Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-29
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DoEsTICKs IN BOSTON.
The famous "Doesticks" has furnished
the New York Picoyune an account Of his
visit toBoston, from which the following
extracts are made.
Boston, Aug. IA, 1857.
: Beloved PIC c:-Ninety-ni extra sized an
gle worms locomoting at high. pressure speed
about garden walk of showery afternoon,
and being perpetually turned back when they
getat the edge, and compelled to cross each
others trail in enumerable directions, would,
if the ground were soft and their very foot
steps plainly VISIBLE, draw on the garden
walk aforesaid, a tolerable accurate map Of
the city of Boston. 1t is crookeder than
nine acres of rams horns, and has got more
corners than cord of cross-cat saws.
You see your friend, and call out, "Jones,
wait a minute" and you start to see Jones,
thinking be is just across the street.
Misguided man Far distant Jones -
You climb nine hills, and turn ninety cor
ners before you get within hailing distance
of Jones again!
The streets look as if they had been made
somewhere else, and dumped here in huge
tangle, and nobody had ever taken the trou-
>ble 10 straighten them out again. 1t looks as
if somebody had been building o lot of cities
by contract, and the job hadn't come out
even, and had thrown down his remnants of
streets and odd ends of alleys, and little
snapped off bits CT lanes and avenues, and
called it Boston. Ifany street in town should
be cut straight mile in any direction, it
would 60 through dozen private parlors
and forty-fye public music halls. In fact,
Boston looks as if first rate material for an
excellent city had been melted and poured
..through seive on side hill and left to cool.
The Bostonians are very proud of their
"Common," and we'll they may be, for it is
just such Park as you and l, Mr. Pic.
would want, if we had one made to order.
In walk of an hour throug gh this town,
you will see on the door plates more names
that you have heard before, than in an ex-
cursion of FIVE times the length in any other
city. The habit peculiar to Bostonians when
away from home, of talking about themselves
explains this phenomenon.
But there is more civility, kindness, and
attention shown to strangers here than |
have experienced in any city l ever Wis
tied, I have been here two days, and have
consequently asked about eight hundred
questions, to every one of which have re-
ceived civil answer, and been treated as if
I was respectable homo, and not an inquis-
tive nuisance. I have received honest
change every time I've bought any thing
I've met great many little boys, not one of
whom has set dog on me, or pelted me, or
told me to $50 in lemmons !'' or called me
an odd Buffer, or consigned me to that place
of very warm temperature with which boys
of our own city appear to be premasurely ac-
quainted This latter omission was great
relief, for in New York man is so often
told by youngsters to 60 to - the place
unmentionable, that he might naturally sup
pose the juveniles were all employed by Sa-
tan to recommend his accommodations to
strangers; or that they owned building lots
in that torid locality, and from interested
motives were anxious to encourage emigra-
ton. = .....
- The houses don't run to seed here as they
do in New York few of thom grow to be
more than four or five stories high. The
principal production of the city are tandem
teams, hackney coaches and brown bread
The drays are curiosity, being made like
the city cars, with a joint in the middle to
turn the sharp corners. A Boston dray is
about as long as an average Boston street,
and when used at night it is lighted with
gas for the accommodation of the driver
Three or four horses, placed tandem, drag
this pouderous machine-tbey are harnessed
in this mannerthat they may be able to pass
each other, the streets, being exceedingly
narrow. .. .-
You know that in Cincinnati they mea-
sure everything by hogs and pigs For in
stance; they would say the Picayune Office
is about hundred pigs from the City Hall.
meaning that hundred pigs placed in
line would extend that distince the same
way Cincinnatian would say that the Astor
House is about twenty hogs from the Muse
um, or seventy pigs from Stewards. Well,
> guageing Boston by Cincinnati I would say
that aWashington" street is about four hogs
wide. ssTremont" street about eight or
nine pigs, and the generality of the streets
where drays are most in use, are no where
more than hog and shoat, or three pigs
and couple of roasters in width. This is
the reason why the vehicles are so long and
narrow, and the horses are harnessed one be-
, fore the other.
Nobody is in hurry in Boston, but the
people go about as respectfully slow as if the
city was attending its own funeral.
The hotel walters here are an anomaly,
they positively bring you what you ask for,
and are so modest about suggesting fees,
that I really think that their wages are paid
by the proprietors of the houses instead of
the guests, as is the fashion in New York.
This is really very comforting. For man
to order roast lamb and green peas, with fri
ed pork and unions, or to send for soup with
a probability Of getting it, is a sensation at
once novel and refreshing to an individual
who has ever so adjourned at hard hotel in