Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-01
srPerish the thought,n

Peruvian naturei Perish the thoughtln
as Hop. says.
If you go to Boston, don't take the IL g.
m. train, unless you are first cousin to q
salamander and have the abstenence of
dromedary. On that particular train the
Consolidated" still runs the patent cars
invented q few years ago, with hermstical-
ly sealed windows and other appliances
guaranteed to generate 9 heat from
ten to twenty degrees higher than
the heat of the circumambiant air
The spectacle of roasting babies, suffo-
eating mothers and heroic fathers,
bursting buttons and Wristbands
in futile effort to raise win
dows, is not q pleasant introduction to
summer travel, however pleasing may be
the spectacle to the crematories of the
Consolidated" nor does an enforced de-
privation of luncheon sooth overtaxed
nerves. Still,:as the Consolidated" has
been licensed by New York judge to kill,
destroy and burn ad ibitum, one must be
thankful to reach journeys end in any
condition of living.
In Boston some Bostonian will doubtless
explain that to explore the recesses of New
England you must have Sweetser's Guide
for 1891. So with that thankfulness for
advice which characterizes all good New
Haveners you forthwith invest q dollar or
so in Boston brain produce. When alone
in your room you examine the volume.
From end to end you can't find Wisnno.
Surprised at the omission You examine
the guide infinitely. You find that
it was first issued in 1873 as
Osgood's Guide, and reissued in 1876
and 1884 Then, when osgood & Co.
failed, Ticknor & Co. took it up and pub
hshed new editions in 1885 and 1887. Then
Ticknor & Co. apparently disappeared; the
new guide of 1891 ia issued by Houghton,
Niffiin & Co. In spite of all these loud
resounding names, the omission of Wianno
shakes your faith. For conformation you
naturally turn to the guides description
of New Haven, your best known locality.
The 1891 guide makes no mention of
Dwight hall, of the Chittenden library, of
the Osborne monstrosity, and still speaks
of the public library as the Third Congre-
gational! If you will have patience to
compare you will find that the guide for
1891 and the guide for 1888 are identical
with the exception of few lines devoted
to new park, Verify, sweetser, you are
an sntiquated humbug! Verify. Messrs.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co., you have not the
enterprise to entitle you to New Haven
recognition! Still, too much must not be
expected of Boston.
Another Boston popularity which will
strike the traveller is the habit of Boston
newspapers of issuing many editions. The
Boston Herald, for instance, is both a
morning and an evening paper, and edi-
tions are being turned off from summer
sunrise to summer sunset. Each edition
is but a repetition of the preceding edition
with little knocked off at the beginning
and little added on at the end. The Bos-
tonian, therefore, never gets an
entirely new paper. What trivial
mind he must have to delight
cubrations of an ordinary Boston editorl
Boston newspapers, like other newspapers
of the country, are going in for mass and
volume. Everything is done for cash now
a-days, and the paper which publishes the
greater number of columns secures the
greater number of advertisements. The
character of the stuff is immaterial, and
with Bostonians republication seems
died out with Greely, Bryant and Norris.
The next morning you will start for
Wianno by the Old Colony. What a name
for railroad Come to think of it how
unmeaning are the names of most New
England railroads. What is there in the
name Old Colony to suggest Wianno
What, for that matter, is there in the
name Consolidated to suggest Boston or
New York; or in the name Shore Line to
suggest any particular shore or any par
ticular line Land stranger in New
York and give him railroad guide book.
How could he find his way! He would
have to stoop to asking, so humiliating to
great and noble soul.
With all these preliminaries the reader
is now in condition to approach and
appreciate Wianno. Perhaps you would
rather be left to yourself to find out its
individual beauties. Let Sweetser and his
ilk write the guide books.
May you be refreshed and invigorated-
May sand agree with you; and may no
Westerner ever assert that you are lacking
in so vital an ingredient. May you not
bruise your toes trying to find pebbleless
steps into the water. May you meet
the arrogance and superciliousness
of the Bostonian with proper scorn
and rebuke it with courageous en-
phssis. If he grow offensive, punch him.
Never reason with him. May protrsct-
ed fish diet agree with you. May old maids
be to your liking. May mosquitoes only
serve to diminish your excessive sanguin-
iousness May the monotonous express
sions and the negative coloring of the ma
tives not offend your artistic eye. May you
not be extorted out of all your cash. And
may you return in the best of health and
spirits to bless the Lord for directing your
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