, 1875-03-07
THE HUB.
Frozen in Five Feet Deep---The Sail
Sled on Charles River.
The Oyer-Soul at the Radical
Club.
British Bounce in Boston.-.The Occu.
patton md the Man.
The Dumb Animals and Their Fair
Helpers.

.. The Dumb Animals and Their Fa
Helpers.
Special Correspondence Of The Chicago Tribune.
: Boston, March THE long "cold snap
which has been celebrated in all the newspaper
and commented on by the Oldest inhabitant
! Unprecedented, has at last broken its stiff bacl
and come down in.o the region Of thaws IN
south winds. The plumbers have driven
brisk busineas in Boston aud all its sub
urban towns, and the expected question
winch ran through tho down-town-goipg car
in the morning xas, "Hou did your pipe
stand It last night )" The most careful
OF builders, who had buried their pipes, as the,
supposed, out Of all freezing danger, wer,
caught this season- Think Of the ground beinf
frozen feet IN dtpth for forty or fifty days
|sThink OF the Chares Rlver being akatable and
eledable for milea and miles along the shore,
from Boston prope to the end Of tho eastern
Gne- With the tlaw that comes so suddenly,
| with the mid souti winds that blow to us from
the Florida reefs. tho bltha skaters and sleddera
| find their occupation gone, and they are
literally the oily class who do not
rejoice IN the let-uR Of the Arctic days- It will
take longer time % undo the winter-work be-
meath us. to thaw cut these feet of solid earth
granite. The correspondents who tell OF The gay
| dangers Of the 3ommon-coasting forget to
| paint the prettier ;cone on the Charles River,
where the boat~elet, with white sails, takes the
north wind and dats of On its swift and grace
full cruise. The Cournon panorama, Ga pecially at
night, with it's staging spanning the coast
ground, and the hundreds Of double-1unners
galy decorated vita Chinese lanterns, Was
LIKE cARSryAL-scESE At BONE,
harring the axtreue cold; for it waa perfectly
easy to fancy thoB swinging 1anterns, as they
zushed past, part md parcel in the Romish fes-
tival But the siEat Of the Charles Riyer from
some standpoints, n nipping day, when the very
atmosphere had ar frozen look, and through it,
3 mile away, you ould sos the sled-boat, or the
boat-sled, lotion nothing but COM
mon sled,-with ita trim sail stand-
ing cut ag6nss the frosty sky.
IL picture that olght to have been painted BY
Do Haas hi1nasH. Some Of the Boston artists,
however, have ben wise enough to make special
studies of the Unusual landscape and seascape
viemH this winter and next years exhibition |
days may show atain 4 glimpse OF tho Charles |
River Ia Labradr.
And speaking o. the artists brings before one !
tho late artists' 1oceptions, which called out |
great desl Of diettante criticism, considera-
bic enjoyment, md altogether wcre 70 good !
they ought to iaye been better. Artists and
artists studios. aid their receptions. arc always
the fashion In Boston, especially with tho
vodnen-folk, yous or old. The pretty, clear
skinned, talhsh, a,d finnish belle OF Beacon or
Mount Vernon stpet will think it fine thing to !
drts her rufHes and dounces over the artistic
oaro boards OF the rising or unrisen young
painters studio. who may or who may not haye
; Spark OF geuiw. And she'll
STAND AND HRr WITH Him NJ TIE HOUR,
when all she knsua about him is, that he spends |
als tluae IN whatshe calls High Art. He may
smell Of endless !ohacco-pipes, and look as if be
hadn't slept for the pass week, and, moreover,
'he will accept I'll, and come and come again. ,
md invite him to her kettled1ums if only be !
Lac been spoken Of as = possible star; where 1
g tho clerk. who may be ten tiues more
Feyer gain moments recognition from her. E
nd never, except on business, cross her mar
he balls or putlis foot upon her Persian par (
oF-rugs- This sounds. perhaps, 1nvidious t
I'd personal. Il is nothing Of the kind. 1t is 8
o bs mFa hE Rsag sngS @ the ss vey mistaken
his day, u reproach all over tho land Boston b
! English, it Las often and often been said Il =
very true; but it ia English, not IN p
r. 7:3,,. broad sense Of John Btieht's and
8E1B8 ]
70 who waik about, true TO the life
i Irollope's n3Fels, and talk about "trados-
en, and "noi IN society," you know. It is this T,
,lr1t which separates the man by his occupation h
ID makes the ucupataon stand for the man too q
ten. The tint artistic occupations and The ! n
:ofesslons have fne faI}oWs in their ranks but J b
icy have also a
THE USUAL QJANT1rr OF EAvEs AND FOOLS. ii
MayfoUer hston is shrewd enough to know "a
1s 1act; nI she 10 bound to her old British b
1Uaf f7nr hnfr e. I
:, and turns ler back upon the people who are IA
not in society you know, that is, not in the NJ
ayhower sat. If this seems oyerdrawn or | te
e1udlced, have only to cite real case that b.
me me under ny own observation. In one Of the th
ost claasic tnd literary of the suburban towns, tb
little NaytoWer, about to give a ciids party, | or
8 reading over her list. Presently came a | hs
me- unknovn to the parental ear Who vas vi
8 small unknown He7 Inquiry At last les
1 OF 4 tradsman in the Mayfower Enelish | ex
guage aad upon this knowledge, Miss May Sd
Her vas bld to erase the unknown name aY
aa Is au eoct fact. It was simply matter Of
;upatl'n, snd the Boston British way OF rer
lgans npot L. But that there are individuals dn
aoer thantheir class in this old circle, no one
l1es; and. man and woman Of this stamp
ven the LOTT NTH sw eetness uud make ma hope- an,
Of broider future. Perhaps it is some la.
aS, some ,utgrowth, Of this narrowing spirit Co
has set Of
TIE LITERARY TIDE pri
y 1ofKwafas. For there is no denying that ret
rising tiee, spite Of Boston's literary tone !.
tendern.ss for literary people, is turning to tha
. York Host Of the younger literary men Of tha
<, and many Of the women, have made New 9th
k their home. The literary genius needs :.
ID breathing places, and, though Boston is aud
posed 20 be intensely radical, every Bos- | to
an knoTs it's only struggling protest, which 81
IT'S oTn itnitatious, and generally keeps ala,
lin theological boundary, which is narrowing bio;
1e sense e1 ITSELF. Mr. Henry James, tho fear
nad essayst aud scholar, who, By the way, pret
IT .ths Antntc story-teller, but his respected the
nt,-toucied this very question OF needed -.
9TH in sodety, at the recent Radical Club. | held
essayist Q. the morning was Mr.. Cranch, the tain
and painter; and the subject OF tho ESSAY, | the
mbolc Conceptions Of Deity" Ths various NOV
ons present-amongst whom were Mr. Gam gror
Janes Freeman Clarke aud William J.
er-kept cfoso to the spiritual idea Of the
'ola. It remained for Mr. James to pre-
the only practical and alive view of The sub into
Mr Gannett had inst said that he found ~
'est symbols in modern Science, and could | the
OF God as the Universal Ether, -
ever that may mean. Mr. James then spoke to
nd asked Mr. Gannett il he thought his cond
ol was capable OF yetifcation, and said that will
- saoaa oa eae symbol IN this world OF | ADM
:; that society should surround and yiyify | aspe
1diVlduai: that We hadn't any society now &.
wa4 9f much helm tn .nyhndr'a | at N