The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
Our George at the Hub.

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When went to the wharf there was the Capt.
and Billy Eaton, and Steve Downs, and Joe
Patterson, all laying for me, and they put me
up at rattle to who should treat me the best
[ looked through THAT little hole in the otfice
window, and William smiled one of his ehrlv
| spring of 'S3 smiles, benign smile, yes, bv
8 smile, and launched out the key to the bridal
| state-room. | think he mistook me for Ey-
Gov. Sprague on his wedding tour, and Joe
Patterson urged me to come into the office and
run my hands through his hair. It's imitation
of seal skin you know. Then Downs he got
me and with the help of two walters he filled
me full of supper, and wanted me to let him
| bring he in lunch in the middle of the night
but | rebelled at that. I'm just like gun, if
you overload me kick, and as for eating lis if
| were twins. won't do it. The Cambridge
was feeling us gay as lark, and with her new
paddles, will be very popular. | don't exactly
understand the theory of this invention. bAt l
know the old ones used to sound and make the
boat feel as if some one was pounding on the
side of your room with a sand club willie
| these new ones strike the water sort of on The
| bias and don't beat its brains out so much. It's
big Improvement as all will see who take rIas-
sage on the boat hereafter. At Rockland met
Manager Gushing of the Mt. Desert line and|he
| introduced me to Capt Dennison, and we En-
Spected the City of Richmond, and she il a
daisy too. | think it would be good ideal to
! cast away some other boats if they improve as
much as she has after the resurrection. 1t
was as foggy as the star route testimony and
| Capt lngraham dreaded to 60 out the channs -l.
| ! told him twas pity that we did not haye
some of the old Peter family, so he could Sehd
one ahead on foot with lantern and then We
could follow him. We got out all right boE-
| ever, though how in thunder anything but hn
old Tom cat can see in the dark don't unddr
| stand
When we got here | did not see that Bost% On
was much if any ahead of Us on early SPRING
| The grass nor the trees We're not any more fdr-
ward than at home, People said the grass W rs
| quite green on the Common as though That
was something very wonderful Now don't
see anything so remarkable about that. If THE
grass had been sky blue, or red. or yellow, pr
| terra Gotta, or something like that it would
| have made Belfasters eyes hang out, but sinh
| pie green grass don't scare US a Bit Well, |
went up to look at it. All along fremont st.
We're piles Of of-we, I'll call it fertilizeb
| The horse railroad co. clean off the snow DUP
ing the winter from their track and dump it On
the common. Now snow with Ms j. snow, bqt
in Boston snow is mud, and filth. and manure .
and when the wet melts out III the spring amid
| leaves the residium mote that word) it, breath
smells as if it had been eating limburger chee4 e
when you pass near it. As the Lord Chancep
| lor in lolanthC would say
| I'll go up on the Common and see the green
| Said to myself, said /
| lis place that Boston likes to have seen,
Said TO myself, said |:
But didn't stay long. as YOU may suppose,
For the scent that got from Bostons SHOWS
| Didn't smell to me like the otto of rose
Said to myself. said l.
There is one thing in Boston that | don't BID :
eve she will stand up under oath and say She
is very proud of, and that is her Cd grave yard,
that are distributed through the citI. There arb
| a couple on fremont St. for in>tance--one next
| TO Murlay's old church. and the other neNt ID
the Boston Museum. Both Of those places ale
perfectly haldhcadcd as far as grass is concern
ed. If grass was worth $40 blade man
| could not get enough to buy dinner out OF
| either of them. After Il man has been buried
one or two hundred years YOU can't expect his
old chums ito that his graves kept green. +
or any other color. And suppose that corpse
himself gets careless and don't take the pride III
| keeping his headstone polished up and set
| plumb that young corpse would, Now |
don't believe that if convention was called
of the old veterans in those cemeteries. and
the case was stated fairly to them, and thew
| were assured that they should be put to no ext
pense in the matter and that each one should
have new marble headstone, with modern lett
tiers on it, With Il dove and square and cont
| pass cut on some Of the heightened ones, that
there would be corpse there that would cast ID
dissenting vote on the subject of removal. WhvI
if those old citizens could Just step out to Mtl
Auburn and see the style that is slung thereJ
they would not stay where they are another
day. | never was oyerburtlened with reverence !
but hang me if did not feel tempted to buy I'd
peek of grass seed and SOW it, after had pick1
ed up two OF three carloads of rocks and old
boots and rubbish from off the graves. Boston,
| is too handsome and nice city to let herself bel
disgraccd with such eyesores as these
Since was last here the Metropolitan Il. RI
have changed their bell punch for gong bell
that is placed in the end of each car. and big-
ger nuisance never was perpetrated on the pub
nc. Take that ringing every time fare is taken
| and the other bell ringing to stop and start the
car ana the passenger gets no peace at all mi
m iC l.
by machinery is a lamentabe failure. 1t isl
amusing to sit in car and watch the passen-
gers. Every domestic who has been in the h lbit
OF answering the bell at home and every hotel
waiter, will jump up and start for the car door,
every time the bell strikes. before he thinks
where he is. And then that gong will ding
and hand will register up a fare and every
passenger will inwardly curse the inventor, and
hope the conductor will soon find way to flank
it 50 that the company will take it out. There
is i curiously worded notice in the ears I'll
states that the conductor must ring the bell
for each fare taken, and then adds in large let
tiers, this Sunday school line,
''NOT TO DO so Is WRONG"
Vow. if they would only add right under it the
slang phrase,
"IF YOU DON'T yoU WILL GET YOURSELF
DISLIkED,'
l think the notice would be without fault.
Jordan, Marsh Il Go. and X. II. White & Co.'S
establishments are doing an immense business.
there cannot be doubt Of that, but that they
are selling goods any lower and in many in
stances as low some of their smaller neigh
bors. there are several large sized doubts
Their advertising is very big and it shows by
their trade what advertising will do if the adj
vertiser is courageous. have it from good al-
thority that the two page ad. i'll the Sunday
Herald, cost $500. and have it from still bet
ter authority that the same adj. In the Sunday
Globe was $500 BY the way, the Globe has
got ahead of all the dalies except the Herald
but it will be long race before it catches that.
G. ii. Taylor, the manager, is wide awake the
greater part of the twentv-four hours. and he
makes things lively around that office. When
he finds dead man Oh his staff of editors or re-
porters he Immediately buries him. | think
eventually Charles will have electricity applied