The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-02-09
From our Boston Correspondent.

pOSTON, Gu. Z, 1910
GENTLEMEN II don't know how it is with
you in the great ship-building mart of Bath,
but with us winter, long delayed, has at length
come in terrible earnest, On Tuesday last
there was deep fall of snow, and on Friday
night, another, equally magnificent. Unfor-
tunately, the frost was all out of the ground,
and, with so poor foundation, the sleghing
cannot last long. The stable keepers regard
this as thousand pities, and the young folks
are making all possible haste to achieve their
sleigh-rides before the ground, now clothed in
virgin white, shall be exposed again in all its
indicate nudity. So fastidious are some OF
our young ladies, that they will not ride over
the bare ground even on wheels-in winter.
The Benedict Club, composed mainly of the
old bachelors of the Mercantile Library Asso-
citation, are about to give grand masked ball,
at Papantis. AT present, it is su6-rosa, but
I think there is no doubt of its taking place in
the course of three or four weeks. Beyond a
doubt it will be very brilliant affair, composed
as it will be of the very flower of that institu-
ton, which numbers more than thousand
young merchants and clerks, and it is univer-
sally admitted, that whenever they have BALI
it presents a greater array of female beauty
than is found even at the "Almack' assem-
blies. The ladies will dress in all the cos
tunes of every nation under the sun, and in
every popular character of Shakespeare, Scott
and Dickens. 1t is rare that assumed charac-
tiers are we'll sustained on such occasions, but
from my acquaintance with those who will
attend, 1 have no hesitation in saying, that
twenty or thirty young gentleman will achieve
their parts to perfection-especially one who
is going as the Ghost of Hamlet's father, al
belt he will be likely to conduct himself very
inconsistently at the supper-table, and is al.
ways as hungry as a shark.
There has already been deal of dancing
this year, Notwithstanding the hard times, and
the theatres have rarely been so numerously
attended. The Museum is the most unobjec-
tionable place of amusement, and is an elegant
and popular resort Of the best portion of our
population. In the Museum Building is the
Office of the Mass. Health Insurance Compa-
ny, ofswhich w. Gilbert, Esq, and Rev. Mr..
Hustled, of your city, are Agents. This Com
pany insures man an allowance of So week
during all the sickness he may have in .fue
years. 1t is doing very extensive business,
and, being conducted by some of our most
wealthy and respected citizens, is held in high
estimation, especially by the young merchants
and clerks. They pay their sick members very
promptly, and never make any trouble in the
collection of claim. Another similar, and
equally benevolent institution, is the Suffolk
Savings Bank, in the same edifce. The rear
of the Museum Building is occupied by seve-
raj railroad offices, and the spacious basement
story furnishes ample accommodation to some
thirty or forty Express men. Altogether, the
Museum structure yields very handsome in
come to its proprietors, the Messrs. Kimball.
Its site covers $4,000 square feet, and was sold
to Messrs. K. for $106,oOO by the owners of
the Boston Athaneum, who chose another To-
cslity. namely, the aristocratic Beacon street,
where for their literary uses they have erected
an edfice of brown stone, less spacious than
was originally intended, but of very elaborate.
and beautiful workmanship.
The dry-g goods dealers feline that they have
PROSPECTS of an early and lively spring trade.
For The Northern Tribune.
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