New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-21
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BOSToN-CHICAGO-SAN FRANCISCO.
BOSTON.
THE SENATORSHIP RAILROADS MUSIC =
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lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUyEl
BOSTON, JAM 20.-lt must be confessed that tho
Butler bosy was worked for all II was worth in tho
Senatorial canvass. Now that Mr.. Hoar il safely
reelected 1t begins to be seen that his supporters
were more scared than hurt by Butlers share In the
opposition. No doubt ii Is the game of Buterism to
encourage such apprelensons regarding its leader.
Inc popular notion that he is omnipotent and omni-
present is part Of his stock in trade and serves to
Initiate his Importance before the country For ex-
ample, it now appears that Butler took little or no
interest In the election of tie President of the State
Senate Colonel French's (the Casa gnac of Butter
ISM public denuneiatiOn of the few Democrats who
voted for the successful candidate was well-sni-
ulated rage to convey the idea that the other Re-
publican candidate was Buffers man. and that
some deep aud midnight compact had been broken.
Nothing of the kind existed except for the purpose
of buldozing" aud consolidating the Republicans
Butler, in fact, has privately conceded the reeec-
ton of Hoar from the first as not only inevitable
but proper. Ii is more likely that Ex-Governor
Long cast wicked sheep's-eyes at the married
Widow than that the Widow attempted to seduce
HIM in the matter of the Senatorship Long is left
badly by his bOl1 and selfish game of mastery mac
tivity C1apO's precise position is less clearly un-
derstood: it certainly requires deal of explana-
ton Half dozen versions of his telegram to his
supporters. who finally went over to Hoar have
been published. But the fact remains to his credit
that they did the business. They got the idea that
Mr. Crapo really wanted Mr.. Hoar elected, whereas
Longs men got the idea that he wanted to beat the
Senator and in fact the ex Governor gives himself
away as the man who was beaten" " in his telegram
of congratulations 10 Mr. Hoar.
Another airline railroad from Boston to New
York has been laid this week "by newspapersv
The New-York and Boston Inland Railroad Com
pany has at last received charter from the Rail-
road commissioners. This is the scheme which ,st
winter intamed the Back Bay and Brookline,
BOstons finest residence quarters to white heat Of
Indignation, by proposing to cut its straight line
directly across the park and down the Charles
River. on piles hundred feet away from the pro-
jected ornamental embankment, to reach terminus
at the very foot of Beacon Hill. An act of the
Legislature was rushed through to defeat what
everybody regarded as q blackmailing scheme. 1t
now appears that the Railroad Commissioners arc
satisfied, at least cannot withhold O charter all
the prescribed conditions being complied with.
The road is not enter Boston, as before planned,
but scarcely less audaciousy proposes to come in
over the Providence line, which it joins SIX miles
out. and to occupy that cOmpauy's palstial
station in this city. There Is probably
nothing in it at ALL however. The projectors are
not men known here or in New-York capitalists.
They are half dozen men OF moderate fortune,
as railway kings go, from Fitchburg, Portland,
Watertown, N. Y, and such places, with penniless
professional promoter at their head, whose reputa-
ton is enough TO sink ship. Nevertheless much
attractive newspaper talk is made about shorten-
ing the journey between Boston aud New-Yorx by
thirty miles aud to ga or 4 hours. As usual nowa-
days, those convenient English capitalists
.oing to see it through The trIhing hitch remains
that the new line has no entrance into New-York,
not even on paper. 1t is itself lot worth talking
about
Lemons Redemption" or "GounOd's In
junction." as it is now aiternativey called, has
been enOined. According to the prayer OF Theodore
1homas who as Novello & Co.'s agent, sold tho
right 10 perform it In Boston to the Handel and
haydn Society for $1,000, it will have 10 be
given at the Boston Theatre tomorrow evening, if
at all with q Dianoforte or cabinet organ Instead
of with orchestra. .dyertlsed. The hearing IN
the United Sra es Circuit Court on tuesday was
one of those interesting occasions when eminent
scholars and critics called into the witness box.
Professor J. X. Paine, of Harvard, Mr. William +.
Apthorp, Of The Transcript, Sgnor
vincenzo Clrillo, Mr. b. L. Woolf,
Mr.. George W. Chadwick and other well-known
composers were called to testify on tine point
whether a pianoforte of orchestral work
could be rewritten for orchestra by other than the
composer and do justice to his work. Messrs.
Paine, Chadwick and ApthOrp testified on the
plaintiffs slde and Messrs. Woolf and Cirillo for
the defendant.
There is much qualification in art circles here
here over the reception of the Boston Painters
Exhbi ion in New-York coupled with regret that
the distinctive Boston school of landscape has never
been appreciated in the commercial metropolis
heretofore. Hubert Herkomer is here with his
pictures. The Boston Art Clubs winter exhi bition
opens next Thursday evening.