The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-09
REvKnE HOUSE,, Boston, July 2. 1919.


Ctr Of Boston-Choiera Cleaned Ost-Sunday-
The Railroads--Bafer Haks-Politics, &c, &c.
From Springfield TO Boston you travel at the
ratio of some 90 miles an hour, sopplges ncluded;
twenty is the maximum through New Jersey, it
we mistake not, by law; fifteen is the average
thence south TO Richmond, and on the Raleigh
road in North Carolina, if you make ninety miles
in nine hours, You are travelling. "Slow and sure"
is the motto in the old north state, and hence, we
suppose her soubnquet Of Rip Van Wrinkle.
The first thing in Boston that compels the atten-
ton Of the travelling Inspector, is the cleanliness
Of the city,, Madagascar chef once said of a
drink Of brandy that was given, "that it was
good, very good, almost too good" So Of Boston,
"it is clean, very clean, almost too clean" A
lady might walk over the whole corporation in a
pair OF sutin slippers, without solling them. There
- not loose Pug 10 be met with In day.
research, because there Is garbage FOR
his subsistence. Without the pigs the Five
Points in New York would be maccessible-they
are indispensable to the cleaning up the oi!d
that locality, are the urkeybukzards IA the city
Of Charleston, or the rats and loose dogs in the
Portuguese quarters of Lisbon. The authorities
at Boston do the work OF cleaning the streets; and
by a lat. requlsltion, every house. ouhouse yard,
alley, cellar, nc, has Undergone inspection aud
publication. To be sure, the sIte OF Boston, built
around On abrupt hills, ~ advantageous; but with
the quakeIs not halt spruce in the appearance
81 then town the PuTItans.
There has not been, as we understand, well
euh,Eiica'cd local case ct cholera in Boston this
season, There Is not case known TO exist to-
day, and there can be question that this cS-
enption, ia this crowded hide Yankee emporium,
squt Gang out of the peninsula upon which IT IS
built, squeezing out on all sides, tor want OF
room-therc Is no doubt that this exemption from
cholera IL 10 be attributed 10 the universal clean
illness Ct the place. The cholera has been cleaned
out, for il has been established, that filth Is most
dangerous premonitory symptom, even where the
locality IL otherwIte saluDnous.
Sunday Is empbatically the sabbath IN Boston,
as IN oil the towns OF New lsngan To travel
Ter from the MlssisslPpl and to hun there IS some
thing funercal in the solemnity of Sunday IN Bos-
ton, II looks like a day Of fasting, humiliation,
and payer, IN which every thing Is suspended, ex-
cept the duty Of gong To church three or tour
times during the day. While the churches are IN
session, the streets and the houses look II de-
serted by the people, or as if some invisible agency
lad aDnihllatcd the population, saving here and
there SOLITARY strsggler, who seems 10 have lost
his way.
place. They rsdiaie as from common centre,
IN almost every direction, absorbing the vitality OF
the surrounding country. They employ hundreds
OF locomotives, thousands OF men, and millions OF
money. From the top of the state House, trains
OF cars may be seen at almost any moment OF the
day, going out and coming IN.
Just no W the Bostonlans are particularly proud
OF thelr COchtuate, or Long Tohu WAFER, oivusnt
over the hills, some eighteen miles from Long
Pond, into the basin on the common, and dlstrl-
buted through the city. The pond from which
the water Is procured, covers a space equal to a
square mile, and drains surface OF about eighteen
square miles, which furnishes an outlet OF suiii-
ci,nt volume Tor the supply Of the city, the lake
itself being converted Into the principal reservoir.
The works, we believe, are completed, except
ing the reservoir the hill, near The
State House, and corresponding reservoir
in South Boston. for reservation In cases OF
breaksge Of pipes, DC The first rs elevated on
heavy afthes uf massive granite Qncludlng the
height Of the hil Izteet aDove tide water and six
and halt feet above The level Of the door Of tine