Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15
0ur Boston letter.
ANIMAL CITY ELEC-r0E.
ROsTOE- Dec. s ,er.

ANIMAL CITY ELECTION
Boston, Dec. 8, lsl9.
Editor Of Ratlrnd Rera5d We a-s
upon the eve Of our annual msuiciPz.
election for q Mayor, Aldermen and C9u-.
cilmen for the coming yesr; also fCr
Board of Street Commits .iouers,--a us7
Office created By Cur last Legislature
meet the necessities which our iil-fo5u=.
city has occasioned. The changes s-i
improvements in our streets being 50 IL
merous, and the damages 10 be sett ed
complex, that it has become burdensors
to the city government, proper TO 81.
tend to them, though all this work hs
hitherto been done by the Board Of A.
dermen, principally, and the Couuc.
These improvements have been cOntiu--
Gus, though there has been more or lee
change in the individuals who cOmPoss
the successive governments at each en-
nual election.
ExTRAYAGANCE OF CITY OFFICIALS
This annual election Is no. mo5e tegv-
lar than is the cry that just preosdes
about the recklessness and extrayagal-
of those in Office, and the necessity OF
change of men. Our city government be.
for long time, been placed between tw-
fres-that of the taxpayers, who are verJ
watchful of the expenditures, and that Ct
the class who favor immediate and tho.
ough changes for the future benefit Of iLs
city, as well as for the present tiu-
There is q number Of very active Fni
fearless men who take a great deal Of
pleasure in mapping out in plain forms
any needed Improvements. OF these n51
ex-Mayor Josiah Quincy is, perhaps, -s
most active and many of his suggesucl.
and those of his associates have been CT.
ried ont by the city. When these ex-May
ors and commercial and practical men
and they of wealth, and large taxpayers
recommend improvements involving nil
lions of dollars, it may be, and all sup,
ported by public opinion, apparently, IL
Aldermen and Councilmen are bound .
listen and eventually execute them. BIZ
the members are quite certain they vi
not safety either side; for the improve
ments, for fear of the Taxpayers, are or
partial and imperfect, and though q
such, are thought exceedingly costly
NEW RAILROAD DEPoTs.
For the purpose of showing some Of Ii
difficulties TO be met and the necessity i-
changes which the growth in trade trs7'
compel, it is a fact that of the eight IA
roads which enter our city, four or five
them are in an unsettled condition as y
CARDS their passenger dePots and grcun1
A new avenue is laid out, and g
through the depot of the Boston i Pro-
dence Railroad. A new one must
made at the city's expense, and quite so
that of the Boston & Albany. The L
ell and the Eastern must have new DEP.
soon, and perhaps the Fitchburg also.
these three roads with the Boston
Maine, enter the north side of the c7
it seems probable that the necessities
the city, which must have order and sysiE-
as well their own wants, may compel ths
to be situated alongside of each other
on the same street. The Fitchburg 5sS
is very massive granite struotuTs ell
always was much more substantis. d,
spacious. AS these four roads sHpr'ss-
the city, in Charlestown, thess ua1
cross each other to their mutual dissa, +
tage, and as Charlestown is soon to
nexed-in the probable course OF sTsD1
to Boston, it is already matter Of ~.
ton by our city government, and o.
plans reported to meet these and
neighboring difficulties, one is esiln,
to cost three and the other one ana ~
million of dollars.
THE CITY GOVERNMENT.
Very few realize how much tins
attention is required from the AIDE
and councilmen to fulfill all thelr o.
Some of the aldermen, It Is knOWp's
their entire time and attention 10 = !,
public duties; and the experience, -. ~
cain ia Of no common order. The Az.
men and Council meet once wee
session, separately, and on different ~
The Board of Aldermen Is co~PU
two for each ward, amounting 10 'D =
two members at the present tin %s. b
council being somewhat larger =. !,
aueuration of new city goverhn .ars
the meeting Of the State Lesi'- ,lss.l
chr at the same time, when we SIS II
with profusion Of Messages fOl..1 II
a calm and the usual. comments
oresa