Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-01
Cur Boston Letter.
BosToN, August %, 1870

bOSION, aug uSG 80, iO'o'
Editor Rutland Herald August is in
its last quarter, and there are yet few
signs of the end of summer and its heat
other than the shortening of the days.
This evening is mild and quite calm, with
a gentle northwest wind which has
brought thick smoke probably from a
long distance.
A large gathering of those whose for
tune it is to be obliged to remain in town
is at present being entertained by Gil
mores band, from choice selection OF
music, at 81. James Hotel ggrounds. The
Clarendon House, on fremont street, has
employed the Germania band. This band
will play on our Common tomorrow eve
ming.
The German and French war has be-
come rather fatiguing on account OF the
continued intense interest that it COM
mands. Our daily papers begin to show
some feeling towards one another, some
body or something, as the strife goes
against their eide or in its favor. Those
on the French side think the Prussians
remarkably heartless in exhibiting so
much remorseless energy; and those on
the other side have little compassion for
the nation that has been meddling with
others business for years past.
At no time during our own war was
there much greater excitement or more
decided opinions than in this. Is it acci-
dental, or according to some truth at the
bottom of the history of those two nations,
that make most Americans take the Ger
man side pa truth that whole classes of
people instinctively comprehend. Why
do the Irish Catholics and many of the
Democratic leaders and rank and file side
with France, and the most of those who
are Republican in their opinions and feel
ings regarding politics and religion with
the side of Prussia?
OF all the vast majority of those who
are obliged to stay at home and work dur
ing the hot summer season, the hundreds
and thousands who go out Of town to re-
side, find pleasing variety in that mode
of life in the warmer portions of the year.
One of the sights that cannot fail to be
interesting to a visitor to this city is that
occasioned by the arrivals of the loaded
trains at our various depots with passen-
gers from the country Immediately around
Boston, in the early part of the day, and
evening. Happening on the Common at
such time in the morning, ones atten-
tion may be attracted to the sudden ap
pearance of an early crowd of people
walking in the same direction and enter
ing into the Common and on to flag
stone path that leads to fremont and
Winter streets, the distance of one-fourth
of mile within the Common after see
ing them spread out over this whole path
and when still coming he may be surpris-
ed to learn that the most of them are
from a single train on the Providence
railroad. AS this is repeated at each de-
pot in the city several times during the
morning it soon ceases to excite much
surprise. AS in New York the mass Of
human beings flow, in the early part of
the day, in Broadway, down town, and
soon after midday begins to flow up
ward again; so here it is from and to-
wards the different depots.
These hundreds of people on the line of
each road take season tickets, the price of
which varies but little from year to year.
It being the policy Of the road to make
the terms as liberal as possible.
There are some remarkable instances Of
rapid growth in towns in this immediate
vicinity. An association of small capital
ists projected town on paper eight miles
from the city, a few years since, called
it Hyde Park. Sold their house and gar
den lots only on the conditions that the
purchaser should build upon and not spec
ulate with their land. Now there is
large town with its churches, schools and
other public buildings and many costly
residences, and most of the land cultivated
and improved to a wonderful degree
The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad
celebrated or notorious for its poverty and
bad management, pass through one por-
tion of the town with trains running
regularly as though it were not bankrupt
The Boston and Providence, the oldest
railroad in the country, passes through
another side of the town. But what is
said here about this section, seven or eight
miles from the city, can be said of almost
all points of the compass. The great pop
ulation which occupies this country,
while doing business in the city, have the
henefit of the country air and the Injuries
of their own homes, while those strayed
off to distance find hot weather and
plenty of dust ..... ..-.. B.