Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-27
Our Boston Lc,ier.
CITY FIRE LOAN-vIENNA FAIR-THE NEW
sENATOR-FIRE TUBE-sT. PATRICK s
BOsToN. March IS, 1878.

CITY FIRE LOAN-NiENNA FAIR THE NEW
sEHAroR-FIRE TUBE-sT. PATRlcK's
DAY-lIR. BELLEw-MME. JASAUsCHEK.
BosroN, March IS, 1878.
General regret and disappointment is
felt in our city in consequence of the
adverse decision of the Supreme Judicial
Court upon the constitutionality of the
act authorizing the city of Boston to is
sue bonds in aid of rebuilding the burnt
district
The parties who have already enjoyed
the incidental benefit of being enabled to
negotiate mortgages with private parties
upon reasonable terms, will now be com
PEELED to look elsewhere for their
money; but there is hope that funds to
sufficient extent may be brought in
from abroad by some concerted plan of
action, whereby the requisite aid may
be secured at moderate prices. The de-
cision of the full Court is. that the OBJ
iect of the expenditure for which the
loan is to be raised, being private and
not public, in legal sense, the act eX-
ceeds the constitutional powers of the
Legislature, and the city cannot legally
issue the bonds for the purposes named
in the act. In the judgment Of the
| Court, the right to incur the obligation
of paymentby issue of the bonds implies
/ the right to AK in order to provide for
that paymentA Now such a tax would
not be in favorVf public service or of
an object whia concerns the public
welfare, since thepreservation of indi-
vidual interests of Foperty or business
is purely private object. The pro-
ceeds of the bonds arsto be expended in
loans to the owners fine estates in the
burnt district, to promBte rebuilding on
the land, and such buildings will be de-
voted to private uses. The Court there
fore considers the gam TO the public
welfare to be so slight an\incidental that
any resulting good to th\mass may be
left entirely out of the qltstion.
The contribution of the cy of Boston
to the group, at the ennaExposition,
which comprises q education teaching
and instruction" has just bed placed
on board a United States vesseA bound
for Trieste. An idea of the maaitude
of the articles forwarded may n OBJ
tanned from the fact that two thOuAnd
feet of lumber were used in constructhe
the cases in which they were Forwarded
The aim in making up this collectio
was to represent as fully as possible tn
school architecture of the city, th
school fittings, furnishings, apparatus
books, maps, charts, globes and ever
appliance which is found in our bes
equipped schools, from the primar.
grade to the State Normal. All the dif
ferent articles were made by those manu-
facturers who are deemed most reliabl
in their especial departments. In tn
collection there was also work EN-
bracing eight large volumes of scholar:
drawings and nine volumes of write
exercises of various descriptions. Schoc
architecture is represented by forty-tw
great photographs bound in two port
folios. This branch at the Worlds Fai
viii allow the American nationto displa
their perfect educational systems, @
which they may be righteously proud.
Brookline, one of Boston's most beat
tiful environs and her most immediat
subject for annexation, takes to hersel
the notoriety of being the birth place
George S. Boutwell,, who has been cleo
ed by the Legislature of the Common
wealth to occupy the position of Senator
: made vacant by the choice of Henr
: Wilson as yice-President The cours