The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-01
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
King Among Toads Misses
the Toads When Here.

Theatrical Attractions Next Week.
II il a common thing TO hear the people |
of smaller towns and villages say; oh,
would like TO live in Boston, there is so |
much culture. society learning ana enter
tainment there" The wish Is a natural
one but IL shows lack OF knowledge OF
the thing desired As all is not gold that
glitters, so all that the mind pictures OF
life in Boston is not real Society, culture,
art and education are here but they are az
far away from the average young man or
woman who comes here from the country
as they were when he was discontented In
his less pretentious New England home.
The new conner may have ability and a
good character, and, perhaps, may have
| been the leader of his set at home, put
| here he loses his identity and becomes but
| another OF the thousands who are strug-
Cling for fame and fortune. He doesn't
make the hit he expected, isn't MT sur
rounded by admiring friends, and after a
time r.tires from the field a disappointed
and soured individual. Boston goes along
just the same, and nobody stops to wonder
at his absence.
Boston is a good city for all that. IL is
full Of opportunities for people OF energy
and ability, but neither wealth nor reputa-
tion comes TO those who sit idly down ana
wait for them to be thrown at them.
Work. hard work, is the secret OF success.
The man who, -fguratively speaking, Is
the king among toads at home Will miss
the toads when he gets here to stay, but he
can get along and up if he honestly strives
TO win. There are great many other
things he will miss. The neighborhood
idea is one of them.
The theory that man should he on
good terms with his neighbor is destroyed
by the fact that you don't know your
neighbors and have no reason TO love or
hate them / know men who have lived
here for nearly two years who do not even
know the names of the persons who i've
across the narrow hall from them, and
there are dozens of people who cannot tell
you the name of a single person who re
sides on the same street with them unless
they have seen it upon the door plate So,
reader, if you are thinking of taking up a
residence here make up your mind to go II
alone.
or course you will say there are plenty
of people whom everybody knows" and
that is true in sense, but 1t isn't true
that those noted people know everybody
There are dozens of people that could
point out to you on the street and tell &c
, you their history, but they are as ignorant
of me and my existence as they are OF thou
sands of others who perhaps worship then
, from distance. We know them in one
! use of the term, but, strictly speaking
: only know of them. Probably about every
employe of any one of the great retail
stores would tell you that they know th'
head of the concern, yet not one in 80 eve
spoke to the man who directs its affairs
and he is in blissful ignorance of them.
II seems almost incredible that maj
could be knocked down run over, injure,
and allowed 20 lay where he had fallen AM
bleed to death in the very heart of Bostol
at an hour of the evening when the street
s are thronged with people Yet this /
, what came within a small margin OF hap
: penining in this city last week.
A workman attempted to board an elec
trio car at the corner of School and Wash
: inuton streets few minutes before
!. o'clock He fell, slipped under the wheel
d and one foot was crushed off. He wa
X pulled from under the car by some by
n ISLANDERS and dragged about four feet an
then dropped upon the pavement Th
!, motorman who ran the car stoed an
- looked on 1t was only a very few m'
> ments before the street in the vicinity wa
packed with people.
Meantime the helpless victim lay upo
the cold pavement with his lifeblood spur
ing from his crushed limb. IL was so col
that evening that ulsters were necessai
y for comfort, but the man wore only thi
coat In the natural course OF events
n tainted. and then the crowd pressed abo'
him all the closer. Newcomers in the rel
' pushed and scrambled to get glimps
and even tried to crawl over the backs
l. those already upon the scene.
ls Washington street was blockaded.
y far as the eve could reach cars and wagol
,d were wedged together in confused mas
e Fifteen minutes after the man was 1
b, iured, someone thought of the police al
l. started for station 2, which was less than
minutes walk away The mans chanc
for life was az n low ebb but this was
90 start, and when some one called for han
on kerchiefs. five minutes later, with whi
10 make a bandage about the limb
looked still more encouraging But 1t W
time. ten minutes later and the man wou
have been a Yarpse. AT 80 the police
n peared and they pounced down upon .
crowd. They routed the curious, horse fo
n and artillery, and even turned their atte
ton To the man who had saved the life wi
%: handkerchiefs. Later, some ten minut
es the ambulance from the Emergency h'
IS. pital came and the curtain was rung dow
'' IL was fully o'clock before the str'
nj assumed its natural state. This is only o
lis of many instances of this character ha
nd witnessed, and it goes TO show how helpl'
st we are with all our boasted civilization.
the average case II seems as If man wot
he better off alone i'm desert with
-. hurt. Then he would at least, have
20 satisfaction Of dying in peace and I
'e- breath his last furnishing sport for an !
he proyised holiday.
TO Even the public buildings that have su
'lv prominence i'm smaller towns seem 10 Il
he their distinctive force and Importance II
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