The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-24
ECHOES OF THE ENCAMPMENT.


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ECHOES OF THE ENCAMPMENT.
A Washington woman's Observations at
and About the Hub.
Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.l
BosToN, Aug. 20.--The ancient city of Bos-
ton was in a state of pleasing distraction during
last week. Indeed, such gongs on were never
seen before in staid New England community,
at least not since that precious load Of cold tea
was brewed in Boston Harbor and everybody
broke out early the next day with sudden at
tack Of rebellious fever. Don't tell me that the
"peace movement is likely to bring in the
mellennium soon, when thousands of flags,
streamers, and bunting are flying from flag
staffs over our cities, decorate shipping, and
adorn seven-story houses from pitch-roof to the
pavement with gorgeous array OF red, white,
and blue, and when every man, woman, and
child wears the national colors Once the
male human being thought he had a monopoly
on the badge as decorative symbol, and the
G.. A. r. now enjoys his Loyal Legion star with
five points, his division badge, his corps badge
his regmental coors, and his national colors,
his State colors, ETC., to say nothing Of all he
can pile on in the way of decorative ribbons
stars, stripes, tassel, and gilt that have Ma
sonic Specification. The badge, however, is no
longer masculine in gender. 1t shines and
decorates as grandly and profusely the we'll
rounded breast of wife. mother, or sweetheart
as the manifest bosom Of men; and the w. r.
G. (thst's feminine for woman soldier) wears
no less than seven emblems, testimonials OF her
relations to the new order OF things, an order
which enables good woman to be as patriotic
and helpful to the old soldier as the soldier who
marched away to battle.
The typical Bostonan thawed out his hospi-
tality and dispensed it with lavish hand upon
the surviving saviors of these United States. 1t
was a sight to behold these people from distant
States rowing around this quaint city of crooked.
streets and hunting up historical objects of in
terest. One party composed Of men and women
visited Bunker Hill Monument, and were over
heard bewailing "that they forgot to look for
the place where the gallant Warren fell and was
buried" "The truth is," one said, tive were
having such good time together that we for
got all about that brave young man."
or course all these happy pilgrims got lost
hundred times day and had to be found by the
police and faced about in the direction they
ought to go. The police and other citizens got
quite used to performing this kindly Office. The
other morning three ladies wearing corps badges
| boarded a fremont horse-car, and one of them
| desired the conductor when passing the Com
mon to let her off at Park-street Church, and
wondered that he paid no attention to her mods,
winks, waving hand, or other signs of desire
| to be landed. He simply smiled complacently
| and went ahead until arriving in front of Ire
mont Temple, when he rung the bell and
stopped with "Here you are, MAIN" "Well,"
she replied, somewhat astonished, 81 do believe
| that you conductors think you know where
| ought to go better than l do myself" "Of
course l do,'' said he; 'sall you women with that
blle badge on lands here, and here you be-,
NAM"
Excursions Ito ticket-holders only) on the
bay, camp fires, where the only fire is that of an
| eloquent tongue, burn brightly at night at Me
chanics' Hail. with clam bakes and excursions
to Cambridge thrown in.
Old Harvard is a Mecca to those who honor
learning, and visit to the old-fashioned home
| of the lamented sweetest of our poets is Dous
pilgrimage which all make with loving and
| tendercst reverence.
The Tree under which George Washington
gathered his revolutionary herds in 1873 is a
war-worn old veteran, whose limbs are shorn of
their youthful sweep of leafy beauty, and the
gnarled old bole is patched up with tin plaster
on one side and girdle to keep this tree, sacred
! to memories of liberty, from going to pieces. II
is nothing new to say that Cambridge is the
| mossest and loveliest of all the college towns
about this centre of the universe, but none has
said that we know of that presuming young
Episcopal theological divinity school has dared
to invade this spot sacred to Unltariansm. II
has two or three picturesque new buildings, and
its little chapel wears green veil of tiutterine
Japanese ivy with grace that no words of mine
can express, but which all smacks defiantly OF
the modern. 1t is evident that the students dc
not inspire the highest respect, judging from
remark of young woman we overlook crossing
the green known as College Square. To our in
quiry she replied: "Oh, but they are Villidns
those students They do not all come here tc
get an education, but to have good time, anC
they are mostly always going on larks, spending
money, and leaving their board bills unpaid fol-
months. At least that is the way many of then
do.n
On Friday all the G. A. RS and w. r. C.'G
went TO Plymouth to bow before the rock upoI
which our forefathers (mne were mothers
struck this virgin soil loaded up to the guards
with the thought of religious liberty. Since the
landing of the Pilgrims the celebrated rock hai
had a good many frills added in the way o.
modern improvements, which add greatly to the
pleasure of an historical visit.
Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods, an accomplished
and graceful writer, most amiabe woman
and member of the New England Woman'i
Press Club, gave clambake to the members o.
the Women's National Press Association, who
came on to attend the w. r. c., on Saturday, IL
Salem. And Mrs. Woods hospitality was deli
cately favored and dispensed in the midst O.
one of those historical old houses and grounds
for which Salem is SO justly famous. Tht
Women's Press members only need little more
practice to render them most clubable creatures
The big papers, the Globe, Herald, and BostoI
Journal, reaped harvest the past week such al
our papers do at Inauguration times The,
had to double and treble their staff, adding al
many as twenty-odd reporters to that branch O.
enterprise alone Some of the best fellows il
the q. A. r. are editors of papers in the Wes
or elsewhere, and they went home loaded VI
with many Yankee notion, full of enthusiasm
for the Boston reunion as the biggest army NEE