Trolley trips through New England .. . NEWPORT 92 Trolley Trips through New England. NEW BEDFORD AND THE FAIRHAVEN BRIDGE Boarding at City Hall a car of the Gee Whiz Railway. asthis line is termed in the vernacular, we descend thro the Nar-rows between the Watuppa Ponds, and whisk along thro lowwoods, dotted with a few isolated farmhouses. Soon we cometo the yellow-and-green buildings of Lincoln Park, in a largepine grove. This, midway between Fall River and New Bedford,is a great pleasure ground of the people. There she blows! New Bedford (Parker House) now a cot-ton manufacturing city of 100
Trolley trips through New England .. . NEWPORT 92 Trolley Trips through New England. NEW BEDFORD AND THE FAIRHAVEN BRIDGE Boarding at City Hall a car of the Gee Whiz Railway. asthis line is termed in the vernacular, we descend thro the Nar-rows between the Watuppa Ponds, and whisk along thro lowwoods, dotted with a few isolated farmhouses. Soon we cometo the yellow-and-green buildings of Lincoln Park, in a largepine grove. This, midway between Fall River and New Bedford,is a great pleasure ground of the people. There she blows! New Bedford (Parker House) now a cot-ton manufacturing city of souls, once was knownthroughout the States as the Whaling City. There still hangsaround her streets and wharves a reminiscence of her deep-sea past. Bought in 1652 from the good King Massasoit and hismighty son Wamsutta by a company of Plymouth Pilgrims, theland was settled largely by those people of God in scorn calledQuakers. Long the chief whaling port of the world, it is fromhere that Herman Melville starts his hero out on the world-widechase after Moby Dick, the White W
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