New-York tribune., 1886-08-22
BOSTON,.
SPOKES FROM THE HUB, SOCIAL AND PER-
SONAL.

SPOKES FROM THE HUB SOCIAL AND PER-
SONAL.
lrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP TIE TRrnUSJ
BosTON, Aug. 21.-The telegraph has carried
oil parts OF the country tho broad outlines and many
of the precise particulars connectsd with the dreadful
downfall and death OF william Gray Jr. but no dis
patches denc the state OF feeling which has existed
in the city during tho week, the excited interest and
curiosity which arc still upon the increase The name
OF Gray is old In the annals of Boston, and 1t has until
now been synonymous with ability and Integrity. and
evon people who had personal aoluantan;e with any
OF family speak OF the strange and awful events as
If directly affected oy them. Tho puzzle thus far is to
divine what has become OF tho immense sums which Mr.
Gray must have expended in the last twelve or tern
years Allowing that he usel in round numbers half
million OF corporation funds. assuming that at least
some large portion the property of his wfes family
must have wasted, and including his own Important
Official salaries, he must have 'onnd way to use from
sixty to eighty thousand dollars year That lie laid
out much In reel estate operations IL known; Dut
although these not all remunerative by any means
lie yet recOupsd himself Ia considerable part by
mortgages His domestic establishment though large
and somewhat costly. was neither lavish nor exrava-
CANT and had OF late years been fed in many ways,
while his acht the wellknowD Huron, waS not heavy
bill OF expense when G commission There Is as vet no
reason to believe that he had been a specuator in
stocks-certnly. IL he were SOFT was not III the Boston
market To all appearance he was OF excellent personal
habits and charged with sort OF dssipaed In u
f-sxecutci criminal there besin to be whispers OF
Irregular habits and hints that some woman yill be
found been the OF his robberies and s0mo
people profess to give confirmatory incidents; but thus
tar "Ctns s IN H nI ssTs Ss nhs
timc and mpncy LITERALLY to the cmbeisnment OF his
home. he was seen comparatively seldom IN pnolic with
Mrs Gray who generally has been accompanied by her
children, may have given rise 10 such taa; nut TINS
dsonor that which he sought in such stern and
deliberate way to expate There can be no DOUBT bnt
be Eal foreseen discovery for some time, aItDoueh
pansve. manner. or In any change IN his systematic
life. lie had been se7eral times Of late to his burial lot
at Forest Hill. which IL Oh high ground and commands
FREQ view OF the whole Blue Hi range, ant his team
had heen seen on several recent occasions standing
where it wa ultimately found
The arrest or Samuel g. Smelling FOR embezzlement has
received with groat satisfaction by the business
punish great tbes well as little ones bat because the
feeling exists that Mr. smelling was long deliberate
other years and OF private nature now show. as they
then scemsd 10 su;gsst decided dishonesty ne appears
well punished even II he escapes imprisonment as there
is practically sympathy shown for him and
offered.
A curious controversy has sprung up between the
directory of the wEngand Conservatory OF Music and
alton by themselves Plauo tuning and regulating has
been taught for five years at the Conservatory where
models Of various actions and mechanl5ms,
besides hundreds Of students pianos so that there
il no lack OF practice work during an experimental
which, IL Is claimed Is never less than year and
ofener extends to Two The professional tuners insist
that the Conservatory graduates are am 40
creuous public. while the school claims that there ara
not enough round, aud consequently none
TO supply u growing demand from all over tho country
formal demand will likely he iade for the aboli
tIon OF the tuning class but tho Conservatory will not
anything and tie professionals only submit
to inevitable competition which TO give salts
faction at less than warcroom prces-whch Is probaDiy
the fundamental difficulty.
Mr. W. +. Halsall has been commissioned to make
large picture of the Mayfowcr
The Rev Phillips Brooks, who is spending the summer
Mt homo, breaches regularly twice every Sunday IN
Trinity Church. which is ahmed at each service IA II
were winter time lie showed his discretion on sunday
last by ad0urnng from the church 10 the chapel because
some fragments o. plaster had been falling from the
tower tho great chandelier supports pass through
the ceiling. There was, OF course, no danger; but
fearing "a possible panic from recurrence OF this
chipping he at once gave nr his full servics and
preaoed informally to such part Of the congregation as
could get into the smaller roOnI
nothing worthy OF note mt any OF the theatres
this el except tn. fresh paint and gliding, the new
carpets furniture which most OF them have pro-
vided viii there bo any thing anti next week when
Prince Karl will he put al tho Park ana the Lon
don success, HarbOr Lights at tue Museum
The esteem IN which the municipal detective office
in dscredt citizens on account OF
many IObberies OF recent Occurrence-s held
special intelligence aud activity are needed Is
sho by the fact that the Gray was given at once
TO q private burcsu Of whose men discovered the
DOly