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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

The transfer OF deeds to the prop
erty bounded by fremont, Bolyston,
Tamworth and Lagrange streets has
gone on record Mt the Suffolk registry
OF deeds. The syndicate represented
by c. T.. Cotting and Francis E. Welch
can now go to work next spring tear
ing down the buildings now there, in
preparation, for the handsome new
hotel it will erect for J. Reed Whip
pie The tenants have until then to
move their belongings. The property
was IN four separate parcels Of land,
about 20, 600 square feet, the total as
sessed value of which is SjS3, 900 the
buildings being assessed for $3.50, 900
more, For this property and leases
about 81, 600, 600, was paid. The most
valuable OF the estates bought was
hotel Bulyston, corner Bolyston and
fremont streets, owned by the Adams
real estate trust. The building was
assessed at $500, 700, the land, 7,46l
feet. at S32S, 300. Land of James s.
Cumston and Adelaide ]. Sargent is
also taken. j. Reed Whipple, lessee
and proprietor OF Parkers and
Young's, has taken a 30-year lease at
a yearly rental of $3.50, 600. The hotel
will cost above the land 81, 400, 600,
making its total value 81, 700, 600. 1t
will be 10 stories high and contain
about $50 rooms, all outside and con-
Meeting with baths. 1t will be the
most elaborate hotel in Boston. OF
the amount necessary to secure the
land and erect the new hotel, 81, 400,
600 is to be paid by subscribers, and
the balance of $1,000, 600 is to be
provided for by mortgage at 4 per
cent per annum. Mr. Whipple, the
lessee, will pay yearly rental OF
$4,000 for the property, out OF
which S52, 900 will go for interest on
the mortgage, and the balance, $9S,
900, after deducting the taxes,
will constitute a sinking fund for the
benefit of the subscribers. One
feature of the house will be an i'm
mense dining room, 6OXSO feet, nearly
twice the size of the present large
dining room at Young's. A cafe be.
meath it will occupy almost as much
space, 40xS0 feet. The hotel will be
fine structure, and will rank with
the Waldorf and other frst-clas:
hotels in this country and foreign
cities.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06
BOSTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The Great Parade.

The invading Knights Templars capt
ured Boston, aud Boston capituated
gracefully. The eouquering battalions,
with nobby plumes and snowy uni.
forms, marched in triumph through
our streets while the martial strains
from myriad bands rent the air and
enlivened the scene. The city was in
full holiday attire. Bunting in rich
profuslon waved gaily in the breeze
Every inch of space along the route
travelled by the parading hosts was oc-
cupied. Windows, roofs, doorways
and sidewalks were literally packed by
patient, good-natured aud en- thusias.
tic sight-seers. The best of order
prevailed. The splendid marching
and the graceful evolutions of the
knights were rewarded by generous
aud discriminating applause. The in
vading army was made up Of mag.
nificent specimens of American
manhood. No finer body OF
men has ever been seen in
Boston. They marched with the
precision of veteran soldiers, and their
department throughout WAS admira.
bic. Their appearance and their
conduct reflected credit upon the fra
terHity. No doubt can remain in the
minds of the visiting communicates
touching their popularity with our
citizens. They had ample proof of
the cordialitv OF Buston's welcome and
OF the genuineness of her hospitality.
The pGudits which greeted them at
every point along the line of march
was spontaneous and continuous.
There was nothing perfuuctory about
them. They expressed forcibly the
sentiments which animated the adj
miring throngs. They spoke eloquent
ly for Boston, which has a warm spot
in her heart for civic associations de-
voted to patriotism, philanthropy and
the brotherhood OF man.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

There is shrewd and active con-
tingent of Bostonians whose chief
end and aim in life is to get the better
OF the farmer who rashly intrudes
within the gates of the city. These
gentry lay awake nights in their en-.
deavor to concoct schemes that will
unburden the respected citizen of
Hayvlle of whatever wealth he may
bring with him for his urban enter
tainment or business. But the bunco
men do not now operate as the pic
lures in the comic papers would have
us suppose; the day has passed when
the smooth gentleman rushes up to the
arrival and cries, enthusiastically,
"Why, my dear old friend Hopkins,
how are all the people in Mush Cen
tre?' SO fully has this method been
ventilated in the public press that the
farmer Is at last really up to the lit
tie game, and so he fights shy of
these prepossessing strangers. 1t takes
something with finer air of veri-
similitude to fool the pilgrim from
the back districts and the sharpers
have hit upon the very thing, accord
ing to the best authorities, superin-
tendent of Police. In the course
of pleasant chat the other day, l
was told of a scheme whose unique
ness and daring places it in the
front rank of swindles. "a few
months ago." said he, 81 received
complaint from man from
back in the country to the ef-
feet that his trunk had been stolen
by one of the transfer, companies in
Boston, and that furthermore, hav-
ing gone to a hotel recommended
by the agent on the train, he had
there been robbed of all his money
and valuables. The company in
question stoutly insisted that it knew
nothing of the man nor his trunk,
and believed it. A little investiga-
ton revealed queer swindle. A
gang of sharpers had had uniforms
made in exact imitation Of those worn
by the employees of the transfer con-
cern, and big bunch of checks gave
realism to the deception. They would
send men far up the line of rail
road, and they would go through the
cars spotting their rural victims. In.
cidentalIy they would drop friendly
hint as to good and cheap hotel. II
the farmer entrusted his check tc
their tender mercies it was all up will
his trunk, and if he went SO far as to
go the hotel recommended, the panel
game was worked on him during hi
innocent slumbers. These fake
agents would take good care to leave
the train before the real employees
got on board. | don't know to wha
extent the scheme had been worked
but its apparently official character
must have caught great many vic
Tins"
BEN MAROATo
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

The State Superintendent OF Public
Instruction estimates that the intro
duction of new physiologles into the
public schools will entail an immedi-
ate expense of not less than $500, 600.
This money might better be burned
for the good it will do the children of
the State. 1t will be eXtorted from
the taxpayers under an act pretending
to promote better knowledge Of the
physiological effects Of stimulants and
narcotics, but really intended to en-
able a publishing house or combina-
ton OF publishing houses to supplant
with their own books the physiolOgles
now in use in the schools. Morality
and religion are thus made a cover for
the tricks OF trade, and worse than
that, for the corruption of Legisln-
lures and for the degradation of edu-
cation The case is not exceptional
either. In a majority of cases the
the books used in the schools of the
country are not used because the
teachers approve them or the public
demands them, but because they are
thrust on the schools hy the agents
and lobbyists of manufacturers who
have come to look upon the corrup-
ton of public morals and the prosti-
tuition of politics as necessities of their
regular business.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06
The Convention Habit.

The Knights Templars who as
srmbled Ia Boston by the ten thou
saui illustrate characteristic Ameri-
can habit-the convention habit No
other people has ever developed it as
1t is developed in America. No re-
cord has been kept of the number of
conventions held annually or of the
numbers attending them, but every
body knows that there are always con-
ventions in session somewhere, and that
somebody Is always either starting to
them or coming back from them. In
such an immense country, with its
great diversity of conditions and
habits, Americans nevertheless feel a
sense OF unity and of community
which draws them together from
all parts of the compass. They
have an instructive feeling that
it is a matter of the first importance
to get acquainted with each other, and
with other parts of the country than
their own. This feeling will do more
to hold them together in harmonious
corporation than could be done in
any other way. For if they under
stand each other they will have no
difficulty in reconciling conflicting in
terests. Our troubles in the past have
been chiefly due to provincialism and
provincial ignorance, which must dis
appear as Americans learn to know
each other and the country they live
in. Whatever else he may be, the
man who has the convention habit is
not provincial. The habit tends to
make an all-round American of him.
And an all-round American is as good
man as any man need be.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

General Greely's statement before
the international Geographical Con-
gress that in little more than two
centuries the Arctic region has fur
nished the world with products worth
$1,2OO,OOO, 200, will surprise most
readers, and indicates to the New York
Mail and Express the possibilities OF
that frozen region when human dar-
ing and ingenuity shall have per-
manently opened it to commerce.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

For some time the hearts of the
summer girls have been torn by the
apparent irrepressible conflict be.
tween the prevailing style of puff
sleeves and the bathing dress. Now,
it is we'll known fact that sea gar
ments must take on in certain slightly
modified form, the characteristics OF
land habiliments. This stern edict
was carried out in regard to bathing.
But the result was lamentable. If the
dress really got into the water-and,
in spite of the funny paragraphers,
some of the dear girls do get wet
down would come the proud fabric OF
the sleeves with a comical result.
Then somebody devised sort OF
wire bird-cage arrangement, and
1t became very popular on
land. When the sea toyed with it,
however, the effect was funnier than
before. Now rises q Boston genius
who has invented rubber balloon af-
fair which is to be inflated and put in.
side of each big sleeve. The really
useful part of the things are that they
will act perfectly the part OF life pre-
servers, and the fair maiden who
sports a pair of them can laugh at
Neptune and the sea serpent, aud al
the same time be filled with the proud
consciousness of looking perfectly au
fait when she emerges from hel
plunge and walks up the beach. They
have already appeared at the beach
and, needless to say, created sensa-
tion. Thus does utility continue to
be welded to fashion. There will
doubtless be discovered a use foI
overgrown theatre hats one of these
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

The first trial at sea of the Defender
was great disappointment to the ad-
vocates of aluminium as the metal of
the future, and many experts declare
against its utility. According to the
New York World, it proved SO lacking
in strength that the cleats and belay-
ing pins made out of it were so twisted
and bent that they had to be dis
carded, and new ones of hand wrought
steel substituted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

One of the quaint customs of NADIA
gascar is that the Prime Minister must
always marry the Queen, states the
Pathfinder. The present Premier has
already outlived three sovereigns, to
each of whom he has been united IN
turn. The disability of the Office must
depend a good deal on what the Queen
is like. If she were like some Queens
we would let the Office hunt us long
time before we would accept.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

The Superior Court at Cincinnati,
Ohio, has decided that railroad is
not obliged to carry a passenger who
makes business of conveying mer-
chandise between stations to supply
customers. One A. j. Smith had
built up quite business as purchas-
ing agent for persons living along the
line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, and was in the
habit of carrying his purchases on the
train as he rode back and forth. The
railroad had contract with an ex-
press company, agreeing to give to no
one beside the express company the
privilege of carrying merchandise on
its passenger trains. In accordance
with this contract Smith was forbid
den the privilege of carrying his
bundles on the trains, the company
refusing to carry him as passenger
with his usual load of satchels and
bundles. Smith saed the railroad,
claiming that as he had communication
ticket he was entitled to passage on
the trains of the railroad from whose
agents he purchased it, no matter how
many bundles he carried. The court
decided against him on the ground
that the railroad only undertook to
carry personal baggage on its passen-
ger trains for passengers, and that
personal baggage only included wear
ing apparel and personal effects, and
not general merchandise.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

The Finance Committee of the
Board of Aldermen has placed the tax
rate for 1896 at 81. 92 This is
thirteen points higher than the rate
for 1894, and the Tammauy organs
and politicians will endeavor, of
course, to make their readers and fol-
lowers believe that the increase is one
of the results of the reform admins
tration of Mayor Strong. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The
amount to be collected in taxes this
year was made up by Tammsny last
December 50 that the new reform ad.
ministratiou has had nothing what
ever to DO with the amount
to be raised. 1t in turn
will make up the budget for 1896
next December, SO that, so far as
expenditures are concerned, no
comparison can be instituted between
the old system and the new one until
this date year hence. Another point
that must be taken into consideration
is that while the normal increase in
assessed valuations has been ut the
rate of $50, 600, 600 per anuum it fell
this year to Sl3, 6l5, G25, the increase
in real estate values having been only
S32, $40, 920, while the decrease in
personality was Sl9, 1855, ,295. The
Cleveland hard times and certain
court decisions in regard to corporate
property have been the contributing
factors to this reduction. The long
and short of it is that Mayor Strong )
administration is paying off legacy
of Tammany extravaganza.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

MaXim's cavalry gun, which fires 7oO
shots a minute, weighs but thirty
mounds and can be carried on a sol
diers back. The European idea that
there is 10 future for the cavalry arm
of service will have to be dismissed. A
regiment of mounted American raiders
with the new gun would soon Illustrate
the necessity of good cavalry and plen-
ty az 1t,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

According TO the Popular Health
Magazine the Toronto Canada courts
have decided that tuberculosis shall
be classed under the head of contagious
diseases, and children so affected are
now debarred from attendance on the
public schools.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

Love for his native city is a very
strong characteristic of the average
Gothamite, and when he has lived in
it for many years all the inducements
in the world will generally avail
naught in getting him to consent to
leave it. So the case of old General
John W. de Peyster, one of the
bluest blooded Knickerbockers in the
town, and long a familiar figure on
the urban landscape, is quite an ex-
traordinary one. He is going to leave
New York. The general is 80 years
old, and for many decades he has
lived in the old house at SO East
Twenty first street. He is gentleman
of the old school, courtly, but bit
imperious, and he has long affected
the dress of other days. Naturally, he
was very proud of his long descent,
and recently he conceived the idea of
perpetuating in bronze the name OF de
Peyster. So he gave an order for a
statue of his great-great grandfather,
Colonel Abraham de Peyster, and in
due time the work was finished. Mean
while the general had got the consent
of the Park Commissioners to have the
statue set up on Bowling Green, which
was accordingly done, and General de
Peyster was happy. His satisfaction
was very short lived, however, for
there arose at once and with great una
nimity chorus of criticism against
the queer looking affair. 1t was de-
clared to be an etligy, ridiculous
manikin, and several other things not
calculated to give pleasure to the de-
scendant of the Kuickerbockers. The
Park Commissioner were roundly
condemned for allowing such an Mt
terly inartistic work to deface a pub
lie SPOT. Truth to tell, the bronze of
the gallant colonel is one of
those statuary horrors that have
become altogether too numerous
in the city. But General de
Peyster, of course, did not see it in
that light, and his grief was only ex-
ceeded by his anger. He declared
that city that didn't want his ances-
tor shouldn't have him, and he has
kept his word. A"for sale" notice has
been posted on the Twenty-frst street
house and its former tenant has de.
parted, bag and baggage, to Tivoli,
up in Dutchess county. There he is
to establish home for destitute and
neglected girls, charter for which
has already been obtained, His Sc
cession is, of course, unimportant
but it is of interest to those who real
izs how rapidly the favor of pictur'
J esque past is eyaporating from New
York,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

Governor Budd, of California, has
aroused good deal of opposition
among semi-mllitary organizations by
his refusal to allow them to carry any
but the American flag.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06
SCHOOLS REOPEN SEPT. "a.
Essex County Herald.
The District of Columbia has $50
farms, with IL, 7i5 acres.

Ex-senator John J. Ingalls, lately
said that claw, journalism and rail
road management are the three ave
nues of success"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06
lSLANDP VT. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER &.

The "Satanists" have reached New
York. Perhaps this statement may
need a little elucidatiou to those who
are not aware of the strange and re-
puisIve sect that has aroused such hor-
ror IN Paris over its acts of vandalism
in churches and its frightfully sacri-
lcgIuus rites in which everything that
Christians hold sacred is turned topsy-
turvy and spit upon. And now
hear, upon what know to be most
! excellent authority, that society of
these queerly constituted mortals has
been established in Manhattan, and
that they regularly go through their
disgusting ceremonials. Their meet
ing places are kept profound secret.
An unfrocked French priest is said to
have been the founder of the Amer
lean branch, AID leturall y most of the
adherents are of the same nationality.
The absolutely Indispensable feature Of
their religion, il such 1t can be called,
is the theft of chalices and sacred
hosts of Catholic churches, and tins
portion has already been carried out,
/ Tor not two weeks ago Il small church
on lower Third avenue reported that
these very articles had been stolen
Some wonder was expressed as they
were not Of great value intrinsically,
/ But now 1t is generally believed that
they are in use at the Satauists
| "Black Mass" where the altar Is
/ iraped with obscene notices and pie
lures, where the Maggi wears his
| priestly robes with the cross upside
down, where figures the goat with
human head and whence the bloo of
infants is supposed to be drunk by the
| faithful. The Satauists frankly ayow
that the devil Is the prince of evil, and
they worship him on that very ac-
count, the neophyte taking this horri-
bic oath: 81 ahjure baptism and the
4 Christian faith. repudiate obedience
to God. | swear fidelity and vassalage
/ to the Prince of Darkness. | will do as
| the other Sntanists do, aud / will en-
/ deavor to bring others to this belief.
! promise to make pleasing sacrifices
to thee. will slay mNglcally each
month and every fortnight l will go
as far as even to drink the blood of Il
young "chl!d. Then the candidate is
rebaptised III the name of the devil,
and his dark majesty is given piece
OF clothing as Il pledge of possession.
All this sounds farcical enough but
! tbosn who know tha Satnpists laclora
that they are in fearful earnest, and
| that their rites are of the most horri-
BILE solemnity. 1t remains to be seen
/ how such sect will flourish i'll New
York. The city is broad enough in its
religious tolerance, but when it comes
to stealing church property and drink
ing infants blood, the police will be
apt to take an active hand in the mat
/ ter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06
NEW YORK LETTER
ESPECIAL CoRREsPoNDENCE.

The examination of Mr.. Ireland, the
owner of the wrecked West Broadway
building, before the coroner brought
out the tell-tale fact that the construc-
tion WAS supervised" on his behalf
and on that of his cheap architect by
man who was paid $40 II week-less
than hod carriers wages Every
condition for manslaughter was pro.
vided in this job. The verdict of the
coroner's jury ought to do something
to bring to punishment such greed
and 'scamping" aud criminal he edless-
ness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-06

A Bridgeport (Conn. thief got away
with half ton roll Of telephone wire.