The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-21
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Meeting OF the supreme LOdge-nostOn
Observation-Disclosures Of the session.
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Meeting of the supreme LOdge-HostOn
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the session.
BosroN, MAS, May 18th.
Correspondence oithsIutsllgeneet.
In a former letter 1 told you Of the pro.
gramme mapped out for our entertain.
ment while ~sojourntng with the Bos.
tonians, but had no idea then what Bos.
ton hospitality meant. It has been one
perfect ovation, as It were, during tile
entire week. On Wednesday night the
Boston Lodge Of the X. Of II. gave us q
complimentary entertainment and ban.
quet at their lodge room. This is the old.
est lodge Of the order In New England
and numbers between three and four hun
dred members, The occasion was one
long to be remembered by all present.
On Thursday night banquet was given
at the hotel New Brunswick, in honor Of
the Supreme Lodge by the Grand Lodge
Of the State Of Massachusetts,. The Grand
Dictator Of the State W. Hopkins presid.
ed, and we were honored with the pres.
ence Of his honor Mayor Prince, Col.
Beard, collector Of the port OF Boston, and
q number OF other celebrities Of the city.
A number Of toasts wereread and were re.
sponded to by men from the different
States OF the Union. Very eloquent
speeches were delivered, and the very best
Of feeling pervaded the entire proceed.
ings. | would like very much to give a
synopsis Of some OF the speeches made,
but time or space will not admit ofjt SUI.
fee to say that one would be led to be-
lieve that the time Is fast coming, II not
already here, when VIC have no North, no
South, no East, or no West, but when we
will all again be n common country.
Especially did Massachusetts and South
Carolina express the most friendly feeling
toward each other.
On Friday night the Supreme Lodge, by
invitation, attended the Globe Theatre,
where one Of Shakspeare's plays was rem.
dered IL fine style.
This afternoon after the close Of the
Lodge, we were the guests OF the city, and
in company with the Mayor we took a
ride in Boston harbor and some distance
into the ocean. We visited all places OF
interest in and around the harbor. Forts
Winthrop, lndependenceand Warren were
seen as we passed close by them. Some
hours were spent on Deer Island. We
had the pleasure Of passing entirely
through the Prison aud Reformatory
School. It is known To all %Conversant
with Boston and vicinity that this Island
is used as q city prison, and there are now
confined there about eleven hundred
men, women and children. The children
are divided into two classes. Those who
have committed crimes, such as thieving,
&C., and those whose greatest and per.
haps only crime is that they are what we
might call confirmed truants.
It is proposed to give here a complete
business education, and from what l saw
OF it | Judge they are nobly doing it. The
system and order about the institution is
most perfect. The girls and boys were as.
sembled in the main hall and favored us
with several songs sung in the most beau
titul style. Boston proposes to do her
duty in educating all her children, white
and black, and it would do well for other
cities to pattern after her example. l wish
l could give an idea OF the beauties OF the
scenery in and around Boston at this sea.
son Of the year. It is simply indescribable,
and one Il sled to think that in some, yea
in many respects, that it is the greatest
city in America, and from its refinement,
its institutions OF every description, it is
Justly termed the "Athens Of America"
! have now stood on the top of Bunker
Hill monument; have trod the floor oil
Faueuil Hall, and have gazed on the old
North Church, in whose spire Paul Revere
beheld the beacon light which was the
signal for him to mount and ride all
through the gloomy night to alarm the
patriots for the bloody day Of Lexington
and will you wonder that l felt patriotir?
1t is surely enough to make one feel pa.
%triotic, and u Southern brethren who
are with us say that it makes them feel
that they never wish to see the war cloud
darken our horizon again.
The Supreme Lodge Knights OF Honor
will close its session either Monday or
Tuesday, and then it will adjourn without
doing all the work that should be done.
The Order has grown to such magnitude
that those u~nacquainted with its workings
would be surprised to see the amount Of
work necessary in its legislative body. But
the work could have been done sooner
had the members all been willing to vote
more and talk less.
We expected to find the weather very
cold here, but we find it warmer than at
home. Vegetation Is far behind what it is
at Wheeling, but the past week has brought
it forward wonderfully.
INCIDENTS.
Among the speeches made at the ban.
guet none was better received than that OF
Judge Cochran. He brought down the
house with his humor. Judge Carlisle. Of
South Carolina, said in his remarks that it
was difficult for him to tell whether he
was a Yankee or a South Carolinian. His
State had seeded once, but they found
that 1t did not pay, and there was no
danger OF them doing SO again. Col,
Jones, Of North Carolina, said that ali
that was necessary to have the most per.
feet good feeling between the two sections