Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-16
Our Boston letter.


Our Boston letter.
HEsLEIGHING BOSTON SCHOOL
IN PARIs-CoMMoN OoUNCu.-MIsCEI-
LANY-M'ME PAULINE YUCCA.
BosToN, Jan. 12, 1878.
Although the sleighing is in most
dcmoralized condition, the carnival still
continues Beacon street, the mill dam,
and the Brighton road are, as ever, the
favored resorts for the driving. From
two o'clock until ten the pageant over
this eight mile course is exceedingly bril-
liant. Here sleighs Of all descriptions
and every grade Of elegance struggle
with each other for the right of way
while the independent pung jostles the
giided "booby' and the empty butcher
cart challenges the stylish cutter to the
contest. The ''turn-outs' this winter
are no less elegant than they have been
during the preceding years. A notice
able equippage has been a cream-cOlored
four-in-hand, with robes of the silver
fox trailing to the ground, and its mate
is gorgeous in coal-black steedS and black
Astrakan robes, with its Cup-bells ar
ranged in pyramid upon the saddles,
after the Russian custom. Every after
noon and moon-lit evening the great
partV-slcighs are to be met with. drawn
by EIGHT horses and bearing their merry,
singing frcghts far out of town
among the leatess trees and wintry
fields The two lines of sleighs-the one
out of town, the other in-arc incessant,
while over the thoroughfares the racing
is carried on even in the very face of
humiliation to horse, driver and vehicle.
Accidents and collisions are daily, aye
hourly. vet the carnival goes on, and
over the very splinters Of wrecked
sleighs darts second beyy of racers
! bound on the same mad-Cap GRAND.
! Every available carriage that can be
placed upon runners is thus furnished,
and as the sun declines in the west it
/ would seem as though the whole city
/ had toned the picturesque hesira from
/ town to race home among the gas-Gghts
after the moon rises. Prominent among
the fast turn-outs are Mr.. Wentworth's
( Gilbrcth Knox and mate, Charles IIa-
lpy's Belle of Portland. Ben Johnson's
fast pair of grays, Billy Macl's HANDLE
tnnian colt. Thomas Trant's Blackstone
I Belle. and others too numerous TO men,
ton. Mr. George Randidge makes a
fine display with his tandem team Of
gravS. 4 tandem is a ''ticklish thing, "
+ bad 3[r. Randidge flies along at a rapid
gait and SHOWS 2 very attractive style OF
trotting.
Boston is at present loudly congratU-
lating herself upon the success Of a
scnaGl established, by a few of her citi-
zens, in Paris iGr the education OF chlI-
! dreu made orphans or destitute by the
Franco Prussian war. Since its founda-
tom in 1871 this charitable institution
has Supported many boarding and a large
number of day scholars At a recent
meeting of its board of interested per-
sons it was ascertained that about $4,000
had been raised in its aid, while $4,000
were required for its annual support.
The first regular meeting of the Com
mon Council of the new municipal year,
was held on Thursday last, President
Shepherd presiding. A prominent fea-
ture Of the meeting was concerning the
suppression of the small pOX. A letter
I was read from His Honor Mayor Pierce
u,ginp the necessity of more cQmmodi-
GUS hospital Arrangements for patients
suffering with the terrible epidemic. 1t
aDpears that the present hospital is
capable of receiving only one hundred
natients while there are eight hundred
persons reported as sick with the dis
ease AS a matter of course the larger
number live in tenement houses, board
inc houses and hotels. Now the only
means of striking at the root OF this
growing evil is by appropriatlng soa't
situation as a hospital equal to the en-
ergency. This will be promptly done
and may relief come of it.
New year presentations are still the
order OF tue day, and many the worthy
person has been the recipient or an ele
giant gift.
Papers are being daily written ant
perused upon the subject of tire-proof
buildings and the result must be decid
, ed improvement in architecture. The
Mansard roof will not be tabooed as wa
; currently supposed since it it is framed
with iron trusses 1t is eap&ble Of beinI
| most stable.
The sensation of the week among
musical and dramatic circles has bee
the appearance Of Nine Pauline Luce
in Opera. Her first appearance wa
5 made in LA Tavorita' and during 1t
e performance the delight and applaus
! of the audience knew no bounds. Sh
was encored again and again and sho"
cred with bouquets. The prima DOM
. is very slight in figure, beautiful IN fef
q ture and of great dramatic intelligence
: Her voice Is simply marvellous, an
V when her musical abilities are taken INT
consideration, With her perfect acting
she well merits her rank among IN
; greatest tragediennes upon the lyrl
stage. NIDEo.