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Affairs Mt the Hub-rhe Waking of the
s-Amusements of the Season.
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AHHtrS at the Hub-Ine WAXING OI tne
Societies-Amusements of the Season.
BosToN, Oct. s,lsS5.
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times:
Among the numerous societies for i'm
provement in various directions in this
city of Couture, that word has become
so common in this connection that quota
ton marks are almost necessary the
Appalachian Mountain Club. This society
numbers some six hundred and fifty mem
bers, and is nearly ten years old. Its pur-
poses are mostly geographical or scientific,
but the members do contrive to have the
most lawfully jolly times, don't you
| know" Every summer there are several
excursions of from three days to week in
length of time, up among the mountains
somewhere. From fifty to hundred
generally go in one of these excursions,
and as there is most remarkable spirit
of clanship on one of these jaunts, the
result is always jolly good time. But
for all that, they do not forget their under
| lying purpose, and the most reliable au-
| thOrity i'll regard to the heights of the
! White Mountains, and many lesser emf
nences, us well as paths for reaching the
/ top, has been furnished by the "Appala-
ChaDs." The two professors at the Cam
| sors at the Institute OF Technology, as
many more college professors, and other
men of note belong to the club. 1t neces-
sarjly follows, then, That there should be
/ tangible reSults-and many of them.
| They have taken several long trips the
past summer, among which, the week at
| Mount Desert, the week In Franconia
Notch, and the week in Vermont at Stowe,
Burlington and Lake Champlain, were the
most interesting. The last named trip,
nnI MI sli 1N
was exceedingly satisfactory and those
/ members OF the club who had not previ-
ously been informed in regard to the beau
ties Of Vermont scenery, We're quite
charmed. The last extended excursion
OF the season comes off tins week
in a trip to Wiers and Centre
I1arbor, crossing Lake Winnipesau-
kee and climbing Red Hill. Most of
the members are inveterate walkers, and
can easily climb IL mountain four or five
thousand feet high all the way on foot.
One member-the champion walker
makes nothing of walking about the sub
urbs of Boston, twelve or fifteen miles a
day, and sometimes put in his twenty.
He acknowledges himself beaten only ny
the man who walked forty miles in wO
hours-by racing back and forth on the
deck of one of the steamers that ply be-
tween Burlington and Plattsburgh
The other societies, which have been
dormant all summer, so to speak, are
Walking up tlu getting ready 1Of winter.
The Natural History society held their
} first meeting last evening. The Society.
of a its hold theirs tonight. The Boston,
Scientific society have been in session foI1
some time, while the Historical and Gene
illogical society have been result ectIng
family pedigrees and tracing connections
for Il fortnight AS soon as tn lowell
Institute begin their annual course of lee
lures we may feel assured that the liter
AIRY" season has fairly begun.
At the theatres, all of which are at last
open, there is little that is new this week
| except Rosina Nokes at the Globe This
little English woman who has Just begun
her tour of the United States, has made a
decided success. She is said t. be bright
ness and grace itself. The Excelsior Folly"
company at the Bijou and May Bios
som" ut the Park are drawing their
share of attention. At the Boston,
; Shewell's Shadows Of Il Great City"
which was so successfully presented there
last season is being brought out again
with good success. The play is good
one, and the theatre which everybody
knows is the largest, and many think the
best, in Boston, Is well filled every even
7 ing. Rhea comes there for a week on the
e 10Th. AT the old and standard Museum,
this is the fortnight for the time honored
, custom of annually reproducing old and
! tavurite comedies which have long been
the delight of the English heart John
= Gilbert is here in school for Scandal"
t "Old Heads and Young Hearts, The
| Road to Ruin" etc. Regular frequenters
of the Museum could hardly be p rsuaded
= that there is another theatre equal to it in
5 America. And indeed to the playgoer
5 who delights in thorough acting acting
l which is.even and natural straight through
5 there is Il satisfaction to be had there
: which can be found no whore else in Bos-
1 toL. 1t was simply IL delight to listen to
4 Booth, supported by the Museum com
: pany last spring. And now John Gilbert,
e sustained by such actors as Barron and
/ Jack" Mason, Mrs. Vincent and Annie
t Clarke is well, good.enough for the most
/ eXaCting. Gilbert in the school for
4 Scandal" is already well known to Bur
5 )ington people. The exquisite art with
5 which he presents the character of Sir
t Peter Teazle in all its unity, with never a
2 stroke too little or TOO much is beyond
n praise. Yet, if John Gilbert goes to Bur
{ lington this year, why, gentle reader, don't
fail to see him only you can't see him
with the admirable support of the Mu-
scum company, and that adds half.