, 1872-11-22
BOSTON.
Some Talk About the Fire.
Grayitation of Business--Will the CITY
Hold ifs Trade

may be thai our horse, partaking Of our ciVilizat
ton, proposes to have hia little asthmatie SPELL
eYery two or three years in which case ne can
not rely upon him to Illustrate any ire what
ever. But it is somewhat singular that ths
great horse-distemper was associated with nj
greater civic. accident than the Boston FIRE
Here horse would have been of little use, be-
cause the fire covering 50 acres ofground, and ex'
tending along the lines Of circuitous and vari.
flying streets, needed no g1eater aid than nen
were able to give in pulling machines to snd fro.
I was anxious, in Boston, to try and identify the
| horses and the destruction with each other, but
nobody seemed to know much about the hosee
in the midst of the destruction, and, as phe-
uomenon, it mag be said that the horse-distem-
Per and the great Boston fire had little to do
with each other, except that horses might have
carted oil some goods.
! TIE FIRE IN BOSTON
| will have accomplished nothing in the way OF
making changes, unlass it drives come Of the
| large wholesaler aud jobbig merchants to New
| York City. Boston, in some estimations, pos
| sesses more than its proper share Of the whole
| sale and jobbing trade. II some OF the u1er-
chants there prefer to 60 to New York m rather
| than rebuild expensiyely, the town will merely
have anticipated its decline in this one respect.
| RAILWAYS.
| New York reaches the West and Southwest by
about seven lines Of railway. Boston reaches
| summer, when the Vermont Central gives it's
marine access to the colder parts Of the West.
! Why ghould g man keep q great store in Boston,
| with only one line Of railway connecting him
! with mankind, when be can move to New York
and have the whole seven lines subordinate to
| his trade? Chicago WAS recreated through it's
| railway system. A man may speculate as much
as be likes about how much pluck Chicago and
Boston possess relatively, and about their
| natural advantages; but the fact remains that
! roads pointed to it. Boston possesses two
railways which go to market: the Boston 4;
! Albany and the Vermont Central. The Vermont
Central is Of little uee to Boston after tho St.
Lawrence closes with ice. The Boston l. Albany
is crooked and rough road; and, when man
approaches Boston on that line, he finds at AL
bany that he is but four hours distant from New
York, while he is, perhaps, six or seven hours
distant from Boston. Until the Hoosac Tunnel
bo done, Boston has not control Of any one per-
feet outlet to the West all the year round; and,
by the operations OF the tariff, which Boston
manly made as We ind it, the city has cut of its
Own natural market: that Of Canada* AS
cheerful daldepa1ty and 1a as tha Per
has abundant reasons to be restored,
and probably will be, nearly as well as before. It
belongs to the class Of great New England
towns that manufacture notions, buy wool, man
uAo1S@Ao ooo'e c0 a11c@o *AA@ $e4kasAA ot4oA A1t3
chine articles by superior parfeotness Of mech
anlem and cheaper labor' bnt, as CITY 1een'ng
the country from its warehouses; and store
houses, 1ne oay o. Boston nag "eA-niga passea-
NE" SoAk ABSORBING BOSTON.
their time foolishly in deorying New York Oty,
nave secret longing 70 Pet the1e, ann 1ouo"
tne same business Wn1cn tney no" 1ouo" "1th
dlro1nlshed returns IN boston: Ihe whole
movement Of our pesiod ID from the New
England statee; ana tfoSioenee. Boston, Port-
lana, Ne" haven, aa111oro. Nof"ach, and that
Large series or Ne" England towns, are really
only subordinate exchanges Tor the great Hnal
exchange OF New 1ofk tlt9, "here aanEee-1and
Boston, as city, WA originally made by its
fndies snd nesry al the Whaling Business Sin so to
speak Of On the Western Hemisphere. Foreign
new Developments IN mining and mineral oil
rn1neo It's OIL buaineas' Ine town naa lald up
ulated IN 1nyeatments II nearly az the Western
cltles, putting down railroads. WOODEN pave
dlspepsable things which make modern city,
and Which drew handsome incomes as the same
succeeded bus, as c!ty N tne sense ot
great merchant deahne Win mlghsy CUSTOM
s sad TO- put up thoss vast Stores anew, whi1s
plucky enough IN some senses, w1n not suspend
the fate OF much u the cry from Its inevitable
destiny 70 pc s1ouro OF NE" 1ofR.
good deal OF paper could be covered in
describing little matters about. the Boston IRE;
but, after your great experience In Chicago
fighting contiagIation, these mere matters OF
corner and suburban account need not be re-
cited. heard good many
ANECDOTES,
some OF which would make Jon laugh; but they
are not more laughaple s5an lineage anecootes
Of the same description. tor instance: a police
nan to!d ne tnat "a ne was iooklng out 1or plum
deIsrs duI1ng the nre. ano ne say man over
haunng paffei OF noo.s ana snoes. lne man
seemea 20 pe very n.ce apous WIZ kala ~. " noots
ano W9at 41na q shoes ne nnonlu plch ous ana
the pohceman. IN oraes 70 impress nlsn Ma.o me
enormfy OF hls onence; oane at' up pentna n1ul'
ana, pnlf1nF n1s pig nana % sae laaa saonoal,
MY man. saio ne, "oat ase you oo1ns VIII
this barFel T! ,r
Said the man, n Tery innocent WY u
am looking 1or paar oi Numnef sesens: anu
the men laughed at eaeh otneE. aud there VAS
no alfest' ,,ara.o.
~, PAPER REAoA1s.
Ihere Tas not @ FeIJ equal enterprise N the
reports OF tne nre ~ me nome boston papers.
0ne OF thg aplesk 1oninais u cons.aetlng tae
hre vas me isN ;Maee'aaeT' wnten has & noylsn,
snreTo guy eoator, WAC "oiAea a1ong "tsn
cooi heaa' avg gaVe 5n nnmgnse Ma nHount O. n
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