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Thurs Sept 18 Went to Boston with Oliver & wife
& Helen to the railroad celebration. In company
with Mr Orrs family went to see the regatta & about
nine Returned and dined at Mr Orrs with Mrs
Witherell Emily Mrs S Ames & Helen Mrs Stevens
&c Afternoon went out shopping with them All
except Mrs Witherell spent the night at Mr Orrs
Evelina traveled to Boston today to join the crowds at the Great Railroad and Steamship Jubilee. President Fillmore, Senator Daniel Webster and dignitaries from Canada as well as the United States had arrived the day before. Speeches were made and congratulations went all around for the new “railroad communication” between the two countries. On this, the second day of the festivities, races were held, one a “grand excursion in Boston Harbor” in which cutters from both countries raced; Canada won.
The Ameses attended a regatta out at Hull, near Point Alderton (better known today as Point Allerton.) It must have been interesting for the usually land-locked Evelina to be at the shore; she rarely got to see the ocean, as her trips to Boston were typically spent in the retail center of the city.It was to that retail center that she and other ladies in her party went in the afternoon. Time to shop.
Also on this date, some 200 miles southwest of this railroad jubilee, in another thriving retail and business center, a new newspaper was born. The New York Times was founded and sold for 2cents a paper.
* Reception of President Fillmore at the Boston and Roxbury lines by the municipal authorities, 1851
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