through the Chickatawbutand Hancock Hills. The great Blue Hill, surmountedby its weather observatory, looms up on the right. It is only a short run until the car reaches Randolph,where a branch line leads off to South Braintree andQuincy, and thence back to Boston; another line runs toStoughton. Randolph is an attr
By trolley through eastern New England . of Colonel Rus-sell, situated on the cornerof a road which leads offto Houghtons Pond. TheReservation, with all itsgreat natural beauty, isnow reached. Here one may wander all day in the open, or roam at will throughthe woods. The car runs on through the Chickatawbutand Hancock Hills. The great Blue Hill, surmountedby its weather observatory, looms up on the right. It is only a short run until the car reaches Randolph,where a branch line leads off to South Braintree andQuincy, and thence back to Boston; another line runs toStoughton. Randolph is an attractive little town, oncethe home of Mary E. Wilkins, one of our cleverest Ameri-can writers. The car continues on to the little settlement of Avon, pass-ing the pump-ing stationand an oldruined wind-mill beforereachingH i g h 1 a n dPark. This ismaintained bythe street rail-way company,and is of thebest of its kindin the has an area Taunton River r ^ ^ r of twenty-fouracres, ornamented by walks, drives, flower beds, shrubbery. EASTERN NEW ENGLAND 51 and groves. There is a rustic theatre here in which after-noon and evening performances are given daily. The groveis especially adapted to picnic parties, and the zoologicalgarden is both entertaining and instructive to the the park, the car passes through a section ofMontello, where many fine estates of the business men ofBrockton are located. As the car enters Brockton it passes a fine new build-ing on the left. This is the Old Ladies Home. A littlefarther on in a small square is a handsome drinking foun-tain, the gift of George G. Snow. This fountain furnishesa continuous supply of ice water during the summer the centreof the city throughcars may be takenfor many points —Nantasket Beach,North Easton,Norton, Mansfieldand other sec-tions. (See map.)Another line runsto BrocktonHeights andStoughton, thereconnecting withlines for Canton and the east side of the Blue Hill Reser-vation. (See map
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