National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-02-14
n Letter from the Hub.

HFary man so we'll expFese-cd my last CONF
munication, especially after my experience
with sheet Of larger Dimensions and larger
prstensions.
The spell" that was upon us is broken and
the icy chains that bound us are being slissol,
ed. OuI new Board Of Health evidently mean
condition Of the city viii! be speedily improved.
Just now the Mass. Poultry Association are
giving attractive -a-doodlc- doc concerts,
day and evening, at Music Hall.
promised your readers In my last
LESSONS FROM TnR FIRE.
Don't expect them in didactic form. Such
teaching or preaching does not generally, We
believe, prove 40 interesting and profitable as
that mode or style which by suggest ions-oi
logic, analogy and fgurc-awakcns thought
and leads the mind to right conclusions.
II is the teachers peerless art
Thought to quicken in the pupil
Rather than to thought impart."
First and. foremost, the great calamity las it ID
called) stops men In their hot pursuit after
wealth and position and leads them to think,
reflect, tho there may be much too little OF 1t,
and some will make their losses an excuse or
occasion for more entire devotion to business
leaving,less time for mind and heart, the soul
and immortality. The query has arisen
Docs not the Lord rcbuke tho growing spirit
and love of excessive display and expensive
living running thro' especially oil our city
communities, and paralizing to greater or
less degree the spirituality and power Of our
American Zion.
For many of large or considerable means to
be thus thrown back years in the chief work
of their lives, tho acquisition of property will
doubtless prove blessing to themselves and
especially to their children. The natural 0.
feet of wealth is to bcgot pride and false views
| of labor AMI life.
| How few adopt the ethics Of tho Great
Teacher, life o service not of sclfbut of God
and humanity. Stew ardship the cherished
and abiding conviction, in business, in recrea-
ton as well rs in what is generally regarded
as more religious duties. Some of our domes-
tics, however, are getting so much ''above
| (their) business" that the places that have
known them will know them no moro forever.
| I his is the fruit of the growth. of which we
have been speaking. on the lower branches.
Surely did the Great Teacher make a mistake
when he washed His disciples feet thus teach
ing by example that TO serre is better and
| greater than to be served. Some have lost all
10y the fire and it will be hard for them to
| commence again ut the foot of tho hill and
| struggle up with increased burdens, without
the buoyancy and strength of youth, yet with
| larger expcrience-of men and means. Such
| especially need words of sympathy and ell
| couragemcnt. While some departments of
business have been almost entirely swept
away, tho escape of others has been as marked.
We think no manufacturer OF, or dealer in,
musical instruments or music was burned out.
Calling at the South End few mornings
since to see a friend and his family before
leaving to take the French Steamer ut N. Y.
for his home on the other side, We took the OPP
portunity to spend half hour in +. Is g. G.
Hooks Organ Factory on fremont St. in that
art of the city-thc Oldest of the kind in tho
country-wherc We saw 5000, organ in pro
cess Of construction for Mr.. Hepworths
Church in N. Y. and learned that the organ in
Tabernacle Church brooklyn, burned u few
sabbnths ago. was the one used in tho first
Coliseum. Wespent the balance Of the fore
noon In the immense piano forte establishment
of Chickcring & Sors which stand u few
blocks below tHook's) Oh the same St.
The halfhad not been told us The building,
Of brick six stories high, including the hollow
square formed by the structure covers about
two and one nalf acres, atfording over seven
acres of workrooms I! in which from four to
five hundred men are employed, drawing in
wages about 500, 900 per annum.
A full description of all the rooms and their
contents, showing the instruments in ALI the
processes and stages of manufacture would oc-
cupy whole page of your sheet and yet would
he read with relish. We were particularly in
tcrcstcd in the manufacture of bass strings
made by winding steel wire with ancalcd
plated wire. Over fsrty tons Of the former
and but few less of the flexible iron ware are
used in year for strings There are ! .om ten
to fifteen hundred instruments in process of
construction At a time, giving monthly pro-
duct Of about 200 pianos, which require four
to five months to perfect
The factory containing large ware roo:ns
is connected by tcleg raph with the down town
Sales Rooms which are elegantly decorated
and fitted up. The gas throughout the york
rooms is lit by electricity.
The 'watchmens Clock is an ingenious ar
rangement by which tn, fidelity. in all parts
ofthc building. ofthe men In charge ut night
is merringly recorded at the office, suggesting
lat the opening ofthe new year, to us unseen
record of the hidden springs of our daily lives, |
by which. in the full light Of eternal day We |
must stand or fall BoRAx.
Boston, Jan. Is, -.