New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-27
TOPICS FROM THREE CITIES.
BOSTON,.
Harvard AND BUTLER MUSICAL - LII
ERARY

TRY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSEl
BOSTON, May 26-The public are growing weary
IN. Coverpor and the Legislature are getting
cross over the dragging Tewksbury Investigation.
m. covernor having got his in, has intimated
,hrongb hi. spokesmen in the Legislature that this
business may as well be closed up now. Mr.. Brown'
however the counsel employed by the Marshes orig'
nally and latterly by ubc-spritedc anxious
for the vindcation of the States good name states
that he has 40 witnesses in rebuttal whom he pro-
,,oses to examine more or less But again, the Gov
ernor is so clever at cross-examination that he
manages to worry enough out OF each OF Browns
witnesses to pay him pretty well IN pickings 1or
banging ON to the controversy.
The testimony this week has ranged over the
whole ground from medical treatment and BABY
farming to jaunts of a professional paupor from
Tewksbury to Europe and occasionally to the Dos
ton hotels in company with fellow-lnnate OF 'ho
other SEX Now and then points are made Dy inc
cross-examnation that reveal some laxlty ana INC
unavoidable suffering of any almshOuse butthe nor
rors have all been taken out of "Tewksbury." Inc
impression Is gaming ground even among 'ne
rnIlibIe masses for whom the entertainment is kept
I'M. that il is pretty small business for Governor
The meeting of the Corporation OF Harvard UNI.
vcrs;ty on Wednesday was brief one. not over nan
nm bour in length and that all that is to De known
.hopt il at present. As considerable routine Dusi-
meas WAS accomplished il is quite certain that the
uuestion of comforting the degree OF LII. d. on the
Governor of Massachusetts tins year was not dls-
cussed. much less quarrelled over, as some news
n.ners have it, 1t will probably be settled at the
adjourned meeting the 31st. Much advice from
abroad is being given the Corporation and Board
of Cverseers. which latter Board must finally deter
mine after the former has presented the name. 1t
IN all very we'll TO advise taking the obvious
course of deciding the matter Buffers personal
merts But there are other things to be considered,
nuch as the handle Butler would make OF
the denial to him of the traditional homage TO the
Office in denagogic. appeals TO the masses against
Harvard influences. These give thoughtful ana
conservative men pause. There is a strong party
among good haters of Butler who will oppose max
ing n martyr of him where nothing but forInaiity
il involved as when the degree was gwen TO the
Know Nothing Governor Gardner and to Nj Banks
In view of the low grade of Aldermen and city Of
ficials generally since the Butler regime was lnau-
xurated, the appropriation of S7Oo'O0O Tor wafer
supply Improvement wv. A. Simmons is one OF the
new Water Boari) agreed to by the Finance Com
mittee gives taxpayers a twinge.
An extraordinary speech in the Board OF Alder
men made by Pennsylvania German member
whose son is an orchestra vlollnlst apIopos
of petition for permit to build music nail over
a aisused graveyard, charges that Mr. Higglnson,
the banker who has supported at lavish outlay
aud loss two series of symphony concerts conducted
by Mr.. Henschel, is trying to create money-mak-
Jug monopoly in music and drive out all the resi-
a.nt musicians as well as the great organ. MIR.
Higginson now owns the majority of the stock OF
Music Hall and condescends TO make no reply, ex-
cspt by perssting in his purpose to have things as
he wants them. He advertises for chorus singers
and il is feared that the Handel and Haydn Society
may next have to go the way af the OutdOne rival
synphony organizations. The guarantee fund OF
the Handel and Haydn triennial festival had to be
drawn upon to make good the deficit OF $4,000
this year. ..,-.-. .. 49, '.---.'
The foreign exhibition to be held here next fall
runs against a stumbllng-bock IN the new tariff in
collecting works of art abroad. French and Italian
artists indignant and disguised with the United
States are refusing the agents OF the exhibition even
the works they had promised.
Among the new books of the week here are Henry
Cabot Lodges Daniel Webster" vigorous and
racy volume and extraordinary sclentlheo-soclety
novel, the plot of which turns on the birth. to
high-bied couple. of a black baby, the young hus7
baud being q negro without knowing 1t, and the
hereditary characteristics appearing in his offspring
after skipping one generation.