Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
The Raid on the Parker House--A
Batch OF New Books - Music-The


The Raid on the Parker House-A
Batch OF New Books - Music-The
Boston Club.
Special Correspondence OF State Journal
BosroN, April Eve had first day
of April here at the Hub last week. 1t is
very possible that you had one too. But
we had the beat "fish story Of the
season that day. There is law in this
commonwealth which forbids the catching
of pickerel in Jamaica pond-just beyond
Boston OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the LIST Of April
in each year. Last Friday afternoon the
early edition Of one of the evening papers
gave a glowing little item concerning an
lS-pound pickerel which Il noted disciple
in the piscatory art had caught in the
morning. Crowds of our deluded fellow
citizens went out to Jamaica pond to see
that impossible fish, and no doubt the
trip improved their health, if not their
tenpers.
The Herald perpetrated neat little
thing in this line about seven or eight
| years ago, when the latest excitement Of
| the day was the "Woman's crusade" An
| item appeared in all sobriety, that lst of
| April morning, to the effect that the
| women belonging to the movement in this
city had resolved to cruise against the
| Parker House at certain hour OF that
| day and that all women interested in the
reform We're invited to join the ranks.
| The procession was to form at the
Women's Club, then in fremont Place, oil
| Beacon street, and was TO proceed directly
| down Beacon and School street to the
| hotel. Now the Parker House is perhaps
| the worst thorn in the flesh of the Boston
| teetotaler and the announcement delighted
| the hearts of this class, while it some
what astonished many others, but ven
ture to say that not dozen Heratd
readers "tumbled'' TO the joke. AT all
| events the whole space in the neighbor-
hood Of fremont Place was packed and
thronged with people-including those
who were waiting for the procession that
they might join it, those who only wanted
to see the fun and newspaper men who
wanted to write it up-for a couple of
hours that day.
| happened down town. solemnly
assure you that hadn't seen the morning
| paper and got mixed up in that crowd
| and wondered what ON earth it was ali
about. When | found out and went
home to dinner and told the joke, GER
tain habitue Of Parker's chuckled and
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of how the Boston Post once sold the
entire town one bright April morning, by
publishing wonderful account of the
discovery Of a cave on Boston Common
There was meeting in fremont Tenn
pie the other afternoon, the object OF
which was to raise the fund OF which
wrote you last week, for publication OF
embossed books for the blind. Governor
a. IL
Reys. Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett
Hale, James Freeman Clark, and other
noted men. Among the exercises, per.
hals the most interesting thing was the
reading by Laura Bridgman, the deaf
dumb and blind girl who was brought
from utter darkness into comparative
light by DR.. Howe, years ago. She read
by following the raised text with on,
hand, and giving the words with her Other
hand into that Of another blind girl, VIII,
repeated them aloud.
one of the recent events in club lii,
was the ''ladies night" of the Boston
Club--tormerly the Banks Club. Togiv'
"ladies' nights is quite the rage will
all masculine clubs of late The Boston
Club has met weekly at Parker's eve
since the opening Of the house in 1855
with the exception of few suinmr
weeks each year, for the discussion o
! elibles and politics. The claim of it
t President, Gen. Banks is that the club i
and ever was fres from political Office
seekers. however. Many noted men liay
: belonged and still belong 10 this club.
was here that Charles Sumner made hi
last speech, the night before he left Bosto
Tor Washington.