Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-15
BOSTON LETTER.

An Autumn Week at the Hub-A City
with an Historic Past and Brilliant
Present-A Day at Hsrvsrd-The Aztec
viliage-The Bay state Fair.
While it may be impossible to say much
that is new about old Boston, still there are
many good things at the Hub" which are
pleasant to contemplate, and some new
ones which may be interesting to speak Of.
From the cesseless striving after the new,
which characterizes our more western cities,
it is at times refreshing to visit a
city like Boston, where the old
bears the palm, and where it is conspicu-
ously, even boastfully, so designated. We
have here the old South meeting house, the
old corner bookstore, the old colony depot,
and old Fsneuil hall, all reverently pre-
served and appropriately inscribed. Some
of these at once suggest thrilling historical
memories, and the old corner bookstore
brings to mind the fast disappearing coterie
of celebrities, such as LongfellOw. Lowell,
James I. Fields and Bayard Taylor, who
in this famous nook, in the heart of great
city, were wont to meet and talk over their
joys and trials as authors, publishers, poets
and travellers.
From the Old South meeting house, now
converted into a sacred receptacle for his
tOrical relics, the society which wOrshiped
there for over century, has moved into
what is now one Of the modern architect
ural glories of Boston. The so-called New
Old South church." with its graceful tower,
magnificent proportions and sumptuous in
terror, forms one point of triangle on
spacious plaza, of which that grand struc-
ture, Trinity church. and the new art
museum form the other two points. Here
on quiet Sunday morning of bracing
October air and cloudless sky. one could
well imagine himself in Munich, or some
other European city of classical taste and
orrate, though solid architecture.
When one hears. in Trinity church. the
impassiOned, electric eloquence OF Phillip
Brooks, that prince of pulpit orators, from
his own pulpit, he no longer wonders that it
is impossible for any stenogrspher, however
skillful, to transfer to paper verbatim re-
port of his stirring discourses. Seldom
glancing at the book in the liturgical serv-
ice, he breaches wholly without note or
book in one unbroken and rapid stream of
native and apparently unstudied eloquence.
DAY AT HARVARD
at this time of year, is a treat to the eye and
a tonic to the mind. To stroll among the
trees and gaze upon the score of superb
edifices which go to make this renowned
university. should inspire the dullest soul
with thirst for knowledge. Turn this
way or that, and the Harvard statue, the
Washington elm, the Library hall, the Pea
body museum, or the Austin Law school
building call to mind the association of this
grand old institution with past history or
the munifceDce of later benefactors.
Possibly In its way, nothing is more
striking than the vast dining hall of the
university, an edfice more like cathedral
than hotel, with its gothic arched ceiling.
stained glass rose window, paintings and
busts of worthy personages, and its lsng
rows of tables supplied with immaculate
linen and shining silver service. Thus,
whether he studies or stroIls, eats OF sleeps,
the students within these favorite precincts
lives in an atmosphere redolent with elevat-
ing associations and incentives to mental
and moral energy.
! THE AZTEC VILLAGE
and Mexican fair now being exhibited at
the Horticultural ball. is among the most
unique present attractions of Boston. Here
are shown, not only a complete village of
native MeXicans, engaged in the manufac-
ture OF innumeraoie articles OF ornament
ana utlllly' Whlch are soid as mementoes,
put thefe Is also eNhioited ruiy renarka-
DIS collectioh Oh mexican antiquities ana
more Ihodern ooJecls' ranging In point OF
time from tne earliest prehistoric Aztec
dafs' uo"h tnrough the period OF spanish
conquest, ana 10 the present time:
Among these are Aztez idols, altar,
mumihies' implements ana pottery, car
spanish arms, paintings manuscripts, eos,
tunes anu carvings; the private service ana
ana houSenoiu arlicies OF theall-fated EN-,
peror MaNimiiiiah, ana the products anu
WorhS Oh art OF tno Mexico OF Today. Notll-
ing so complete anu almost lnexhaustlpse IN
interest mas ever before oeen collected IRON
our sister repnoiic. Inc coll. ctlon has beer
the result OF years OF laDor and mas the au
tograpn commentator OF General Pornrlt
Diaz' the present president OF Mexico. Inc
halls are each dav crowded with interested
spectators
i THE MASSACHUSETTS FARMER
mas reason 10 De PROUD OF the BAY State cat
tie snow now IN session mere. Inc term
cattle snow IN thls instance means any
cburn IN a had-nniIt Eruits of uagnitud.
! i'm size which one would scarcely Look foI