San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-05
BOSTON BUDGET No. 2.
Boston SpecialIsts--The Navy Yard
The Parks and the Plants
Beans Common, Etc.
Boston, July %.

| DAILY LIGHT
NV time in Boston has been so Oc'
cupied with DR.. Street, DR.. Buchanan
DIR. Flower and others of established
reputation in the scientific world that
| sightseeing has been neglected and !
can tell you but little about the many
interesting places in and around the
Hub.
| attended at Onset Bay meeting
of magnetic healers and psychologists
from all parts of the country, anon
whom must men ton DIR. Dick, of New
York and DR.. Hayward, of Boston.
was chaperoned by Mrs. Buchanan,
wife of Prof. Buchanan, of Boston.
! Through her numerous introductions
nv visit to Onset was exceedingly
pleasant. This beautiful bay, and
! lovely groves, is some fifty miles south
of Boston and is the noted camp
! ground of the spiritualists of North
! America. | met parties from all the
! states, even from Texas. There wit
messed some of the greatest phenOme
ma unaccOuntably produced; even Oil
| paintings appearing between two
States. and in fact so much unaccOunt-
able phenomena that ] will not at
tempt to give it in detail. Even to a
skeptic like myself it was worth wit
Messing. After a couple of days So
iourn at this place | returned to BOs-
ton. While there | visited the navy
yard at Charlestown and Bunker Hill
monument, as every good citizen of
the United States is in duty bound, if
he is in Boston.
| found CharlestOwn the least at
tractIve annexed district Of the city,
although the streets around the mon
ument are pleasant.
Boston, few years since, had an
attack OF annexation fever and took
in everything adjoining except Cam
bridge and BrOOkline. Cambridge
was too large and old to swallow and
BrO0kfne refused to be swallowed,
principally because Boston has 50
large public deDt and BroOkline has
none. rode through BrO0klin 10 visit
the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, from
which Boston takes its water supply;
a most beautiful spot, with fine drive
and foot-waIk surrounding it. 1t is
easily reached by the electric street
cars. and evidently a popular place
for the people for Saturday afternoon
trip, out of the heat and close air of
the city.
From here I rode to Franklin Park,
where there are several hundred acres
of wild land. with here and there an
improved spot. for some especial pur-
pose, the rest lust sufficiently cleared
10 be comfortable for picnic parties,
open without money or price to all
who care to stay out under the trees
for day. 1t is reached by several
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place there is Il large field, well
graded, with fine sod, for parties who
wish to play lawn tennis or base ball.
Here the city has also put up build
ing for use by such parties, with dres-
sing rooms, where they may change
street costumes for tennis or ball
suits, and a place where their lunch
baskets can be left in safety until eX-
ercise develops an appetite for their
contents.
The building stands on a high
bank, over the face Of which grow all
manner of creeping plants and many
Others which only a gardener or bot
anist could name. On the top of this
embankment are placed seats for
those who wish to watch the games
on the Playstead.
A plot of forty acres is in prepare
ton for Geological garden. Forty
acres is a small spot to Texan, but
in New England it is large lot, al
though if Boston continues to annex
all that joins it, in time it will become
whole wheel instead of being the
Hub.
Notwithstanding the fact that BOs-
ton is city where education is the
prominent hobby of ali classes, and
''what does he know the first ques-
ton asked about man, | found the
people with whom I came in contact
cordial and warm hearted, although.
not withOuta certain dignitied reserve
which becomes them well. Perhaps
my reception was the more cordial
because | presented myself in the at
titude of student seeking mStruc-
| ton. Boston baked beans are I'M
dOuUtedly brain food for the people
are certainly well read and iuteliec-
| tual as a whole.
There are many other places of in
| te"est in and about the old city, butt
was impossible to see them and attend
! TO the studies / came to pursue. The
| knowledge | must have, the places Of
! interest would remain until another
visit which l hope to make some time
in the future.
Bostonians however would never
forgive me if [ omitted the
common and the public garden,
! situated III the very heart Of
the business portion of the city, the
starting point of a system of parks
| which when finished will be one of