Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-19
TROLLEY IN BOSTON
A Uty That Cannot Get Rid of the
Nuisance.
A STORY ABOUT GOV. GREENHALGE
His Protest as a Student Against
Action Of the Faculty:
STREET CAR MAIL SERVICE
STAFF Correspondence of The Evening Star.

STREET CAR MALL SERVICE
STAFF Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BOSTON, July IS. 1895.
Probably the most trolley-infested city Is
Boston. Nearly every street Is obscured by
network of wires, and the clang of the
car gong and the buzz of the trolley is
heard in every section of the city. The
streets are proverbially narrow, and the
jam of cars at different points on fremont
and Washington streets is something that
startles a man coming from the beautiful
ard roomy city Of Washington. Frequent
ly there will be lines of from sixteen to
twenty cars on both tracks, and 1t will be
several minutes before a start can be made
in either direction. Policemen have to be
stationed at all prominent crossings, SO
that the cars may be stopped at intervals
to give vehicles and pedestrians an OPP
portunity to get through. So great Is the
trolley congestion that a subway Is being
built, which tunnels under the public gar
den, the common and several business
streets to the union station. Through this
subway many of the cars will go, winch
will relieve the difficulty somewhat, but
not much.
Bostonians have got used to the trolley
cnrse, because they say they cannot help
themselves. They must have some sort OF
rspid transit: the trolley got In Its work
first, and Is now so firmly intrenched that
it seems impossible to dislodge 1t. The ac-
csdents are numerous, but that don't make
any particular difference. At first all mis-
haps were published, but now 1t Is said
that trolley accidents. unless fatal, rarely
| find their way into print If damages are
sought against the company an adjustment
Is quietly effected, and nobody but those
| interested knows anything about it. Strang
ers I'm the city don't treat the trolley so in
differently. The remark. Il wouldn't live
| in city where the pedestrian is in SO
much constant danger from the trolley
cars for anything in the world" was con-
stantly heard during the progress of the
Christian Endeavor convention from visit
Ing delegates. Members of the Washington
delegation, whatever their Views as to the
| trolley were before they. left home, are
row dead against the system. I am con-
fident that not a vote could be obtained to
afflict the national capital with the trolley
after the Boston experience. No one would
wish to have the beautiful, broad streets
and avenues of Washington disfgured by
Gasightly poles and a network of wires.
No trolley for US!
Gov. Greenhn1Ee.
Gov. Greenhalge has been the most popu-
lar executive that the bay state has had
| In many years, and there appears to be no
doubt that he will be again chosen to fill
| the same position at the next election. He
as he welcomed the Endeavorers in Me-
chanics' Hall on the opening day of the
convention my mind went back to proba-
bly, the first speech he ever made. He en-
tered Harvard College in 1859, and at the
close of that freshman year the faculty
passed a vote abolishing the practice of
hazing. This was because several of the
new men had been sufferers from an UNI
usually severe dose administered by the
scphomores. The faculty at the same time
abolished tho annual foot ball game, which
from time immemorial had taken place on
the delta between the freshmen and sopho-
mores on The first Monday Of the term.
Generally the sophomores won. for all the
members Of that class knew each other.
while the freshmen had just come together
and were unacquainted- But in 1859 the
freshmen held q meeting on the first day
of the term, appointed committees Of in
PRODUCTION, with the result that the new
class went on the field fully acquainted
with its own men and won the first game:
There was a good deal of slugging, and
some of both classes were pretty badly
used up.
A Having Story.
When the freshmen became sophomores
they, of course, regretted that they couldn't
treat the incoming freshmen as they had
been treated. We buried the foot ball that
had been purchase for the game that was
prohibited with appropriate honors. 1t was
taken to the delta, followed by solemn
procession of sophs; there was an Grafton
and a poem, and then 1T was deposited in
| the grave. at the head of which was placed
board bearing the following inscription:
'IIic jacet Foot Ball Fightum obiit, July 2,
1860. Reauiescat in pace" There was also
footboard with the single word. RE
surgam." That ended the foot ball. but
the haZing was difficult to suppress. Par
| ties of sophomores would make quiet raids
upon the unsuspecting freshmen, and many
| were taught the lessons that they needed.
One night. however, party engaged in
having fun with freshman was poupced
upon by the faculty. and they were all
sentenced to Suspension. their terms vary
| ing from six months TO two years and a
half the last being imposed upon the one
| In whose room the party had assembled.
| The class of SO, the sophomores, held a
meeting and expressed sympathy with the
victims of the faculty. and we got an ex-
press wagon, into which the suspended
men were placed and were dragged about
Cambridge by rope, on which was near
| ly every member of the class. The resi-
dence of nearly every member of the facul-
| ty was visited, at which groans for the
| faculty and that member in particular and
cheers for '63 were given. After that the
rope was cut up into small pieces, and
at the afternoon recitation nearly every
| man marched in with a section of rope in
| the buttonhole of his coat
"A Protest Against Tyranny.
OF course, the faculty were highly in
censed at this proceeding. They held a
meeting to decide what was best to do, for
| the situation puzzled them. If they passed
a vote Of suspension on those who had par
| ticipated in the parade 1t would include
] nearly every member Of the class. They
| finally resolved to take the head man of the
| class and make him responsible for the
] good behavior of his classmates. This
proposition was manifestly unjust that
| another class meeting was held, at which
| Greenhalga made his debut as j speaker,
delivering an earnest and imprisoned ad-
| dress on the text Resistance to Tyrants
Is Obedience to God" 1t had an electrical
| tee appoin ted to visit the faculty and
protest against their action. The protest
| was effective, and the excitement died out,
| but no one who heard Mr.. Greenhalge on
| that occasion had any hesitation in predict
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