The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-03
BosToN, May 30. 1873.

themselves 10 Tue last ucTrcc. That the pro-
ducts of their hard labor may serve to keep
some George or Charlie. or John. at Middle
bury or Yale, or Harvard until such dav
as they may welcome him proudly back to
the old homestead, armed with his sheep
skins, and crowned with his college laurcs {?
Do we not ourselves know. reader. of
many and many a mother to whom new
dress would he no more than chld's toy
compared with the ability to help her boy
or her girl to reach Il higher intellectual
plane than she herself was ever permitted
to attain
In many instances likewise the same may
be said of those who are not mothers. |
bear in mind now Il woman of the latter
class She took little brother diving
mother left in her charge, tended him and
cared for him saved the money she earned
by teaching and added to her little fund by
sewing until nearly midnight night after
night that she might keep him at school.
and finally with the results of her savings
sent him 10 college. This is but one of
many similar instances, did we hut know
them. We can forgive Professor Agassiz
the statement, remembering that lac il not
to the manor born, and the men and women
may have been different in this respect. in
that "yale of the beautiful Pays de J'dud ;.
whence he has wandered so far away with
nature, the dear old nurse
EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS.
And speaking of education we are re-
minded of the State exhibition of drawings
of public and free schools, just now being
held in Horticultural Hall. Drawing has
been apt to be considered as belonging to
professional artists, or, carried to a small
extent, without system or science, as an
accomplishment for girls in boarding
schools who lay it by with scarce Il thought
when they emerge from school. People
are beginning to recognize. however, the
Importance of this branch in its bearings on
education. Hence the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts has passed an act requiring every
town of five thousand inhabitants or oven
to provide for its introduction into the pub.
lie schools and for the instruction of the
teachers in the art. 1t would require more
space than your columns will allow to lay
before the readers of the GLOBE the mani
fold advantages arising from the study OF
this art. The exhibition is really worth
seeing. Some of the pictures reveal real
artistic merit, and many are quite excellent
We noticed many of the architectural de
signs, and designs for calicoes Oiled-cloths
ETC., from the Industrial school of the In.
stitutc of Technology, which showed mucl
merit All these schools represented her,
are free.
| Boston is quite alive on the subject
She was not content with home merit but
sent to England and imported Mr. Smith
who stands very high at home, being en-
dorsed by Ruskin and others, whose wore
on this subject is law, to teach her Teachers
how to draw, and how to teach drawing tt
the rising generation of Boston.
THE FIRE.
Since the above was penned Il secont
great conflagraton has visited our devoted
city. Long before this letter will be laiC
before the readers of the GLOBE the new.
of this second great disaster will have cir
cled the globe. Not so fearful in its ex
tent by far as the terrible fire storm of No
vember, it will, nevertheless pass into his
tory as one of the greatest CONGREGATIONS
next to those of Boston and Chicago, al
ready known, as the greatest in the annals
of this or any age.
At half-past eight on Tuesday mornin!
the alarm sounded, even while was writ
ing, and not until one o'clock in the after
noon were the flames under control. 1t i
estimated that between two and three mil
lions of property have been consumed
Washington street, at the date of writing
is completely barricaded, in the vicinity o
the fire, with blocks of granite and varou
other debris, so that it is rendered utterl,
impossible. Had it not been for half o
Patrick Donahoe's new Pilot building, OF
Boylston street, there would have beel
nothing to prevent the flames from seiZin
upon the Masonic Temple, whose magnifi
cent proportions fronting on fremont stree
are directly in the rear of Haley, Morse an,
Boydens, in whose establishment the fir
took first. AS it was, had the wind bee
in any direction at all opposite from wha
it was, nothing could have saved this beau
tiful structure, of which Boston does wei
to be proud. The flames seized upon til
spire of the Presbyterian church, "A larg
brown stone structure on the corner o
Beach street and Harrison avenue, and al
ter burning slowly for some time, wer
quenched by firemen, who, with great Ia
Dor, assembled inside the spire, dragging tn
hose with them, after about fifteen feet O
the spire was consumed.
Several firemen have been seriously il
jured, and the report tonight is that 81
were in the Chauncey Hall school buildn
when it fell and were buried in the ruins
God grant it may prove no more than II
port, though there seems now TO be gray
reasons to credit the tale.
tn six minutes after the fire was observe
to catch upon the top of the Globe theatre
the roof fell in, and in an incredibly shol
space of time the flames were leaping froi
every window and sending up vast volume
of black smoke, and soon the walls topple
and fell into the street with sound lik
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