The Republican journal., 1869-11-04

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ton labels, and see how you stand. And we
mean you, reader, if you are in arrears.
LETTER FROM BOSTON,
Correspondence of the journal.
Something About Streets---The Extension of
Broadway Widening of Hanover, Federal
and Devonshire Streets Moving Of Build
ings---Layng of Pavements- correction of
few Mistakes---Death of E. H. Uniac---
Cold Weather.
BOSTON Oct. 30, 1869.
1t is really wonderful how much persever
ance will accomplish. You may sci it down
as q fact to which there is no exception, that
there is nothing in this world worth possess
ing that you may not haVe-always provided
you viii pay its price and possess your soul
with patience. The muse of Longtellow
never sang truer words than
" All things possible to those who viii hui ait
for them"
What I was about to say, when my pen
started off in this direction, was that, having
occasion Frequently to cross the lower end of
Broadway, ut South Boston, | have been
llluCn interested Ill INC progress ol N!-al
seemed = very singular piece of work going
on upon the low Hat in that vicinity. EARLY
last spring a large gang of workmcn com
menccd tearing down the rough shantics sit
uated thereon digging deep trenches, and
sinking piles for a solid foundation. Upon
this gradually has grown two massive stone
walls, situated few rods apart. This inter
vcning space is now being filled with earth,
and it becomes evident that u street is being
built Such is the case, but not until last
Monday did find it out, though have made
frequent and oft repeated inquiries. 1t is the
much talked of extension Of Broadway to
| Albany street. As the new street is to pass
over the river and the tracks of the Old Col
ony and Worcester lines of railroads, it
is necessary to secure an elevation from
which to lay the bridges-hencc the high and
huge walls The lower end of Broadway is
to be raised five feet to meet this elevation.
| When complete it will afford much relief to
the pressure of travel which now passes thro'
Federal street This last mentioned thorough
fare is also being widened, Strengthened, re-
paved, rclaid with new car-tracks, and in
every way bettereu and improved, much to
the satisfaction of those having homes or
business in South Boston.
| In the way Of street Improvements Boston
seems to have had her hands full Of late, and
we have been surprised at every step and
turning with uprootel pavcments, disjointed
| ln,l b,,i1 In
der to widen Hanover street one-half OF each
block on the rioht hand side Of the street has
been torn away. The same has happened on
! DnvonShire street, and both avenues have
been so much improved as scarcely to be re
cogniZcd.
| IT is a matter Of some curiosity to the I'M
initiated to sec how quickly and cypcrtly the
work is done. Immense brick blocks are
safely moved back by means OF hinge rollers
and u steam engine; others are torn careful
lv down and carried away, whilst some are
only partially demolished, and then brighten
ed up to lock as good as new
The new paving stones that are beng laid
arc mostly small, square blocks OF granite
which are principally brought from Maine.
In some sections of the city wooden pave
mcnts have been laid as experiments. These
consist of small blocks of wood sawed i'll u
peculiar manner so rs to fit neatly and com
pactlv together, and are laid III sections,
wcdgcd in with solid beams Of wood. Over
this hot tar is poured, and then covered with
heated gravel 1t makes 4 very hard. even
and smooth road and has the advantage OF
not being so noisy as the stone pavements,
IF it proves durable, it is likely to gradually
extend itself into all the streets.
Ii is sometimes curious to note the things
which you are made to say by the types.
Sometimes it is Your own fault, and some
times the fault of those who set your copy.
A few weeks since | had occasion to speak
of the really fine acting Of Barron, rs Sir
Francis Lcvison. and the types made me say
Burrows Now this was a great injustice,
to coniound the handsome tragedian-thc
leading man at the Muscum-wth an almost
unknown actor. And last week, by a mistake
of my own, was led to speak of the row
inc matchn between the Oxtords and Harry
ards instead of between the OXtords and
Cambridge. But it doesn't make so much
difference after all. For as Vanderbilt says
especial correspondents are expected to be q
little mysterious ut all times"
Those of your readers who have been for
tun:atc enough to have listened to the bril-
liant gifted, eloquent young temperance lee
[turer, f. H. Unac, will be panied to learn of
his death. He was buried from the Beach
street Church on Thursday Of this week. 1t
was my fortune to hear him, for the first time,
after he. had been reclaimed and brought
back from u wretchcd drunken carousal OF
weeks And such q fiery, passionate denun-
citation of wronS--such eloquent, stirring,
heart-rending appeals, | never listened to.
He was wonderfully gifted, but woetuly
weak, and sank ut last under the temptation
he could not withstand.
We areexperiencing freezingly cold wealth
er Just now. The pleasant, delicious happy
DAYS of Indian summer have been relentless
ly nippcd in the bud by an untimely frost and