Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-10

BOSTON srATEHoUSE, RECENTLY ENLARGED. ton may be c0mplimcntcd, and that is the clcanneSS of her streets. I am willing to grant that their crookcdncsS is apt to bo confusing, but they arc certainly cleaner than thoSc of most American cities. They excel New York in this respect as much as New York 's excel ChicaSo's. The only really unpleasant thing have met in Bos- ton has been tho east wind. You may start out in the morning on the sunny side of the street under blue sky and with old SOl's rays beating upon you so fearfully that you wonder why oVcrcOatS were ever invented. Suddenly you come to n bend In the street or turn n corner into the next one. and you are struck by cold, raw blast fresh from the Atlantic that seems to pierce your very vitalS and instantly con stricts your throat with the poison of ton silitis. Then you wonder that anybody ever darcS go out in Boston at all without an overcoat. I used to think that tho Lake Michigan winds in Chicago and those from the Pacific in San Francisco were as try ing as could possibly he imagined, but Boston's east wind Is worse than the at mosphCric plaques of both of the other two cities combined"
 The day before the western man and myself had visited the new statehouse, or IT.. is q handsome solid structure and a credit to the commonwealth of Massachusetts In the eyes of some observers it is doubt less too plain, but it seems 10 mo that much better taste has been shown than If the new building had been so planned as to its exterior appearance and architectural expression to bc out of harmony with the old statchouSc. As it Is, each is in perfect keeping with the other. and in building tho annex in this fashion there has been no sacrifice of substantial dig. nifty. In some states tho old capitol would have been torn down and n new and mag nitiCcnt ono of tho most ambitious archi- lecture. floridly covered with elobotately carved stone dcCorations, would have been erected in its stead, and thus a most valu- able historical monument would have been lost. l was saving something like this to the western man aS we were climbing tho stairs to visit the senate chamber in tho new part of tho statehouse. He stop ped mo and pointed to a small brass cuspi- dor.
 Even in Boston, he said. we Amer jeans have to display our spittOons in pub lie places, but the authorities of the com mOnwcalth of Massachusetts show little | better taste in this direction than those of the state of New York"
 Then 1 rcmCmbrr.d having met this same western man in Albany and having visited the capitol thcro in his company On tho senate side of tho building he had pointed out to mo what ho said was the most conspicuous CuSpidor ho had ever seen. IL would hold about a bushcl, and 1t was set in tho very middle of a landing of the magnificent Scnatc staircase, where, by reason of its situation and size, it was far moro i'll evidence than any of tho sur passingly beautiful carvings of the stair case. It would be absolutely impossible | for any one to ascend or descend this stair case without Seeing this rcmarkably promi- ncnt cuspidor, and tho worst of it is that therc Is n duplicate of this atrocious thing on every landing of tho Albany senate staircase. l. D. MARSHALL