Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-04
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
Dearth OF Sensations at the Uub--B.au-
ties of Cambridge-Attracti at
the Theatres, Etc.
BO,rON, Aug. q.

the Theatres, Etc.
Bo,roN, Aug 81
To the Editor of the Free P'css and ri,ncs:
Business in Boston is undeuianlv du!l.
and now that Gen. Grant is cutum5ed AT
Riverside and anecdotes about him are
beginning to be less common and siucc
the Charles River mystery has grown in
to rather an old story, our newspaper pub
fishers are at their wits ends for some
thing to interest the public and establish
II better sale for their respective sheets
They still have the Fisher Hill inquiry.
But alas while they had confidently eX-
pected that base OF supplies to hold out
until October, the investigation is al
ready nearly finished. Mr.. Simmons sent,
or carried, in his resignation last Satur-
day, which he says the mayor accepted
But afterwards Mr.. simmons acted rs
chairman OF the water board and the
same day was removed by the mayor.
Now he says he can't see how the mayor
could remove him when he had already
resigned : and other people cannot see
how he could act as chairman in an Office
which he had already resigned. And so
the whole thing is as it has been from
the beginning, 'all in Il muddle,n as poor
stephen said.
In spite OF the fact that Boston people
are all ont of town there are Just as many
people in town as ever The streets are
always full, and but for the shut up
houses at the south and west ends and the
Back Bay one would not mistrust there
had been II general exodus for the cOun
try. OF course, the reason lies in the fact
that hundreds of people. both from the
country aud the western cities. choose
summer as the best time to visit Bosom
one can see scores of wcsterners any day
downtown, aud pick them out just as un-
mistakably is country people. They are
well dressed and stylish, but there is a
certain freedom IN their manners which
shows them not to have been subjected
long TO our "BOstOn Culchaw.' Perhaps
1t is no loss to them They are wise in
coming here in the summer, after all.
Boston and her suburbs are at their best
in hot weather. There is nearly always
an east wind towards the latter part OF
, the day here, which prevents the tempcra-
cure from being as oppressive rs it other
wise would and the abundance of rides
in every direction ont from Boston, must
he taken to be appreciated. For instance.
take Cambridge. The visitor who goes
over there from Boston for the FIST time
in winter will nine times ont of ten. vote
it a drcarY old place which seems to have
been frozen stiil into the conventional
forms of Harvard college, Is il was fifty
years ago. There is seemingly no life
there the climate is bleak disagree
allie wind is always hloWiu.t and The Iono
hor.e-car ride over West Boston bridrr *
enough TO CONCEAL the very marrow in
ones bone. But take the same ride ON a
bof Iny Let tbn Erui he fairly hli.farIn"
ON the brick walls and pavement, of Bos-
tnn and thrrr j.. ntyypv. a drli~htfuI r..
ircShing breeze across the bridge. And
the view down tIr Charles River and
across The BncE BAY rr..inn i, simniy
rharnin~ The Ioll row, Of mnnsinn. re-.
hected in the wafer are said to be almost
an rvnrt ranrndncfion Of VrnIce me
stnnnth brnad surfacr Of the Charlr, dot.
trd with sails both lace and sinai, AWAY,
makes n nrrttv nictIIrr fo witch Brnnk
line and Rnyhurv ON the green hills he.
vnud lend the f1i.hinr tnIIch Thn Gle
/ cant hnuses with their y4Il-Ernt lawns
Iny0nd Cnmbridren0rt are enUngh to OK
cite the envy of any common mortal and
rho nnnrunch to the cnllrrrs * only a fore
tnItn ~ thc hnnntv surrnnndinr Harvord
! Sn1arr ia he SIRE in summrr one miss
| a.. thn hundreds of collroe students vho
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