, 1876-06-04
BOSTON,.
Anniversary Week--Grand
Reunion at Parker's.
What the Rural Naw-Englandar Thinks Of
the Westerner.
Ben Butler and His Good Looks---oue
Of Wendell Phillips saiuts.

Special Correspondence u The Tffouns.
BosToN, May 31.-Anniyersa1y week, which is
Boston's grand finale Of spring, is just now In
full blast The city streets are oVerdowing with
strangers, and visitors from the rural districts
are tn great force. It seem to be time Of gen
eral reunion, and old Bostonians who haven't
the New England appetite for daily meetings
have great relish for Anniversary week on &C.
count Of the opportunity it gives them for see
ing some far-away friend. Mrs. Spofford, the
poet aud stosy-teller, used to say that II you
waited long enough III the Parker House dining
room you would meet anybody that you had
ever heard OF, because, sooner or later, every
body goes to Parker's. This certainly comes
pretty near the truth On Anniversary days.
Going In there Monday, caught glimpse Of
Emerson's placid face
BE1A1Na OVER CUP OF TEA
at literary admirer, and, before the cup Of tea
was replenished, saw Alcott and Lowell and
lalf-a4iozen other lights, amongst whom we're
two or three prominent journalists. But the
people best worth seeing after all are the rural
visitors, whose good time is written In legible
characters on their smiling lips and in their
seeking eyes.
as Walt Whitman phrases it, there is q verftable
result Of good which Is unmistakab1e. don't
think, Us lar rs my own experience goes, that
have ever known more earnest state OF feeling,
aud d greater interest in Anniversary days, than
is manifest in this Centennial year. And,
thus far, the most interesting meeting has been
Charged convicts. Edward Everett Hale
was there as Chairman, and amongst
the speakers was your quoa9dam townsma9,
Everything went as smoothly US O croquet-ball
on freshly 1y-trimmed lawn, until
THE REV. LAIRD CAME BOWLING IN THROUGH
THE WICKET5.
He had listened to Nr. Joseph Story's story,
Of how much good the Society was doing, and
how grateful certain convicts were for the MD
that lad been given them after their discharge,
until VIC began to think that about all the good
In the community was in this worthy Society,
and that convicts were really very interesting
and individually rathcr good set Of kind
hearted creatures who only needed to be
told what to do in the way Of chari-
ty and the rest Of the virtues to
In this n,ilennial state Of things the Rev. Laird
came. He said there was nothing he was more
interested in than this convict question, and he
thought that Wewcre In anything but q mlllennlM
state in regard to it. He believed the prison
one OF the grandcst opportunities ths State had
III its hands for reform. and he told the story
Of
THE GERMAN oBERMEYER,
who visited the Munich prison aud found 1t a
perfect hell Of horrors and abuses. Allowed by
the authorities TO try his own plan with it,
which plan was to make the prison home
where beautiful influences should be employed,
he made it SO successful that the whole King
dom gained BY it in better law and order. One
Of the details. Of his management was
that every prisoner should receive wagcs-that
is, protit-when his work had exceeded in COM
putation the allowed margin OF State remuncra-
tion for lis expenses, and this profit to be
E1~
and duly credited in . bank-book. This system
Mr., Collier declared was o greater help to the
morals Of the convict and the community than
anything else. By this, the convict Ind an in-
centiye to work, and could taste the fruits Of
honest labor. When discharged, he needed no
aid by funds. Hc was prepared to meet the
world, both By his experience in labor and the
ready money which, he had himself acquired.
From this success in Germany, A1r. Collier ar
gued, We might all take lesson in this country.
THE SPEAKER or THE MASSACHUSETTS, HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,
who had preceded M1. Collier in Ills remarks,
had implied approval Of capital punishment.
Mr.. Collier at once disclaimed all sympathy with
great enthusiasm. At the present moment,
perhaps, Boston was never SO agitated in its
mind generally and individually On this qucs-
tfon. And never, perhaps, SO 4nitedly in sym
pathy with the death penalty. The recent mon
strositics Of crime in the case Of the boy POM
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