Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1883-08-18
RObb's RannDlcS.

ICllcCIudi nihuChSSS die ldhCH lutO Ine
accounting. Boston disappoints one.
It's principal Acknowledgements
as sinuous as a politicians career. l
went on its cast side at II a. m. to get
out of the sunshine, and in a block
had to cross to its west side to secure
the same result. ! had to keep cross
ing and recrossing, like the nimble-
footed terpsichoreans in a contra
dance. Washington street, like every
life, starts out with great directness,
but reaches its end after many deAec-
tions. Architecturally speaking, it is
like syllabub-far from satisfying.
A magnificent structure stands shoul-
der to shoulder--no, hip to shoulder
with little, old fashioned stable-look-
ing thing, which almost dates back
to the parlous times. The old build
ing makes no pretensions, so it is not
fraud; the big one is. 1t is a bit
Corinthian, a bit Composite, a bit
Ionic, bit of all the notifications of
the three, bit of the architects fam
cy, and all Bostonesque--I coin the
word. The little building is to archi-
lecture, what Bret Harte's
sold green coat with the rolling collar,
And large gilt buttons, size of dollar,
is to the efforts of the tailor of to-day;
while its snowy mate, with its good
workmanship and bad taste, is an
architectural dude. There are parts
of the city--its southwestern section,
and where the 'great fire" was-that
present as fine an array of buildings
as any city on the continent, but the
architects pencil, like the trail of the
serpent has been "over them ALL" Not
competent to criticise? Well, per-
haps not; but seven years among the
adobe buildings of Arizona and Mexi-
co does not alter my preference for the
airy grace of Corinthian column, and
the rich ornamentation of its cornce
and frieze, over the demonstrative
practicalness of the staid old Dor,c
with its triglyphs thrust obtrusively
out between cornice and architrave,
or the ola podrida of a Boston front.
Boston is territorial gourmand. It
was an unpretentious burg in 1904,
when it absorbed South Boston; and
its appetite grew with what it fed on,
till it had swallowed East Boston,
Washington village, Roxbury, Dor
chester, Charlestown and Brighton.
1t has nearly 400 miles of streets,
(more length than from Utah to Mex
ico), and population that is fast in
fringing upon 100000. 1t has schools
to be proud of; libraries of which the
nation is proud; great importance as
a commercial, manufacturing and mo-
netary centre; proof of the public
spiritedness of its people in its hospi-
tails and asyI1ags; b tiful and bright
women; Fai Haf,Atoo much hu-
manitariani5 Yendell Phillips; a
common council Chat can get away
with a car load of champagne in one
racket; lot of culchaw;a a mania for
transcendentalism, psychology and
philosophy, and the Common. /
don't like Boston-guess it won't af-
feet its growth don't like it because
of its false humanitarianism, its entire
abandonment of itself to the idea that
the red man is noble, and the white
prospector thief aod murderer.
Don't you remember, dear readers of
the BELT, how New York shuddered
wben California went back on decla-
faslso pdence-principles in
regard to the~ 6nend lectured
her about the "free and e4NAihsnsi-
ness? and how she shudders now = NO.
she has the proof at her own door
about the undesirability of Chinese
emigrants? Just so would it be with
Boston if the Indian question were
illustrated in the same way. If
Apache wickicups were clustering
about Jamaica Plain, and raids were
made from them upon wayfarers; if
all their roads were. fringed with
graves; if their judges were compelled
to witness the ravishing of their
wives; if their children were Drained
if year after year rapine and murder
made desolate roof-trees, and still cold
bodies, do you thiuk Boston humani-
tarianism, and Edward Everitt Hale
and his foolishly sentimental followers
would prate as they do? Not much.
Their OK would be getting gored.
Boston was founded in 1927 by coun-
try gentlemen with religious zeal, who
wanted to 'spread the gospel and ad-
vance the glory of God" and they did
it, though they took the lands Of the
Indians, and killed the owners to pre-
vent any dispute about the title. For
the killing of one white man they dec
imated tribe. The "glory of Goo" !?