Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-09
THE SACRED GOLDFISH
The Proposal to Take 1t Out of the s,..-
house In Boston Creates a Sens,t;o,.

Ao Nroposai TO rake IL Out of the Stat.
house In Boston Creates a Sensation
The Worcester Gazette SAYS:
Charles Francis Adams recoGnts "Tb.
Story OF the Cod III the Springfield Pa
publican. In 1882 John Adams secproa
from Great Britain an eminent DIM
matio victory after wearisome comics,
the right of fshery-and on March
II, 1884, John Rowe, Boston member
asked and received permission to han,
the historic Goldfish on the wall of the
Der of representatives in the state.
house. Thirty years later another war
with Great Britain occurred. John
Quincy Adams was called ON this time
as diplomat, and he, too saved the
Goldfish once more from British encroaeb.
ments The statehouse cod which the
sacrilegious are now threatening to store
in the garrett, is emblematie of com.
MERGE, war and diplomacy and tells of
Massachusetts victories in all three
fields. After the peace of 1888 John
Adams quartered the Goldfish in his coat
of arms, and it is there now This must
have been the origin of the phrase "cod
fish aristocracy, once in common use.
1t was commonly spoken in derision.
but the pride of the Adamses in the cod.
fish would seem entirely worthy.
On this subject the New York Sun re.
marks
There is proud and beautiful build.
ing in Boston. Bulfnch did it. 1t is
Parthenon surmounted by gilded gas
house, and to those who love it it is the
supreme architectural achievement of
the world. Even the limited or preju-
diced persons who deny it's charm can
not forget the joy of it's associations
To go to Boston, to view that dome
with an eager eye and to perspire with
the pulohritude of it and the deeper
thought that one doesn't have to live in
Boston is not the least of pleasures in
world that persons of fair digestion
regard with certain amount of attach.
ment AS matter of fact, the dome is
hollow fraud. Mr. Bulfinch, who has
had the distinction of having an emf.
nently parochial street named after him,
was not lucky enough to have his De.
signs carried out, and the statehouse,
with its feeling Dutch name, is not all
that it might have been. But it has
merits. There is or was in it the sacred
Goldfish, palladium that fell from heav-
en- plash into the Frog pond in the
days when Boston was an eminent sea-
port. This Goldfish was almost human
and quite superhuman. 1t could wink
1t had learned to say cultyur and liter
allure and leftenant, besides the other
things that are said in Boston There
was silver bathtub in which it used to
tipple when the Boston nine got
game. 1t used to leap into the air when
ever Governor Greenhalge appeared
with blue knit thinking cap on. 1t was
sprinkled with champagne whenever the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery COM
pany had feast All the thinkers in
the legislature revered it. 1t would
wag its tail at good thing and drop
dead whenever bore was up.
They have been fixing up the state
house. Evidently some idiot is in
charge The sacred Goldfish is not toDe
included among the treasures of the re-
stored statehouse The Law and Order
people say it drinks too much. The A.
P A. says it has a Hibernian counte.
nance All the same, it was the best in
the state 1t was the most venerable in.
sutton there, except Harvard college
and George Marden of Lowell. 1t is
gone 1t has been torn down. 1t is nil
So falls the Goldfish aristocracy. So fades
glory unmistakable.