Rochester Ways (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Rochester Ways He will see other things, too, than pageants. His remembering eyes, rising to the gayly dressed facades, will see in their place golden store fronts, glowing windows, and below them a gleaming pavement burnished by Novem ber's setting sun. And then, perhaps, the vision will change into a picture Of the same street swept by winter storms, the clinging snow putting pure new sculpture on the gray facades, half veiling in white mist the double street lights, and hiding the tops Of buildings in swirling clouds Of snow. In the long wait for the procession, the resident Of Rochester will also pick out many a point in the street to dwell upon in half amused thought and tender affection. Start ing at the Four Corners, that heart Of the city - its pulsing then strangely stilled - he notes, with sure remnant Of traditional pride, the curving corner Of Powers Block. In fancy he sees the long double row Of lighted street lamps, and the line Of trolley cars starting at a whistle's sighing Signal in the evening, like a lot Of children trooping away to bed. Hisgaze pauses at the Front street corner, with its mingled record Of good and ill, the good crowding away the evil twice certainly in each year, when the market wagons Of Christmas and Thanksgiving choke the rollicking way with cheer. He pictures the Old Liberty Pole, only a memory now, on the summit Of the hill -that hill where an extra horse used to help the bob-cars up, with gay jingle Of bells, steam ing Of ¿anks, and prodigious kicking Of legs, the man astn'de the helper like an outrider to the rickety chariot. The glory Of the hill's summit is still, he recollects, as Of Old, the glory Of the dawn, in the rush and clatter Of market business, and Of the Christmastide, with its city forest Of evergreens when Christ mas trees are before and behind you, and on either side Of you, filling the air with their delicate, nerve-tingling aroma. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.