Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-13
Ell Perkins ON boston.


Eli Perkins ON boston.
Eli Perkins thus writes to the
New York Sun from Boston:
"For two years / have heard
about Boston art-furniture, Boston
pottery, and Boston church-archi-
lecture. Whenever l have talked
to Boston man about our grand
old Trinity Cathedral in New York,
he has always elevated his nose and
said:
Poohl poohl Come and see
Philip Brooks Boston church be-
fore you talk about New York
churches"
"But our Catholic Cathedral"
90 fudge on your Catholic Gath
edralp' interrupts the Bostonian.
81 tell you Boston leads the world,
sir, in art.decoration, art.furniture,
and art-architecture. You New
Workers must come over to Boston
and learn how to build churches,
sir. You must come to our art
schools, sir, and post up."
Feeling our utter inferiority to
the Bostonians, | determined to
worship to-day at the shrine of Bos-
ton art First | went to the finest
porcelain and bric-a-brac house in
Boston. There | found some bean
tiful things and then piece
of old Ell, and specimen Of gen
uinc ol0Nimoges ware.
"' | tell you these are genuine
said the clerk, 'and cheap, too. We
bought them at Tiffany's auction.
We took them right away from the
New Workers. We
"But, without hearing the end, l
dropped the piece of antique cut
glass which has just come in from
a Newark glass factory, and started
for the st. Peters of Boston
Philip Brooks Church.
cit is indeed beautiful church
The chandeliers are grand and her.
aldic; the decorations are made in
those warm, medieval tints which
we see in the 7O0-year-old cathedral
at Cologne, and the architecture
leads one back to the most p C.
turesque era Of the Renaissance.
Here were warm splotches of ochre
and lumber, lighted up with gold,
and the bluest of blue, and the red,
dest of red and there were colossal
frescoes of David and Saul, and the
Twelve Apostles, all done in the
extreme pre-Raphaelite style.
p" 1T is indeed BEAUTIFUL, said.
You Bostonians do know how to
build a beautiful church. con-
fess now that New York is behind
in art. | confess that we must
come to Boston to study art-lurni-
ture, art-architecture, and art-deco-
ration
Then, overlowing with admir-
alton, | turned to the sexton and
asked:
"' What is the name of the great
artist who decorated this church 2
"'M. La Fargo, from New York.
replied the sexton; and we paid
him $4,000 for doing it,
"' And who made the beautiful
organ? Not a New Yorker, too,
was it,"
'' Yes, Roosevelt, the New York
organ maker, made it. Isn't it
beautirul?'
And tine carpets Z
"0h! A. II. Stewart & Co. wove
them for us
"And that beautiful chandelier
which hangs from the dome-was
that made in Boston p
"' No, that was made in New
York, too, and brought over. Perry
made it,
90 Well said |, turning to the
sexton, 4 suppose it was enough
for the Boston people to make the
building. They couldn't attend to
the details. OF course the archi-
teot lives in Boston r
$50, no! Gamble y Richardson
are the architects, and they live
oyer in New York
:" What Do YOU tell me that
New Workers made Philip Brooks
church p
GO Yes, sir; New Workers made
the building.
Then what did the Bostopians
make about the church, any wayT
| asked, half bewildered.
e' .Welh siY,' said the seEton,
drawing himself up proudly to his
full height I'VE made the cushions
9nd put down the earpets-qyepy
dang sle Of 'em sIE'p
ELL PERKINS.