The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-21

Observations Made by Richmond Visitor
20 the Boston Fair-Boston Ladies, Street.
Cars, and Labor.
Boston, September IS, 1882.

BOsToN, September IS, 1882.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch
There are many things here in Boston TO
take a strangers eye. especially a south
erner. And first OF all do the ladies attract
his attention, and this is not to be Won
dered at when there are 10000 more than
there are men. cannot say that they are
pretty az q class, stylish, or dressy. This,
however, may be owing to the great num-
ber OF working girls, whom II is little
hard to distinguish. They wear without
exception the prettiest, neatest shoes ever
saw.
STREET-CAR LINES.
The wagons, hOrse-carS, and indeed the
vehicles OF all kind, are Of the strongest
build and finest finish. One notices this
directly. | cannot say their horses are
very fine, certainly no better than ours.
The best Of them are driven to the street.
ears, which system, by the way, is said to
be the finest in the world. On fremont
street, facing the Commons, they are pass
ing all day long in a nevcr-ending process
sion. do not eXaggerate when say they
do not run over one hundred feet apart
1t begins to look, judging from the sur
roundings Of Boston, that the dav is not
Bowdoin or Scolay square and ride all over
Massachusetts. There must be
A SUPERABUNDANCE OF LABOR
here. Men, ! Judge, are never employed
when women can do the work. Go where
YOU will-to The poSt-ofice or other public
buildings, 20 the restaurants or dry-gOOds
stores-and YOU are invariably waited on
or ushercd about by woman. Ut Is all
very well for them to have a chance Tor
making an honest living, but it is accom-
panied with disadvantages. Like the Chi
nese, they must dive away other labor,
since the males can never be salts
| fed with the same wages. 1t Is
! TO be hoped the men are thus COM
pelled to adopt those trades and those
pursuits for which they alone are fitted.
There are few negroes here, OF course,
which fact gives rise to another pcculiarity
which is not more characteristic OF New
England than OF the North generally. But
still il takes us some time to become accus-
toned TO il; and that is to have nicc-look-
ing. i'm some instances fine-looking, white
men-voung, middle-aged, and elderly
waiting on YOU in every capacity, from
backing your boots to shaving your lace
and driving your carriage.
! WHAT A STRANGER SHOULD Do.
\ stranger who goes to work systematic
colly can see great deal OF boston III
few davs, cut up rs it Is, worse tlian al!
city | ever imagined. lie should away
b,v q euide-bOok containing map OF INC
city. With this he is enabled 10 learn "a
0lance what miles OF walking or oil ridlh2
viii never teach him-that j., the relative
|
and direction OF the main thOroughiarcS
and the points Of the compass: lie snouIO
tLon find out from his guldc-book TIT
chief attractions for stranger, ana rc''
coref,llv what i said about them; lo
he will most likely run across III
one either with the time or lhcllii''
ton TO point out or cNpIalh; III III
DAYS journey should he settled Delo[e
hand. Thus he will save hls llihp. anu III
time. He will be surprised IN a le" .C ia!
TO find what progress he l. lllahlhS; ~! nu
i'm four days your correspondent lau Nlslte
and lnspected-and that Without any SIo:
,',.ortion-the State-lIOuSc, pO>t-oilce-l
fact. Ill the Government buildlh2s-li .ti
vard University, Mt. Auburn cemetery, IN
Ca,bodr,l oi the Holy Cross, Old Sout
church. the Museum OF Fine Arts-lnueco
all thr famous buildings or pieces G
Statuorv i'm the city or its suburbs. lheI
is a great deal to he seen III lle liiilncui"'
, neighborhOod OF Boston, ana the Sllalist
should 10y all means take the @ haiIoH
c,o,,f,e railroad across the Chelsea Terry,
East Boston, passing Point OF Ilhe'' ~
we're Beach. &C., down rs 1ar is
LYNN, TUE GREAT SHOE town
5 ~, Massachusetts,, where, by the way, ther
! "a civ Hall of Just such proportions IN
4 no't should imagine our city need
Thouoh every town, city, and corpora'io
j =, Vey ENGLAND seems TO consider 1t
I sncred duty TO erect its monument 10 u
. 1"fal,en heroes Of the rebellion. TO
; ..,,escrvers Of the Union" one Is stru.
! ,,itb the much greater Importance gwen
Y ~ Revolutionary and Colonmi heloe
7, EYorvwhere and at every hand you are II
+, ,,,inded Of Paul Revere, John Nlnliiiol
= Iobn Adams, Generals warren N"9ni"'
/. ton Hamilton, and their conlemPoI'l'o
! ~ course there are statues OF Neps.ei,
G Sn,,ner and Of Lincoln, but they 90 II,
: seem TO figure so conspicuouSN' SUN
: this ought to be ,o,-,,
sorpCE OF PLEASURE TO EVERY sooll
s ERNER,
! ,,.botevcr his sectional feeling, he c'
: ,d ao ouobt 10 take as great interest anu
= a, ',." vide in these old heroes as the nio
!; 5eyotad @ New-Englander. Wine gon
e t%rouch the Hemenway gymnasium -
p Wary9rd IIa | wished very mucn i, ior AZ IL
/ l;nNdl in1n q, the Richmond gymnasium III
il ni,.mrnic Rowing Club. description +.
n ~ building and its apparatus Wou,u !
) tnrest eve bnt few OF your readers sum-. :,
70 70 saw that it was the GIT OF one ho ., mo y
oIumni ~ cost over 800, ana Is liie nrI l.I
eomnIete thing OF its Kind IN Tue "oi'
(. A visit 10 .uusv
:. or event long to be remembered; d,'I hg
Is na a1 ind. magnificent collection Oh stun
" ture and antiquities, paintings, ara" =, eu; nE
= nN eu, decorative art. II has been III e1>'
anoo a,,o onIy twelve years, but Is no" Ch'
- enah,;shcd enc1 S institution. hope Mr. 'm' ~
eSlan,,'f ,nn of your paper, who Is mere ", "
terilian, Bon - some description OF IL. =, !
sna',tI'v men of Boston are pup.,lP ,i,,,a Pacc, 81
Me"Sn dagree with which we are nl.lc am az,
ad 10 ~ This is noticeable at every ro es "
tongu, ,he commons and public squars,ih n,,h
- IN '"T Ihraries. cemeteries, anu ,P,S Puy
the ,ons m ON nearly every statue Is .Ili a;l;1
scrintion: "Presented Dy 1ed 70 conf
r sS'it - iP"ston.v | had Intended : - the N n,
st. myself mainly to description ro,og,,e !, IS
rs yys,and lnysI,m fair. but find my pf1iosSo vour
40 90 Eng's,u ,h.t Ia ! am constrained TO peg ygul 60
~ long tlat i,,;sinO az, TO confine mysen ~