New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-22
A CENTENNIAL kPlLOGUE.
LAST NOTES OF THE CELEBRATION.

yIINpffS TIM DAY At IfNiNHiON AM '"NN'""
PERSONAL EXrERl ENCES-PNiNS AND PLEASURES
oY A CORRESPONDENT. MpRAL REFLi CUoNs.
IrsoM STAFF CORRESPONDENTS or rHE TRIBUNE!
Bo>roN, April 20. Tho Centennial Is over and
think the people Of Lexington and Coneo.i' ana Oh
all the towns in a circle OF 30 miles. wou4" nave al
thoy could 90 to-day TO call tho roll anu
ascertain the number AMI names of the Killed
and wounded Mother of the hmonS
hattlos nassacras SkirmiShes. musSes OF
whatever we may acres 60 call them c'n'd nave
civea so much troaOle in cleaning mp aiIo'WAld
rs this clorifca ion of them has. Ii was like con-
,entrsting all H. Joys aud fears triais aud tnulnPaN
prosperity and privatioas Of the whole heVV-
lutiouary War into day and anybody VINO
went throaCh it, and came out Whole III
body. and .ound in mind ought To bless his stars
In my long scrced, tclegrapaed to yon iato last
night limited AZ 40 of the hunors ~ The day
brt il wond take two or three Dcllenscs rolled INTO
one to do any sort Of Justice 60 the occasion nS
whole. Tbs day in CoacOrd was ontiroly different
from, r,e day in Lexington, and whoever painted
il Alright must SIT hIs palette anew for the ne" pc
tuIe Just about the square, as call II. IN Concord
there was considerable hUrly-buriy AM h'te
inoumtehankery. but this was of "a rather reserved
md philosophical character and seemed to have been
thought ont aud evolved from the depths oil inc
moral consciousness OF the fellows vino TOOK tarIlH
it, They had an air. IL the midst oil their WIFI toH
fUOlcfy. l they knew hdph WIZ ~
familiar way of the towu--mlght happen 70 stroll
that way. and they didn't want 10 he found out oil
harmony with tho sphere, and al, chat sort OF thing
Then AGAIN, any one of the Concord school girls
might come along in Ia mediiative way, with hor
Wilhelm Meister in her hand, i'll tho original and II
she could sec the market-plaee of the early chapters.
with ts jugglers. aerohatS, Mignons ana the resi-
repeated before her eye. she could not well refrain
from translating her delight into dimes. There were
two men in q cart who looked hko p:eceHtorS out oil
work who sang ono sans song tho live'opg day,
sometimes to the tune OF Old Hundred ana III
others TO that of Dundee" and they reached the
end Of each stanza one of them doubled ap shoot
of music into horn aud tOOted on ii IN such per-
fnctory cold-b ooded. depressing way as to make
nj least one OF the spectators think there was moi
much worth living for.
The business publication of the day reached It's
climax in these piOus tinerants and the rest or the
fu, such "a thsre was. was of an accidenfal cDar-
acter. For the crowd in general there seemed to be
only two reasons for coming 20 Concord-on to got
something to eat, the other TO get away 10 Lexmg-
ION In, first mo ye drew the crowd To the square !;
and if they had money, and were not particularly
hungry they went to the Biiddescx Hotel. where
YOU paid dollar for the instructive pleasure ol fcan-
ing bill-of fare and being told that whatever lon
s.lectel WAS all COMO When you had g0rged your
self on this Barnecide repast you had highly
Favored dessert in the conversation between the
rambling Othollos Of the so-callod diningroom and
the Biidies, who engaged IN the unnecessary
task of washing the dishes. On coming ont into the
opon air you fOlt you watched The rural military
on the green that you capable IN your own per
son of forming a hollow square. If Oh the Other
hand you had money. and were very hungry You
oond dwell with humble livers in content. and pick
ing up piece Of cheese frOm one barrei-heat, ana
some crackers from another, bard-boied egg or y
piece Of apple pie from other stands. the wolf might
be kept from the door for a half hour or So
The people who did Mt want to eat, and did Mt
want to got away. enjoyed well rs any one could
in such cold weather. the strOlling about the town
looking at the historic places, visiting the homes OF
Hawthorne, Emerson, and ThOreau. the iuil-sldc
where the fight took place. and if there was time
the lovely cemetery who're the graves OF hawthorne
and Thorean lilo under the arching sky beneath tine
budding trees. All this independent of tho OH
cial anagement. and this, which was better in Con-
cord than in Lexington, miserably inefficient
here Don't think me growing. here is one wide,
universal groan here over the abomiDable miSnian-
sgerncDt of everything. IL is all very well 10 say
that few towns in the country cOnld have drawn u"
gethcr three such speakers to their celebration rs
Emerson, Lowell. and Curtis. Bat, how did they
treat them when they got them The tent was
shabby circusteni, the seats broke down. and moth
ing but the knowledge that they not far from
tent and inside between the seats and the teDt-edgr
there was more disorder and rowdyisln than is
often seen at an average circus in the country You
Gan Judge what it must have been when you read
that Mir Hoar had to appeal to the mob as Amer
lean gentlemen" to behave themselves with dccency.
and TO let Mr.. Emerson be heard The police weTe
AL the day and every where. purely ornamental. OF
no than pockets in u shirt. l wroio you
yesterday that President Grant aud his party drove
from the tent to the station of the Mddlesex Central
where special ia waiting to take them tn
Lexington. AS it turned ont, however, the whole
party had TO drive TO Lexington, for the swarining
mob took possession of the train and held it until
the President and his party had TO succumb. when
the train unwillinGly took its deadhead load to
Lexington. The they novel away from the
Station presented the same extraOrliuary spectacle
that all the did yesterday, nothing being visible
Of them but "a strip of wood work below the windows
Men and boys standing, lying. sitting on the top OF
every car loading the platforms and with lego and
arms out at tho windows. from dozeas Of which the
glass was smashed. foar the railroads will say of
this day with Brahma, when they cotne to reckon
the profit aud loss OF yesterday
"They reckon ~ WIN leave me out"
Seeing that there chance of getting TO Ley
ington by rail. and the stable keepers laughed in
your face when you asked for vehicle to drive,
footed the six miles as had done the day before
though then did it for the pleasure of it, But TO
get to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning after aging
"good night" TO the telegraphers then To get up
sharp 6 and wrestie with a letter to lie sent Of
at $50. then TO rub ones against the nutmeg
crater Of the door ofthe FitchbUrg Railroad medieval
station for half hour to stand all the way the
cars Concord, learning by sad experience how bob
feels on fS W AZ A so nd 50