The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-22
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What an Emporia Tourist Saw in Boston.
ANNIsnrAM MISS lima

What an Emporia Tourist Saw in Boston.
ANNIsoUAM, Mass. June
EDS, News: The hub of the solar
system. according To DIR. Holmes, lies
under the state house in Boston and
every Bostonian from the smallest news
boy TO the reverend doctor shows that
he is imbued with the same idea, if we
may Judge from actions. Catching the
same spirit from the atmosphere with
perhaps little more reverence gained
in boyhOOd from distant view and an
old Massachusetts teacher to explain
them, entered the state house grounds
and under the shade of the Horace
Mann and Webster statues viewed the
sights and scenes before me. The stale
house is q beautiful building and if no
other monument of the character of the
people should remain would amply H.
iustraic the land of baked beaus and
steady habits.
Briore US spreads Boston common,
whose undulHting surface covered with
green grass and shaded by over 1000 fine
old elm trees forms il scene of rural
beauty in ii large and busy city. Hardly
foot of IFS 73 acres but has some new
attraction for the eye.
1t is great resort and at any time
during the day is crowded with people,
induced there by its many statues, beau
tiful lakes, rare exotics and refreshing
shade.
Entering street car We are whirlt-d
along toward CharlStown neck and while
on the way allow me to pay tribute 10
the horses of Boston, and not so much TO
the quality as tn the way they are used
In all my Journeys on the horse cars of
this city have never seen a whip used,
thanks la public sentiment. In Chicago,
Washington and New York the driver
seemed to pride himself on his ability
to apply the whip. In New York es-
pecially this was SO. l remember one |
instance where Il horse fell down three |
consecutive times from no cause but ex- |
haustion and on rising WAS goaded by |
the whip and urged to further efforts. |
l left them in mud hole sometime be. |
fore ! reached my destination. But |
heIe We are at Bunker hill and the mon |
ument, |
On a square plat of ground, raised |
four or five feet above the level of the |
street and surrounded by an iron fence, |
stands the monument of Americas first |
great achievement. Closing our eyes we |
try to imagine the clatter OF the cars and |
the huekster's hollow call 10 be the clash |
of arms and the British commanders |
urging their troops up the hill, but "A |
little newsbOy breaks our reverie and we |
gave it up until We could visit come his |
tory class 500 miles away. The color |
of the granite column is similar to SAT |
ford stone, and covers an area thirty |
- Gi,fo &c l. s,sl
the summit is reached by a winding |
stair, consisting OF, 295 stone steps, 1 |
did not count them; | commenced, to,
but l sat down to rest several times GO
ing up and my mind wandered. | was |
fully reraid for my efforts on reaching |
the top, however, US the view is magniti- |
cent. An entrance fee of twenty cents |
is charged before you can ascend. This |
is used in beautifying the grounds.
Taking a Washington street car, We |
arrive at the old South church, the most |
venerable of all the monuments in his |
toric Boston. Situated as il is, in the |
heart of the business portion OF the city, |
ii is u great temptation to many hard |
listed and mQney-loving Yankee. But a
few have overcome their love of an hon.
est penny and are trying to raise $780,
600 10 buy il. l never took off my hat
SO easily in any building in my life as /
did when | paid my % cents and was
admitted to the auditorium. The
church has galleries upon the two ends.
The one opposite the entrance bears the
| inscription, "The door where Washing.
ton entered after the British lcft'' To
the left, "The window where Warren
entered to deliver the Grafton upon the
Boston massacre" Around the room
are arranged show cases filled with an
| cIent mementoes of the revolutionary
| times. The walls are hung with the
| paintings, maps, &C., of those times.
| Among other curiositIes / noticed an
| autograph letter of Lafayette; the chris
tening cap of Joseph Warren, also his
day book; Washington's chair; the orig
| inal flag, also the following certificate
| of the board of health:
| Boston, Mass, June yc Is, 1776
| This is to certify that Ebenezer
| Thompson has been so smoked and
| cleaned as that in our opinion he may
be permitted to pass into the country
/ without danger of communicating the
| smallpox TO any one
| JOHN SCoLLAGG,
| WATT APPLETON,
Selectmen of Boston.
Gaining q south end car we soon ar
rive at Dorchester Heights, in South Bos-
| ton. 1t is a hill of quite an extent, like
ly containing five acres. 1t is bounded
on three sides by brick buildings and on
the fourth by the reservioF for the Ros-
ton water works. Upon the summit is
a monument, said to rest upon one of
the ancient Tamparts. From its sum-
NIT a beautiful view of the harbor is
presented, but il has been filed up so
much that old outlines cannot be traced
The navy yard and schools must pass
Suffice il TO say that had the pleasure
of attending the closing exercises of the
Massachusetts University, where Mrs
jackson, sister-in-law of Marshal Bell,
| and former teacher in the city schools
has attended the past four years. She
graduates this year with high honors in
the medical department, and will
soon depart for the west. I have
| occupied the past few days among
the museums of the city, principally the
Boston and Cambridge museums of nat,
ural history, but viii not weary you
| with a description of them. I am will
ing 10 raise my hat to these magnificent
buildings costing upwards of 500, GOO +;
to the $1,000 to 10000 specimens; TO
the many men who have sacrificed their
lives and fortunes 10 secure them; TO the
. | faithful teachers and the few faithful
students who are found therein: but
. the average Harvard student. who parts
! his hair in the middle; has his twelve
courses and fine drinks for dinner; ca
rouses around ali night and the follow
ing morning searches out some hard
working student, gets him into some
: shady nook ard copies his exercises as
: seasoning to his revel. I-despise.
For true, practical education one
that will fit boys and girls for the duties
OF life / have found none rs near my
ideal as the schools of KaHsas. They
: contain less text ard more fhinking and
New England is fest crystaIlizirig
around her old ideals and il viii be Iefi
j for a western Agassiz with western ener-
gy TO use these vast recommendation OF
! science aNd art. FIX.